Helmut Buschhausen

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Helmut Buschhausen (born April 7, 1937 in Castrop-Rauxel ; † July 1, 2014 in Vienna ) was a German art historian with a focus on Byzantine art history .

Life

After attending school in Minden , Buschhausen studied art history, classical archeology and oriental languages ​​as well as church history at the University of Münster from 1958 to 1962 . During this time he took part in Ludwig Budde's excavations in Mopsuestia . In 1962 he went to the University of Vienna for further studies , where he received his doctorate in 1966 with Otto Demus with a dissertation on Domenichino . He turned more and more to late antique and Byzantine art. In 1968 he married the art historian Heide Lenzen , with whom he carried out numerous joint works in the period that followed.

In 1973, Buschhausen received his habilitation in art history from the University of Vienna with a thesis on building sculpture in southern Italy in the Holy Land. From 1976 to 2002 he was associate professor for Byzantine art history at the Institute for Art History and at the Institute for Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies at the University of Vienna.

literature

  • Mario Schwarz: Helmut Buschhausen as a researcher and teacher . In: Kunsthistoriker aktuell , 19, No. 3, 2002.
  • Eva Maria Höhle: Helmut Buschhausen (1937–2014) . In: Kunstgeschichte Aktuell 31, 2014, 3–4, p. 5.

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