Henrik Karge

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Henrik Karge (born September 19, 1958 in Rotenburg an der Fulda ) is a German art historian . He is professor for art history at the Technical University of Dresden .

Life

Henrik Karge studied art history, classical archeology , Hispanic and Islamic studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz with a year abroad at the University of Granada and at the German Archaeological Institute in Madrid (1980/81) as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . He received his doctorate in 1986 at the University of Mainz with a construction monograph on the Cathedral of Burgos , for which he received the Johannes Gutenberg University Prize. From 1987 to 1994 he was a research assistant, then until 1997 senior assistant at the Art History Institute of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1994 he completed his habilitation there with a thesis on “Karl Schnaase. On the relationship between aesthetics and art history in the 19th century ”. Since 1997 he has been professor of art history at the Institute for Art and Musicology at the TU Dresden. Visiting professorships at the University of Girona (Spain) in 1997 and at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín (Colombia) in 2013. From 2001 to 2006, Henrik Karge was the first chairman of the Friends of the Städtische Galerie Dresden - Atelierbegegnung eV to help set up the Städtische Galerie Dresden . He is a member of the advisory board of the German Association for Art History and a member of the Commission for the Art History of Central Germany at the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig , as well as a liaison professor of the German National Academic Foundation. In March 2017 he was co-organizer of the 34th German Art History Conference in Dresden. He is the Dean of Studies of the Philosophical Faculty of the TU Dresden.

Research focus on the history of art in Spain and Latin America

Since it was founded in 1989, Henrik Karge has been a member of the board of directors of the Carl Justi Association for the Promotion of Art History Exchange with Spain and Portugal (later expanded: and Ibero America) based in Dresden, with a brief interruption. In this context, organization of various conferences and co-editing of the book series Ars Iberica et Americana . For several years research cooperation with universities in Spain, Colombia and Mexico.

Research focus on art historiography and architecture from the 18th to the early 20th century

Between 2008 and 2014 Henrik Karge edited Gottfried Semper's complete scientific works in 5 volumes. Since 2013 management of two research projects financed by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation on Dresden residential architecture of the 18th century - the building history of the Japanese palace and the plans of Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann's castle and kennels - as well as a sub-project of the BMBF research project "Color as Actor and Storage". Since 2018 development of a research project on the history of European architectural history together with Sabine Frommel (Paris).

Publications (selection)

Research focus on the history of art in Spain and Latin America

  • Les programmes sculpturaux des cathédrales de Reims et Burgos et leurs références royales, in: Patrick Demouy (ed.), La Cathédrale de Reims , Paris: Presses de l'université de Paris-Sorbonne 2017, pp. 297-310
  • Golden Arts in Iron Age - The Spanish "Siglo de Oro" in the art and cultural history of Europe, in: El Siglo de Oro / Spain's golden age. The Velázquez era in painting and sculpture , exhib.cat. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Kunsthalle München 2016/17, Munich: Hirmer 2016, pp. 15–29
  • (Ed. With Bruno Klein) 1810 - 1910 - 2010. Independencias dependientes. Art and National Identities in Latin America / Arte e identidades nacionales en América Latina / Art and National Identities in Latin America , Frankfurt a. M. / Madrid: Vervuert / Iberoamericana 2016 ( Ars Iberica et Americana , 17)
  • (Ed. With Antonio Bonet Correa and Jorge Maier Allende) Carl Justi y el arte español , Madrid: Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica 2015
  • The European Architecture of Church Reform in Galicia. The Romanesque Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, in: James D'Emilio (Ed.), Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia. A Cultural Crossroads at the Edge of Europe , Leiden / Boston: Brill 2015, pp. 573–630
  • Grave cult of the saints and apostolic competition. Pilgrimage churches in the Aquitaine cultural area as models for Santiago de Compostela, in: Bernd Nicolai / Klaus Rheidt (eds.), Santiago de Compostela. Pilgrim architecture and visual representation in a new perspective , Bern: Peter Lang 2015, pp. 345–361
  • Naumburg - Meissen - Burgos. Memorial sculptures in a European perspective, in: Hartmut Krohm / Holger Kunde (eds.), Der Naumburger Meister. Sculptor and architect in the Europe of Cathedrals (exhib.cat. Naumburg 2011), 2 vol., Petersberg 2011, vol. 2, pp. 1452–1463
  • (Ed. With Barbara Borngässer and Bruno Klein) Funerary art and sepulchral culture in Spain and Portugal / Arte funerario y cultura sepulcral en España y Portugal Frankfurt a. M. / Madrid: Vervuert 2006 ( Ars Iberica et Americana , 11)
  • La arquitectura de la catedral de León en el contexto del gótico europeo, in: Joaquín Yarza Luaces / María Victoria Herráez Ortega / Gerardo Boto Varela (ed.), Congreso Internacional “La Catedral de León en la Edad Media”. Actas , León: Universidad 2004, pp. 113-144
  • Old American art and the canon of classical antiquity. The “new continent” in art historiography of the first half of the 19th century, in: Helga von Kügelgen (ed.), Herencias indígenas, tradiciones europeas y la mirada europea / Indigenous heritage, European traditions and the European view , Madrid / Frankfurt am Main 2002 ( Ars Iberica et Americana , 7), pp. 335-374
  • The royal Cistercian abbey Las Huelgas de Burgos and the beginnings of Gothic architecture in Spain, in: Christian Liberang (ed.), Gothic Architecture in Spain / La arquitectura gótica en España , Frankfurt am Main / Madrid: Vervuert 1999, pp. 13–40 ( Ars Iberica , 4)
  • (Ed. With Sylvaine Hansel) Spanish art history. An introduction , 2 volumes, Berlin: Reimer 1992
  • (Ed.) Vision or Reality. Modern Spanish Painting , Munich: Klinckhardt & Biermann 1991
  • Burgos Cathedral and 13th century Spanish architecture. French High Gothic in Castile and León , Berlin: Gebr. Mann 1989 (Spanish revision: La Catedral de Burgos y la arquitectura del siglo XIII en Francia y España , Valladolid: Junta de Castilla y León 1995)

Research focus on art historiography and architecture from the 18th to the early 20th century

  • In preparation: The genesis of modern art history in the 19th century. Schnaase - Kugler - Burckhardt - Semper , Hildesheim: Olms 2020
  • In print: (with Stefan Hertzig and Kristina Friedrichs) The Japanese Palace in Dresden. Porcelain Castle - State Monument - Museum , Petersberg: Imhof 2019
  • Colors and space in Semper's style . From the polychromy dispute to the perception theory of colors, in: Uta Hassler (Ed.), Polychromie & Wissen , Munich: Hirmer 2019, pp. 18–39
  • Sacred traditions in the modern environment. Church buildings in Dresden in the 1920s, in: Claudia Quiring / Hans-Georg Lippert (eds.), Dresdner Moderne 1919–1933. New ideas for the city, architecture and people , Dresden: Sandstein 2019, pp. 156–170
  • Renaissance: mutations d'un concept et "invention" d'un style dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle en France et en Allemagne, in: Antonio Brucculeri / Sabine Frommel (ed.), Renaissance Italienne et architecture au XIXe siècle , Rome: Campisano 2016, pp. 35–54
  • (Ed. With Heike Biedermann and Andreas Dehmer) Imagination and view. Egypt reception and Egypt travel in the first half of the 20th century , Dresden: Sandstein 2015
  • (Ed.) Gottfried Semper, Gesammelte Schriften , 5 vol., Hildesheim / Zurich / New York: Olms-Weidmann 2008–2014 ( Historia Scientiarum )
  • Style and epoch. Karl Schnaase's dialectical model of art history, in: Sabine Frommel / Antonio Brucculeri (eds.), L'idée du style dans l'historiographie artistique , Rome: Campisano 2013, pp. 35–48
  • Projecting the future in German art historiography of the nineteenth century: Franz Kugler, Karl Schnaase, and Gottfried Semper, in: Journal of Art Historiography 2013, No. 9 (December 2013), pp. 1–26 (Online Journal)
  • The construction of home. Hermann Muthesius and the reception of the English 'vernacular' in the German garden city movement, in: Thomas Will / Ralph Lindner (eds.), Garden City. History and future viability of an idea , Dresden: Thelem 2012, pp. 96–117
  • "... the practice of art received its complement here, the theory." Karl Immermann, Karl Schnaase and Friedrich von Uechtritz as mentors of the Düsseldorf School of Painting, in: Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.), The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 ( Exhibition cat. Düsseldorf 2011), 2 vol., Petersberg: Imhof 2011, vol. 1, pp. 62–75
  • (Ed.) Karl Schnaase, Dutch letters . With an introduction and a list of topics , Hildesheim / Zurich / New York: Olms-Weidmann 2010
  • Franz Kugler and Karl Schnaase - two projects to establish “general art history”, in: Michel Espagne / Bénédicte Savoy / Céline Trautmann-Waller (eds.), Franz Theodor Kugler. German art historian and Berlin poet , Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2010, pp. 83-104
  • (Ed.) Gottfried Semper - Dresden and Europe. The modern renaissance of the arts , Munich / Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag 2007
  • Between natural science and cultural history. The development of the system of epoch styles in the 19th century, in: Bruno Klein / Bruno Boerner (ed.), Questions of style on the art of the Middle Ages. An introduction , Berlin: Reimer 2006, pp. 39–60
  • "Art is not the measure of history". Karl Schnaase's influence on Jacob Burckhardt, in: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 78, 1996, pp. 393–431
  • Division of labor among nations. Karl Schnaase's draft of a system of the arts that has evolved over time, in: Journal for Swiss Archeology and Art History 53, 1996, pp. 295–306

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SURNAME Karge, Henrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotenburg on the Fulda