Henry Keazor

Henry Keazor, 2016

Henry Keazor (born March 4, 1965 in Heidelberg ) is a German art historian and university professor .

Life

Keazor studied art history, German literature , musicology and philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the University Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) . In 1996 he received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg with a research thesis on the work of the baroque painter Nicolas Poussin . From 1996 to 1999 he was a scholarship holder and research assistant at the Art History Institute in Florence , then from 1999 to 2005 research assistant at the Art History Institute of the University of Frankfurt am Main , where he also completed his habilitation in 2005 with a research project on the work of the Baroque painters' family Carracci from Bologna. This was followed by a visiting professorship at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . From 2006 Keazor received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation before accepting an appointment to the chair of art history at Saarland University in September 2008 .

On September 1, 2012, Keazor moved to the Institute for European Art History at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, where he took up the professorship for modern and contemporary art history, which has been vacant since 2009, as the successor to Raphael Rosenberg . There he is also a member of the board of directors of the art association. He has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 2015 .

In the documentary “ Beltracchi - The Art of Forgery ” by Arne Birkenstock, published in 2014, Keazor appears at the beginning and at the end as an interviewee of the art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi - he elicits the statement that there is “no heart and soul” in the works of the forger. This contradicts Beltracchi's statement when he was convicted that he actually only wanted to paint, money never interested him. In 2015, Keazor curated the exhibition Fake: Forgeries as they are in the book in the Heidelberg University Library , in the u. a. For the first time a forgery by Beltracchi after Johannes Molzahn was shown in direct comparison with an original by the artist.

Research priorities

In addition to French and Italian baroque painting , Keazor's research focuses on contemporary illustration of the discovery of America (especially by the Belgian artist Theodor de Bry ), contemporary architecture (especially the Jean Nouvels ), visual arts and their reception e.g. B. in literature and media (e.g. in the series The Simpsons ), music videos and the phenomenon of art forgery .

Publications (selection)

Poussins Parerga: Sources, development and meaning of the small compositions in the paintings of Nicolas Poussins . Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-7954-1146-7 (book version of the dissertation).
Distruggere la maniera? The Carracci postil . Rombach Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2002, ISBN 3-7930-9307-7 .
As editor : Psychic energies of fine arts: Festschrift for Klaus Herding . DuMont Literature and Art Publishing, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8321-7225-4 .
With Thorsten Wübbena: Video thrills the radio star: Music videos: history, topics, analyzes . Transcript, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89942-383-6 (2011, 3rd, revised and expanded edition, ISBN 978-3-89942-728-8 ).
Nicolas Poussin: 1594-1665 . Taschen, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-8228-5319-1 .
"Il vero modo". The Carracci's painting reform . Gebrüder Mann Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7861-2561-7 (book version of the habilitation thesis).
With Thorsten Wübbena as editor and author: Rewind, play, fast forward: the past, present and future of the music video . Transcript, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1185-4 .
With Fabienne Liptay and Susanne Marschall : Film art: Studies at the borders of the arts and media . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89472-666-9 .
With Thomas Mania and Thorsten Wübbena as editors and authors: Imageb (u) ilder: past, present and future of the video clip. Exhibition catalog rock'n'popmuseum Gronau, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-933060-36-5 .
With Hans Giessen and Thorsten Wübbena: For the aesthetic implementation of music videos in the context of handhelds . ART-Dok, Publication Platform Art History, 2012 ( online ).
As editor and author: Hitchcock and the Arts . Schüren, Marburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89472-828-1 .
With Tina Öcal: The Beltracchi case and its consequences. Interdisciplinary forgery research today . De Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-031589-9
Deceptively real! A history of art forgery . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft / Theiss, Darmstadt 2015, ISBN 9783806230321
As author and together with Maria Effinger as editor: FAKE: Forgeries as they are in the book (exhibition catalog UB Heidelberg). Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8253-6621-6
Model worlds. Between transparency and opacity: the double images of digital modernity . In: Natascha Adamowsky (Ed.): Digitale Moderne. Matthias Zimmermann's model worlds . Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-7774-2388-3 , pp. 72-109

As editor and author: “We are all astronauts”. The Image of the Space Traveler in Arts and Media , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95808-213-7

literature

Inaugural address by Mr. Henry Keazor at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences on April 23, 2016. In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for the year 2016. Heidelberg 2017, pp. 290–295 ( online ).