Herbert Keutner

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Herbert Keutner (born January 2, 1916 in Eltville am Rhein ; † October 6, 2003 in Cologne ) was a German art historian and expert on the Italian Renaissance , Mannerism and Baroque , especially sculpture . From 1968 to 1981 he was the director of the German Art History Institute in Florence.

Life

Herbert Keutner was born as the son of the then mayor of Eltville am Rhein, Dr. Born Philipp Keutner and his wife Paula (née Hensler), he passed his Abitur in Cologne in 1935. After two and a half years of military service , he began studying art history, classical archeology and philosophy at the University of Cologne , which he was only able to complete in Cologne in 1946 due to the outbreak of the Second World War and his draft. In between he had the opportunity to attend individual events at the University of Freiburg and the University of Bonn . In Cologne he was in 1949 Hans Kauffmann with a thesis on Rembrandt's Hundred Guilder Print doctorate .

Then Keutner was a research assistant at the Art History Institute in Cologne (1949–1953) and in Florence (1955–1958). The habilitation on Giambologna took place in 1961 at the Free University of Berlin . In the same year he succeeded Otto Lehmann-Brockhaus as librarian at the Central Institute for Art History, before he was appointed to the chair of art history at RWTH Aachen in 1967 . There he was also director of the collection of the Reiff Museum . In 1968 he was appointed director of the Art History Institute in Florence as the successor to Ulrich Middeldorf . He retired in 1981.

Grüssen family grave (Melaten cemetery)

The art historian's awards include his appointment as Commendatore dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (1973) and the award of the First Class Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1980).

Keutner continued to live in Florence until 1990 and spent the last years of his life in Cologne. His son Thomas Keutner comes from his marriage to Paula Keutner (1918–2003) , who works as a philosophy lecturer at the Distance University in Hagen .

Herbert Keutner died in 2003 at the age of 87. He was born in the family grave of his wife Paula. Greetings at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (corridor 33 No. 41).

Fonts (in selection)

A detailed list of Herbert Keutner's writings can be found in Riedl 2004, pp. 6-8.

  • About the creation and forms of the still image in the Cinquecento. In: Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 7, 1956, pp. 138–168.
  • The bronze venus of Bartolommeo Ammannati. A contribution to the problem of the torso in the Cinquecento. In: Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 14, 1963, pp. 79–92.
  • A bronze statuette by Antonio Averlino. Prestel, Munich 1964.
  • Sculpture. Renaissance to Rococo. Joseph, London 1969.
  • Andrea Sansovino e Vincenzo Danti. Il gruppo del battesimo di Cristo sopra la porta del paradiso. Milan 1976.
  • Giambologna. Il Mercurio volante e opere giovanili. SPES, Florence 1984.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rüdiger Hoyer: The library of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. In: Bibliotheksforum Bayern 31, 2003, pp. 26–70, here pp. 35 and 43–45.
personal data
SURNAME Keutner, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Eltville on the Rhine
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 2003
Place of death Cologne