Hubert Locher (art historian)

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Hubert Locher (born May 11, 1963 in Walenstadt , Canton of St. Gallen ) is a Swiss art historian . Since 2008 he has been Professor of the History and Theory of Visual Media at the Philipps University of Marburg and Director of the German Documentation Center for Art History - Photo Archive Photo Marburg .

Live and act

Locher studied art history and German at the universities of Friborg, Berlin (FU) and Stuttgart from 1982 to 1987 . In 1992 he received his doctorate in Bern under Oskar Bätschmann and in 1999 he completed his habilitation there. In 1991 he was an editor at the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA) and from 1992 to 1995 senior assistant at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zurich . From 1995 to 1998 Locher was a scholarship holder of the Swiss National Science Foundation for the Promotion of Scientific Research (SNSF). After teaching at the University of Bern , he taught at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1999 to 2008 .

His main research interests are art literature and theory of modern times and modern , history of art history, word-image relations since the early modern period , reception aesthetics and -geschichte , museum and exhibition history , history of photography and digital image .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Raphael and the Renaissance Altarpiece. The Pala Baglioni as a work of art in a sacred context (= Acta humaniora ). Akademieverlag Berlin, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-05-002411-9 (Zugl .: Bern, Univ., Diss., 1992).
  • Domenico Ghirlandaio. Saint Jerome. Painter competition and scholars controversy. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1999, ISBN 3-596-13377-7 .
  • Art history as a historical theory of art 1750–1950. Fink, Paderborn / Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7705-3521-9 ; 2nd, corrected edition with an afterword added, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-5083-8 .
  • German painting in the 19th century. Scientific Book Society and Primus Verlag, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-16296-X .
  • Art history in the 20th century. A critical anthology (= sources on the theory and history of art history ). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-534-17486-7 .

Editorships

  • (together with Kurt W. Forster): Theory of Practice. Leon Battista Alberti as a theoretician of the fine arts. Akademieverlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-05-002990-0 .
  • (together with Hans Dieter Huber , Karin Schulte): The art of exhibiting. Presentation strategies in the 21st century. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2002, ISBN 3-7757-1205-4 .
  • (together with Beat Wyss , Bärbel Küster , Angela Zieger): Museums as media. Media in museums. Perspectives in museology. Publishing house Dr. Müller-Straten, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-932704-78-9 .
  • (together with Peter J. Schneemann): Grammar of Art History. Festschrift for Oskar Bätschmann's 65th birthday. SIK Zurich (publishing body). Edition Imorde, Emsdetten / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809436-7-3 .
  • Jacob Burckhardt : The culture of the Renaissance in Italy. 12th edition. With a foreword by Hubert Locher. Kröner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-520-05312-1 .
  • (together with Matthew Rampley, Thierry Lenain , Andrea Pinotti, Charlotte Schoell-Glass , Kitty Zijlmans): Art History and Visual Studies in Europe. Transnational Discourses and National Frameworks. Brill, Leiden / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-9-004-21877-2 .
  • (together with Adriana Markantonatos): Reinhart Koselleck and political iconology. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-422-07161-2 .
  • (together with Rolf Sachsse ). Architecture photography. Presentation - use - design. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-07301-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Locher, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Walenstadt , Canton of St. Gallen