Hubertus coal

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Hubertus coal at a conference in March 2015 in Düsseldorf.

Hubertus coal (born June 6, 1959 in Düsseldorf ) is a German art historian .

Life

Coal studied art history, philosophy , Romance studies , history and urban studies in Bonn , Paris and Florence . In 1986 he received his doctorate on Denis Diderot's concept of art. From 1987 to 1992 coal was a research assistant and from 1993 to 1997 assistant at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 1996 he completed his habilitation on Adolph Menzel's Friedrichbilder. From 1997 to 1999 he was a professor at the University of Cologne .

Since 2000 he has held the chair for Middle and Modern Art History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

His work focuses on the visual arts of the 18th and 19th centuries up to Classical Modernism, especially in France and Germany, as well as media problems, theoretical history and digital art history. Coal is one of the first specialist representatives to address the importance of digitization for art history. He has been co-editor of the online review journal sehepunkte since 2001 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Museums digital: A memory institution seeks connection to the future. Heidelberg University Publishing, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-946054-86-3 ( digitized ).
  • Digital image science. Hülsbusch, Glückstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-86488-036-0 . ( Digitized version ).
  • From Biedermeier to Impressionism (= History of Fine Art in Germany, Volume 7). Prestel, Munich 2008.
  • with Katja Kwastek: Computer, Art and Art History. Deubner, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-937111-01-8 .
  • with Wolfgang Brassat: Method Reader Art History. Deubner, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-937111-02-6 .
  • Adolph Menzel's Friedrich Pictures. Theory and practice of historical painting in Berlin in the 1850s (= Munich University Writings of the Institute for Art History. Volume 1). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-422-06327-7 (also: Bochum, University, habilitation thesis, 1996) ( digitized version ).
  • Ut pictura poesis non erit. Denis Diderot's concept of art. With an excursus on JBS Chardin (= studies on art history. Volume 52). Olms, Hildesheim u. a. 1989 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Hubertus coal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ Vita Hubertus coal on the website of the University of Munich.
  2. ↑ Cf. Committees and Projects of Coal ; Editors of the Sehepunkte .
personal data
SURNAME Coal, Hubertus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf