Institute for Church Construction and Church Art of the Present
The Institute for Church Construction and Church Art of the Present is a research facility of the EKD that has existed since 1961 and is based at the Philipps University of Marburg .
The research assignment consists in the "scientific reflection of religion and aesthetics, church and art". The institute is also responsible for organizing the Protestant Church Building Days. Together with the Catholic Institute for Art Research in Linz, the ecumenical magazine “ Art and Church ” is published. Intensive contacts are maintained with the EKD's cultural commissioner and with the art commissioners and building authorities of the Protestant regional churches.
The director of the church building institute has been the Marburg university professor for practical theology Thomas Erne since 2008 . Earlier, Horst Schwebel 1980-2006 held the office. Heinrich Laag was the founding director from 1961 to 1965 , followed by Hans-Eckehard Bahr (1966/67) and Rainer Volp (1972–75).
The institute also acted as a client and, if necessary, as an exhibition catalog publisher on its own behalf. The architect Meinhard von Gerkan received an exhibition on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the institute and the award of an honorary doctorate from the Department of Protestant Theology of the Philipps University of Marburg on November 14, 2002. This took place under the title Geometry of Silence in the Marburg University Museum for Art and Cultural History from October 20 to November 24, 2002.
Writings of the institute (selection)
- About the sublime in church buildings Lit, Münster 2004
- Meinhard von Gerkan: Geometrie der Stille Verl. The example, Darmstadt 2002
- Horst Schwebel and Matthias Ludwig (eds.): Churches in the City 2 volumes, Institute for Church Building and Contemporary Church Art, Marburg 1994 and 1996
- Elisabeth from the perspective of young artists Elwert, Marburg 1983
- Last Supper Marburg: Inst. For church building a. Kirchl. Art d. Present, 1982
- Functional change and spatial structure, for the multi-purpose use of worship rooms Marburg: Inst. For church building u. Kirchl. Art d. Present, 1974
- Visible church Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus Mohn, 1973
- Ecumenical planning Gütersloh: Mohn, 1973