Jürg Meyer zur Capellen
Jürg Meyer zur Capellen (born August 18, 1941 in Göttingen ) is a German art historian .
Life
Meyer zur Capellen studied art history, archeology, history and Romance philology in Munich, Göttingen and Würzburg. In 1972 he was awarded a doctorate with a work on the Venetian painter Andrea Previtali (approx. 1480–1528) phil. PhD. From 1972 he was a research assistant and after his habilitation (with a monograph on Gentile Bellini ) from 1982 to 1988 private lecturer at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In 1987/88 he took over a professorship in Cologne. From the winter semester of 1988 he became a professor of art history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 2006 he retired.
Meyer zur Capellen published numerous works on Italian painting, including works on Titian , Paolo Veronese and above all on Raffael . For several years he has led the Universities of Münster and Würzburg be moved Raphael project . Further publications dealt with the art of the 20th century, the European-Islamic cultural exchange and the Ottoman portrait. He made contributions to the magazine for art history , the art chronicle of the Central Institute for Art History and Bruckmann's Pantheon .
He was chairman of the Senate Committee for Art and Culture at the University of Münster, which campaigned for the collection of art objects in the university area. The result was summarized in the book Kunstraum Universität in 2002 and exhibited at the University of Münster as Kunstraum Universität: Kunst at the UniKunstTage 2002 .
Meyer zur Capellen lives in Münster.
Fonts
- Andrea Previtali , Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, 1972 (dissertation)
- Gentile Bellini , Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1985, ISBN 3-515-04086-2
- Edited with Martin Kraatz and Dietrich Seckel: The portrait in the art of the Orient , ISBN 978-3-515-05065-4
- Raffael in Florenz , Hirmer, Munich, 1996, ISBN 978-3-7774-6980-5 (also in English)
- Raphael. A Critical Catalog of his Paintings . Volume 1: The Beginnings in Umbria and Florence, ca.1500-1508 ; Volume 2: The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 ; Volume 3: The Roman Portraits, approx. 1508-1520, Arcos Verlag, Landshut, 2001-2008, ISBN 3-935339-00-3 and others
- as co-editor
- together with Gabriele Oberreuter-Kronabel : Classicism: Epoch and Problems , Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Erik Forssman , Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1987 ISBN 3-487-07940-2
literature
- Damian Dombrowski (eds.), Alexandra Dern, Katrin Heusing: Between the worlds: Contributions to art history for Jürg Meyer zur Capellen . Festschrift for the 60th birthday, VDG Weimar, 2001, ISBN 978-3-89739-236-6
Web links
- Literature by and about Jürg Meyer zur Capellen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jürg Meyer zur Capellen at Perlentaucher.de
- Biography ( memento of November 9, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the University of Münster
- Website of the Raffael project (PDF file; 859 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer zur Capellen, Juerg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |