Jürgen Krüger (art historian)

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Jürgen Krüger (born October 27, 1950 in Rielasingen ) is a German art historian and publisher of literature on architecture and monument preservation with a focus on the art of the Middle Ages and the architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries. Since 2000 he has been an adjunct professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

life and work

Jürgen Krüger studied art history, history and archeology at the University of Würzburg from 1974 to 1978 and then went to the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History , a branch of the Max Planck Society in Rome - as a doctoral student until 1980 . In 1983 he received his doctorate and published his dissertation on the Monastery of San Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples. He then worked from 1984 to 1992 as an assistant at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, at the Art History Institute of the University of Freiburg and at the Art History Institute of the University of Karlsruhe.

In 1993 he completed his habilitation in Karlsruhe, after which he held various guest lectureships and substitute professorships in Jena, Heidelberg, Würzburg, Bochum, Trier, Regensburg, Landau and Erlangen. In 2000 he was appointed professor for art history at the University of Karlsruhe. His main focus is on the history of architecture, in particular on church construction in Germany, Italy and the Holy Land. Together with Volker Herzner , he published the Journal for Art History from 1995 .

He also worked on various exhibition projects such as the Late Middle Ages exhibition on the Upper Rhine and The Nibelungenlied und seine Welt in the Badisches Landesmuseum as well as Rheinromantik on the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in Koblenz .

In 2005, Krüger founded the company arte factum Verlag und Kulturmanagement , whose function includes numerous activities. Books and small letters on art and cultural history are published in the publishing house. In the field of cultural management, Krüger organizes day trips in southern Germany and study trips lasting several days in Europe. Krüger also gives lectures on the history of culture and art at various educational institutions (including adult education centers and church educational institutions).

Publications (selection)

  • S [to] Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples. Studies and materials on southern Italian architecture under the first kings of the Anjou family. Dissertation, partial print from the University of Würzburg, 1984
  • S [to] Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples. A Franciscan church between the ideal of the order and the architecture of the rulers. Studies and materials on the architecture of the first Anjou period. Coelde, Werl / Westphalia 1986
  • Rome and Jerusalem. Church building ideas of the Hohenzollern in the 19th century. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1995
  • Evangelical Church of the Redeemer Jerusalem. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1997
  • Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church Rome. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1999
  • The Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. History - shape - meaning. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2000
  • Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg. 2 volumes. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2007
  • The Luther Church in Karlsruhe. Arte Factum, Karlsruhe 2007
  • The Dormition Basilica in Jerusalem. Arte Factum, Karlsruhe 2007
  • Maulbronn monastery landscape. Arte Factum, Karlsruhe 2008
  • Evangelical in Rome. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008
  • The Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church in Bolzano - a church on the way to modernity. Arte Factum, Karlsruhe 2010
  • The Madrid Church of Peace in context. Arte Factum, Karlsruhe 2010
  • Jakobskirche Wolfartsweier - a changing church . Arte Factum, Karlsruhe 2012
  • Luther's Rome. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2015
  • Churches in Karlsruhe and the synagogue. Regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kruger, Jürgen. In: Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender 2003. Bio-bibliographical directory of German-speaking scientists of the present, 19th edition, Volume II K-Scho, KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23607-7 , p. 1820.
personal data
SURNAME Kruger, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Rielasingen