Jürgen Müller (art historian)

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Jürgen Müller (2016)

Jürgen Müller (born December 25, 1961 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German art historian . He holds the professorship for Middle and Modern Art History at the Technical University of Dresden .

Career

Jürgen Müller studied art history, German literature and philosophy at the universities of Bochum, Münster, Pisa, Paris and Amsterdam. He received his doctorate from the University of Bochum in 1991 with a thesis on Karel van Mander's art theory in “Schilder-Boeck” . His habilitation took place in 2002 at the University of Kassel with a study on Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Ä.

In 1989 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Bochum as part of the Historikertag. From 1991 to 1999 he was an assistant at the art history seminar at the University of Hamburg . From 1996 to 1997 he held a C2 professorship at the Art History Department of the University of Marburg and was visiting lecturer at the Université Michel de Montaigne in Bordeaux in the 1997/98 winter semester . He then received one-year visiting professorships at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and at the Berlin University of the Arts . Since 2002 he has held the professorship for Middle and Modern Art History at the Technical University of Dresden. He has also curated numerous exhibitions and is a regular author of national, German-language newspapers.

In 2006/07 he was Rudolf Wittkower Professor at the Bibliotheca Hertziana . In addition, he received invitations as a Fellow and Senior Fellow to the Clark Art Institute , the EHESS in Paris, the IKKM in Weimar, the Niki in Florence and the Alfried Krupp Science College in Greifswald. Müller is a member of the Association of German Art Historians and, since 2018, a full member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts (class: fine arts).

research

Müller's research focuses on early modern art and the history of photography and film. His publications include several monographic studies on Rembrandt and Pieter Bruegel the Elder. In addition, he is editor of the series of decades of film books at TASCHEN . From 2009 to 2014 he was sub-project leader of the Collaborative Research Center 804: “Transcendence and Common Sense” at the TU Dresden. Since July 2017 he has been the sub-project leader of the Collaborative Research Center 1285: “Invectivity. Constellations and dynamics of degradation ”.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Concordia Pragensis. Karel van Mander's art theory in Schilder-Boeck (= publications of the Collegium Carolinum Volume 77). Munich 1993 (= dissertation Bochum 1991).
  • The paradox as an image form. Studies of iconology by Pieter Bruegel the Elder Ä. Munich 1999.
  • The Socratic artist. Studies on the iconology of Rembrandt's "Night Watch". Leiden 2015.
  • Pieter Bruegel the Elder Ä. All paintings and drawings. Cologne 2018.

Editorships (selection)

  • with Uwe M. Schneede: Pieter Bruegel invenit. The graphic work. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg 2001.
  • The masks of beauty. Hendrick Goltzius and the ideal of art around 1600 (co-editor), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg 2002.
  • 100 classic films. Cologne 2008.
  • with Bertram Kaschek, Wilfried Wiegand: taking pictures. Photography as a practice. Dresden 2010.
  • with Thomas Schauerte: The godless painters of Nuremberg. Convention and Subversion in the Beham Brothers' prints. Dürerhaus / Nuremberg, Emsdetten 2011.
  • with Stefan Jordan: Lexikon Kunstwissenschaft. A hundred basic terms. Stuttgart 2012.
  • with Bärbel Hedinger, Michael Diers: Max Liebermann. The art collection. From Rembrandt to Manet. Berlin 2013.
  • with Thomas Schauerte, Bertram Kaschek: From the freedom of images. Mockery of criticism and subversion in the art of the Dürer period. Petersberg 2013.
  • Pieter Bruegel the Elder Ä. and the theater of the world, exhibition catalog Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. (together with Ingrid Mössinger), Berlin 2014.
  • with Birgit Ulrike Münch: Peiraikos' heirs. The genesis of genre painting until 1550. Wiesbaden 2015.
  • The best TV shows. Cologne 2015.
  • with Jan-David Mentzel: Rembrandt. Of the power and impotence of the body. One hundred etchings. Exhibition catalog of the Augustinermuseum Freiburg and the Veste Coburg. Petersberg 2017.
  • with Paul Duncan: Horror Cinema. Cologne 2017.
  • with Bertram Kaschek, Jessica Buskirk: Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion. Leiden 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Müller. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ DFG - GEPRIS - Professor Dr. Jürgen Müller. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen