Jeffrey F. Hamburger

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Jeffrey F. Hamburger (born February 9, 1957 in London ) is an American art historian .

Life

Hamburg's grandparents had to emigrate from Leipzig and Cologne during the National Socialist era . He studied at Yale University , where he received his doctorate in 1987 . He taught at Oberlin College and the University of Toronto and became a professor at Harvard University in 2000 , where he has held the Kuno Francke Professorship for German Art and Culture since 2008. From 1996–1997 he was a Humboldt fellow at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich.

His main research interests are the sacred art of the Middle Ages and medieval illuminated manuscripts .

In 2012, Hamburger sent a petition to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation against the demolition of the Berlin Gemäldegalerie , which is one of the most important collections of old masters in Europe, and launched a corresponding collection of signatures.

Prizes and awards

  • 2015 Anneliese Maier Research Award
  • 2013 honorary doctorate from the University of Bern
  • 1999 Charles Rufus Morey Prize from the College Art Association
  • 1999 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize in Art & Music
  • 1999 Otto Gründler Prize of the International Congress on Medieval Studies
  • 1998 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society
  • 1994 John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America
  • 1991 Gustave O. Arlt Award in Humanities from the American Council of Graduate Schools

In 2009 Hamburger was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2010 to the American Philosophical Society .

His research was supported by the Guggenheim Foundation , the American Philosophical Society, the Institute for Advanced Study , the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation .

Fonts (selection)

  • Haec figura demonstrat. Diagrams in a Paris copy by Lothar von Segnis “De missarum mysteriis” from the early 13th century . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-028153-8 .
  • The "diverse books of mankind". Johannes Tauler on the "scivia" of Hildegard von Bingen . Paulinus, Trier 2005, ISBN 3-7902-0194-4 .
  • Leaves from Paradise: The Cult of John the Evangelist at the Dominican Convent of Paradies bei Soest , Houghton Library Studies, Vol. 2 Cambridge: Houghton Library, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.
  • Women - Monastery - Art: New Research on the Cultural History of the Middle Ages. International colloquium in connection with crown and veil: Art from medieval women's monasteries , Die Wolfsburg, Mülheim / Ruhr, mithrsg. by Carola Jäggi , Susan Marti, Hedwig Röckelein . Turnhout: Brepols, 2007.
  • with Anne Korteweg: Tributes in Honor of James H. Marrow. Studies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Painting and Manuscript Illumination , Turnhout: Brepols, 2006.
  • with Anne-Marie Bouché: The Mind's Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Medieval West . Princeton: Department of Art & Archeology, Princeton University, Princeton University Press, 2005.
  • Crown and veil. Art from medieval convents , Munich 2005. Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn.
  • St. John the Divine. The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. ISBN 0-520-22877-4
  • The Ottheinrich Bible. Commentary on the facsimile edition of the manuscript Cgm 8010 / 1.2 of the Bavarian State Library in Munich , with Brigitte Gullath , Karin Schneider and Robert Suckale . Lucerne: Facsimile Publishing House, 2002.
  • The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN 0-942299-45-0
  • Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. ISBN 0-520-20386-0
  • The Rothschild Canticles: Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland circa 1300. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. ISBN 0-300-04308-2 [= dissertation]

Web links

Individual references, footnotes

  1. ↑ Jeffrey F. Hamburger: They look Jewish , FAZ , December 7, 2013, p. 34
  2. ^ Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin: Reconsider the plan to empty the Gemäldegalerie of Old Masters, petition .
personal data
SURNAME Hamburger, Jeffrey F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH London