Joachim Rees

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Joachim Rees (* 1964 in Opladen ) is a German art historian .

Life

After graduating from high school at the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium in Leverkusen, Joachim Rees studied art history , modern history and archeology at the University of Cologne from 1985 to 1991 and in the meantime (1988/89) at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London . After completing his master’s degree, he completed a doctorate at the University of Cologne, which he completed in 1997 with a dissertation on the French archaeologist, art theorist and collector Anne-Claude-Philippe, Comte de Caylus (1692–1765). From 1995 to 1997 he worked as a research assistant at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne.

From 1998 to 2003 he was in charge of the DFG project “European Travel of Political Officials 1763–1789” at the Research Center for European Enlightenment in Potsdam and from 2003 to 2006 he was in charge of the “Cultural Anthropology of Drawing” project at the Institute of Art History at the Free University in Berlin.

After working as a scientific editor at the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (historical inventory catalog of the antiquities) and as a freelancer at the State Monument Office Berlin (monument topography for the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district ), he became a research assistant at the Art History Institute of the Free University of Berlin.

From 2010 to 2012 Joachim Rees took over a professorship in art history and historical visual studies at Bielefeld University . In November 2011 he completed his habilitation with a research thesis on the topic “The registered foreigner. Studies on forms and functions of drawing in the context of European research trips 1770–1830 ”.

Since April 2012 he has been leading the project “Transcultural Negotiating Spaces for Art” at the Art History Institute of the Free University of Berlin. In April 2016 he was appointed to the professorship of Early Modern Art History and Early Modern Art in a Transcultural Perspective at this institute.

In the summer semester of 2019, Joachim Rees took up the professorship for art history at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken and took over the management of the Institute for Art History (specializing in art and cultural studies).

Publications

  • with Ekkehard Mai (Ed.): Art form Capriccio. From the grotesque to modern game theory. (= Art History Library. 6). König, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-88375-291-6 .
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Ketelhodt , The diary of a journey by the Schwarzburg-Rudolstädtischen Prinzen Ludwig Friedrich and Karl Günther through Germany, Switzerland and France in the years 1789 to 1790. Hain Verlag, Weimar / Jena 2004, ISBN 3-89807-072-7 ( edited and commented with Winfried Siebers, edited by the Society for Book Culture and History eV Rudolstadt and the Historical Library of the City of Rudolstadt).
  • with Winfried Siebers: Experience Europe. Travel of political functionaries of the Old Empire 1750–1800. An annotated directory of handwritten sources. (= Enlightenment and Europe. 18). Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8305-0563-9 .
  • The culture of the amateur. Studies on the life and work of Anne Claude Philippe de Thubières, Comte de Caylus (1692–1765). VDG publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2006 (= dissertation).
  • Traveling artist. From Albrecht Dürer to Emil Nolde. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-534-22089-2 .
  • The registered stranger. Forms and functions of drawing in the context of European research trips 1770–1830. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7705-5589-5 (= habilitation thesis).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for Art History: Prof. Dr. Joachim Rees. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rees, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Opladen