Johann Josef Böker

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Johann Josef Böker

Johann Josef Böker (born March 30, 1953 in Dalhausen / Westphalia) is a German architectural historian . Until his retirement in 2018, he held the chair for building history at the Faculty of Architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology .

Life

After attending the Gymnasium Marianum in Warburg , Johann Josef Böker studied art history, classical archeology and history at the universities of Cologne, Saarbrücken and Münster. 1977/78 he spent a research stay at St John's College Oxford as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . This resulted in the investigation The beginning of a late Gothic within English architecture between 1370 and 1450 , with which he received his doctorate in 1979 under Hans Erich Kubach in Saarbrücken. After completing his studies, Böker worked in the preservation of monuments, first in 1979 at the State Conservatory Office of the Saarland and from 1980 to 1982 at the State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse . From 1982 to 1988 he was a university assistant under Cord Meckseper at the Institute for the History of Architecture and Art at the University of Hanover , where he completed his habilitation in 1987 with a thesis on the late Gothic parish church of St. Lamberti in Münster . In 1988 Böker was visiting professor at the University of Toronto (Canada), after which he took over a professorship at the Institute of Art History at the University of Bochum until 1989 . In 1989 he was appointed professor of architectural history at McGill University in Montreal. In 2005, Böker moved to the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) as a professor of building history . From 2005 to 2014 he also headed the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering (saai) .

Research project Gothic building cracks

Böker was head of the research project Architectural Drawings of the Gothic , which was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) from 1999 to 2005 and from 2007 to 2014 by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and has now been completed , which includes around 650 Gothic architectural drawings in German-speaking countries recorded, analyzed and edited in three volumes under the title Architektur der Gotik between 2005 and 2013. The evaluation of the plan material meant that the building history of a whole series of important sacred buildings had to be rewritten and the work of some of the important architects of the late Middle Ages had to be specified. The most important results include the identification of Laurenz Spenning as one of the most important master builders of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna and the distinction between his work and that of his predecessor Hans Puchsbaum . Böker's thesis, which has received the most attention in public, is that Erwin von Steinbach built the tower of the Freiburg Minster . This position was described in detail in the documentary film The Cathedral - The Builders of the Strasbourg Minster by Marc Jampolsky, shot for Arte in 2012 . Another result of the investigations is the late dating of the elevation of the facade of Cologne Cathedral to 1380 instead of 1280 and its attribution to Michael von Savoyen .

Personal

Since his retirement, Böker has lived with his wife Regina in the so-called Small Dumba Villa in Liezen, which they restored together .

Publications (selection)

Books and parts of books

  • The builders of the Gothic cathedral. Mobility and knowledge transfer in the architecture of the late Middle Ages. In: Nikolaus Henkel , Thomas Noll and Frank Rexroth (eds.): Range. Dynamics and Limits of Cultural Transfer Processes in Europe, 1400–1520. Vol. 1: International styles - prerequisites, social anchoring, case studies (treatises of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . New series, Vol. 49/1). De Gruyter, Göttingen 2019, pp. 29–36. ISBN 978-3-11-067004-2 .
  • Michael of Savoy and the crack of the facade of Cologne Cathedral . Böhlau, Cologne 2018. ISBN 978-3-412-50098-6 . ( Review of the book in the Badische Neuesten Nachrichten )
  • as editor: "A somewhat bankrupt art establishment ..." - The old Karlsruhe school between Hübsch and Durm . (= Materials on building research and building history. Volume 24). Karlsruhe 2017.
  • as co-editor: The building researcher Arnold Tschira 1910–1969. (= Materials on building research and building history. Volume 23). KIT-Verlag, Karlsruhe 2017, ISBN 978-3-7315-0656-0 . ( Review of the book in the Badische Neuesten Nachrichten )
  • A royal electoral church for Frankfurt. To find two Gothic building plan fragments from Eberbach Monastery . In: The preservationist as a mediator. Gerd Weiß on his 65th birthday (workbooks of the State Office for Monument Preservation, XXV). Theiss, Stuttgart 2014, pp. 197-208. ISBN 978-3-8062-3006-2 .
  • The medieval construction plans for Regensburg Cathedral . In: Achim Hubel , Manfred Schuller (Ed.): The Regensburg Cathedral. Text volume 1 (= Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern NF, Volume 7. Part 2). Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7917-2333-4 , pp. 339-350.
  • as co-author: Gothic architecture.
    • The Rhineland. An inventory catalog of medieval architectural drawings . Müry & Salzmann, Salzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-99014-064-2 .
    • Ulm and the Danube region. An inventory catalog of medieval architectural drawings from Ulm, Swabia and the Danube region . Müry & Salzmann, Salzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-99014-040-6 .
  • St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. A symbol of the House of Austria . Anton-Pustet-Verlag, Salzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-7025-0566-0 .
  • Gothic architecture. Inventory catalog of the world's largest collection of Gothic architectural plans of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . Anton-Pustet-Verlag, Salzburg 2005, ISBN 3-7025-0510-5 .
  • The architecture of the castle church. In: Karlheinz Nestle (ed.): Schlosskirche Meisenheim 1504–2004. Moving history and living present of a unique building . Ev. Kirchengemeinde, Meisenheim 2003/4, ISBN 3-00-011685-0 , pp. 65–99.
  • Laurenz Spenning and the construction of the Vienna cathedral in the 15th century. Supplement to the exhibition Secret in the Stone. The legacy of the medieval cathedral construction works and their masters, June 12th to September 30th 2001 in the Mauerbach Charterhouse . Austrian Federal Monuments Office, Vienna 2001.
  • Romanesque sacral architecture in Soest . In: Heinz-Dieter Heimann (Ed.): Soest. History of the city. Volume I: The Road to the Urban Middle Ages. (= Soester contributions. LII ). Mocker & Jahn, Soest 2010, ISBN 978-3-87902-042-3 , pp. 751-874.
  • Gothic sacred architecture in Soest. In: Heinz-Dieter Heimann (Ed.): Soest. History of the city. Volume II: The Citizen's World. (= Soester contributions. LIII ). Mocker & Jahn, Soest 1996, ISBN 3-87902-043-4 , pp. 461-526.
  • as co-editor: The Emblem and Architecture. Studies in Applied Emblematics from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries. (= Imago Figurata. Studies. Volume 2). Brepols, Turnhout 1999.
  • Idensen : Architecture and painting of a Romanesque court chapel . Gebr. Mann-Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-7861-1799-3 .
  • The market parish church of St. Lamberti in Münster: The history of construction and restoration of a late Gothic town church. (= Preservation of monuments and research in Westphalia. Volume 18). Rudolf-Habelt-Verlag, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-7749-2382-5 .
  • Medieval brick architecture of Northern Germany . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1988, ISBN 3-534-02510-5 .
  • as co-author: Architectural monuments in Hessen : Schwalm-Eder-Kreis. Part I, (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Vieweg-Verlag, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1985.
  • English sacred architecture of the Middle Ages . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1984, ISBN 3-534-09542-1 .
  • The beginning of a late Gothic period within English sacred architecture between 1370 and 1450 . (= XVIII. Publication of the architecture department of the Art History Institute of the University of Cologne ). Cologne 1981.

Articles in magazines

  • Erwin von Steinbach - A master builder of the European Gothic. In: The Ortenau . Journal of the Historical Association for Mittelbaden Vol. 99, 2019, pp. 19–40.
  • A newly found construction plan of the Freiburg cathedral tower . In: Insitu - Zeitschrift für Architekturgeschichte 10, 2018, pp. 25–36.
  • Madern Gerthener and the question of the authorship of the Frankfurt cathedral tower plans . In: Insitu - magazine for architectural history. 8, 2016, pp. 163-180.
  • The two villas of Nikolaus Dumba in Liezen (Upper Styria) . In: Insitu - Zeitschrift für Architekturgeschichte 7, 2015, pp. 235–246.
  • A medieval building survey of the Zwettl collegiate church . In: Austrian magazine for art and monument preservation. 63, 2009, pp. 196-205.
  • The late Gothic reconstruction of the monastery church of the Gaming Charterhouse . In: Austrian magazine for art and monument preservation. 60, 2006, pp. 223-234.
  • The choir of the Steyr parish church and its builders. In: Austrian magazine for art and monument preservation. 57, 2003, pp. 213-232.
  • Ita Pius iusserat, qui exemplar apud Germanos in Austria vidisset: The late Gothic models of the cathedral of Pienza in Austria. In: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte. 49, 1996, pp. 57-74 and 301-306.
  • The late Gothic façade of the cathedral in Münster . In: Wallraf-Richartz-Yearbook for West German Art History. 54, 1993, pp. 31-75. (Digitized version)
  • Bishop Sigward and the construction of the Minden cathedral in the 12th century. In: Low German contributions to art history. 31, 1992, pp. 23-37.
  • York Minster ’s Nave: The Cologne Connection. In: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 50, 1991, pp. 167-180.
  • The late Gothic north hall of the Brunswick Cathedral . In: Low German contributions to art history. 26, 1987, pp. 51-62.
  • The market church in Hanover : On the temporal position of the Gothic brick hall. In: Low German contributions to art history. 25, 1986, pp. 33-46.
  • The portal sculptures of the Christ Church in Hanover : additions to the work of the Cologne cathedral sculptors Christian Mohr , Peter Fuchs and Edmund Renard . In: Low German contributions to art history. 24, 1985, pp. 185-200.
  • The Michaelskirche on the Rotenberg in Saarbrücken , a church building between historicism and new objectivity. In: Report of the State Preservation of Monuments in Saarland. 27, 1980-90, pp. 123-153.
  • The Augsburg Cathedral East Choir. Reflections on its planning history in the 14th century. In: Journal of the Historical Association for Swabia. 77, 1983, pp. 90-102.

Web sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical crash for Master Puxbaum. In: derStandard.at. June 13, 2001, accessed December 6, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Gothic architecture: Master Erwin brought into play. on: badische-zeitung.de , June 7, 2013.
  3. ↑ Jörg Schwaiger: The secrets of the Liezen "Dumba Villa" . In: Kronen-Zeitung from November 17, 2019. digitized
personal data
SURNAME Böker, Johann Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architectural historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Dalhausen