Jutta Held

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Jutta Held (born July 30, 1933 in Cologne , † January 27, 2007 in Karlsruhe ) was a German art historian . Her numerous and internationally recognized art historical publications span the spectrum from the beginning of the early Middle Ages to the 20th century.

Life and academic background

Jutta Held studied at the universities of Hamburg, Münster, Tübingen, Freiburg / Breisgau and Madrid. In 1961 she received her doctorate on the subject of color and light in Goya's painting at the University of Hamburg . Your doctoral supervisor was Wolfgang Schöne , author of the well-known book The Light in Painting (1954).

Then she worked as a volunteer at Munich museums . Research stays in Paris and Spain followed.

From 1969 to 1971, she held a position as assistant professor at Queen's University in Kingston , Canada . In 1974 she was appointed to the University of Osnabrück , where she expanded the subject of art history and worked until 2000. She was visiting professor at the University of Zurich in 1981/82 and at the University of California in Los Angeles in 1982/83.

In her work at the Institute for Cultural History, she investigated the integration of art history into social and historical movements, especially from the point of view of feminism, the social question and historical upheavals. She also dealt with the role of art history in National Socialism .

She was particularly involved in training and in the organization of research funding. From 1996 to 1999 she was the spokesperson for the College of Education in the Early Modern Age for graduates. She also founded the Guernica Society and was a member of the Ulm Association for Art Studies .

On February 4, 2000, she gave her farewell lecture on the subject of Picasso's Korea image and avant-garde history painting .

On February 5, 2007 she was buried in the main cemetery in Karlsruhe .

Jutta Held was married to the German art historian Norbert Schneider .

Fonts (selection)

  • Color and light in Goya's painting , Berlin 1964.
  • Adam Elsheimer . Work, artistic origin and succession , catalog of the exhibition under the patronage of ICOM (Unesco Museum Committee), 1966/67.
  • Catalog of 19th century paintings , Essen, Museum Folkwang , 1971.
  • Francisco de Goya , Reinbek 1980, ISBN 3-499-50284-4 .
  • Art and everyday culture in Germany 1945–49. Cultural development in Germany after World War II , Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-88290-105-5 .
  • Culture between bourgeoisie and people , Berlin Argument 1983, ISBN 3-88619-103-6 .
  • Antoine Watteau : Embarkation to Kythera - Reconciliation of Passion and Reason , Frankfurt / Main 1985, ISBN 3-596-23921-4 .
  • Women's roles in opera and operetta before and after 1900 . In: Art and Culture of Women. Everyday feminine life, feminine aesthetics in the past and present (ed.), Loccum 1985.
  • The Spanish Civil War and the Fine Arts , Hamburg, Argument, 1989, ISBN 3-88619-376-4 .
  • Monument and people. Pre-revolutionary perception in images of the outgoing Ancien Régime , European cultural studies 1. Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-412-18589-2 .
  • Social history of painting. From the late Middle Ages to the 20th century (with Norbert Schneider), Cologne 1993, 2nd edition: 1998, ISBN 3-8321-7400-1 .
  • Symbols of peace and war in public spaces. Osnabrück, the "City of the Peace of Westphalia " , 1998, ISBN 3-932124-74-X .
  • Art and politics. Yearbook of the Guernica Society , Vol. 1/1999 (Ed.)
  • Metropolitan culture. Art and cultural policy of the 1990s in the centers of the world , 2000, ISBN 3-89739-178-3 .
  • The realism dispute. A debate about art and society - Paris 1936 , with Wolfgang Klein as editor, 2001, ISBN 3-89739-199-6 .
  • French art theory of the 17th century and the absolutist state. Le Brun and the first eight lectures at the Royal Academy , Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89739-199-6 .
  • Art history at universities during National Socialism with Martin Papenbrock , 2003, ISBN 3-89971-118-1 .
  • Ecclesiastical culture and arts of the 17th century in Spain , 2004, ISBN 3-86527-133-2 .
  • Avant-garde and Politics in France - Revolution, War and Fascism in the Focus of the Arts , Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-496-01321-4 .
  • Art and Politics, Volume 8/2006: Focus: Art history at universities in the post-war period with Martin Papenbrock, 2006, ISBN 3-89971-322-2 .
  • Fundamentals of art history. Subject areas - institutions - problem areas , with Norbert Schneider, UTB, 2007, ISBN 3-8252-2775-8 .
  • Caravaggio . Politics and Martyrium of the Body , Berlin: Reimer, 2nd edition 2007, ISBN 3-496-01370-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Preface. In: Norbert Schneider: History painting: From the late Middle Ages to the 19th century. Böhlau, Cologne 2010, p. 7 f., Here p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Hero, Jutta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2007
Place of death Karlsruhe