Katharina Bott

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Katharina Bott (born February 26, 1941 in Mainz ), b. Schumacher, is a German art historian .

education

Katharina Bott attended the Maria Ward School (grammar school and vocational school) in Mainz , where she passed her Abitur in 1961. From 1961 to 1964 she studied German and English at the University of Freiburg , the Free University of Berlin , the Philipps University of Marburg and the University of Mainz . 1966 to 1968 followed a press traineeship at a business information service (WID) in Düsseldorf .

From 1975 to 1980, the study of art history followed at the University of Stuttgart with a master's thesis on the biblical female figures in Arnold Böcklin , and in 1985 she was at the University of Regensburg on the artistic works of August of food wine , founding director of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg (then: Germanisches Museum ).

job

From 1970 to 1980 Katharina Bott worked as an editor for various specialist magazines , hospital procurement and - after a one-year stay in Taiwan in 1978 - the magazine Indo-Asia: Politics, Culture, Economy in India, South Asia, East Asia .

After completing her studies in art history, Katharina Bott worked at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum from 1981 to 1985. In 1982 she married its director at the time, the art historian Gerhard Bott . From 1986 to 1996 she was curator of the art collections of the Counts of Schönborn at Pommersfelden Castle .

In 1996, together with her husband, she curated the exhibition Vice versa: German painters in America - American painters in Germany, 1813–1913 at the German Historical Museum in Berlin. 1996–2001 she designed various exhibitions in the Middle East , Austria and Frankfurt am Main . B. on astronomical instruments from the collection of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum and on Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer . In 2006 she inventoried the Man at Work Collection at the Grohmann Museum in Milwaukee . In 2010/2011 she curated the exhibition Hanau Artists in Italy . From 2010 to 2012 she and her husband were city historians for Hanau.

Projects

Currently (2012) Katharina Bott is preparing an exhibition on Friedrich Bury (1763–1823), which is to be shown in the Historisches Museum Hanau , in Weimar and in Rome and is co-author of a catalog raisonné by the artist. In addition, she researches the history of the drawing academy in Hanau from its foundation in 1772 to 1900.

Publications (selection)

  • with Johannes Willers: Treasures of Astronomy, Arabic and German Instruments from the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg . 1983 catalog.
  • "La mia galleria Pommersfeldiana". The history of the painting collection of Lothar Franz von Schönborn . In: The Counts of Schönborn, church princes, collectors, patrons . Catalog GNM Nürnberg 1989, pp. 112–128.
  • Franz Erwein Graf von Schönborn , art collector between classicism and romanticism . In: The Counts of Schönborn, church princes, collectors, patrons . Catalog GNM Nürnberg 1989, pp. 173-179.
  • Bibliography on the history of the House of Schönborn = publications by the Society for Franconian History. Series 11, Vol. 4 = bibliographies and resources on Franconian history 4. Degener Neustadt ad Aisch 1991. ISBN 978-3-86652-167-4
  • Interrelationships between Thorvaldsen and his German clients . In: Künstlerleben in Rom, Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844). The Danish sculptor and his German friends. Nuremberg 1991, pp. 327-339.
  • From the estate of Joachim Hotz : The time of Bishop Friedrich Carl von Schönborn = sources on the history of the Baroque in Franconia under the influence of the Schönborn house, part 2.1. (1993)
  • A German art collector at the beginning of the 19th century: Franz Erwein von Schönborn (1776 - 1840) . 1993. ISBN 3-929742-03-9
  • The time of Bishop Friedrich Carl von Schönborn 1729-1746 , in: Sources on the history of the baroque in Franconia under the influence of the House of Schönborn II. Part first half-volume, arr. Joachim Hotz +, ed. Katharina Bott, Degener Neustadt ad Aisch 1993
  • An art collector at the beginning of the 19th century. Franz Erwein von Schönborn (1776-1840) . 1993.
  • with Gerhard Bott: The Indians by Ferdinand Pettrich (1798-1872) in the Vatican . In: In medias res = Festschrift Peter Ludwig . Cologne 1995 pp. 379-402
  • with Gerhard Bott: Vice versa: German painters in America - American painters in Germany, 1813–1913. German Historical Museum, September 27, 1996 to December 1, 1996 .
  • German Artists in America / American Artists in Germany 1813-1913 = Lexicon for the catalog. Weimar 1996.
  • with Rudolf Bys: A splendid treasure trove of paintings and pictures: the painting collection of Lothar Franz von Schönborn in Pommersfelden . 1997, ISBN 3-932124-16-2
  • Courtly hunting delights from the hunting collection of Veste Coburg . Catalog. Albeck Castle / Carinthia 1997.
  • Gold of the Alps. 4000 years of jewelry and coins. Finds from the Alpine region . Catalog of the Klagenfurt Mining Museum 1999.
  • Jan Joost van Cossiau, Delitiae Imaginum. The painting collection of Lothar Franz von Schönborn in Gaibach Castle / Lower Franconia. The painting catalog by Jan Josst van Cossiau from 1721 . Weimar 2000.
  • The Schadow album by the Düsseldorf academy students from 1851 . Hanau 2009. ISBN 978-3-937774-59-6
  • with Richard Schaffer-Hartmann: The lust and splendor of Italy: Hanau artists see Italy (18th - 20th centuries) = book accompanying the exhibition from March 29th to May 29th, 2011 in the Hanau Historical Museum, Philippsruhe Castle . Hanau 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hospital procurement, trade journal for purchasing and materials management in health facilities in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ Indio-Asia , politics, culture, economy in India, South Asia, East Asia in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ See: Publications: Vice versa . Exhibition from September 27, 1996 to December 1, 1996.
  4. ↑ Katharina Bott u. Jürgen Eichenauer: Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer: (1800 - 1860); a Frankfurt builder in Egypt . Catalog of the exhibition from 4. – 30. December 2001 = patrons, donors, urban culture 3. Frankfurt 2001. ISBN 3-7829-0525-3
  5. ↑ See publications: The lust and splendor of Italy .
personal data
SURNAME Bott, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz