Katharina Otto-Dorn

Katharina Otto-Dorn , b. (Käthe) Dorn (born March 5, 1908 in Wiesbaden ; † April 4, 1999 in Heidelberg ) was a German art historian specializing in Islamic art .

Life

Katharina Otto-Dorn studied in Vienna at the chair of the art historian Josef Strzygowski (1862–1941), where she received her doctorate in 1934 with the dissertation "Sasanian silver and its symbols". While she was shaped by Strzygowski in the history of ideas, she learned the practical craft as a scientific trainee (voluntary scientific assistant) at the Islamic Department of the Berlin Museums (now the Museum of Islamic Art ) under Ernst Kühnel (1882–1964), Friedrich Sarre (1865– 1945) was succeeded as director in 1932.

From 1935 to 1944 she lived intermittently in Istanbul , where she worked in various positions at the German Archaeological Institute , most recently as a consultant. During this time she did research in and about İznik, among other things . In 1944, like all German nationals, she had to leave the country and returned to Germany. In 1948 she completed her habilitation at the University of Heidelberg , where she taught Islamic art history. In 1952 Otto-Dorn took part in the first campaign of the excavations in Resafa in Syria, the head of which Alfons Maria Schneider died on the train on the way to Aleppo. While Johannes Kollwitz examined the Christian churches within the city, she uncovered an early Islamic residence extra muros .

In 1954 Otto Dorn received the first chair for Islamic art and archeology at the University of Ankara (Faculty of Language, History and Geography = Dil, Tarih ve Cografya Fakanschesi), which she held until 1967. During this time she carried out excavations in Kubadabad on the west bank of Lake Beyşehir in 1965 and 1966 . The summer palace of the Rum-Seljuk Sultan Ala ad-Din Kaikubad (reigned 1219–1237), which is uncovered here, is best known for its rich, figurative tiling. From 1967 until her retirement in 1978 she taught Islamic Art as a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

At the end of the 1980s she returned to Heidelberg, where she died in 1999.

Fonts

• Eastern influence on a group of Iranian silver bowls, in: Ostasiatische Zeitschrift NF 13, 1937, 82–91
• Sinan , in: General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present. Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker ( Thieme-Becker ), Vol. 31, 1937, 83–85
• The Islamic building inscriptions from Kahta, in: Friedrich Karl Doerner - Rudolf Naumann: Research in Commagene. Istanbul Research 10. Berlin 1939, 97-101
• The Islamic Isnik . With a source study by Robert Anhegger . Istanbul Research 13. Berlin 1941
• The Isa Bey Mosque in Ephesus, in: Istanbuler Forschungen 17. Berlin 1950, 115–31
• The ornamental Ottoman wall painting, in: Kunst des Orients 1, 1950, 45–54
• Figure Representation in Islam, in: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1950–51, Sp. 342–48
• Islamic monuments of Cilicia, in: Yearbook for Research on Asia Minor 11/2, 1952, 113–26
• Early Christian influences in Omayyad, in: Kunstchronik 6, 1953, 252-254
• Religious Art of Islam , in: Religion in Past and Present 3 (1954) Sp. 158–161
• Mosque , in: Religion in Past and Present 3 (1954) Sp. 1145–1150
• Report on the excavation in the Islamic Rusafa, in: Archäologischer Anzeiger 69, 1954, 138–159
• Report on the excavation in the Islamic Rusafa, in: Annales Archéologiques de Syrie 4–5, 1954–55, 45–58
• A Seljuk silver bowl - Bir Selçuk Gümüs Kasesi, in: Vakiflar Dergisi 3, 1956, 85–91
• The mihrab of the Arslan Hane Mosque in Ankara, in: Anatolia 1, 1956, 71–75
• Turkish ceramics . Ankara 1957
• Excavation in the Umayyad city of Rusafah, in: Ars Orientalis 2, 1957, 119-133
• Seljuk wooden pillar mosques in Asia Minor, in: From the world of Islamic art, Festschrift for E. Kühnel on his 75th birthday. Berlin 1957, 59-88
• Turkish gravestones with figure reliefs from Asia Minor, in: Ars Orientalis 3, 1959, 63–76
• Turkish-Islamic images in the figure reliefs by Achthamar, in: Anatolia 6, 1961/62, 1-69
• The construction of a Seljuk mosque in Anatolia, in: Journal for Cultural Exchange 12, 2–3, 1962, 158–163
• with Theresia Goell: Ceramic finds from the Middle Ages and the early Ottoman period, in: Arsameia am Nymphaios, Die Ausgrabungen im Hierothesion des Mithridates Kallinikos (1963) 246–274
• Representations of the Turco-Chinese animal cycle in Islamic art, in: In Memoriam E. Diez. Contributions to the history of art in Asia. Istanbul 1963, 131-165
• Art of islam . Baden-Baden 1964. Translations into Italian (1964), Spanish (1965), French (1967; 1983), and into Serbo-Croatian (1976). Revised paperback edition Baden-Baden 1979, 2nd edition 1980
• The Seljuks in Anatolia, in: Turkish Art (exhibition May 8– June 23, 1965 Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe) 20–26
• Turkish Art in Asia Minor, in: Baedecker's Autoreisführer. Stuttgart 1966, 58-66
• with M. Önder: Report on the excavation in Kobadabad 1965, in: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1966, 170-183
• Kubad-abad kazilari 1965 yili ön raporu. [Preliminary Report on the Kubadabad Excavations in the Year 1965], in: Türk Arkeoloji Dergisi 14, 1-2, 1965 (1967), 237-243
• The Ulu Dschami in Sivrihisar, in: Anadolu (Anatolia) 9, 1965 (1967), 160-169
• Report on the excavation in Kobadabad 1966, in: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1969, 438–506
• The human figure representation on the tiles of Kobadabad, in: Oktay Aslanapa - Rudolf Naumann (Hrsg.): Research on the art of Asia. In Memoriam Kurt Erdmann, Istanbul 1969, 111-139
• Afterlife of Byzantine traditions in the mosque of Murad II in Edirne, in: Aspects of the Balkans, Contributions to the International Balkan conference, October 1969, 1972, 82–91
• Afterlife of Byzantine traditions in the Mosque Murads II in Edirne, in: Aspects of 'the Balkans, continuity and change, ed. H. Birnbaum and S. Vryonis, Jr. The Hague - Paris 1972, 198–210
• The Art of Ceramics, in: P. Pal (Ed.): Islamic Art. The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection. Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1973, 14–69
• The landscape representation in the Seljuk painting, in: Festschrift for Hans Robert Roemer. Beiruter Texte und Studien 22 (1979) 503-522
• Figural Stone Reliefs on Seljuk Sacred Architecture in Anatolia, in: Kunst des Orients 12, 1978/79, 103-149
• The Ambivalent Character of the Seljuk Tomb Tower, in: I. International Congress on the History of Turkish-Islamic Science and Technology, 14. – 18. September 1981. Istanbul 1981, 33-55
• The Seljuk Throne Image, in: Persica 10, 1982, 149–194
• The image of the throne on the Spanish-Omayyad ivory boxes, in: XXV. International Congress for Art History, CIHA, Vienna 4. – 10. September 1983. Vienna 198 *, 101-104
• The early Abbasid image of the throne, in: Ars Turcica. Files of the VI. International Congress for Turkish Art, Munich 1979. Edited by Klaus Kreiser, HG Majer, Marcell Restle, J. Zick-Nissen. Munich 1987, Volume 2, 611-623
• An unusual representation of the holy places of Islam, in: Türkische Miszellen - Robert Anhegger Festschrift. Varia Turcica 9. Istanbul 1987, 299-316
• The Islamic image of rulers in the early Middle Ages (8th – 11th centuries), in: The image in the art of the Orient (edited by M. Kraatz, Jürg Meyer zur Capellen, D. Seckel). Stuttgart 1990, 61-71
• The Griffin-Sphinx Ensemble, in: Robert Hillenbrand (Ed.): The Art or the Saljuqs in Iran and Anatolia. Islamic Art and Architecture Series, 4. Cosa Mesa 1994, 303-310
• Saljuq-Byzantine Relations, in: Uluslararasi Osmanli Öncesi Türk Kültürü Kongresi Bildirileri, Ankara, 4-7 Eylül 1989. Ankara 1997, 183-190
• The dragon relief from the Talismantor in Baghdad, in: Light on the Top of the Black Hill. Studies presented to Halet Çambel. Istanbul 1997, 532-542

literature

• Abbas Daneshvari (Ed.): Essays in Islamic Art and Architecture - In Honor of Katharina Otto-Dorn. Malibu 1981. ( List of publications )
• Joachim Gierlichs: Katharina Otto-Dorn (1908-1999) , in: Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländische Gesellschaft 152, 2002, 5-9
• Joachim Gierlichs: In Memoriam Katharina Otto-Dorn: A life dedicated to Turkish Islamic Art and Architecture , in: Machiel Kiel, N. Landman & Hans Theunissen (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Turkish Art, Utrecht - The Netherlands , August 23-28, 1999 , EJOS IV (2001), No. 21, 1-14

Web links

• Literature by and about Katharina Otto-Dorn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Katharina Otto-Dorn, Art History: Los Angeles. 1904-1999. Professor Emeritus
• Katharina Otto-Dorn in Kubadabad. 1965/66 (photo)