Klaus Güthlein

Klaus Güthlein (born June 6, 1942 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German art historian .

Life

After his father returned from captivity, Klaus Güthlein grew up in Friedberg , where he attended elementary school and then secondary school, which he graduated from secondary school in 1959. He then completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Frankfurt. From 1962 to 1964 Güthlein made up his Abitur at the Hessenkolleg in Frankfurt . Faced with the choice of studying art history or architecture, Güthlein decided to study architecture and completed the necessary pre-study internship. But for the summer semester of 1965 Güthlein then enrolled in art history , German studies and archeology at the University of Marburg . In the summer semester of 1968 he then went to study abroad at the University of Vienna , where he studied with Otto Pächt and Otto Demus . He completed his studies at the University of Heidelberg . There he was in 1973 with a dissertation on Franz Munggenast doctorate . From 1974 to 1979 he was a scholarship holder and research assistant at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome . There he researched the Roman Baroque and published on the baroque architects Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Girolamo and Carlo Rainaldi .

From 1980 Güthlein was assistant to Peter Anselm Riedl at the University of Heidelberg. In 1984 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the Palazzo Nuovo of Michelangelo's Roman Capitol and received a temporary professorship. In 1986/87 he then took on a vacant professorship at the University of Giessen. From 1989 until his retirement in 2008 he was professor of art history with a focus on architectural history at Saarland University . Here he wrote publications about the baroque architect Friedrich Joachim Stengel .

Güthlein's research focus is on the architectural history of the Baroque.

Publications

Books

• The Austrian baroque master builder Franz Munggenast . 1973
• with Franz Matsche (Ed.): Encounters. Festschrift for Peter Anselm Riedl on his 60th birthday . Werner, Worms, 1993
• with Hans-Christoph Dittscheid : The Stengel family of architects . Petersberg, 2005

Essays

• The facade of the Barnabite Church of S. Paolo in Bologna. A contribution to the work of the architects Girolamo and Carlo Rainaldi for the Spada family . In: Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte , Volume 17, 1978, pp. 125–155.
• Sources from the Spada family archive on the Roman Baroque. 1st episode , in: Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte Volume 18, 1979, pp. 173–243.
• Sources from the Spada family archive on the Roman Baroque. 2nd episode , in: Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte Volume 19, 1981, pp. 173–246.
• The "Palazzo Nuovo" of the Capitol . In: Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte Volume 22, 1985, pp. 83–190.
• The architect Friedrich Joachim Stengel. A sketch for his 300th birthday on September 29, 1994 . In: Catalog of the exhibition Friedrich Joachim Stengel 1694-1787; for the 300th birthday of the Princely Nassau-Saarbrück General Building Director, Saarbrücken 1994, pp. 11–31.
• Friedrich Joachim Stengel and his position in late baroque architecture of the 18th century . In: Journal for the history of the Saar region, Volume 43, 1995, pp. 34–53.

literature

• Christa Lichtenstern, Wolfgang Müller (ed.): The Art History Institute of the Saarland University: Life pictures . Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 2006, pp. 133–145
• Lorenz Dittmann , Dethard von Winterfeld , Christoph Wagner (Hrsg.): Languages ​​of Art. Festschrift for Klaus Gürthlein on his 65th birthday. Wernersche, Worms 2007, ISBN 978-3-8846-2259-9 .

Web links

• Güthlein at Saarland University