Klaus Gereon Beuckers

Klaus Gereon Beuckers (born August 26, 1966 in Cologne ) is a German art historian .

Klaus Gereon Beuckers finished high school in Königswinter- Oberpleis in 1982 after the tenth grade and completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Neuwied from 1982 to 1985 , which he completed as a journeyman in 1985. From 1985 to 1988 he attended the Ketteler College of the Diocese of Mainz, in 1988 he passed the Abitur and from 1988 to 1994 studied art history, Middle and New History, comparative religious studies and Catholic theology at the Universities of Bonn , Mainz and Cologne . In July 1993 he worked with the art historian and medieval archaeologist Hugo Borger in Bonn with a thesis on the subject of The Ezzonen and their foundations. A study on foundation activities in the 11th century is doing his doctorate. From 1994 to 1995 Beuckers was a research assistant at the Cologne Cathedral Administration for the archaeological excavation under the Cologne Cathedral . In 1995 he went to the Institute for Art History at the University of Karlsruhe as a research assistant . On May 19, 1999 he received the venia legendi there , the title of his habilitation thesis was Cologne: The Churches in Gothic Times. On late medieval sacred building work on the monastery, collegiate and parish churches in Cologne . From April 2000 Beuckers taught at the University of Stuttgart , the appointment as extraordinary professor took place on March 27, 2006. On April 24, 2008 Beuckers became head of the LWL State Museum for Monastery Culture in Dalheim Monastery (Lichtenau) , but after a few months in the winter semester 2008/09 appointed professor for art history at the University of Kiel .

Beucker's research focus is the art of the Middle Ages and art after 1945.

Fonts

Monographs

• The Ezzonen and their foundations. A study of foundation activities in the 11th century (= art history. Vol. 42). Lit, Münster et al. 1993, ISBN 3-89473-953-3 , (also: Bonn, Universität, Dissertation, 1993).
• Cologne: The churches in Gothic times. On late medieval sacred building activity on the monastery, collegiate and parish churches in Cologne (= city ​​traces - monuments in Cologne. Vol. 24). Bachem, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-7616-1372-5 .
• Rex iubet - Christ imperat. Studies on the wooden doors of St. Maria in the Capitol and on depictions of Herod before the investiture controversy (= publications of the Cologne History Association, vol. 42). SH-Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-89498-069-9 .
• The Cologne Cathedral. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-534-15737-0 .
• The Marsus Shrine in Essen. Investigations into a lost major work of Ottonian goldsmithing (= Institute for Research on Church History of the Diocese of Essen. Sources and Studies. Vol. 12). Aschendorff, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-402-06251-8 .
• with Ulrich Knapp (photos): Colored gold. The Ottonian crosses in the Essen Cathedral Treasury and their enamels. Cathedral Treasury Essen, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-00-020039-8 .
• The magnificent gospel book from Mariengraden. A masterpiece of Salic book illumination. with a foreword by Harald Horst and a contribution by Doris Oltrogge, Quaternio, Lucerne 2018.

Editorships

• with Holger Brülls and Achim Preiss : Art history studies. Hugo Borger on his 70th birthday. VDG - publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 1995, ISBN 3-929742-79-9 .
• with Johannes Cramer and Michael Imhof : Die Ottonen. Art - architecture - history. Imhof, Petersberg 2002, ISBN 3-932526-91-0 .
• Architecture for research and teaching. University as a construction task. Contribution to the conference of the Art History Institute of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel on June 5th to 7th, 2009 (= Kieler Kunsthistorische Studien. NF Vol. 11). Ludwig, Kiel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86935-035-6 .
• Dé-coll / age and happening. Studies on the work of Wolf Vostell (1932–1998). Conference of the Art History Institute of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel on December 3, 2011 (= Kiel Art History Studies. NF Vol. 15). Ludwig, Kiel 2012, ISBN 978-3-86935-145-2 .
• with Elizabeth den Hartog: Church and monastery, architecture and liturgy in the Middle Ages. Festschrift for Clemens Kosch on his 65th birthday. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2681-1 .
• Abbess Hitda and the Hitda Codex. (University and State Library Darmstadt, Hs. 1640). Research on a major work of the Ottonian Cologne illumination. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-534-25379-1 .
• with Hans-Edwin Friedrich: Wolf Vostell: Dé-coll / age as manifesto - Manifesto as Dé-coll / age. Manifestos, action lectures , essays (= neoAvantgarden. Vol. 3). edition text + kritik, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86916-260-7 .
• Ulrich Kuder : Studies on Ottonian book painting (Kieler Kunsthistorische Schriften, NF vol. 17), 2 volumes, Kiel 2018, ISBN 978-3-86935-296-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Gereon Beuckers in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page by Beuckers at the University of Kiel