Klaus Herding

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Klaus Herding (born December 27, 1939 in Munich ; † August 26, 2018 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German art historian and professor of European art history.

Life

Klaus Herding was the son of the historian and humanism researcher Otto Herding . After graduating from high school Paulinum in Münster, he studied art history, classical archeology and philosophy in Tübingen, Munich, Lille, Aix-en-Provence, Paris and Münster . In 1968 he was at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster specialist art history with a dissertation on Pierre Puget , the sculptor King Louis XIV. , PhD . Herding then became an assistant at the Technical University of Berlin , where he played a key role in “... overcoming a formalistic history of art”. He wrote his habilitation thesis in Hamburg in 1977 on the cynic Diogenes von Sinope ("Diogenes in the bin") as a symbol of the Enlightenment .

After a position as assistant director at the Staatliche Museen Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin , he was a research assistant at the Technical University of Berlin (1971–1974). An assistant professorship at the Free University of Berlin (1974) was followed by a professorship at the University of Hamburg (1975–1993). During his time in Hamburg, Herding represented, alongside Horst Bredekamp , Martin Warnke and Franz-Joachim Verspohl, a field of research that particularly focused on the social history of art.

From 1993 Herding held a chair for European art history at the Art History Institute of the University of Frankfurt am Main . Herding retired at the end of the 2004/2005 winter semester.

Herding was also a member of numerous institutes, scientific advisory boards and societies, such as employees in German and international editorial boards; he was the founder and from 1995 the spokesman of the graduate school “Psychic energies of fine arts”; Co-director of the Institute for Research into the Early Modern Age in Frankfurt am Main; Board member of the Guernica Society ; Member of the scientific advisory board of the Center allemand d'histoire de l'art in Paris ; Member of the scientific advisory board of the Scientific Foundation Library Werner Oechslin in Einsiedeln ; Member of the scientific advisory board of the Hessian Cultural Foundation ; Long-term member of the Monument Council of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and numerous scientific societies (including: German Society for Research in the 18th Century (DGEJ), Lichtenberg Society , Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français ). He was visiting professor in Europe and the USA, was a research fellow at the Getty Institute in Los Angeles and at the Siemens Stiftung in Munich.

Herding had been married to Helga Reichardt-Herding since 1980 and had a daughter. He died in August 2018 at the age of 78 after a bicycle accident in Frankfurt's Westend .

Research and Teaching

The field of his research and teaching formed the European art history from the beginning to the present, in particular sculpture , painting and graphics as well as photography . The focus was on art in the age of absolutism ; French painting and graphics of the 19th century, numerous books and articles on art and art theory , caricature , industrial and revolutionary graphics from the 16th to 20th centuries . Century; individual aspects of the international avant-garde in the 20th century as well as studies on the history of emotions . Herding established interdisciplinary links to philosophy , literary studies and psychoanalysis . Klaus Herding also worked on films about Courbet and Magritte .

honors and awards

Herding was awarded the Hessian Culture Prize in 2007 for his teaching and research activities at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt .

Works

A total of around 340 publications on art history and art theory have been published by Klaus Herding. An extensive selection of articles is given on the homepage of the Art History Institute in Frankfurt am Main, and a complete bibliography can be found under the Klaus Herding Forum (see web links).

Selection of book publications:

  • Pierre Puget. The pictorial work. Inaugural dissertation. Berlin 1970
  • (Collaborator): Propylaea art history of the 16th century. Berlin 1970
  • with Hans-Ernst Mittig : Art and everyday life in the Nazi system. Albert Speer's Berlin street lamps. Giessen 1975
  • (Mithrsg.): Courbet and Germany. Hamburg / Frankfurt am Main / Cologne 1978
  • (Ed.): Realism as a contradiction. Frankfurt am Main 1979 and 1984
  • (Mithrsg.): Caricatures. Giessen 1980
  • (Ed., Commentary and translation): Pierre-Joseph Proudhon : From the foundations of art and its social determination. Berlin 1988
  • Under the sign of enlightenment. Frankfurt am Main 1989
  • with Rolf Reichardt : The picture journalism of the French Revolution. Frankfurt am Main 1989
  • Courbet. To Venture Independence. New Haven / London 1991
  • Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, 1992 ISBN 3-596-10953-1
  • (Ed.): Enlightenment instead of prayer. Cultural-scientific dimensions of fine arts. Frankfurt am Main 1997
  • Freud's Leonardo. An examination of contemporary psychoanalytic theories. Munich 1998
  • (Mithrsg.): Pathos - affect - feeling. The emotions in the arts. Berlin 2004

Founder and longstanding editor of the series kunststück (since 1984, 103 volumes).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice of Klaus Herding , FAZ from August 31, 2018.
  2. ↑ Schola Paulina, February 14, 2019, p. 3.
  3. ^ Pierre Puget: Das bildnerische Werk , Mann, Berlin 1970, ISBN 978-3-78614041-2 .
  4. ↑ Stefan Trinks: Psychoenergies of Art and History. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 31, 2018, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Herding, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 2018
Place of death Frankfurt am Main