Klaus Niehr

Klaus Niehr (born August 13, 1955 in Kaldenkirchen ) is a German art historian .

biography

Klaus Niehr studied art history, older German and Romance studies and received his doctorate in 1987 at the University of Bonn with a thesis on Central German sculpture of the 13th century. Until 1992 he was a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin , where he completed his habilitation in 1996. In 1993/94 he took on a visiting professorship at the Humboldt University and at the University of the Arts in Berlin. From 1997 he was a professor at the University of Marburg . After a substitute professorship at the University of Basel , he has been Professor of Art History at the University of Osnabrück since 2004 .

The main focus of his research lies in the field of architecture and visual arts of the Middle Ages and the early modern period. The focus is on the political instrumentalization of the arts and the representation of reality that takes place through them. Another area of ​​his work is the history of science, especially the reception of the Middle Ages in text and images from the 18th to the 20th century, as well as the formation of categories of art-historical order and valuation.

Niehr has been a member of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen since 2008 and a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen since 2010 .

Publications

As an author

• Central German sculpture of the first half of the 13th century. VCH, Weinheim 1992, ISBN 3-527-17766-3 (dissertation, University of Bonn, 1987).
• Gothic images - Gothic theories. Studies on the perception and research of medieval architecture in Germany between approx. 1750 and 1850. Mann, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-7861-1878-7 (habilitation thesis, FU Berlin, 1996).
• The art of the Middle Ages. Volume II: 1200-1500. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-57883-0 .
• Shell and core. Five building blocks for the Osnabrück Castle (= Osnabrück University Speeches. Vol. 5). V&R unipress, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-887-4 .

As editor

• with Ingo Herklotz and Ulrich Schütte : Marburg studies on art and cultural history. 2000-2005.
• with Katharina Krause and Eva-Maria Hanebutt-Benz : lust for pictures and reading fruits. The illustrated art book from 1750 to 1920. Seemann, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-86502-093-3 .
• with Katharina Krause: work of art - image - book. The illustrated art book from 1730 to 1930. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin, 2007, ISBN 978-3-422-06696-0 .
• Historical city views from Lower Saxony and Bremen 1450–1850. Wallstein, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1534-1 .
• Historicism in the Diocese of Osnabrück. Alexander Behnes, Heinrich Seling, Ernst Schnelle and preoccupation with the past in architecture and art around 1900. Rasch, Bramsche 2014, ISBN 978-3-89946-234-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Niehr in the catalog of the German National Library
• Klaus Niehr on the website of the Art History Institute of the University of Osnabrück