Art history institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

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The Art History Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt is a scientific institution for teaching and researching art history , art theory and its methods. The main research areas cover epochs and styles of visual art from the Middle Ages to modern art in the genres of painting, sculpture, architecture, book art, film, photography and new media. The institute is assigned to Faculty 09 Linguistics and Cultural Studies . 1,828 students were enrolled in the winter semester 2014/15.

history

Beginnings of the institute

The institute emerged in 1915, one year after the university was founded, from various institutions such as the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences . Initially, it was located on the premises of the Städel , with whose library a cooperation exists to this day. The then director of the Städel, Georg Swarzenski , was appointed as the first honorary professor . The first focus was on teaching the history of architecture and building sculpture as well as researching the hitherto little-known art on the Middle Rhine based on Goethe's art-critical writings " On art and antiquity in the Rhine and Mayn regions ".

The first professor at the institute was Rudolf Kautzsch , who published during his teaching activities there on medieval book art and the history of late antique capital. He campaigned for a stronger link between art research and the methods of the natural sciences. After the First World War , the number of students grew to almost 30.

Another main topic, the morphology of the capital in medieval building history, was researched by Hans Jantzen at the institute. He perfected the basic thesis of the diaphanous wall structure during his time in Frankfurt.

In 1935, Albert Erich Brinckmann was transferred from Berlin to the University of Frankfurt, which was threatened with closure due to measures taken by the National Socialists, as part of the so-called ring swap. Until his retirement in 1946, he published some of his main works on baroque research and fundamental works on urban studies at the institute . The humanistic stance he always represented and the associated rejection of an ideology of the “pure race” earned him a number of political opponents. He was only able to avert the impending concentration camp imprisonment with great difficulty. Several events have already been held under Brinckmann in Bockenheim , the core area of ​​the university. It was therefore necessary to set up a literary apparatus on site, which from 1941 formed the basis for building a reference library. The inventory quickly grew to over 4,000 titles and its own slide library.

After the Second World War

When the university reopened in 1946, 59 students registered to study art history. Under Herbert von Eine the institute moved completely to Bockenheim, as no more rooms were planned for the institute during the reconstruction of the Städel.

In 1947, Harald Keller was appointed head of the institute, which established a close connection with classical archeology . The professors he appointed all came from the two art history research institutions of the Max Planck Society , the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome and the Art History Institute in Florence . In the 1960s, Keller sought to refine the detailed analysis by opening up to the disciplines of philosophy and sociology, which was also expressed in joint events with Theodor W. Adorno .

In 1960 the institute moved to the Philosophicum designed by Ferdinand Kramer on Graefstrasse.

In the 1970s, the history of art was brought together under the newly created Faculty 09 - Linguistics and Cultural Studies, whose dean Wolfram Prinz held office. With the university reform and the associated opening of the university, the number of new students rose steadily. In 1980 the institute had 538 enrolled students, a few years later over 1,000.

With the growing influx of students, the spatial situation in the Philosophicum in Gräfstrasse became intolerable, which is why the institute had to move to rented rooms in Hausener Weg in the Hausen district in 1991 .

Moved in 2009

In 2009 the institute moved back to Bockenheim . After moving parts of the university to the Westend and Riedberg campuses , the institute moved into vacant rooms in the local Juridicum and the attached departmental library, the former legal seminar. In 2022 the institute will move to the Westend campus.

Research projects (in selection, chronological order)

  • Research project of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation : “Work genesis in the Venetian Quattrocento. The Vivarini painter's workshops "(2014–2015)
  • "The portrait collection of the Frankfurt patrician family Holzhausen (paintings and prints) from an art and cultural-historical point of view" (since 2018)
  • Gerda Henkel Foundation: "Violence imagery in late Medieval Germany: Rhetoric and response forms in visual representations of martyrdom and the Passion"
  • "Handpicked. Artist books and press prints from the collection of the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library "
  • The work of art between two book covers

Projects funded by the German Research Foundation:

  • Graduate program "Psychic energies in the fine arts" (1996-2004)
  • Sandrart.net . A web-based research platform on the art and cultural history of the 17th century (2007-2014)
  • "Medieval reredos in Hesse" (2011-2017)
  • "On one side - the connection between fashion and art in artist and fashion magazines of the 20th century" (2012–2016)
  • "Practices of generating similarity in the newer European architecture", Research Group Media & Mimesis (2013–2017)
  • "Passage. History and theory of transitory spaces "(since 2017)

Publications

From volume 1 (1957) to 5 (1978) the series of publications Frankfurter Forschungen zur Architekturgeschichte published by the institute appeared . It was replaced by the series of Frankfurt researches on art with volume 6 (1977) to 18 (1984). From 1982 to 2002 the institute published the series Frankfurter Fundamente der Kunstgeschichte ( ISSN  0175-3517 ) in 18 volumes . In 2005, the institute's series of publications, which is still up-to-date and still comprises 18 volumes, was launched under the title Neue Frankfurter Forschungen zur Kunst at Verlag Gebr. Mann.

Professors

Scientific staff

students

literature

  • Heinrich Dilly , Gerhard Eimer , Klaus Herding : The History of the Art History Institute of the Goethe University Frankfurt (= Frankfurter Fundamente der Kunstgeschichte Volume 17) Frankfurt am Main 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Student statistics. Retrieved July 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ In this context, Wilhelm Pinder moved from Munich to Berlin and Hans Jantzen from Frankfurt a. M. to Munich. (See: Sabine Arend: Studies on German art-historical "Ostforschung" under National Socialism. The Art History Institutes at the (Reich) Universities of Breslau and Posen and their protagonists in the field of tension between science and politics, p. 149, footnote 807, https: / /d-nb.info/1009513656/34 )
  3. ↑ North-east side of the campus is taking shape. UniReport of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, July 16, 2020, accessed on July 17, 2020 .
  4. ↑ http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/271237
  5. ↑ http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/30903728
  6. ↑ http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/202096027
  7. ↑ http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/211179982
  8. ↑ http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/240730034
  9. ↑ http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/391942117
  10. ↑ New Frankfurt Research on Art. Retrieved July 11, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Auerbach, Erna in the Frankfurter Personenlexikon
  12. ^ Building history of the Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim a. Rh. ( DNB 570267110 )