Leo Andergassen

Leo Andergassen (born February 13, 1964 in Meran ) is a South Tyrolean art historian and monument conservator.

Life

Andergassen, who came from Kaltern , attended the “Beda Weber” humanistic high school in Merano. He studied art history and German philology at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna . In 1988 Andergassen submitted his diploma thesis in Vienna on the Renaissance altars in South Tyrol. In the same year he completed an internship at the State Monuments Office in Bolzano . In between 1992 and 1997, he inventoried religious art in the Diocese of Bolzano-Bressanone , where he met the prize in 1993 Walther von der Vogelweide of the South Tyrolean Cultural Institute was awarded. He was then director of the Diocesan Museum in Brixen from 1998 to 2007 . In 2002 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the pre-Reformation iconography of Anthony of Padua in Italy . From 2008 to 2013 Andergassen succeeded Helmut Stampfers as South Tyrolean state curator . In October 2013 he obtained his cumulative habilitation in Innsbruck with publications on the interaction between image and cult of saints using selected examples from the early modern period . 2014 he took over the management of the hitherto of de Siegfried Rachewiltz led South Tyrol Museum of Culture and History at Castle Tyrol . Until 2016, Andergassen was chairman of the Bolzano section of the Tyrolean History Association for many years, before handing this function over to Gustav Pfeifer.

Churburg. History, shape and art (= Great Art Guide 120). Schnell and Steiner, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7954-0857-1
Church art in Terlan , Bolzano 1995
Eppan. Art and architecture guide, Eppan 1996
Sarntaler Kirchenkunst , Lana 1996, ISBN 88-7073-214-2
South-Tirol. Art on site. With a special fresco guide , Bozen 2002, ISBN 88-8266-111-3
Art space South Tyrol. Fine arts in the mirror of European epochs , Bolzano 2007, ISBN 978-88-8266-231-8
Renaissance altars and epitaphs in Tyrol (= Schlern-Schriften 325), Innsbruck 2007, ISBN 978-3-7030-0417-9
Churches on the Renon . An art guide , Lana 2008
The cathedral of Bressanone , Bolzano / Lana 2009, ISBN 978-88-7073-497-3
Tyrol Castle: Residenzburg of the Tyrolean Counts (= Burgen 13), Regensburg: Schnell + Steiner 2015. ISBN 978-3-7954-2937-9
The collegiate church of Marienberg , Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2017, ISBN 978-3-95976-056-0
with Hanns-Paul Ties: Reformation in Tyrol and Trentino. Art and cultural historical research / Riforma protestante in Tirolo e in Trentino. Studi di storia dell'arte e di storia culturale (= Schlern writings 373). Innsbruck: Wagner 2020. ISBN 978-3-7030-1093-4

Georg Mair: The consensus seeker . In: ff - South Tyrolean weekly magazine . No. 27 , July 3, 2014, p. 54-57 .

personal data
SURNAME	Andergassen, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian art historian and monument conservator (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH	February 13, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Meran