Leonhard Helten

Leonhard Helten (born March 26, 1958 in Grefrath ) is a German art historian and lecturer at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Halle. He is particularly concerned with medieval and late medieval architecture in Eastern and Central Europe.

Life

Leonhard Helten studied art history, history and philosophy in Marburg, Leiden and Utrecht from 1981 and received his doctorate summa cum laude in art history at the Philipps University in Marburg in 1990 (dissertation on Rutger van Kampen : A Parler in the Netherlands. The St. Nicholas Church in Kampen and their master builder Rutger from Cologne ). As a post-doctoral student, he was a research assistant at the University of Trier (where he participated in an exhibition about the Church of Our Lady in the Cathedral and Diocesan Museum) and from 1995 assistant at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, where he completed his habilitation in 2001 ( Habilitation thesis: Topology of the tracery in Germany 1227–1271 ) and became senior assistant. There he built up the monument preservation course and in 2006 co-founded the International Romanesque Center in Merseburg (since 2008 an institute of the University of Halle-Wittenberg). In 2009 he became an adjunct professor.

He was significantly involved in various exhibitions in Saxony-Anhalt (such as the Magdeburg Cathedral in 1994 in its cloister, Naumburg Master 2011, via Walter Gropius in Halle, via the city church of Our Lady in Wittenberg). He founded and organized international Paul Frankl colloquia at the University of Halle-Wittenberg (named after Paul Frankl ).

In addition to Gothic and Romanesque architecture, he deals with Dutch painting of the 16th and 17th centuries and cities and residences in Central Germany (research project The Ernestine Wittenberg: University and City (1486–1547) ). From 1998 to 2001 he was involved in excavations in the Cistercian monastery Sittichenbach .

He is a member of the Central German Art History Commission of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig and the Historical Commission for Saxony-Anhalt . He is also on the scientific advisory board of the "Center for Medieval Exhibitions" of the Kaiser Otto Magdeburg Cultural Foundation.

Fonts

• Cathedrals for citizens. The St. Nicholas Church in Kampen and the change in the architectural models of urban representation in the 14th century. Amsterdam 1994.
• Medieval tracery. Origin - Syntax - Topology. Reimer, Berlin 2006.
• Leonhard Helten / Hans W. Hubert / Olaf Peters / Guido Siebert (ed.): Continents of art history. The art historian Wilhelm Vöge (1868–1952) , Halle (Saale): mdv, 2019.

Web links

• Homepage
• Leonhard Helten in the FID Benelux research directory