Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch
Lieselotte Esther Saurma-Jeltsch (born January 31, 1946 in Basel ) is a Swiss art historian and emeritus university professor.
Life
Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch is the daughter of the architect Paul Stamm and the photographer Lieselotte Stamm-Frikker. She completed a degree in art history, church history and ethnology at the universities of Munich and Basel . In 1979 she received her doctorate in Basel under Hermann Fillitz . She qualified as a professor at Robert Suckale at the Technical University of Berlin in 1991 , and from 1992 to 1995 she was Professor of Medieval Art History at the University of Frankfurt am Main . From 1995 until her retirement in 2011 she was a full professor for medieval art history at Heidelberg University . Since then, Saurma-Jeltsch has been a senior professor there.
She was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History and later of the Faculty of Philosophy from 2000 to 2005 and from 2004 to 2006 director of the newly founded “Center for European History and Cultural Studies” (ZEGK). It participated in the Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe” .
She has been married to the Swiss sociologist Adalbert Saurma- Jeltsch since 1987 . She lives in Heidelberg .
The main research areas of Saurma-Jeltsch are book illumination from the beginnings to 1500, especially image and text; Art in the social environment, especially production conditions.
Fonts
Monographs
- (as Lieselotte E. Stamm): The Rüdiger Schopf manuscripts. The masters of a Freiburg workshop of the late 14th century and their working methods. Aarau / Frankfurt a. M./Salzburg 1981.
- The miniatures in the « Liber scivias » by Hildegard von Bingen . The power of the vision and the order of the images. Wiesbaden 1998.
- Late forms of medieval book production. Illuminated manuscripts from Diebold Lauber's workshop in Hagenau. 2 vol., Wiesbaden 2001.
- Piety and prestige in the late Middle Ages. The pictures in the history Bible of the Solothurn family vom Staal . Basel 2008.
Editing
- Lieselotte E. Stamm, Rolf Hasler, Ernst Bohlen: Nobile claret opus : Festgabe für Ellen Beer . Journal for Swiss Archeology and Art History, 43 (1986) 1.
- Charlemagne as a well-known ancestor. His image in the art of princes, churches and cities. Sigmaringen 1994.
- with Johannes Fried : 794 - Charlemagne in Frankfurt am Main. A king at work. Exhibition catalog. Sigmaringen 1994.
- with Stefan Müller and Peter Strohschneider: Codex and Space. Wiesbaden 2009.
- with Tobias Frese: Between mimesis and vision. On urban iconography using the example of Augsburg. Münster et al. 2010.
- with Anja Eisenbeiß: The Power of Things and the Flow of Cultural Transformations: Art and Culture between Europe and Asia. Berlin 2010.
- with Anja Eisenbeiß: Images of Otherness in Medieval and Early Modern Times: Exclusion, Inclusion, Assimilation. Berlin 2012.
literature
- Tobias Frese and Annette Hoffmann (eds.): Habitus: Norm and Transgression in Text and Image. Festival for Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch. Berlin 2011.
Web links
- Literature by and about Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lieselotte E. Saurma on the website of the University of Heidelberg , Institute for European Art History
- Lieselotte E. Saurma on the website of the Cluster of Excellence at Heidelberg University
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Saurma-Jeltsch, Lieselotte E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stamm, Lieselotte Esther (maiden name); Saurma-Jeltsch, Liselotte Esther (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss art historian and emeritus university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel , Switzerland |