Lorenz Dittmann

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Lorenz Dittmann (born March 27, 1928 in Munich ; † March 11, 2018 in Saarbrücken ) was a German art historian .

biography

Lorenz Dittmann was the son of one of Nabburg in the Upper Palatinate born typographer born and his wife in Munich. He had an older sister who died early and grew up on Türkenstrasse (corner of Schellingstrasse ) in Maxvorstadt . During the Second World War Lorenz Dittmann was deployed as an air force helper.

After graduating from the Gisela-Oberrealschule , Dittmann worked in the post-war period as a construction worker in the reconstruction of Munich university institutes and then studied classical archeology , art history and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1948 to 1952 . After four semesters, Dittmann moved to the Technical University of Munich to study architecture , but returned to his previous courses at the University of Munich.

In 1955 Dittmann received his doctorate with a dissertation entitled "The color at Grünewald ", which was supervised by Ernst Strauss (1901–1981) . In the following year, 1956, he received a grant from the German Research Foundation to conduct studies on color design in Venetian painting of the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1957 Dittmann worked as a scientific volunteer at the State Museums in Munich (Graphic Collection, Bavarian State Painting Collection) .

As assistant to Wolfgang Braunfels (1911–1987), he moved to the Art History Institute of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen in 1958 , where he completed his habilitation in 1965 with the thesis "Style - Symbol - Structure. Studies on categories of art history" . The work was published in Munich in 1967. In Aachen, Dittmann met his future wife Marlen (* 1940), whom he married in 1965.

As successor to Wilhelm Messerer (1920–1989) he took over the chair for art history at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken in the winter semester 1977/1978 , which he held until his retirement at the end of March 1996.

His extensive scientific work includes numerous exhibition catalogs and the most recently published monographs "The Return of the Ancient Gods in Pictures. An Attempt at a New Interpretation" (2001) and "The Art of Cezanne. Color, Rhythm, Symbolism" (2005). Dittmann accompanied the development of the Saarland Museum as a founding member of the museum advisory board and took on various tasks in the Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation .

Lorenz Dittmann has a son and a daughter and lived with his wife in Saarbrücken.

Publications (selection)

literature

  • Ingeborg Besch, Robert Floetemeyer, Stephan Michaeli (eds.): From Altdorfer to Serra. Student publication, St. Ingbert 1993.
  • Hans-Caspar Graf von Bothmer, Klaus Güthlein, Rudolf Kuhn (eds.): Festschrift for Lorenz Dittmann , Lang, Frankfurt a. M./Berlin/Bern/New York / Paris / Vienna 1994.
  • Interview art and science, Lorenz Dittmann in conversation with Christof Trepesch, ed. by Jo Enzweiler, Saarbrücken 2013, ISBN 3-938070-79-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/kultur/sz-kultur/praegende-figur-der-kunstszene_aid-7922825 , https://saarbruecker-zeitung.trauer.de/trauerbeispiel/lorenz-dittmann , accessed on 13 March 2018
  2. Interview Art and Science, Lorenz Dittmann in conversation with Christof Trepesch, ed. by Jo Enzweiler, Saarbrücken 2013 , accessed on August 20, 2020