Marc Carel Schurr

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Marc Carel Schurr (* 1965 in Geislingen an der Steige ) is a German art historian and university professor .

After studying art history , musicology and Romance philology at the University of Tübingen , he received a doctorate in art history at the University of Friborg in Switzerland in 2001 . There he then became a research assistant in a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation to research Gothic architecture in Europe. Following this topic, Schurr completed his habilitation in 2005 on the subject of Gothic architecture in Central Europe 1220–1340 . From 2006 to 2010 he worked as a private lecturer at the universities in Freiburg, Tübingen and Bern as well as at the ETH Zurich . From 2008 to 2009 Schurr was also a visiting professor at the Institute for Art History at the University of Vienna , before he received a full professorship for Art History of the Middle Ages at the University of Grenoble in the summer of 2010 . In 2012 Schurr accepted a professorship at the University of Strasbourg . Since 2013 he has been President of the Strasbourg Cathedral Association .

His research focuses on art and architecture from the 13th to the early 16th centuries in Germany , Bohemia , France and Italy , including the buildings of the Parler family .

Works

  • Peter Parler's architecture. The St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, the Holy Cross Minster in Schwäbisch Gmünd and the Bartholomäus Church in Kolin in the field of tension between art and history. Ostfildern 2003.
  • Gothic architecture in Central Europe 1220–1340. From Metz to Vienna. Munich / Berlin 2007.
  • The Minster of Freiburg i. Üe., Strasbourg and Bern as reflected in European architecture around 1400 - thoughts on the legend of the Junkers of Prague. In: Journal for Swiss Archeology and Art History. 61 (2004), pp. 95-116.
  • Peter Parler, son architecture et ses rapports avec la cathédrale de Strasbourg. In: Bulletin de la Cathédrale de Strasbourg. XXVII (2006), pp. 113-128.
  • Symbolic reference or the architect's field of experimentation? - The sculpture canopies in the nave of the Freiburg Minster. In: C. Kratzke, U. Albrecht (Hrsg.): Micro-architecture in the Middle Ages. A cross-genre phenomenon between reality and imagination. Leipzig 2008, pp. 119-133.
  • Copy, quote, fashion - The Paris Sainte-Chapelle and the reception of the Gothic in Germany. In: Wolfgang Augustyn, Ulrich Söding (Hrsg.): Original - Copy - Quote. Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86328-101-4 , pp. 37-49.

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SURNAME Schurr, Marc Carel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schurr, Marc C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Geislingen an der Steige