Marcel Baumgartner
Marcel Baumgartner (born August 14, 1950 in Oberriet ) is a Swiss art historian .
Life
From 1971 to 1978 he studied art history , architectural history and classical archeology in Bern . From 1974 to 1979 he was a research assistant at the Paul Klee Foundation, Kunstmuseum Bern . After receiving his doctorate in 1980 on painting in the age of "probable life". On the topicality of Cubism , he was a research assistant from 1979 to 1981 in the preparation and implementation of the exhibition Westkunst. Contemporary art since 1939 (Museums of the City of Cologne, Exhibition Grounds, Cologne 1981). From 1981 to 1983 he had a contract for the realization of the publication L'art pour l'Aare. Bernese art in the 20th century and organization of an accompanying exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bern in 1984. From 1982 to 1988 he built up the Art Today Collection together with Bernhard Mendes Bürgi and Christian Cuénoud. He had a habilitation grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation in 1983/84, 1985, 1987 (intermittent) with study visits to Munich [9 months] and London [6 months]. From 1984 to 1991, while working on his habilitation thesis, he headed the publications department at the Swiss Institute for Art Research . From 1986 to 1991 he was President of the Association of Art Historians in Switzerland (VKS). After the habilitation in 1989 on the subject of 'art' as 'history'? Johann Joachim Winckelmann's 'Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums' and the founding of the style epochs-art history in the run-up to 'Classicism' and 'Romanticism' he has been teaching since 1993 as a professor of art history at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .
His main research interests are 20th century art; Contemporary Arts; Art around 1800; Urban planning and history of art history.
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| SURNAME | Baumgartner, Marcel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss art historian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberriet |