Markus Ritter (art historian)
Markus Ritter (* 1967 in Braunschweig ) is a German art historian and Islamic scholar who specializes in the history of Islamic art. He has been teaching and researching at the Institute for Art History at the University of Vienna since 2012 .
Ritter studied Islamic art history and archeology, Turkish studies, Iranian studies, Islamic studies and Arabic studies, building history and building research at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg , the American University in Cairo and the University of Tehran (MA 1994, Dr. phil 2003). From 2004 to 2009, Ritter was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. After teaching positions at the University of Bamberg and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , in 2010 he switched to the newly established Assistant Professor of the History of Islamic Art at the Art History Institute of the University of Zurich . In 2012 he was appointed to the new professorship for Islamic Art History at the Institute for Art History at the University of Vienna .
Books
- Mosques and madrasahs in Iran 1785-1848: Architecture between recourse and innovation , Brill, Leiden / Boston 2006 (Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts; 62) ISBN 90-04-14481-1
- The Gold Koran from the time of the Seljuks and Atabegs: Commentary | The Golden Qur'an from the Age of the Seljuks and Atabegs: Commentary . Academic Printing and Publishing Company, Graz 2015 (with Nourane Ben Azzouna) ISBN 978-3-201-01999-6
- The Umayyad palace of the 8th century in Ḫirbat al-Minya on the lake of Tiberias: construction and decoration . Reichert, Wiesbaden 2017 (Studies in Islamic Art and Archeology | Studies in Islamic Art and Archeology, 1) ISBN 978-3-89500-679-1
Published books
- Iran and Iranian Cultures , Wiesbaden 2008 (Contributor to Iranian Studies; 27) (with Ralph Kauz and Birgitt Hoffmann) ISBN 978-3-89500-607-4
- Contributions to Islamic Art and Archeology , Vol. 2, Wiesbaden 2010 (with Lorenz Korn) ISBN 978-3-89500-766-8
- Contributions to Islamic Art and Archeology , Vol. 5, Wiesbaden 2017 (with Ilse Sturkeboom and Fernando Valdéz Fernández) ISBN 978-3-95490-238-5
Web links
- Selected articles and publications online
- Markus Ritter on the website of the Institute for Art History at the University of Vienna
Former chair (“Art History II”): Rudolf Eitelberger (1852–1885) | Alois Riegl (1897–1905) | Max Dvořák (1909–1921) | Julius von Schlosser (from 1922) | Hans Sedlmayr (from 1936) | Karl M. Swoboda (from 1946) | Otto Pächt (from 1963) | Hermann Fillitz (from 1974) | Hellmut Lorenz (from 1997) | Sebastian Schütze (from 2009)
Later chair (“Art History I”): Moritz Thausing (1873–1884) | Franz Wickhoff (1885–1909) | Josef Strzygowski (1909–1933) | Otto Demus (from 1963) | Günther Heinz (from 1976) | Friedrich Teja Bach (from 1994) | Sebastian Egenhofer (from 2016)
Further chairs and university professors: Otto Benesch (from 1948) | Fritz Novotny (from 1948) | Renate Wagner-Rieger (from 1964) | Gerhard Schmidt (from 1964) | Helmut Buschhausen (from 1975) | Artur Rosenauer (from 1976) | Deborah Klimburg-Salter (from 1996) | Michael Viktor Schwarz (from 1998) | Lioba Theis (from 2005) | Raphael Rosenberg (from 2009) | Julia Gelshorn (2010–2011) | Sebastian Egenhofer (2012–2013) | Markus Ritter (from 2012) | Noit Banai (from 2014) | Lukas Nickel (from 2016)
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| SURNAME | Knight, Markus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian, Islamic scholar and specialist in the history of Islamic art |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |