Martin Büchsel

Martin Büchsel (born August 28, 1950 in Neu-Isenburg ) is a German art historian and university professor .

Career

Martin Buechsel - 2014

Martin Büchsel studied philosophy , art history and sociology in Frankfurt am Main from 1970 and received his doctorate in 1977 with a dissertation on the epistemological thinking of Immanuel Kant ( the paradox of the category of substance as a relational concept in the ' Critique of Pure Reason ' ). From 1978 to 1982 he devoted himself to studying classical philology . A stay in Rome extended from March 1985 to December 1986 . At the Liebieghaus (Museum for Sculpture ) in Frankfurt he was employed with work contracts from 1987 to 1990, then for 26 months as a research assistant . Martin Büchsel habilitated in 1992 at the University of Freiburg with a research on the medieval sculpture ( The sculpture of the transept of the cathedral of Chartres ). There he then taught as a private lecturer until 1995, interrupted by a guest semester in Bern . After a three-and-a-half-month research stay in Paris financed by the German Research Foundation , he worked as a substitute from the spring of 1995, and then as a full professor at the Chair for European Art History with a focus on the Middle Ages at the Art History Institute of the University of Frankfurt am Main from autumn 1996 .

In his university teaching, Martin Büchsel represents the art of the entire Middle Ages from the beginnings to the epoch border around 1500.

His efforts in research included among other things

early Christian architecture, then
with a focus on the early Middle Ages , Carolingian and Ottonian art ,
since the postdoctoral thesis on the sculpture of the medieval cathedral , and
in more recent times especially the late Middle Ages , especially the art of the Middle Rhine region between 1400 and 1500, the work of Jan van Eyck and his contemporaries.
As a result of his philosophical training, he also feels a marked inclination towards aesthetic theory.
Büchsel is also the spokesman for the Graduate School Psychological Energies in the Fine Arts .

He is interdisciplinary as a

maintains cooperation with representatives of classical archeology , including through jointly organized symposia .

The sculpture of the transept of Chartres Cathedral . Gebrüder Mann, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-7861-1724-1 .
The birth of the Gothic. Abbot Sugers concept for the Saint-Denis Abbey Church . (= Sources on art. Volume 5). Rombach, Freiburg 1997, ISBN 3-7930-9160-0 .
The creation of the portrait of Christ. Visual archeology instead of visual hypnosis . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2003. 3rd revised edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-8053-3263-7 .
Albrecht von Dürer's engraving MELENCOLIA, I. Signs and emotion. The logic of an art-historical debate . Fink, Paderborn / Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-4962-7 .

With Rebecca Müller: intellectualization and mystification of medieval art. "Cult image": revision of a term . Gebrüder Mann, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-7861-2618-8 .
As co-editor: IMAGO - Interdisciplinary Yearbook for Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8379-2175-5 .

Portrait of Martin Büchsel on the portal of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. A detailed, up-to-date list of publications can also be found there .
Reviews of book publications by Martin Büchsel on the perlentaucher portal .

personal data
SURNAME	Büchsel, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 28, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neu-Isenburg