Martin Warnke (art historian)

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Martin Warnke (born October 12, 1937 in Ijuí , Brazil ; † December 11, 2019 in Halle an der Saale ) was a German art historian .

Life

Martin Warnke's father emigrated in 1936 as a pastor to a colony of German-Brazilians . To save him from the Brazilian military service , the family sent him to study in Germany. He studied art history, history and German in Munich, Madrid and Berlin. In 1963 he was at the University of Berlin with Hans Kauffmann with the work comments on Rubens doctorate . In 1964/1965 he completed an internship at the Berlin museums . During the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt am Main in April and May 1964, he wrote reports for the Stuttgarter Zeitung about the taking of evidence .

In 1970 he completed his habilitation at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster with the writing Organization der Hofkunst .

From 1971 to 1978 he was professor for art history at the University of Marburg . From 1979 on he taught at the University of Hamburg until his retirement in spring 2003. Martin Warnke died on December 11, 2019 at the age of 82 in Halle an der Saale and was born on December 20, 2019 at the Protestant Laurentiusfriedhof in Halle an der Hall buried.

Act

During his time in Hamburg, Warnke, along with Horst Bredekamp , Klaus Herding and Franz-Joachim Verspohl, represented a field of research that particularly focused on the social history of art. His research into the political and social preconditions of art as well as the political effect of images had a special effect within the subject, as already in his dissertation on Peter Paul Rubens . His early work was characterized as crypto- Marxist , for example by Otto von Simson . At the Kunsthistorikertag 1970 in Cologne, he headed a section on the critique of art history.

Warnke headed the Research Center for Political Iconography in the Warburg House in Hamburg, which he financed with funds from the Leibniz Prize awarded to him in 1990 . Here he devoted himself to the work of the important cultural scientist Aby Warburg , for whose archives in the Warburg House he was successfully involved. In 2005 the Martin Warnke Medal Foundation was established by the University of Hamburg and the Aby Warburg Foundation for academic achievements in the field of cultural studies.

Warnke was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry as well as in the committee for the preservation of German cultural assets. In 1983/1984 he was a member of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . In 1987 Warnke was a Fellow at the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities in Santa Monica . From 1998 to 1999 he was a member of the Collegium Budapest .

honors and awards

Publications

Book publications:

Martin Warnke was on the scientific advisory board of the magazine for aesthetics and general art history , published in two half-yearly volumes , Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg, ISSN  0044-2186 .

  • The work of art between science and worldview. Bertelsmann-Kunstverlag, Gütersloh 1970.
  • Construction and superstructure. Sociology of medieval architecture according to written sources. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1984 [first published by Syndikat Verlag , 1976].
  • Peter Paul Rubens. Life and work. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-7701-0952-X .
  • Cranach's Luther. Drafts for an image (= Fischer TB ). Frankfurt am Main 1984.
  • Political landscape. On the art history of nature. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1992.
  • Court artist. On the prehistory of the modern artist. 2nd Edition. DuMont, Cologne 1996.
  • History of German art in three volumes. Volume 2: Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times 1400–1750. CH Beck, Munich 1999.
  • Pictorial realities. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005.
  • Velázquez. Form & Reform. DuMont, Cologne 2005.
  • Kings as artists. Rhema, Münster 2007.
  • (Ed. With Uwe Fleckner and Hendrik Ziegler ): Handbook of political iconography. Volume 1: abdication to homage. Vol. 2: imperator to dwarf. 2nd Edition. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-57765-9 .
  • Contemporaneity. On the Auschwitz Trial in 1964. Presented by Pablo Schneider and Barbara Welzel. Diaphanes, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-03734-710-2 .
  • "Shake the Vasari ..." Art History Profiles. Edited by Matthias Bormuth , with an essay by Horst Bredekamp. Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3170-9 .
  • Artist legends. Critical views. Edited by Matthias Bormuth, Wallstein, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8353-3427-4 .

Essays:

  • Iconoclasts. In: Martin Warnke (ed.): The destruction of the work of art. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 1988, pp. 7-13 (original edition: Hanser, Munich 1973).
  • Broken story. The iconoclasts of the Anabaptists in Münster in 1534/1535. In: Martin Warnke (ed.): The destruction of the work of art. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 1988, pp. 65-98.
  • From violence against art to violence against art. The statements of Schiller and Kleist on the iconoclasm . In: Martin Warnke (ed.): The destruction of the work of art. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 1988, pp. 99-107.
  • About the power of beauty. In: Course book 112. Building cities. June 1993. Rowohlt, Berlin 1993, pp. 123-127.
  • Construction and counter construction. In: Hermann Hipp , Ernst Seidl (ed.): Architecture as political culture. Reimer, Berlin 1996, pp. 11-18.
  • The composite portrait. In: Andreas Köstler, Ernst Seidl (Ed.): Portrait and Image. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1998, pp. 143–149.
  • Role models. In: Kursbuch 146. Role models. December 2001. Rowohlt, Berlin 2001, pp. 19-27.
  • The custom system . The hero of the GDR painting also undermined the art dogmas of the authorities. In: The time . No. 9 , 2001 (on custom ).
  • From cutting off the nose . Valentin Groebner's book on violence in the Middle Ages is even entertaining. In: The time . No. 40 , 2003 (on Valentin Groebner ).
  • Isn't that Bismarck? Berlin picture gallery. In: FAZ . March 30, 2013 ( faz.net ): “The rise and fall of a world-famous painting: It was not Rembrandt who painted the“ man with the gold helmet ”. A closer look at the picture is still worthwhile. "

literature

  • Horst Bredekamp , Michael Diers u. a. (Ed.): Dissimulazione onesta or the honest dissimulation. From the wisdom of the hidden alarm in words, pictures and deeds. In honor of Martin Warnke. Philo, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86572-519-6 [with a bibliography by Martin Warnke, p. 177 ff.]
  • Matthias Bormuth: What it means to understand the court artist. Interview. In: FAZ . August 3, 2016, p. N3.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Horst Bredekamp : Rubens, Warburg and the couch corner. The art historian Martin Warnke revolutionized his subject. A goodbye. Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 11, 2019, accessed on December 11, 2019.
  2. ↑ Michael Diers : The German art historian Martin Warnke has turned the orchid compartment upside down . Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 13, 2019, accessed on December 18, 2019.
  3. ^ Gerda Henkel Foundation: "Empathic closeness to art". Retrieved December 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Henning Ritter : Lifetime Achievement. In: FAZ . November 9, 2006, accessed January 8, 2019.
  5. ↑ Review by Henning Ritter: Through the illusory world to reality. Martin Warnke shows Peter Paul Rubens' political commitment. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. October 4, 2006, No. 230, p. L31.
  6. ↑ Extensive review by Hans Zitko in: Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft. Volume 51, 2006, Issue 2, ISSN  0044-2186 , pp. 141–146 (= pp. 302–308), “Meetings”.
  7. ↑ Review by Stefan Trinks in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 175 Wednesday, July 31, 2019, p. 10 literature and non-fiction .
personal data
SURNAME Warnke, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Ijuí , Brazil
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2019
Place of death Hall