Max Seidel (art historian)

Max Seidel (born February 9, 1940 in Basel ) is a Swiss art historian. From 1993 to 2005 he was director of the Art History Institute in Florence .

Seidel studied art history in Basel and Florence. He received his doctorate in 1967 in Basel on the relationship between central Italian and northern French art and completed his habilitation in 1973 in Zurich . From 1973 to 1979 Seidel was a university lecturer in Zurich. From 1979 to 1982 he held a professorship in Göttingen . From 1982 to 1993 he was full professor and director of the Art History Institute at Heidelberg University , from 1993 to 2005 he was director of the Art History Institute in Florence, which has been an institute of the Max Planck Society since 2002 , at which he has been Director Emeritus since then. In 2005 he became an honorary citizen of Florence.

Among other things, Seidel researched the sculptors Nicola and Giovanni Pisano , Simone Martini , Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Luca Signorelli and, together with Peter Anselm Riedl , initiated a project for the complete inventory and art-historical development of the Sienese churches.

Publications (selection)

• La scultura lignea di Giovanni Pisano . Ed. Edam, Florence 1971.
• Padre e figlio: Nicola e Giovanni Pisano . Masilio, Venice 2012.

literature

• The art of Tuscany. Max Seidel. Art History Institute in Florence - Max Planck Institute. In: Yearbook of the Max Planck Society 2003, pp. 91–92 (article about Seidel as a new Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society).
• Inauguration of Casa Zuccari & award of honorary citizenship of the city of Florence to Max Seidel . Art History Institute, Florence 2009.

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Seidel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page of Seidel at the Art History Institute in Florence