Michael F. Zimmermann
Michael F. Zimmermann (born December 23, 1958 in Münster ) is a German art historian .
life and work
Michael F. Zimmermann was born in Münster in Westphalia in 1958 . He obtained his Abitur in 1977 at the humanistic Burggymnasium in Essen . He then studied art history , philosophy and history at the University of Cologne until 1980 , funded by the German National Academic Foundation . From 1980 to 1981 he went to Rome for a year with the support of the German Academic Exchange Service , where he studied at the Bibliotheca Hertziana and the University of La Sapienza . From autumn 1981 to the end of 1984 he continued his studies in Paris at the Sorbonne ( University Paris IV ), again supported by the German National Academic Foundation. In March 1983 he received his master's degree from the University of Cologne with a thesis on the crisis of impressionism, art criticism and the breakthrough of the Third Republic after a decade of failed restoration efforts around 1879 , supervising professors were Joachim Gaus and Hans Ost . In February 1985 he was starting a study on Seurat. His work and the art-theoretical debate of his time doctorate , also at Joachim Gaus and Hans East.
From 1985 to 1990 Zimmermann was a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin at the chair of Thomas W. Gaehtgens and from 1990 to 1991 at the German Art History Institute in Florence . From October 1991 to September 2002 Zimmermann was then second director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. During this time he worked on his habilitation and December 20, 2000, he was in art history at the Free University of Berlin habilitated with a thesis on the industrialization of the imagination. Illustrated press, painting, and the media system of the arts in Italy during the building of the modern state nation, 1875-1900. The subject of his habilitation lecture was Cosimo's I. Garden in Castello. Thoughts on Mannerism and Art History. On February 25, 2001 he was nominated in an international competition by the Conseil National des Universités (CNU) for the list of applicants qualified for French professorships from 2001 to 2005. From February to March 2001 he taught as visiting professor at the University of Paris X and from September to December 2001 as Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor as part of the Graduate Program in the History of Art at Williams College Williamstown ( Massachusetts ).
From October 2002 to August 2004 he was Professor of Art History of Modern Times and Modernism at the Université de Lausanne , and since September 2004 he has held the Chair of Art History at the Catholic University of Eichstätt . Since 2006 he has been the spokesman for the master's degree in Historical Art and Image Discourses in the Bavarian Elite Network . From February to March 2007 he was visiting professor at the École normal supérieure in Paris, where he spoke about Images du mouvement - mouvements des images in the presence of the film historian Jean-Loup Bourget and the philosopher Claude Imbert . La vision cinématographique, 1860-1914 taught.
He has been a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 2008 , and in 2012 he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea .
Fonts (selection)
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Seurat. His work and the art theoretical debate of his time VCH, Acta Humaniora, Weinheim 1991
- Les mondes de Seurat. Mercator Fund, Antwerp 1991
- Seurat and the art theory of his time. Mercator Fund, Antwerp 1991
- Seurat en de art theory van zijn tijd. Mercator Fund, Antwerp 1991
- Industrialization of the imagination. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2006
- Lovis Corinth. CH Beck, Munich 2008
- 19th century art. CH Beck, Munich 2011
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ List of members: Michael F. Zimmermann. Academia Europaea, accessed on July 29, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zimmermann, Michael F. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munster (Westphalia) |