Michael Groblewski

Michael Groblewski

Michael Groblewski (born June 1, 1950 in Dortmund ) is a German art historian and university professor specializing in Italian art history, architecture and architectural theory as well as modern and contemporary art. He lives and works in Darmstadt (Hesse) and Alghero (Sardinia, Italy).

Life

Michael Groblewski studied art history , classical archeology and Italian studies at the universities in Munich, Vienna and Regensburg. In 1976 he completed his studies with a doctorate to become a Dr. phil. at the University of Regensburg (dissertation topic "The Church of San Giovanni Battista in Pesaro by Girolamo Genga ").

After completing his studies, he first worked at the Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg and as diocesan curator of the Limburg ad Lahn diocese in the professional fields of museum and monument preservation, before the Lübeck community center research (a sub-project of the Collaborative Research Center 17 of the University of Kiel) led him back into research . As a scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute for Art History, the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome , he was able to research the complex history of the reconstruction of the Patriarchal Basilica of San Paolo fuori le mura (Saint Paul Outside the Walls) in the Roman archives for three years (1980–82) . The subsequent appointment as a university assistant at the Technical University of Darmstadt opened up his professional future at the university in 1989 with the habilitation for Middle and Modern Art History and with the appointment as private lecturer. In addition to his teaching activities at the Technical University of Darmstadt, he was committed to his subject as managing director on the board of the Association of German Art Historians (1982–1992). In this position he introduced the first digitization of the general meeting and played a key role in the conception, organization and implementation of the German Art History Conference in Stuttgart (1984), Berlin (1986), Frankfurt a. M. (1988) and Aachen (1990) involved.

After the habilitation, there were temporary professorships, guest professorships and, in some cases, professorships for several years at the Technical University of Darmstadt, the University of Stuttgart , the University of Koblenz-Landau, the University of Frankfurt am Main , the University of Passau, the Technical University of Dresden, the University of Bern, the University of Friborg and the University and Art College Kassel until he finally accepted a call to the Università di Sassari (2007); At the Dipartimento di Architettura, Design e Urbanistica in Alghero (DADU) and at the Dipartimento di Storia, Scienze dell'Uomo e della Formazione, he teaches the theory and history of architecture and art history, as well as the history of urban construction and the history of monument preservation.

In addition to his activities as a university lecturer, he accompanied various projects, initiated conferences and curated exhibitions. In 1988/89 he acted as a consultant and appraiser for the Hessische Kulturstiftung in connection with the acquisition of the Beuys block and was significantly involved in the conception and implementation of a congress in the Hessian State Museum of the Hessian Landtag , which placed the then controversial artist in the international context of contemporary art sat. Together with Georg Satzinger he accompanied the virtual 3D reconstruction projects for the Vatican Palace and the building history of Neu-St. Peter, which were shown in the Bonn exhibitions “High Renaissance in the Vatican” (1998/99) and “Baroque in the Vatican” (2006/2007). In 2001/02 he curated the exhibition “StaatsBauKunst” in the historic rooms of the Hessian Parliament in Wiesbaden, which was opened with an interdisciplinary symposium on the Grand Ducal State Architect Georg Moller.

Groblewski's scholarly examination of architecture and the visual arts is based on the conviction that architecture not only provides the spatial framework for the visual arts, but is itself part of it. His historical understanding, which is repeatedly condensed into interdisciplinary questions far beyond the boundaries of epochs, is always based on a dedicated description of the individual work of art, confronts it with the critically questioned source material and develops interpretations and approaches from this. In this way, he is not only innovative in research, but also succeeds in introducing students to art history and getting them excited about the discursive subject. In his adopted city of Darmstadt , too , he repeatedly played an opinion-forming role and over several years illustrated the importance of Georg Moller and his buildings for Darmstadt and Hesse with various exhibitions and publications .

Since 2010 he has been working at the Università di Sassari in the Dipartimento di Architettura, Design e Urbanistica in Alghero as an Associate Professor (Professore Associato). In addition, he remained connected as a private lecturer and teacher, but also as a collaborator in some projects (e.g. in the LOEWE project “Eigenlogik der Stadt”) of the TU Darmstadt and the architecture department.

At the Università di Sassari, a pilot project is currently underway under his direction to record all town halls in the cities and municipalities of Sardinia. Beyond various political intentions, this project is primarily intended to evaluate the networked digital processing of photographic campaigns and archival sources. The town hall is associated with the archetype of the political participation of the bourgeoisie, the urban place for democracy . Accordingly, the international and interdisciplinary research association, which has been in preparation for a long time, not only wants to take account of an art-historical desideratum with the spatially expanded project, but also intends to focus on the growing importance of town hall politics in the European context.

Works

Monographs

• The Church of San Giovanni Battista in Pesaro by Girolamo Genga , Phil.-Diss. Regensburg 1975, Regensburg 1976.
• August Brömse 1873 - 1925. A graphic artist caught between symbolism and expressionism , exhibition catalog, Regensburg 1978.
• Throne and Altar - The Reconstruction of St. Paul Outside the Walls (1823-1854) Habilitation thesis from 1989, Research on European Intellectual History 2, Freiburg i.Br. 2001.
• St. Ludwig in Darmstadt - From the pantheon idea to the church on the mountain , with contributions to the last restoration measures by RV Cebulla, H.-J. Kotzur and A. Seip / C. Winterhalter / A Boltz, Regensburg 2005.
• St. Ludwig - Darmstadt , Church Guide No. 390, Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2005.
• Georg Moller (1784-1852) - Buildings and projects of the grand ducal master builder in Hessen-Darmstadt , co-authors W. Lück, H. Svenshon, W. Salesski, Berlin 2015

Contributions

• The crypt chapel of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis in the cloister of St. Emmeram - considerations for understanding the Gothic reception in the princely mausoleum , in: Thurn and Taxis-Studien Vol. 15, Kallmünz 1986, pp. 99-132.
• Raffael as an architect , in: Raffael in his time | edited from v. V. Hoffmann, Nuremberg 1987, pp. 68-97
• Imagination and Hermeneutics - Frontispiece and reflections of the "Scienza Nuova" by Giambattista Vico , in: Idea - Jahrbuch d. Hamburger Kunsthalle VI-1987, pp. 53-79.
• "... a kind of iconography in the picture." Joseph Beuys - From the fictional figure to the cult figure, in: Cult figure and myth formation - The image of the artist and his work in contemporary art (= Vol. 1 of "Moderne Zeiten", Art- Historical series of the Hessian Cultural Foundation), Weinheim / Berlin 1993, pp. 37-68.
• San Lorenzo and Pio IX - Patterns of identification and strategies of self-expression in the second half of the pontificate , in: Pius IX. and the Papal States in the years 1860-1870 (Pio IX e lo Stato Pontificio degli Anni 1860-1870), Erlanger Research, Series A - Humanities, Vol. 74, ed. v. Titus Heydenreich, Erlangen 1995, pp. 95-135.
• Everything under one roof - sacred architecture in the democratic society , in: Faith and Space - New Churches in the Rhineland 1945–1995, catalog of the exhibition of the same name in Groß-St. Martin in Cologne, Cologne 1995, pp. 33-45.
• The profane pilgrimage site - Gabriele D'Annunzios Vittoriale degli Italiani , in: Memory & Oblivion, Proceedings of the XXIXth. International Congress of the History of Art, Amsterdam 1999, pp. 159-165.
• From the Italian states to the first Regno d'Italia - Italian history between Renaissance and Risorgimento, together with Angelica Gernert, in: Kleine Geschichte Italiens, ed. by Wolfgang Altgeld, Stuttgart 2002, pp. 175-256.
• "StaatsBauKunst - StadtBauKunst" - Georg Moller and the Georg Moller Prize , in: "StaatsBauKunst - Georg Moller on the 150th anniversary of his death" Hessian writings on federalism and state parliamentarism Vol. 10 Wiesbaden 2004, pp. 121-137.
• Political historicism and preservation of monuments: The reconstruction of S. Paolo fuori le mura in: "The 'preservation of monuments' before the preservation of monuments - files of the Bern Congress June 30th-July 3rd, 1999" (Neue Berner Schriften zur Kunst - Vol. 8, ed . v. Oskar Bätschmann, Norberto Grammacini and Volker Hoffmann) Bern / Berlin / Bruxelles / Frankfurt a. M./New York / Oxford / Vienna 2005, pp. 299-332.
• The “colle santo” of the Vittoriale degli Italiani , In: “Holy Landscape - Holy Mountains, Eighth International Baroque Summer Course 2007”, Werner Oechslin Einsiedeln Library Foundation, Zurich 2014, pp. 340-257.

Editorships

• Cult figure and myth formation - the image of the artist and his work in contemporary art , publication (together with Oskar Bätschmann) and editing of selected contributions to a symposium held in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (November 10, 1989) as volume 1 of "Moderne Zeiten" - Art-historical series of the Hessian Cultural Foundation Weinheim / Berlin 1993.
• Hommage à El Lissitzky , As vol. 2 of “Moderne Zeiten” - Art-History Series of the Hessian Cultural Foundation planned publication of the contributions to a symposium organized at TU Darmstadt (22/23 Nov. 1990). (The series was discontinued before going to print due to a change of political government in Hesse; the present articles are now to be updated and appear as a publication by the Architecture Department of the TU Darmstadt).

Web links

• cv breve at Università degli Studi di Sassari
• GEORG MOLLER (1784–1852) Buildings and projects by the grand ducal master builder in Hessen-Darmstadt on academia.edu