Michael Hesse (art historian)

Michael Hesse (born October 13, 1951 in Dortmund ) is a German art historian and university professor .

Life

Career

Michael Hesse studied art history / art history , classical archeology , history and philosophy in Bochum and Münster from 1971 to 1976 and first passed the state examination in the subjects of art history and history. In his admission work, he devoted himself to the Chigi Chapel at the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome and its remodeling by the sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the 17th century. A scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation enabled him to pursue further studies in Bochum and Paris . In 1979 he completed this with a doctorate . In his dissertation , which he wrote under the guidance of Manfred Wundram , he dealt with the examination of Gothic in sacred architecture from the 16th to the 18th centuries in France (see the section on fonts ). The further subject area of ​​the architectural history of the early modern period continued to be his special focus until today (compare the sections research interests and offices as well as the detailed list of publications below ). From 1979 to 1986 he worked as a research assistant and as a university assistant at the Art History Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum , and from 1980 to 1988 as a lecturer for building history and architectural theory at the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Dortmund . In 1986 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bochum with a research thesis on Königsplatz in Paris . From the same year he worked there as a professor for the field of Middle and Modern Art History until he switched to the professorship for Modern European Art History at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 1992 .

Offices

Michael Hesse was and is active in various functions in science administration and in an advisory capacity in his field, among others

• as a reviewer for the German Research Foundation ,
• as Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Commission of the German Foundation for Monument Protection ,
• in the conception and organization of art exhibitions and
• as advisor to the State Palaces and Gardens of Baden-Württemberg .

Research interests

Michael Hesse is particularly interested in research on the subject areas

• Theory and practice of architecture and urban planning in modern times and the present,
  • especially in France of the Ancien Régime as well
  • in international development since 1945,
• Problems of the relationship between modernity and classical tradition,
• in addition to individual problems in the visual arts since the beginning of the modern age (see also the list of publications on the Internet portal of his university).

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• From post-Gothic to neo-Gothic . Examination of the Gothic in French sacred architecture of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries (= Bochumer Schriften zur Kunstgeschichte , Volume 3). Frankfurt / Main 1984, ISBN (book version of the doctoral thesis ).
• The market church in Wiesbaden . Munich and Zurich 1987, ISBN.
• Urban architecture. Case studies from antiquity to the present. Deubner Verlag für Kunst, Cologne 2003, ISBN.
• Classical architecture in France. Churches, castles, gardens, cities 1600 - 1800. Scientific Book Society , Darmstadt 2004, ISBN.
• Handbook of Modern Architecture. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2012 (400 pages), ISBN 978-3-534-21777-9 (This manual covers the history of construction from 1450 to 1850).
  • Book trade edition: Theiß, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-8062-2233-3 .

literature

• Entry in Kürschner's German Scholarly Calendar , 2012 edition.

Web sources

• Portrait of Michael Hesse on the portal of the University of Heidelberg. There is also an up-to-date, detailed list of publications .