Nils Buettner

Nils Büttner (born February 9, 1967 in Bremen ) is a German art historian .

biography

Büttner studied art history , folklore and classical archeology . He received his doctorate from the Georg-August University in Göttingen with the thesis "The Invention of Landscape: Cosmography and Landscape Art in the Age of Bruegel". In 1998/99 he was a research assistant at the University of Göttingen and dealt with the cataloging of hand drawings in the art collection. In 1999 Büttner was a trainee, 2000/01 exhibition curator at the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig . 2001–2008 he worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Dortmund. In 2004/05 he completed his habilitation at the University of Dortmund with the text “Mr. PP Rubens. On the art of becoming famous ”.

Büttner holds the chair for Middle and Modern Art History at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . His scientific work focuses on the German and Dutch art and cultural history of the early modern period as well as the history of graphics and book illustration. He is also a member of the “Rubenianum” in Antwerp, the center for Flemish art of the 16th and 17th centuries, and co-editor of the “Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard ”, the catalog raisonné of Peter Paul Rubens .

Works

Monographs

• Genre Scenes ( Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard ). London 2020. ISBN 978-0-905203-73-7
• Rubens: Allegories and Subjects from Literature ( Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard ). 2 vols., Brepols, London - Turnhout 2018, ISBN 978-1-912554-11-9 .
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder Ä. ( CH Beck knowledge ). Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-72529-6 .
• Pietro Pauolo Rubens: A biography . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7954-3044-3 .
• Introduction to early modern iconography (series: Introductions to Art and Architecture). WBG, Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-534-24832-2 .
• Rembrandt : light and shadow. A biography. Reclam, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-15-010965-6 .
• Hieronymus Bosch ( CH Beck Wissen ). Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63336-2 .
• Vermeer ( CH Beck Knowledge ). Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-59792-3 .
• Painted gardens: pictures from two millennia. Hirmer, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7774-4245-7 .
• Rubens ( CH Beck Knowledge ). Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-55490-2 .
• History of landscape painting . Hirmer, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7774-2925-2 .
• Mr. PP Rubens. About the art of becoming famous (= reconstruction of the arts. Vol. 7). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-47906-9 (habilitation thesis, Dortmund, 2004/05).
• The invention of the landscape. Landscape art and cosmography in the age of Bruegel (= reconstruction of the arts. Vol. 1). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-47900-X (also dissertation, Göttingen, 1998).
• with Ulrike Becker: Ryszard Stryjec as draftsman and eraser. Ost-Akademie publishing house, Lüneburg 1993, ISBN 3-922799-02-7 (exhibition catalog).
• with Gerd Unverfetern: Jacob van Ruisdael in Bentheim. A Dutch painter and Bentheim Castle in the 17th century. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1993, ISBN 3-927085-92-8 .

Editorships

• with Gitta Bertram: Symbol / Bildsinn: Rubens as a book artist. Verband Deutscher Antiquare eV, Elbingen, 2018, ISBN 978-3-9815734-5-9 .

• with Julia M. Nauhaus, Erwin Pokorny, Larry Silver: Hieronymus Bosch in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2016. ISBN 978-3-99028-634-0 .

• with Volker Lehnert: The sharpness of the pictures: The etching in the vicinity of the Stuttgart Art Academy. Municipal Gallery Bietigheim-Bissingen 2015. ISBN 978-3-942144-42-1 .

• with Evamarie Blattner and Wiebke Ratzeburg: The photographed war: The First World War between documentation and propaganda. University city of Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-941818-22-4 .
• with Sabine Poeschel and Caecilie Weissert: Between lust and frustration: Art in the Netherlands and at the court of Philip II of Spain (1527–1598). Böhlau, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-20751-9 .
• with Anne-Katrin Koch and Angela Zieger: Book - Art - Writing: FH Ernst Schneidler. State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-942144-23-0 .
• with Ilka Voermann: The Eye of the World: Otto Dix and the New Objectivity . Edited by the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart in cooperation with the Chair for Medium-sized u. Modern art history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3439-4 .
• with Angela Zieger: Considerations: 250 Years of the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart : A reading book. State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-931485-11-5 .
• with Esther Meier: Crossing borders. German-Dutch art and artist exchange in the 17th century. Jonas, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89445-450-0 .
• with Ulrich Heinen: Peter Paul Rubens . Baroque passions . Hirmer, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7774-2165-0 (catalog of an exhibition in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig).
• with Jochen Luckhardt : The war as a person. Duke Christian the Elder J. von Braunschweig in the portrait of Paulus Moreelse . Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig 2000, ISBN 3-922279-47-3 (exhibition catalog).

Web links

• Literature by and about Nils Büttner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
• Nils Büttner in the FID Benelux research directory

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Centrum Rubenianum: Editorial Staff. October 21, 2017, accessed October 21, 2017 .