Norbert Kunisch

Norbert P. Kunisch (born December 16, 1934 in Dortmund ; † May 2, 2018 in Oxford ) was a German classical archaeologist .

The son of the Germanist Hermann Kunisch grew up in Berlin and graduated from the Canisius College in Berlin . From 1954 he studied classical archeology, art history and classical philology at the Free University of Berlin , the University of Athens and the University of Munich . He was born in Munich in 1961 with Ernst Homann-Wedeking with a thesis on the topic of the bull-killing Nike. PhD in investigations of type history and mythology . Immediately after completing his doctorate, Kunisch became permanent excavation assistant on the German Pergamon excavation. In 1963 he moved to the position of assistant director of the antiquities department of the State Museums - Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin.

In 1969 he became an assistant to Bernard Andreae at the University of Bochum . Initially as Andreae's assistant, from 1979 onwards as head of the university antiquities collection, Kunisch played a key role in building up the collection. Together with Max Imdahl , he developed a concept that made it possible to present ancient and modern art in a museum. In 1997 he retired to the rank of Academic Director and moved to Oxford with his wife. He remained connected to the Bochum collection as a scientist and published several books on the antique collections in Berlin and Bochum , especially as part of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany (CVA). Kunisch made a particular contribution to Greek ceramics and, in addition to the Bochum CVA volumes and a volume on the Berlin collection, published monographs on fish plates , the vase painter Makron, and ornaments on geometric vases . He was awarded the Medal of Honor by the Ruhr University for his achievements in building up the collection of antiquities. He was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute , Member of Clare Hall , Cambridge and Member of Wolfson College , Oxford.

Fonts

• Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany , Volume 33. Berlin, Antiquarium. CH Beck, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-406-00933-6 .
• with Max Imdahl : Plastic. Ancient and modern art from the Dierichs Collection in the Ruhr University Bochum. Dierichs / Habelt, Kassel / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-7749-1686-1 .
• Symposium. Greek vases from the Museum of Antiquities of the Ruhr University Bochum. Rheinland-Verlag / Habelt, Cologne / Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-7927-1121-4 .
• Greek fish plate. Nature and image. (= Gebr. Mann Studio series ) Gebrüder Mann, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-7861-1562-1 .
• Explanations of modern art. 60 texts by Max Imdahl, his friends and students. Richter, Düsseldorf 1992, ISBN 3-928762-06-0 .
• Editor: Explanations on Greek vase painting. 50 main works of the collection of antique vases in the Ruhr University Bochum. Böhlau, Cologne - Weimar - Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-412-03996-9 .
• Macron. (= Research on ancient ceramics . Series 2: Kerameus , Volume 10), von Zabern, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-8053-1890-1 .
• Ornaments of geometric vases. A compendium. Böhlau, Cologne - Weimar - Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-412-11897-4
• Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany , Volume 79. Bochum, art collections of the Ruhr University. - Volume 1. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-406-53754-7 .
• Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany , Volume 81. Bochum, art collections of the Ruhr University. - Volume 2. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-54442-2 .
• Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany , Volume 82. Bochum, art collections of the Ruhr University. - Volume 3. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-55854-2 .
• The Attic imported ceramics. (= Finds from Miletus , Volume 3), De Gruyter, Berlin-New York 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045489-5 .

literature

• Dietrich Willers : Norbert P. Kunisch †. In: Gnomon . 91 (2019), pp. 285-287.

Web links

• Literature by and about Norbert Kunisch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dr. Farewell to Kunisch

supporting documents

1. ↑ https://norbert-kunisch.muchloved.com
2. ↑ RUB honors deserving personalities .
3. ^ Dietrich Willers: Norbert P. Kunisch †. In: Gnomon. 91 (2019), pp. 285–287, here: p. 287.
4. ^ Ruhr University Bochum - Honors ( Memento from February 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).