Norbert Schneider (art historian)

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Norbert Schneider (born June 28, 1945 in Salzgitter ; † November 17, 2019 ) was a German art historian .

Life

Norbert Schneider attended the Hammonense grammar school (Staatliches Altsprachliches Gymnasium Hamm) and studied from 1965 to 1970 at the University of Münster the subjects of art history , German (older and newer departments), Middle Latin philology , philosophy and pedagogy as well as Protestant theology with a focus on church history . He received his doctorate in February 1971 as Dr. phil. in art history. Then he was provisional - as successor to Martin Warnke - research assistant at the Art History Institute, then in 1972 Peter von Moos research assistant at the seminar for Middle Latin Philology at the University of Münster.

In 1973 he took up the position of lecturer for theory and history of aesthetic practice at the Bremen University of Design, which was later converted into a professorship. In 1976 he was appointed to a professorship for art history and its didactics at the Pedagogical University of Westphalia-Lippe , Münster department. From 1980 to 1993 he was professor with the same denomination at the University of Münster. In 1993 he took over the newly established professorship for the history of visual culture at the Faculty of History at Bielefeld University , after having previously turned down a professorship for art studies at Landau University . Another appointment took place in 1995 at the University of Dortmund (professorship for art studies). From 1998 until his retirement in the winter semester 2009/10 he was professor for art history and head of the institute for art history at the University of Karlsruhe .

Schneider has been a corresponding member of the Institute for Cultural History of the Early Modern Age at the University of Osnabrück since 1992 . He was a member of the Inter-faculty Institute for Applied Cultural Studies at the University of Karlsruhe and belonged to the faculty of of Hans Belting inaugurated graduate school "image - body - medium. An Anthropological Perspective ”(1999–2009) at the State University for Design in Karlsruhe. In 2007 he was a fellow at the Vlaams Academisch Centrum (VLAC, Institute for Advanced Study) of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten in Brussels . He was a fellow of the Berlin Institute for Critical Theory . From 2007 to 2010 he was the successor to Jutta Held as Chairman of the Guernica Society . He was co-editor of the yearbook Art and Politics and published several series. He was a member of the advisory boards of the journals Critical Reports and Oxford Art Journal .

Norbert Schneider was married to the art historian Jutta Held from 1974 until her death in 2019 .

Works

Schneider worked in numerous fields. His initial research interests were the art of the early Middle Ages and painting of the 19th century ( Caspar David Friedrich and Arnold Böcklin ). Since the 1980s he has been researching mainly on Dutch art from the 15th to 17th centuries. Century (including Jan van Eyck and Jan Vermeer ) as well as Italian art of the Renaissance and Mannerism . He presented historical monographs on all types of painting (history painting, portrait painting, landscape painting, genre painting and still life ).

In addition, he dealt with methodological and specialist historical questions in art history. His own approach is characterized by a predominantly work-related hermeneutics, which examines iconological and form-aesthetic problems from the social and mental history as well as political aspects. In the beginning, structuralism and the “sociology of symbolic forms” ( Pierre Bourdieu ) were of decisive importance; since the 1980s, interest in the methodology and results of the Annales School and New Historicism has also increased.

Another research area of ​​Schneider, which was carried out in Münster a. a. A student of Joachim Ritter , Friedrich Kaulbach and Karlfried Founder , was the history of philosophy, and here specifically the history of philosophical concepts and problems. His main focus was the philosophy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He published historical accounts on aesthetics and art theory as well as epistemology.

Publications

(without articles, catalog articles and reviews)

Book publications

  • Civitas. Studies on urban topography and the principles of architectural representation in the early Middle Ages. Diss. Phil. Münster 1971 (published 1973), 283 pp.
  • (together with Berthold Hinz and others) Bourgeois Revolution and Romanticism. Nature and society with Caspar David Friedrich. Giessen: Anabas 1976
  • Jan van Eyck , The Ghent Altarpiece. Proposals for reform of the church. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1986 (4th edition 1998; translations into Hungarian 1988, Spanish 1997 and Japanese 1997).
  • Studies on the work of the Petrarch master . Osnabrück 1986
  • Still life. Reality and symbolism of things. The still life painting of the early modern period. Cologne; Taschen 1989 (below) (numerous editions, anniversary edition 2009; translations into English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch)
  • Portrait painting - major works of European portrait art 1420-1670. Köln: Taschen 1992 (below) (numerous editions; translations into English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and others)
  • Rhythm. Investigations into a central category in the aesthetic and cultural-philosophical debate around the turn of the century. Osnabrück 1992
  • Jan Vermeer 1632-1675. Concealment of the feelings. Cologne: Taschen 1993 (numerous editions; anniversary edition 2010) (translations into English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese); Édition particulière “Vermeer 1632-1675 ou Les sentiments dissimulés” for “Le Monde” as Volume 1 of Le Musée du 'Monde' on May 28, 2005
  • (with Jutta Held) Social history of painting from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. Cologne: DuMont 1993 (4th edition 2006)
  • History of Aesthetics from the Enlightenment to Postmodernism . A paradigmatic introduction. Stuttgart: Reclam 1996, 5th, possibly edition 2010, reprint 2016 (translations into Italian 2000 and Slovak 2002)
  • Epistemology in the 20th Century. Classic positions. Stuttgart: Reclam 1998 (2nd edition 2006)
  • History of landscape painting from the late Middle Ages to the Romantic period. Darmstadt: WBG 1999 (3rd edition 2011)
  • Venetian painting of the early Renaissance. Darmstadt: WBG / Primus 2002
  • History of medieval sculpture from early Christian antiquity to late Gothic. Cologne: Deubner 2004
  • History of genre painting. The discovery of everyday life in early modern art. Berlin: Reimer 2004 (licensed edition Darmstadt: WBG / Primus 2004)
  • (with Jutta Held) Fundamentals of art history. Subject areas - institutions - problem areas. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna: Böhlau 2007 (below)
  • History painting . From the late Middle Ages to the 19th century. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna: Böhlau 2010
  • History of Art Theory. From antiquity to the 18th century. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna: Böhlau 2011
  • Vermeer's “Atelier” picture in Vienna. Attempt at a new interpretation. Farewell lecture, held on May 19, 2010. Karlsruhe: Institute for Art History at KIT 2011
  • Early modern animal painting. A sketch. Karlsruhe: Institute for Art History at KIT 2011
  • Childhood images. An iconological foray into early modern art. Karlsruhe: Institute for Art History at KIT 2012
  • The anti-classical art. Mannerism painting in Italy. Berlin / Münster: Lit 2012 (Karlsruhe Writings on Art History, Vol. 6)
  • Between expression and beauty. On the aesthetics of the face in Renaissance portraits. Karlsruhe: Institute for Art History at KIT 2012
  • Image and reflection. On the motif of the mirror in painting of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. Karlsruhe: Institute for Art History at KIT 2013
  • Status and confidence. Dutch portraits of the early 16th century. Karlsruhe: Institute for Art History at KIT 2013
  • Theories of modern art. From Classicism to Concept Art. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna: Böhlau 2014
  • From Bosch to Bruegel . Dutch painting in the age of humanism and Reformation . Berlin / Münster: Lit 2015 (Karlsruhe Writings on Art History, Vol. 10)
  • Italian sculpture of the early Renaissance . Karlsruhe: Institute for Art and Building History at KIT 2916
  • Italian painting of the early Renaissance . Karlsruhe: Institute for Art and Building History at KIT 2916
  • Early modern painting . From Masaccio to Delacroix . Interpretations of central works. Berlin / Münster: Lit 2017 (Karlsruhe Writings on Art History, Vol. 11)

Editing

  • Max Raphael: Workers, Art and Artists. Frankfurt: S. Fischer 1975
  • (with Jutta Held ) Art and everyday culture. Cologne: Pahl-Rugenstein 1981
  • "A pious, God-fearing woman is a strange good ..." Women in image propaganda of the 16th century. Münster 1983 (didactic exhibition at the University of Münster)
  • Twenty Years Later - Critical Art History Today ( Critical Reports 18, 1990, Issue 3)
  • Karlsruhe Writings on Art History (Münster / Berlin: Lit-Verlag)
  • (with Martin Papenbrock) Yearbook Art and Politics (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress; since 2008)
  • (with Andrew Hemingway) Visual Science and Visual Culture Studies in Discussion (Art and Politics. Yearbook of the Guernica Society 10, 2008). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress 2008
  • Series of publications by the Guernica Society (Weimar: VDG, since 2008)
  • (with Martin Papenbrock) Art history after 1968 (art and politics. Yearbook of the Guernica Society 12, 2010). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress 2010
  • (with Regine Heß and Martin Papenbrock ) Church and Art. Art policy and art funding by the churches after 1945 (Art and Politics. Yearbook of the Guernica Society 14, 2012). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress 2012
  • Jutta Held: American art after 1960. Critical writings from the 1970s. Karlsruhe: Institute for Art History at KIT 2013
  • (with Alexandra Axtmann) The reality of art. The problem of realism in post-war art history (Art and Politics. Yearbook of the Guernica Society 16, 2014). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress 2014
  • (with Andrew Hemingway) Major Works of Political Art in the 20th Century / Icons of 20th-Century Political Art. (Art and Politics. Yearbook of the Guernica Society 18, 2016). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress 2016

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice Norbert Schneider , FAZ from November 23, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzgitter
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 2019