Oskar Bätschmann

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Oskar Bätschmann (born September 15, 1943 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss art historian and expert on modern and modern art.

Career

Bätschmann attended schools in Kriens and Lucerne and studied art history, German and philosophy in Florence and at the University of Zurich . His doctorate with Emil Maurer at the University of Zurich in 1975 was followed by research stays with a habilitation grant in Rome at the Bibliotheca Hertziana , in Paris at the Bibliothèque nationale de France des Louvre and in London at the Warburg Institute .

From 1978 to 1983 Bätschmann was a curator at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich and from 1979 lecturer at the University of Zurich. After his habilitation in 1981, he held teaching positions at the University of Zurich and the University of Bern . From 1984 to 1988 he was Professor of Art History (C 3) at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg im Breisgau and from 1988 to 1990 Professor of Art History (C 4) at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen . After the year as a Getty Scholar from 1990–1991 at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica , he became full professor of modern and modern art history at the University of Bern and co-director of the Institute for Art History.

From 1992 to 2015 he was a board member of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW). From 2001 to 2003 he was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Bern. From 2004 to 2012 he was a member of the National Research Commission of the Swiss National Science Foundation, and until 2015 he was a member of the SNSF Commission for Funding Professorships. In 2008/2009 and 2016 he taught at the National Normal University in Taipei.

Since his retirement he was Professorial Fellow and head of the Ferdinand Hodler project . Catalog raisonné of paintings at the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK ISEA). In 2009/2010 he was Wittkower Professor at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute) in Rome, and in 2012/2013 he was Samuel H. Kress Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC In 2010 he was elected a full member of the Academia Europaea . He has been an honorary member of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW) since 2017.

Bätschmann is the author of numerous books. His research focuses on Leon Battista Alberti , Hans Holbein, dJ , Nicolas Poussin , Ferdinand Hodler , the history of the modern artist and methodological problems in art history. Bätschmann coined the term exhibition artist .

Bätschmanns Vorlass is located in the Burger Library in Bern .

Fonts (selection)

  • Nicolas Poussin, Diaclectics of Painting, London: Reaction Books, 1990.
  • Hans Holbein (together with Pascal Griener), London: Reaction Books, 1997 (and German, French, Dutch).
  • Exhibition artist. Cult and career in the modern art system . DuMont, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7701-4024-9 .
  • Giovanni Bellini, London: Reaction Books, 2008, and German: Munich, Beck, 2008.
  • Hans Holbein (together with Pascal Griener), London: Reaction Books, 2014.
  • Edouard Manet, Munich: Beck, 2015.
  • Ferdinand Hodler. Catalog raisonné of paintings, 4 vols., Zurich: Swiss Institute for Art Research and Scheidegger & Spiess, 2008–2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Directory of members: Oskar Bätschmann. Academia Europaea, accessed on August 5, 2017 .
  2. ^ Oskar Bätschmann's estate in the Bern Burger Library catalog
personal data
SURNAME Bätschmann, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne