Peter Anselm Riedl

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Peter Anselm Riedl (born February 23, 1930 in Karlsbad , Czechoslovakia ; † August 31, 2016 in Heidelberg ) was a German art historian and professor of art history in Heidelberg from 1969 to 1998.

Life

Riedl was born the son of the sculptor Adolf H. Riedl and his wife Johanna Riedl (née Pfeiffer). After graduating from high school in Germany, he studied German literary history and English from 1949 to 1952 and then art history and classical archeology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . After receiving his doctorate in 1955 at the Philosophical-Historical Faculty in Heidelberg as Dr. Phil. He volunteered at the Hamburger Kunsthalle until 1957 . From 1957 to 1961 he was a scholarship holder and research assistant at the Art History Institute in Florence and was a member of the editorial team of the communications of the Art History Institute in Florence . From 1961 to 1963 he returned to the Hamburger Kunsthalle as head of the sculpture and medals collection and, together with Liselotte Möller, was editor of the yearbook of the Hamburger Kunstsammlungen . From 1963 to 1969 Riedl was an assistant and, since his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty of the Philipps University in Marburg an der Lahn in 1967, a lecturer at the Art History Seminar in Marburg.

In 1969 Riedl took over the extraordinary chair for modern and contemporary art history at the University of Heidelberg, which was converted into a full professorial position the following year. From 1977 he was chairman of the board of trustees of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (until 1982) and from 1988 to 2006, together with Max Seidel , he edited numerous publications of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence on historical buildings in Siena . Riedl retired in the 1998 summer semester.

He was a member of the board and until 2001 chairman of the Heidelberg Art Association . He was a member of the German Werkbund.

Riedl had been with Eleonore, b. Freiin von Biedermann, married. The couple had three children.

Awards

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Riedl's main areas of work were Italian and German art of the Renaissance , Mannerism and Baroque . Furthermore, he dealt intensively with the art of the 20th century, in particular with Wassily Kandinsky and with sculptors of abstract sculpture such as Hiromi Akiyama , Franz Bernhard , Michael Croissant , Fritz Koenig , Herbert Peters and Robert Schad . Riedl was also active in the preservation of monuments and culture and wrote numerous publications on Heidelberg's old town .

Fonts

  • The Heidelberg Jesuit Church and the hall churches of the 17th and 18th centuries in southern Germany , Winter, Heidelberg, 1956
  • Henry Moore. King and Queen , Reclam, Stuttgart 1957
  • with Lieselotte Möller: Yearbook of the Hamburg Art Collections , Volume 7, 1962 and Volume 8, 1963
  • Joseph Beuys, Circulation Time , Werner'sche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms, 1982 ISBN 3-88462-020-7
  • A rediscovered "Annunciation" by Giovanni di Paolo , Winter, Heidelberg, 1986
  • Wassily Kandinsky, with self-testimonies and picture documents , Rowohlt, Reinbek, 1996 ISBN 978-3-4995-0313-9
  • Werner Knaupp. 2002–2008 , Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, 2009 ISBN 978-3-9407-4864-5

literature

  • Klaus Güthlein, Franz Matsche (Ed.): Encounters. Festschrift for Peter Anselm Riedl on the occasion of his 60th birthday (= Heidelberg art-historical treatises NF 20). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1993. ISBN 978-3-88462-097-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary by the Institute for European Art History at Heidelberg University .
personal data
SURNAME Riedl, Peter Anselm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlsbad
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 2016
Place of death Heidelberg