Peter Betthausen

Peter Betthausen (born June 27, 1941 in Harzgerode ) is a German art historian .

Life

Betthausen studied art history , history and aesthetics at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1966 to 1986 he worked there and at the University of Leipzig . At the University of Berlin he received his doctorate in 1971 on hypotheses on an art-historical style theory and habilitated in 1986 on artist communities of German Romanticism . In addition, from 1974 to 1986 he worked at the Institute for Aesthetics and Art Studies at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . From 1986 he was director of the GDR National Gallery . During his tenure, which lasted until January 1991, he showed a series of exhibitions on artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Wolfgang Mattheuer , Wilhelm Lehmbruck , Werner Tübke , Gerhard Altenbourg and Bernhard Heisig . He also organized exhibitions from the holdings of the National Gallery in Vienna and various locations in the United States. Later, Betthausen worked as a freelance art historian in Berlin. In his numerous publications he devoted himself mainly to the art of the 19th century and the history of art historiography.

Publications (selection)

• Anton Graff , Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1973.
• Arnold Böcklin , Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1975.
• Studies on German art and architecture around 1800 , publisher, Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1981.
• Karl Friedrich Schinkel , Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1983.
• Schinkelmuseum Friedrichswerder Church , together with Brigitte Schmitz and Bernhard Maaz, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Berlin 1989.
• The Pre-Raphaelites , Henschel, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-362-00392-3 .
• From Caspar David Friedrich to Adolph Menzel: Watercolors and drawings of the Romantic period from the National Gallery Berlin / GDR , together with Gottfried Riemann and Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Prestel, Munich 1990, ISBN 978-3-7913-1047-3 .
• The Museum Island in Berlin , Henschel, Berlin 1990, ISBN 978-3-362-00275-2 .
• Jacob Burckhardt und die Antiquity , edited together with Max Kunze, von Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 978-3-8053-2514-1 .
• Rebirth of Greek gods and heroes, Homer in the art of the Goethe era , edited together with Max Kunze, von Zabern, Mainz 1999, ISBN 978-3-8053-2596-7 .
• Metzler-Kunsthistoriker-Lexikon, two hundred portraits of German-speaking authors from four centuries , together with Peter H. Feist and Christiane Fork, Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar 1999, ISBN 978-3-476-01535-8 .
• HO Gehrcke: 1896–1988, a painter's life on the Havel , Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 1999.
• Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Von Prussen, letters from Italy 1828 , publisher, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-422-06333-4 .
• Antiquity in Vienna: the academy and classicism around 1800 , together with Bettina Hagen and Max Kunze, von Zabern, Mainz 2002, ISBN 978-3-8053-3065-7 .
• Eyes on the go…, travel pictures, watercolors and drawings by Georg Dehio , together with Peter H. Feist and Axel Rügler, Rutzen, Ruhpolding 2005, ISBN 3-938646-00-4 .
• Georg Dehio, a German art historian , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-422-06399-4 .
• Ronald Paris - Praise of Realism , editor, together with Ulrike Hager and Peter H. Feist, Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-86730-063-6 .
• Philipp Otto Runge - Correspondence , editor, Seemann, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-86502-242-4 .
• Art in Prussia - Prussian Art? , Editor together with Frank-Lothar Kroll, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-428-14863-9 .

literature

• Peter-Klaus Schuster (Ed.): The National Gallery . DuMont, Cologne 2001, ISBN 978-3-8321-7004-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter-Klaus Schuster (Ed.): The National Gallery , p. 146.