Peter Jezler

Peter Roland Jezler (born November 26, 1954 in Zurich ), authorized to reside in Schaffhausen , is a Swiss art historian and museum director .

Live and act

Peter Jezler studied art history , church history and German at the University of Zurich and graduated in 1982 with a licentiate . In 1986 he worked as an assistant at the Department of Art History at the University of Zurich. From 1987 to 1997 he was a member and president of the editorial committee of the magazine Kunst + Architektur . From 1989 to 1997 he also worked for the publication Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz . In addition, he worked as a curator of various exhibitions, including Heaven, Hell, Purgatory - The Beyond in the Middle Ages in the Landesmuseum Zurich and theKunsthalle Cologne .

From 1997 to 2009 Peter Jezler was director of the Bern Historical Museum . From 2009 to 2010 he was rector of the University of Art and Design at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland in Basel . Since 2011 he has been director of the Museum zu Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen. There he was released on August 26, 2014 based on the results of an internal investigation report by the city council and released on November 4, 2014. Since 2015 he has been working as a freelance consultant and runs the private academy “Art in Context”.

Peter Jezler is a member of the Guild of Tailors and in the Rotary Club Schaffhausen-Munot.

Awards, honors

• 2009: Dr. hc from the University of Bern

Fonts (selection)

• Peter Jezler ea: Of war and peace. Bern and the confederates until 1800 , Bern 2003.
• Cécile Dupeux, Peter Jezler, Jean Wirth (eds.): Iconoclasm. Madness or God's will? Fink, Munich 2000.
• The late Gothic church building in the Zurich countryside. The story of a "building boom" at the end of the Middle Ages , commemorative publication for the anniversary "500 years of Pfäffikon Church", Wetzikon 1988.
• Peter Jezler ea: Obscenities between scaffolding and consecration cross. Observations on construction technology and folk culture in the late Gothic church in Pfäffikon ZH , in: Our art monuments. Bulletin for the members of the Society for Swiss Art History, Vol. 43 (1992), pp. 135–146. doi : 10.5169 / seals-393881
• Hans-Dietrich Altendorf, Peter Jezler (Hrsg.): Bilderstreit. Cultural change in Zwingli's Reformation. Zurich 1984.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personnel alphabetically  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Schaffhausen City Archives (accessed on August 28, 2014)  
2. ↑ www.zunft-zun-schneidern.ch ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed August 28, 2014) 
3. ↑ www.rotarymunot.ch (accessed August 28, 2014)

Web links

• Peter Jezler's biography at www.diesacademicus.unibe.ch (accessed on August 28, 2014)

To terminate in Schaffhausen

• Museum director Peter Jezler dismissed on www.bernerzeitung.ch (accessed on November 5, 2014)
• Museum zu Allerheiligen: Director Peter Jezler dismissed on www.srf.ch (accessed on November 4, 2014)
• Peter Jezler comments on the allegations on www.srf.ch, until min. 2:47 (accessed on August 29, 2014)
• Big plans, small town on www.tagesanzeiger.ch (accessed on August 29, 2014)
• Museum Allerheiligen releases director from www.srf.ch (accessed on August 28, 2014)
• Peter Jezler also sawed off in Schaffhausen on www.bernerzeitung.ch (accessed on August 28, 2014)
• Peace should return to the museum at www2.schaffhausen.ch (accessed on August 28, 2014)
• Wave of cancellations on "All Saints' Day" on www.tagblatt.ch (accessed on August 28, 2014)

To the departure in Bern

• Historisches Museum Bern: Successful director goes www.derbund.ch (accessed on August 28, 2014)