Peter K. Klein

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Peter K. Klein (born 1942 ) is a German medievalist and art historian.

Life

Peter K. Klein studied at the University of Münster , at the University of Heidelberg and received his doctorate in 1970 with a thesis on the Beatus Code from the University of Bonn . He completed his habilitation in 1982. Klein taught at the universities of Pittsburgh, Lexington, Geneva, Paris-Nanterre, Bamberg, Regensburg, Los Angeles and Marburg.

In 1995, Klein was appointed full professor at the Art History Institute at the University of Tübingen . He was involved in the planned special research area "Exemplarism, Paradigmatics and Modeling in Culture". Klein has retired since 2007.

His main research interests are illumination, sculpture and iconography of the Middle Ages, Spanish art history and anti-Semitism in the visual arts.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Beatus Codex from Las Huelgas: New York Pierpont Morgan Library MS M 429 . Commentary, codicological introduction and description of the illustration. Münster: Bibliotheca Rara, 2006 (Zugl .: Bonn, Univ., Philos. Fac., Diss., 1970)
  • Trier apocalypse . Commentary on the facsimile edition, Graz 1975.
  • The older Beatus Codex Vitr. 14-1 of the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid . Hildesheim: Olms, 1976
  • Apocalypse Ms Douce 180. Commentary on the full facsimile edition. Academic Printing and Publishing Company, Graz 1983, ISBN 3-201-01165-7
    • The Oxford Apocalypse: MS Douce 180 from the Bodleian Library, Oxford . Commentary by Peter K. Klein. Graz: Academic Publishing Company, 2010
  • Beatus de Liébana. Codex Urgellensis. Commentary volume on the facsimile edition . Madrid, 1999
  • (Ed.): The medieval cloister - architecture, function and program. Regensburg 2004, ISBN 3-7954-1545-4

literature

  • Nicola Hille, Monika E. Müller (Ed.): Times - Jumps: Aspects of space and time in art from the Middle Ages to the present. Studies in honor of Peter K. Klein for his 65th birthday . Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2007 ISBN 978-3-7954-1954-7 (list of publications p. 345-350)

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personal data
SURNAME Klein, Peter K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medievalist and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1942