Peter Stephan (art historian)

Peter Stephan (born May 25, 1963 in Offenburg ) is a German art historian .

Life

From 1982 to 1986 he studied ancient history , classical archeology and Christian archeology in Freiburg im Breisgau and Heidelberg . He made excavations (1986–1987) at the State Office for Monument Preservation in Wiesbaden as part of community service . He completed his studies (1987–1989) of ancient history as well as ancient church history and patrology in Freiburg with a master's degree in 1990 with the work The Meaning of History in the Apologetics of Eusebius of Caesarea . He completed a second degree (1990–1996) in art history and classical archeology in Würzburg and Freiburg. After receiving his doctorate in art history, classical archeology and ancient history in Freiburg in 1996, he worked as a freelancer for the Badische Zeitung in Freiburg from 1996 to 1997 . When Belser Verlag , he completed 1997-1998 training as a lecturer . From 1998 to 1999 he lectured at the Institute for International Cultural Management in Freiburg for art history, cultural history and German. As a Gerda Henkel scholarship holder, he conducted research from 1999 to 2000 on the project The Spiritual Foundations of Baroque Iconology . From 2000 to 2003, the sub-project B 11 The Papacy and Catholic Theology of Controversy as reflected in the High Baroque visual art in the Freiburg SFB 541 Identities and Alterities . From 2003 to 2005 he was a research assistant in the DFG project Garden Spaces, Political Spaces at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . On February 2, 2006, he received his habilitation from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . The habilitation thesis was awarded the Wetzstein Prize for Art History from the University of Freiburg. On the research project of the Gerda Henkel Foundation Urban space as a sacred landscape. He worked in Rome under Sixtus V. from 2007 to 2010. In 2011 he was appointed associate professor in Freiburg. Since 2013 he has been teaching architectural theory and art history at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. His research focuses on the history of architecture from the Middle Ages to 1900, garden art, political and religious iconography and strategies of stately (self) staging, denominational disciplining through the visual arts, the symbolic coding and occupation of spaces, and the history of urban architecture with a focus on Rome and Berlin .

Monographs

• "In the splendor of the majesty of the empire". Tiepolo and the Würzburg Residence. The Reich idea of ​​Schönborn and the political iconology of the baroque . Konrad, Weißenhorn 2002, ISBN 3-87437-404-1 (also dissertation, Freiburg 1996).
  • Volume 1. Text volume.
  • Volume 2. Tabular volume.
• The forgotten room. The third dimension in the facade architecture of the early modern period (= Eikoniká , Volume 1). Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7954-2178-6 (also habilitation thesis, Freiburg 2006).
• The Upper Belvedere in Vienna. Architecture and iconographic concept. The castle of Prince Eugene as a reflection of his self-image . Böhlau, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-77785-4 . Digitized at Google Books
• The Humboldt Forum as a modern extension of the Berlin Palace and as the completion of the Museum Island (= vol. 2 in: Franco Stella / Peter Stephan, Franco Stella) . DOM Publisher Berlin 2010, ISBN 3938666641
• City to the power of three. Berlin Mitte (with Klaus Theo Brenner and Dominik Krohm). Jovis, Berlin 2018.
• Monument preservation and design. The memorial church on the Spreeinsel Berlin (with Markus Tubbesing and Sonja Tubbesing), DOM Publishers Berlin 2020.

Web links

• Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
• University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (with complete list of publications)