Petra Maisak

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Petra Maisak in Frankfurt am Main (December 2013)

Petra Maisak (* 1950 in Heilbronn ) is a German art historian and Germanist. She was the museum director at the Goethe House / Free German Hochstift in Frankfurt am Main .

Career

Petra Maisak studied art history, German literature and history at the Universities of Heidelberg and Cologne . The doctorate took place in 1978 in Cologne with the work Arcadia . Genesis and typology of an idyllic dream world . From 1979 to 1981 she worked at the Rhineland State Monument Preservation Office in Bonn.

Act

From 1981 to 2015, Petra Maisak was museum director at the Free German Hochstift - Frankfurt Goethe Museum with responsibility for the historic Goethe House , the picture gallery of the Goethe era (refurbished in 1997) and the art collections. Between 1988 and 1998 she held teaching positions at the universities of Marburg and Gießen on the history of art in Goethe's time.

Petra Maisak's work and research focus is on the art and literature of the German Classical and Romantic periods under the aspect of intermediality. She has presented numerous works on Goethe and the visual arts, especially on Goethe's drawings and illustrations of his works (namely on “ Faust ” and “ The Sorrows of Young Werther ”). Her research area includes artists from the Goethe era such as Johann Heinrich Füssli , Caspar David Friedrich , Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein and Angelika Kauffmann, as well as works by Bettine von Arnim and Clemens Brentano.

Petra Maisak has curated numerous exhibitions, including "Goethe in 20th Century Art. World Literature and Imagery" (1982 Bonn Science Center and Frankfurt Goethe Museum; 1983 Palazzo Braschi Rome); "Christian Georg Schütz the Elder. A Frankfurt landscape painter of the Goethe era" (1991 Frankfurt Goethe Museum); “Goethe's Faust. Metamorphoses of a sorcerer ”(2005 in Kyoto and Tokyo, 2008 in Frankfurt a. M.); "Goethe on the Ball. Traxler's Classics" (2006 Frankfurt Goethe Museum); " Max Beckmann . Drawings for Goethe's Faust ”, (2007 Casa di Goethe Rome); “And remember how the devil is joking. Bernhard Heisig and Goethe's Faust ”(2009 Frankfurt Goethe Museum); " Franz Mon : word pictures. Positions of visual poetry ”(2012 Frankfurt Goethe Museum). Together with Werner Busch (FU Berlin), Petra Maisak curated the exhibitions “Transformation of the World. The romantic arabesque ”(2013 Frankfurt Goethe Museum, 2014 Hamburger Kunsthalle) and“ Füsslis Nachtmahr. Dream and Madness ”(2017 Frankfurt Goethe Museum and Museum Wilhelm Busch Hanover).

Petra Maisak has been a member of the International Council of Museums since 1982 and of the Goethe Society in Weimar since 1983 , of which she was a member from 1999 to 2003.

Publications (selection)

  • Arcadia. Genesis and typology of an idyllic dream world (dissertation), Frankfurt / Bern 1981.
  • "The storm landscape in painting around 1800. Literary sources and references", In: Freiburger Universitätsblätter, Freiburg i. Br. 1984, No. 85, pp. 13-33.
  • "Everyday life and apotheosis. Bettine's handling of the fine arts", In: Bettine von Arnim 1785–1859, catalog of the Free German High Foundation - Frankfurt Goethe Museum, ed. by Christoph Perels, Frankfurt a. M. 1985, pp. 202-224.
  • "'We fit together as if we had lived together'. Goethe and Tischbein in Italy", In: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. Catalog of the state museums in Oldenburg and Schleswig, ed. by Hermann Mildenberger, Schleswig / Neumünster 1986, pp. 17–50.
  • "Goethe and painting in Italy", In: '... thrilled on classic soil'. Goethe in Italy. Catalog of the Düsseldorf Goethe Museum / Anton and Katharina Kippenberg Foundation, ed. by Jörn Göres, Mainz 1986, pp. 66-87.
  • "Bettine von Arnim's 'Octoberfest'. Idea, Genesis and Reconstruction", In: Yearbook of the Free German Hochstift, Tübingen 1990, pp. 184-217.
  • "Caspar David Friedrich and Claude Lorrain", In: Pantheon. Internationale Jahresschrift für Kunst, Munich 1990, pp. 123–129.
  • Arcadia . Landscape of ephemeral happiness (ed. With Corinna Fiedler), Frankfurt 1992 (Insel-Taschenbuch 1421).
  • "His house, a meeting place for Germany's nobles." Johann Georg Schlosser , Goethe's sister Cornelia and her friends in Emmendingen (= tracks 20), ed. from the German Schiller Society, Marbach a. N. 1992.
  • "The draftsman Goethe or 'Die practische Liebhaberey in den Künsten', In: Goethe und die Kunst. Catalog of the Schirn-Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a. M., edited by Sabine Schulze, pp. 104–148.
  • "Henry Fuseli - 'Shakespeare's Painter'", In: The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, ed. By Walter Pape and Frederick Burwick in collaboration with the German Shakespeare Society, Bottrop 1996, pp. 57-74.
  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Drawings , Reclam Verlag, Stuttgart 1996. ISBN 3-15-010489-0 .
  • "And yet, what luck to be loved!" Friederike Brion's grave in Meissenheim (= tracks 36), ed. from the German Schiller Society, Marbach a. N. 1997.
  • "Et in Arcadia ego. Notes on the development of the Arcadian ideal in Italy and on the reception of the Goethe era", In: Italienbelösungen des classic Weimar, ed. by Klaus Manger (= series of the Villa Vigoni, vol. 11), Tübingen 1997, pp. 11–37.
  • "Metamorphoses. To Joachim Dunkel's woodcuts and drawings", In: Joachim Dunkel: Certainty about change. Sculptures, drawings, woodcuts. Catalog of the City Museums Heilbronn, ed. by Andreas Pfeiffer, Heilbronn 1997, pp. 51-69.
  • "'Happy psyche no longer mourn'. Angelika Kauffmann's encounter with Goethe, Herder and the Weimar Circle", In: Angelika Kauffmann. Catalog of the Art Museum Düsseldorf, ed. by Bettina Baumgärtel, Düsseldorf 1998, pp. 79–90.
  • The Frankfurt Goethe House , arr. by Petra Maisak and Hans-Georg Dewitz, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt 1999.
  • "In the picture room". Goethe and the Boisserée Collection in Heidelberg (= tracks 35), ed. from the German Schiller Society, Marbach a. N. 2000.
  • "This picture belongs to the king. Bettine von Arnim and her daughters between salon, art and the Prussian court", In: Preußen. The art and the individual. Articles dedicated to Helmut Börsch-Supan, ed. by Hans Dickel and Christoph Martin Vogtherr, Berlin 2003, pp. 261–282.
  • "Theater effects. Images of Goethe's 'Proserpina'", In: Goethezeit - Zeit für Goethe. On the trail of German poetry transmission into the modern age. Festschrift for Christoph Perels for his 65th birthday, ed. by Konrad Feilchenfeldt u. a., Tübingen 2003, pp. 111-129.
  • Goethe and Tischbein in Rome. Images and texts (= Insel-Bücherei No. 1251), Insel Verlag, Frankfurt 2004.
  • "The Parzen: Myth and Aesthetic Form. Reception in Weimar around 1800", In: Myths - Symbols - Metamorphoses in Art since 1800. Festschrift for Christa Lichtenstern on her 60th birthday, ed. by Helga and J. Adolf Schmoll called Eisenwerth and Regina Hillert, Berlin 2004, pp. 69–88.
  • "The art collection of Johann Caspar Goethe. Goethe's early Frankfurt experiences", In: Spaces of Art. Views on Goethe's collections, ed. by Markus Bertsch and Johannes Grave, Göttingen 2005 (= Aesthetics around 1800, edited by Reinhard Wegner), pp. 23–46.
  • "Dibujar en los lìmites del lenguaje. Sobre las relaciones entre palabra e imagen en Goethe", In: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Paisajes, ed. from Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid 2008, pp. 55–70.
  • "From Rembrandt's so-called 'Doctor Faustus' to Goethe's 'Faust'", In: Yearbook of the Free German Hochstift 2008, pp. 109–152.
  • (Ed.): Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Young Werther's sufferings . First version from 1774 . With 37 colored drawings by the author, Reclam Library, Stuttgart 2010. ISBN 978-3-15-010688-4 .
  • "Faust. The great world theater, seen in a new way", In: Bernhard Heisig. A Neverending Story, ed. by Rüdiger Küttner, Berlin 2010, pp. 149–157.
  • "Bettina von Arnim as a draftsman or attempt to transform old pictures into a new mythology, In: Achim von Arnim and his circle, edited by Steffen Dietzsch and Ariane Ludwig (= writings of the International Arnim Society, Vol. 8), Berlin / New York 2010, pp. 145-182.
  • "'Goethe did not have such a beautiful forehead.' Georg Büchner's portrait and a travel sketch booklet of Alexis Muston ", In: Yearbook of the Free German Hochstift 2016, pp. 145–208. ISBN 978-3-8353-1934-9
  • "Goethe - and Füßli - wonderfully paired together". Johann Heinrich Füssli in Goethe's field of vision, in: Goethe-Jahrbuch 2018 (135th vol.), Göttingen 2019, pp. 89-105. ISBN 978-3-8353-3543-1

Catalogs

  • Goethe in the art of the 20th century . Catalog of the Free German Hochstift -Frankfurt Goethe Museum, ed. by Detlev Lüders, Frankfurt 1982.
  • Christian Georg Schütz the Elder . A Frankfurt landscape painter from the time of Goethe . Catalog of the Free German Hochstift - Frankfurt Goethe Museum, ed. by Christoph Perels, Frankfurt 1991.
  • The Frankfurt Goethe Museum visits the Städel . Catalog of the Free German Hochstift - Frankfurt Goethe Museum, ed. by Christoph Perels, Frankfurt 1994.
  • Goethe's drawings and etchings. Inventory catalog. Free German Hochstift - Frankfurt Goethe Museum, Frankfurt 1998.
  • “Delicious leftovers”. In memory of Goethe and his people , catalog of the Free German Hochstift - Frankfurt Goethe Museum, edit. by Gerhard Kölsch and Petra Maisak, Frankfurt a. M. 2002.
  • Goethe's "Faust". Transformations of a "sorcerer" . Catalog of the exhibition in the Free Deutsche Hochstift - Frankfurt Goethe Museum, Frankfurt am Main 2007.
  • Frankfurt Goethe Museum. The paintings. "... because what would the world be without art?" , With Gerhard Kölsch, inventory catalog, ed. from the Free German Hochstift, Frankfurt am Main 2011. ISBN 978-3-9811109-9-9 .
  • Transformation of the world. The romantic arabesque , ed. by Werner Busch and Petra Maisak. Petersberg 2013
  • "Füsslis Nachtmahr. Dream and madness", ed. by Werner Busch and Petra Maisak, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2017. ISBN 978-3-7319-0445-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Exhibitions in the Frankfurt Goethe House
  2. ↑ Book recommendation, Goethezeit Portal of the LMU
  3. ↑ ISBN 978-3-86568-915-3 Transformation of the world. The romantic arabesque - publisher's announcement ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.imhof-verlag.de
personal data
SURNAME Maisak, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn