Rainer Schoch (art historian)

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Rainer Schoch (* 1943 in Immenstadt ) is a German art historian .

Rainer Schoch studied art history, classical archeology and modern history in Munich, Vienna, Heidelberg and Karlsruhe. In 1972 he received his doctorate from the University of Karlsruhe with a thesis on the image of rulers in painting in the 19th century. He then completed a traineeship at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. From 1976 to 1981 he was head of the graphic collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt .

From 1981 to 2008 Schoch was head of the graphic collection at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg . In 2008 the symposium Image Use and Image Function in the Medium of Graphics was held in his honor .

From his work as editor and contributor to exhibition catalogs and collections of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, the three-volume catalog raisonné of all of Albrecht Dürer's prints and, from the artists of the 20th century, the catalog raisonné of prints by Wilhelm Loth , a well-known sculptor, deserve special mention.

Publications (selection)

  • The image of rulers in 19th century painting . Prestel, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7913-0052-0 .
  • Rainer Schoch, Matthias Mende, Anna Scherbaum (ed.): Albrecht Dürer: The graphic work.
    • Vol. I: Copper engravings, iron etchings and drypoint sheets, Prestel Verlag, Munich 2001.
    • Vol. II: Woodcuts and woodcut sequences, Prestel Verlag, Munich 2002.
    • Vol. III: Book illustrations, with contributions by Berthold Hinz and Peter Schreiber, Prestel Verlag, Munich 2004.
  • (as arrangement): Wilhelm Loth. Catalog raisonné of the prints. Woodcuts, lithographs, etchings. Nuremberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-936688-56-6
  • The "Belgian Pictures". A dispute of principles in history painting of the 19th century. In: Karl Möseneder , Hreg .: Dispute over pictures. From Byzantium to Marcel Duchamp . Reimer, Berlin 1997, ISBN 9783496011699 , pp. 161-180.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annette Kranz: Review of: Vol. I: Kupferstiche und Eisenradierungen, 2000. In: sehepunkte 1 (2001), No. 1.
  2. ↑ Annette Kranz: Review of: Vol. II: Wood cuts and wood cut sequences , 2002. In: sehepunkte 3 (2003), No. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Schoch, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Immenstadt