Rainer Warland

Rainer Warland (born September 8, 1951 in Sarstedt ) is a German Christian archaeologist and Byzantine art historian.

Rainer Warland completed a double degree in Catholic Theology and Christian Archeology , Art History and Classical Archeology at the University of Freiburg . In 1978 he obtained his theological diploma with a thesis on the veneration of relics at Victricius of Rouen . From 1978 to 1983 he was a research assistant at the Freiburg Chair for Christian Archeology. In 1985, Walter Nikolaus Schumacher received his doctorate in Christian archeology at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Freiburg on the late antique bust of Christ.

From 1988 to 1994 he was Professor of Christian Archeology and Byzantine Art History at the University of Göttingen . In 1994/1995 he was a professor for archeology and art history of the Christian Orient at the University of Halle . Since the summer semester 1995 he has held the chair for Christian archeology and art history at the theological faculty of the University of Freiburg. In 2008 this professorship was transferred to the newly created Institute for Archaeological Sciences of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Freiburg. He retired at the end of the 2015/2016 winter semester.

His research on painting, sculpture and iconography applies equally to late antiquity and Byzantium . In the area of ​​late antiquity, he has published on models of early Christian sarcophagi, private representation in the mosaics of Centcelles (Spain), the narrative concept of early Byzantine sculpture and late ancient book illumination. His Byzantium research focuses on Central Byzantine Cappadocia , its settlement topography and wall painting. In addition, he publishes on basic questions of Christian art and participated in art commissions and judges.

From 2001 to 2011 he was deputy chairman of the German Working Group for Byzantine Studies.

Fonts (selection)

• The bust of Christ. Studies on late antique and early Byzantine picture history (= Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history. Supplementary booklet 41). Herder, Rome / Freiburg im Breisgau / Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-451-20729-X .
• Status and form in the representation of the late antique leadership class. In: Communications from the German Archaeological Institute. Roman department . Volume 101, 1994, pp. 175-202.
• The dome mosaics by Centcelles as a program of images from a late antique private representation. In: Javier Arce (ed.): Centcelles. El monumento tardoromano. Iconografía y arquitectura. Rome 2002, ISBN 88-8265-169-X , pp. 21-35 ( full text ).
• as editor: Imagery and image locations of liturgy. Scenes in late antiquity, Byzantium and the Middle Ages. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 3-89500-257-7 .
• Byzantine monasticism. In: Kristina Krüger: Orders and Monasteries. 2000 years of Christian art and culture. Ullmann, Königswinter 2007, ISBN 978-3-8331-4069-3 , pp. 328-353.
• The Byzantine cave settlement of Gökçe / Momoasson in Cappadocia. In: Istanbul communications. Volume 58, 2008, pp. 347-367 ( full text ).
• Late antiquity and Byzantium. In: Rolf Toman (Ed.): Ars Sacra. Christian art and architecture of the West from the beginning to the present. Ullmann, Potsdam 2010, ISBN 978-3-8331-5139-2 , pp. 22-97.
• Byzantine Cappadocia. Zabern, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8053-4580-4 .

Web links

• Homepage at the University of Freiburg
• Warland, Rainer .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .