Ralf van Bühren

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Ralf van Bühren (born February 3, 1962 in Bad Kreuznach ) is a German art historian and church historian . He teaches in Rome at the Pontifical University of Santa Croce . His publications generally concern church building and Christian art from the 4th to the 21st century, especially the visual rhetoric in modern times and the liturgical art before and after the Second Vatican Council , as well as the modern history of the Council and the pastoral work of artists in the 20th century.

Career

After high school graduation in 1982 at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium and civil service from 1983 to 1984 in the hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder in Trier , Ralf van Bühren studied art history , classical archeology and philosophy at the University of Trier and the University of Munich from 1984 to 1991 . In 1988 he converted to the Roman Catholic Church in Munich .

Van Bühren received his doctorate in art history from the University of Cologne in 1994. His dissertation, which was published in 1998 under the title The Works of Mercy in the Art of the 12th to 18th Century. Century. On the change of a picture motif against the background of modern rhetoric reception was published, presented a comprehensive treatment of the iconography of the works of mercy . The study analyzes the influence of the theory of rhetoric and art theory on the development of a persuasive mode of representation of images in the context of economic and religious-historical changes during the Renaissance and Baroque periods as well as in view of the audience, clients and artists. Essential elements of this modern visual rhetoric are the narrative narrative style and the personal relationship with the viewer.

From 1992 to 1995 van Bühren served as Educational staff in Museumsdienst Cologne at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne operates based computing in the scientific documentation of the Bildarchiv Foto Marburg the University of Marburg and as a freelancer for church teaching of Domforum on Cologne Cathedral and the twelve Romanesque churches in Cologne .

From 1996 to 1998 headed Ralf van Bühren the editing in Publisher Schnell & Steiner in Regensburg , whose founder Hugo Quick and John Steiner in 1934 for the first time the "little art guide" laid, now with over 70 million copies of more than 3,100 titles, the largest art guide series of Kind in Europe.

Ralf van Bühren received his doctorate in church history in 2006 from the theological faculty of the Pontifical University of Santa Croce in Rome. Under the title Art and Church in the 20th Century. The reception of the Second Vatican Council , his dissertation was published in 2008 in the series Council History, the most comprehensive revision of the Council and Synod history from late antiquity to modern times, which Walter Brandmüller founded in 1979 and published until 2008. The foreword of the book was written by Friedhelm Hofmann , Bishop of Würzburg (2004-2017) and then a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Assets of the Church and the Commission for Science and Culture of the German Bishops' Conference .

Van Bühren has taught art history at the Pontifical University of Santa Croce since 2006 . His main research interests and courses at the communication faculty are architecture and art as a means of communication , at the theological faculty liturgical art from antiquity to the present day and Christian art history . These subjects are usually not part of the compulsory curriculum for theology studies at German universities , although the Second Vatican Council wanted art to be included in church studies. The courses offered by the University of Santa Croce attempt to counteract this deficit in theological training.

In his studies on communication , van Bühren shows the relevance of art history for cultural journalism , for public relations (PR) and media presence of the church as well as for journalistic communication about faith. His English-language lectures ( Christian Art and Architecture in Rome. From Antiquity to the Present ) are open to students from international universities.

On July 1, 2014, van Bühren was appointed advisor to the Pontifical Council for Culture . Since 2014 he has been on the editorial board of the journal “Church, Communication and Culture”, which is subject to a peer review process and published online by Routledge ( Taylor & Francis Group ). Ralf van Bühren is a member of the International Society for Council History Research and the Roman Institute of the Görres Society .

Publications (selection)

  • Tourism, religious identity and cultural heritage , ed. together with Lorenzo Cantoni and Silvia De Ascaniis, in Church, Communication and Culture 3 (2018), pp. 195–418
  • Caravaggio's 'Seven Works of Mercy' in Naples. The relevance of art history to cultural journalism , in Church, Communication and Culture 2 (2017), pp. 63-87
  • Church construction in Renaissance and Baroque. Liturgical reforms and their consequences for spatial planning, liturgical disposition and image furnishing after the Council of Trent , in: Operation on the living object. Rome's liturgical reforms from Trent to Vatican II, ed. by Stefan Heid, Berlin 2014, pp. 93–119 - full text online
  • “Porta fidei salutisque”. The cycle of images of the Romanesque door wings in St. Maria in the Capitol in Cologne , in: Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia 22, 2013, pp. 175–189 - full text online
  • Art and Church in the Teaching of the Second Vatican Council , three-part series in: L'Osservatore Romano. Weekly edition in German, Part I on February 8, 2013, p. 6; Part II on February 15, 2013, p. 6; Part III on February 22, 2013, p. 6 - full text online
  • Los Papas y los artistas modernos. La renovación de la actividad pastoral con los artistas después del Concilio Vaticano II (1962-1965) , San José (Costa Rica): Ediciones Promesa 2012, ISBN 978-9968-41-216-2 - English abstract
  • Pope Benedict XVI in dialogue with artists. On the pastoral significance of the artists' meeting in the Sistine Chapel on November 21, 2009 in the context of modern church history , in: Annales theologici 25, 2011, pp. 305-315 - full text online
  • Sacred art and modernity. Attempt to take stock from the perspective of the Catholic teaching post in the 20th and 21st centuries , in: Sakralität und Moderne, ed. by Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz, Dorfen (Munich): Hawel Verlag 2010, pp. 231-330, ISBN 978-3-9810376-5-4
  • Files, decrees and diaries as council sources. Symposium of the International Society for Council History Research in Esztergom, 16. − 20. September 2010 , in: Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 42, 2010, pp. 1–6
  • Modern church building as architecture of meaning. Dominikus Böhm's (1880–1955) lighting concept as an expression of a mystagogical spatial idea , in: »Liturgy als Bauherr «? Modern sacred architecture and its equipment between function and form, ed. by Hans Körner and Jürgen Wiener, Essen: Klartext Verlag 2010, pp. 241-256, ISBN 978-3-8375-0356-2 / full text online
  • Earthly spirituality. The ideological message in the work of Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) , in: Sakralität und Moderne, ed. by Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz, Dorfen (Munich): Hawel Verlag 2010, pp. 197-230, ISBN 978-3-9810376-5-4
  • Paul VI and the art. The importance of the Montini pontificate for the renewal of pastoral work for artists after the Second Vatican Council , in: Forum Katholische Theologie 24, 2008, pp. 266–290
  • Art and Church in the 20th Century. The reception of the Second Vatican Council ( of councils , Series B: studies), Paderborn: Ferdinand Verlag Schöningh 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76388-4 - publishing information and review in "The Cathedral" in 2009 and in "Theologie.Geschichte" 2008
  • The works of mercy in the art of the 12th-18th centuries Century. On the change of a picture motif against the background of modern rhetoric reception (Studies on Art History, 115), Hildesheim / Zurich / New York: Georg Olms Verlag 1998, ISBN 3-487-10319-2 - German and English abstract

Remarks

  1. ↑ See the parish archives of the Catholic parish church Heilig Blut in Munich-Bogenhausen. see. the chronicle of the parish (PDF; 78 kB).
  2. ↑ See the abstract by Georg Olms Verlag.
  3. ↑ See Reinhard Wittmann: The straight way. Catholic publishers in the time of National Socialism , in: 75 Jahre Verlag Schnell & Steiner , Regensburg 2011, pp. 29–40; see the historical overview on the homepage of the Schnell und Steiner publishing house in Regensburg.
  4. ↑ See the bibliographical list of the complete works of the research project on the history of the Council on the homepage of the University of Bamberg and at the Schöningh publishing house . See also the publisher's information on the Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum magazine .
  5. ^ Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium , December 4, 1963, no. 129; see. Karl Lehmann : The world in the mirror of art as a challenge for church and theology , in: Religion from painting? Contemporary art as a theological task, ed. by Reinhard Hoeps, Paderborn 2005, pp. 15–28 (here p. 26); Ralf van Bühren: Art and Church in the 20th Century. The Reception of the Second Vatican Council , Paderborn 2008, pp. 249, 367–372, 526–532.
  6. ↑ See Ralf van Bühren: Weltkirche und Universität. New projects at the Pontifical University of Santa Croce in Rome , in: Die Tagespost July 21, 2011, p. 7 - Online ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dl.dropboxusercontent.com
  7. ^ Ralf van Bühren, Caravaggio's 'Seven Works of Mercy' in Naples. The relevance of art history to cultural journalism 2017; Tourism, religious identity and cultural heritage 2018.
  8. ^ "Religious studies at Santa Croce"; see. the homepage at the university.
  9. ↑ See the homepage of the Pontifical Council for Culture .
  10. ↑ See the homepage of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society .

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personal data
SURNAME Bühren, Ralf van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kreuznach