Robert Steiner (painter, 1941)

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Robert ( Roberto ) Steiner (born January 14, 1941 in Milan ; † March 7, 2016 in Lamole, Greve in Chianti ) was a Swiss art historian and artist.

life and work

Robert Steiner studied art history at the University of Bern and received his doctorate in 1974 under Hans R. Hahnloser . From 1969 to 1976 he was assistant and senior assistant to Eduard Hüttinger at the chair for art history at the University of Bern. His habilitation thesis from 1976, which was not published, was about the Renaissance artist Perino del Vaga . Steiner taught as a private lecturer in Bern until 1980 and then moved to Lamole in Chianti, where he worked as a freelance artist. From 1987 to 1990 he was a lecturer in art history at the University of Trieste .

Fonts

• The Bernese Maestà by Duccio di Buoninsegna . In: Bern art communications. 103, 1968.
• From Leo X to Clement VII. Two humanists and a puritan on the papal throne and their relationship to art. In: Festschrift Arnold Geering for his 70th birthday. Contributions to the time and concept of humanism mainly from the field of music. Edited by Victor Ravizza. Haupt, Bern 1972.
• Epilogue, in: Giorgio Vasari : CVs of the most famous painters, sculptors and architects. Manesse, Zurich 1974, pp. 573-595.
• On the origin of the plastic wall decoration of Italian Mannerism and their development up to around 1550. Dissertation. Faculty of Philosophy and History, University of Bern, Bern 1974.
• Two Erasmus portraits from the Cranach School in Bern. In: Bern art communications. 149, 1974, pp. 2-6.
• A Dürer interpretation by Vasari. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 23, 1974.
• Michelangelo - "Uomo terribile". Notes on the artist's reception. In: The Small Bund. March 2nd 1975.
• "... perfect deceptive replica". On a monograph on the trompe-l'oeil. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 28/29 June 1975.
• The "Trionfo di Bacco" by Raffaello per il duca di Ferrara. In: Paragone. 325, 1977.
• The role models for Callot's “Mystères de la Passion”. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 23/24 April 1977.
• Two “sins of youth” of Ferdinand Hodler. Notes on the problem of trivial landscape painting. In: Bern art communications. 181/182, 1978, pp. 1-7.

literature

• Almost a Festschrivt! : for R. Steiner. Ed .: ... and many who want to remain anonymous. New publishing house for old culture and contemporary history GmbHa !, Bern 1980.
• Juerg Albrecht: The bones of my lover. In: Berner Zeitung , May 2, 1980.
• Roberto Steiner: Drawings. With a contribution by Marcel Baumgartner. Schadau Castle , Thun, June 4 to August 22, 1982.
• Konrad Pauli: Sharpness of thought and visionary power. Drawings by Roberto Steiner in Schadau Castle, Thun. In: Bieler Tagblatt . August 7, 1982.

Web links

• Steiner, Robert. In: Sikart