Robert Suckale

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Robert Suckale (born October 30, 1943 in Königsberg ; † February 13, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German art historian , medievalist and professor at the Technical University of Berlin .

Life

Suckale completed his studies in art history with the minor subjects Classical Archeology and Latin Philology of the Middle Ages in Berlin, Bonn, Paris and Munich in 1970 with a doctorate under Wolfgang Braunfels at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. He then worked at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich and from 1971 research assistant at Braunfels at the Institute for Art History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1976 he was with a thesis on the Mettener manuscripts from the years 1414/1415 habilitation . In 1980 he was appointed to the chair for art history at the University of Bamberg . In 1990 Suckale was appointed to the art history department at the Technical University of Berlin; In 2004 he had to retire early due to illness, but continued to work in research. 2011 awarded him the Courtauld Institute of University of London , the honorary doctorate . In 2014 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Robert Suckale was married to the art historian Gude Suckale-Redlefsen, with whom he also published together.

Scientific work

“With him, students learn to respect the original, what questions are asked on site and how to reveal its meanings layer by layer. This approach is based on the belief that styles are not unfounded, but can be traced back to historical, economic, technical, religious or humanistic backgrounds. "

Suckale's work was characterized by its international horizon, which includes the German-speaking countries, France, Italy and the countries of Eastern Central Europe. His work showed that art history needs a pan-European perspective and cross-border research. At the center of his interest are the works of art themselves, which he sees alternating between technical close-up and historical panoramic views. In doing so, he also focused on the different genres from panel painting to cult objects to architecture. Anchoring monument preservation in university teaching was particularly important to him. He was instrumental in setting up the postgraduate course in monument preservation at the TU Berlin, which he had already done in Bamberg. He prevented the art history section from being wound up at the TU Berlin and is one of the founding fathers of the Schinkel Center for Architecture, Urban Research and Monument Preservation at the TU Berlin.

Important milestones in his work:

  • 1988 Head of a section of the congress of the Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art (CIHA) in Munich ("Court and City in the Late Middle Ages"), at the same time head of a section of the German Art Historians' Day in Frankfurt (building research and building history)
  • January to May 1992 Visiting Professor at Harvard University
  • In 1996, in cooperation with the University of Bamberg, he initiated the DFG- funded graduate college "Art History - Building Research - Monument Preservation" (ended 2005)
  • Winter semester 1997/98 - summer semester 1998 as Richard Krautheimer professor at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome
  • 2005 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University

Publications (selection)

  • Studies on style formation and style change of the Madonna statues of the Ile-de-France between 1230 and 1300. Phil. Diss. Munich 1971.
  • Claude Monet: The Cathedral of Rouen. Munich 1981.
  • Gothic. From Giotto to Lochner (= Ingo F. Walther [Hrsg.]: The new museum of painting. 1), Herrsching 1983.
  • with Dieter Kimpel: The Gothic Architecture in France 1130–1270. Hirmer, Munich 1985, 2nd revised edition Munich 1995.
  • Gude Suckale-Redlefsen: Mauritius-Der Heilige Mohr. The Black Saint Maurice. Munich 1987 (co-author).
  • The court art of Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria. Hirmer, Munich 1993.
  • Rogier van der Weyden. The Johannestafel. The picture as a silent sermon (= The feat, Fischer Taschenbuch 11990), Frankfurt / M. 1995.
  • Art in Germany. From Charlemagne to today. Cologne 1998 (2nd corrected edition 2005 under the title: Dumont History of Art in Germany ISBN 978-3-8321-7643-3 ); Review by Ilona Lehnart
  • Evangelisches Damenstift Obernkirchen (= DKV-Kunstführer. 165/9) Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1999.
  • with Gude Suckale-Redlefsen: Obernkirchen Abbey, Schaumburg district. Königstein / Taunus 2001.
  • The medieval women's pencils as bastions of women's power (= series of publications of the Cologne Legal Society. 25). Otto Schmidt Verlag, Cologne 2001.
  • The medieval image as a contemporary witness. Six studies. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-931836-70-3 .
  • Ed .: Rudolf Berliner (1886-1967). Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 9783931836719 .
  • Peter Schmidt, Gregor Wedekind (ed.): Style and function. Selected writings on the art of the Middle Ages. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2003 (2nd edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-06791-2 ).
  • The renewal of the art of painting before Dürer. 2 volumes, Imhof, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-130-0 .
  • Monastery reform and book art. The manuscripts of the Metten abbot Peter I. Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-723-4 .
  • On the trail of a forgotten queen. A major work of Parisian court art in the Bode Museum. For the Sculpture Collection and the Museum of Byzantine Art, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, ed. by Julien Chapuis, with a technological study by Bodo Buczynski, Petersberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7319-0012-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. Nikolaus Bernau in Deutschlandfunk Kultur on February 13, 2020 conclusion. Culture of the day: From the Middle Ages to the modern age - the art historian Robert Suckale is dead. Accessed February 14, 2020.
  2. Mettener Armenbibel (BSB clm 8201) and Mettener rule (BSB clm 8201 d) at the German Digital Library .
  3. ^ Sebastian Preuss: The important Berlin art historian Robert Suckale is 60 years old. In: Berliner Zeitung . October 30, 2003 ( berliner-zeitung.de ).
  4. Jürgen Tietz: Schinkel Center is closed. In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 23, 2009 ( tagesspiegel.de ).
  5. books non-fiction: experiences of the ego. Robert Suckales forays through art in Germany In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 30, 1999 ( faz.net ).