Roger Goepper
Roger Goepper (born March 9, 1925 in Pforzheim ; † December 18, 2011 in Bremen ) was a German art historian . He was an exhibition maker, museum director and university professor and an expert on Japanese, Chinese and Korean art.
Life
Roger Goepper headed the Museum for East Asian Art in Berlin from 1959 to 1965 , then in Cologne from 1966 to 1989 the Museum for East Asian Art . During his term of office in Cologne, he moved to the new building of the museum in 1977, the integration of the Lochow collection and the purchase of early Chinese ceramics from the Siegel collection. Goepper has curated a large number of exhibitions and contributed to the related publications. His volume "Kunst und Kunsthandwerk Ostasiens", "a handbook for collectors and enthusiasts", published in 1968, is still considered a standard work today.
Goepper was a professor for East Asian art history at the Art History Institute of the University of Cologne .
honors and awards
- 1979 full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences
- 1991 Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1996 Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- Order of the Japan Foundation (1997)
Fonts (selection)
- Explanations of the pictures in: Ten thousand times happiness. Colored picture greetings from Japan. 16 surimonos from the Emil Preetorius collection , with an afterword by Emil Preetorius. Piper, Munich 1959
- Flowers from the mustard seed garden. Hirmer, Munich 1960 (Chieh-tzû-yüan hua chuan, Ger., Ausz.).
- Arts and crafts of East Asia. A guide for collectors and enthusiasts. Keyser, Munich 1968.
- Aspects of the traditional Chinese concept of art. Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-531-07369-9 .
literature
- Jeonghee Lee-Kalisch (Ed.): Long life. Festschrift in honor of Roger Goepper. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2006 ISBN 3-631-53840-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Roger Goepper in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Andreas Rossmann : Sense and Form. On the death of Roger Goepper. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 8, 2012, accessed April 1, 2013.
- ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
- ^ Art History of East Asia: Bulletin No. 27 (Sept. 1996) , accessed April 1, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goepper, Roger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pforzheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 2011 |
| Place of death | Bremen |