Rudolf Koemstedt

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Rudolf Kömstedt (born April 29, 1887 in Lobberich , North Rhine , † 1961 ) was a German art and architecture historian.

Life

Rudolf Kömstedt studied art history at the University of Tübingen , where he became a member of the Catholic student association AV Guestfalia Tübingen . He received his doctorate in 1912 with a thesis on the development of vault construction in medieval churches in Westphalia under Heinrich Wölfflin at the Institute for Art History at the University of Munich . In 1922 he completed his habilitation here with a thesis on The Beginnings of the Gothic in Germany , then he worked as a private lecturer in Munich. From 1930 to 1936 he was an associate professor at the University of Cologne .

On August 11, 1936, Rudolf Kömstedt was appointed "personal professor" at the University of Erlangen . The US military government confirmed Rudolf Kömstedt in his office for the winter semester 1945/46. From 1948 to 1950 he was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty. In January 1954 he was retired . His last work On Buildings and Master Builders of the Franconian Baroque was published posthumously by Hans Reuther .

The focus of research was the architecture of the Middle Ages. He understood art history as history in the tradition of the Swiss historians Jacob Burckhardt and Heinrich Wölfflin as phenomenology .

Fonts (selection)

  • The development of vaults in the medieval churches of Westphalia (Studies on German Art History, Issue 172). Heitz, Strasbourg 1914.
  • The beginnings of the Gothic in Germany (Library of Art History, Vol. 28). EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922.
  • Pre-medieval painting. The artistic problems of monumental and book painting in the early Christian and early Byzantine epoch . Filser, Augsburg 1929.
  • National characters in Romanesque architecture north of the Alps . In: Festschrift Heinrich Wölfflin for his seventieth birthday . Wolfgang Jess, Dresden 1935. pp. 111-126.
  • To assess the early medieval illumination . In: Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 9, 1936, pp. 31-58.
  • Tasks and possibilities of art history in regional research . In: Yearbook of the Franconian State Research 4, 1938, pp. 104–110.
  • On the application of the term "Renaissance" to early medieval art . In: Josef Engel and Hans Martin Klinckenberg (eds.): From the Middle Ages and Modern Times . Hanstein, Bonn 1957, pp. 317-325.
  • The cathedral in Aachen. The Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne. "The Art of the People", Munich 1940.
  • Of buildings and master builders of the Franconian Baroque. From the estate, ed. by Hans Reuther . Hesseling, Berlin 1963.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Brief History of the Institute for Art History of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg" ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , accessed on February 8, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstgeschichte.uni-erlangen.de
  2. ^ "From Commercial Market Research to Academic Teaching - An Unusual Career" , Forum: Qualitative Social Research Volume 5, No. 3, Art. 40 - September 2004
personal data
SURNAME Kömstedt, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art and architecture historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Lobberich , North Rhine
DATE OF DEATH 1961