Steffen Krämer

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Steffen Krämer (born January 12, 1963 in Offenbach am Main ) is a German art historian .

Life

Steffen Krämer studied art history, classical archeology, philosophy and prehistory and early history at the universities in Munich , Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Main . In 1995 he did his doctorate on contextual building concepts of postmodern architecture. From 1995 to 2000, Krämer was a research assistant at the University of Munich, and from 2003 to 2007 he was a research assistant at the Karlsruhe University of Design . In 2005, he completed his habilitation in English High Gothic architecture. From 2005 to 2012 he was a private lecturer at the University of Munich, from 2010 to 2012 a scientific lecturer at the Institute for Technology (KIT) at the University of Karlsruhe and from 2011 to 2014 a lecturer at the University of Salzburg . Since 2011 he has been scientific director of the Winckelmann Academy for Art History in Munich and since 2013 adjunct professor at the University of Munich.

His research focuses on medieval architecture, modern architecture, urban and settlement construction as well as architecture and spatial theory from the 19th to the 21st century, as well as problems of urban utopias or dystopias and phenomena of degeneration in art and urban development since the 19th century. As part of the 15th International Architecture Biennale 2016 in Venice , Krämer is a scientific advisor for the "Ideal Spaces" project.

Publications (selection)

Monographs and Editing

  • with Sebastian Holmer and Claudia Kapsner: Departure into the 21st century. Munich architecture and urban development since 1990, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86222-016-8
  • Stately burial place and local cult of saints. Architecture of the English Decorated Style, Munich / Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-422-06729-5
  • with Felix Billeter and Antje Günther: Münchner Moderne. Art and Architecture of the Twenties, Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-06340-4
  • The postmodern architectural landscape. Museum concepts by James Stirling and Hans Hollein, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1998, ISBN 3-487-10676-0

Essays

  • Degeneration and urbanity. Illness and decay metaphors as big city criticism in the 19th and 20th centuries, in: Forum Stadt , vol. 39, issue 3, 2012, pp. 225–254
  • Terry Gilliams “Brazil” - Social Utopia and Political Dystopia in the Science Fiction City, in: City as a space of experience in politics, ed. by Wilhelm Hofmann, Berlin 2011, pp. 261–279
  • The III. International and the competition for the Palace of the Soviets. Architectural utopias in the Soviet Union from the revolution to early Stalinism, in: Architectura, Vol. 40, Vol. 2, 2010, pp. 167–188
  • "Enhancement of the nervous life". Die Großstadt - Fanal and Menetekel der Moderne, in: Gesamtkunstwerk Expressionismus, exh. Cat., Ed. by Ralf Beil and Claudia Dillmann, Ostfildern 2010, pp. 202–209
  • "Urbanity through density" - the new maxim in German urban and settlement construction in the 1960s, in: denkmal! Moderne. Architecture of the 1960s, ed. by Adrian von Buttlar and Christoph Heuter, Berlin 2007, pp. 106–115

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personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Steffen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main