Stephan Albrecht (art historian)

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Stephan Albrecht

Stephan Albrecht (* 1963 in Flensburg ) is a German art historian and professor of art history at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg .

Life

After graduating from high school, Albrecht studied art history, classical archeology and church history in Kiel , Vienna , Berlin (FU), Freiburg i.Br. and suffering . In 1991 he received his doctorate in Kiel. In 2001 he completed his habilitation at the University of Tübingen . After a number of substitute professorships, including in Munich , Bern and Stuttgart , he was called to Bamberg , where he has held the chair for medieval art history since 2009.

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Albrecht's research focuses on the art of the Middle Ages and the early modern period. In addition to studies of the medieval city and the building of the town hall, he deals with medieval cathedrals in France, Germany and England. A special focus is on researching the medieval church portal . In doing so, he methodically combines the possibilities of scientific investigations and scanning technology with classic art-historical issues.

For the past ten years, he and his team have measured and examined the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris . He is a member of several working groups for the reconstruction of the Paris Cathedral.

Publications (selection)

  • The Bremen town hall under the sign of urban self-expression before the 30 years war . Marburg 1993.
  • The medieval winged altars in the Hanseatic city of Wismar . Kiel 1998. (in collaboration with Anna E. Albrecht)
  • The staging of the past in the Middle Ages. The monasteries of Glastonbury and Saint-Denis . Munich, Berlin 2003.
  • Medieval town halls in Germany. Form and function . Darmstadt 2004.
  • Turin. The invention of the capital . Fulda 2016.
  • The church portal in the Middle Ages . Fulda 2018.
  • The transept portals of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris . To be published in Fulda 2020.

Editing

  • with Michaela Braesel, Sabine Fastert, Andrea Gottdang and Gabriele Wimböck: Art - History - Perception. Munich 2008.
  • Cityscape and the public. Development, use and design of city centers in the Middle Ages and early modern times. Cologne 2010.
  • Bamberg Cathedral in a European context. Bamberg 2015.
  • Buchner's Compendium Art. From antiquity to the present. Teaching work for the advanced level. Bamberg 2016.
  • in collaboration with Martin Höppl: Munich - Urban History from the Middle Ages to the Present. Petersberg 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Living stones: material, construction technology and effect at the Stephen portal of Notre Dame in Paris. Retrieved June 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and professor of art history
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg