Thomas Pöpper

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Thomas Pöpper (born December 28, 1969 in Bremen ) is a German art historian , design historian and university professor . His cultural-historical research interests include Italian and German Renaissance art as well as design-theoretical concepts of European object cultures in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Career

From 1991 to 1996 , Pöpper studied art history , Middle and Eastern European history and political science as well as Christian archeology and cultural studies for a few semesters at various universities (subject of the master's thesis submitted to the University of Münster : “Studies on the nave decorations of Alt-St. Peter and Alt-St . Paul in Rome "). In 1997 he was a research assistant in a project funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation (“Building Ornaments of the Early Renaissance”) and from 1997 to 1999 he was a scholarship holder of the Max Planck Society , Bibliotheca Hertziana , Rome. The museum volontariat graduated Pöpper 2000-2001 at the Foundation Schleswig-Holstein State Museums , State Museum of Art and Cultural History, Schleswig, Gottorp Castle . From 2001 to 2004/05 he had a teaching position at the University of Flensburg , Institute for Aesthetic-Cultural Education, Department of Fine Arts. After further teaching assignments and lectureships at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg , Northern Institute of Technology, Humanities working group (funded by the Claussen-Simon Foundation ) and his doctorate in 2003 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster on the life and work of the Lombard Renaissance sculptor Andrea Bregno worked from 2005 to 2008 as a research assistant at the University of Leipzig , Institute for Art History.

Pöpper has held a professorship for art and design history at the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau , Faculty of Applied Arts in Schneeberg , since 2008 ; From 2009 to 2012 he was dean of studies, from 2012 to 2019 dean of this university.

Publications (selection)

Books

  • Albrecht Dürer as a shoe designer, or: A footnote on the 'second Apelles' and his shoemaker. Lecture on Dürer's 'preliminary drawing of a shoe' and 'sole cutting' in London, British Museum (= Applied Arts Schneeberg / Studium Generale, 3), [Zwickau] 2019
  • Michelangelo as a draftsman and 'colorista'. Lecture on the colors in Michelangelo's earliest drawings, with special consideration of the Munich St. Peter after Masaccio's 'Zinsgroschen-Fresko' (= applied arts Schneeberg / Studium Generale, 2), [Zwickau] 2018
  • (Editor) Cranach in Zwickau. The reredos in the St. Catherine's Church. Introduction, articles, sources, photo documentation, conservation, Regensburg 2017
  • Michelangelo. The painting. With a contribution to the architectural drawings by Christof Thoenes (= Bibliotheca Universalis), Cologne et al. 2017
  • Michelangelo as a draftsman and abbreviation. Two lectures with an Italian summary / con riassunto in italiano (= Applied Arts Schneeberg / Studium Generale, 1), [Zwickau] 2017
  • (Editor) Things in Context. Artifact, handling and aesthetics of action between the Middle Ages and the present , Berlin et al. 2015 Google Books
  • (together with Frank Zöllner and Christof Thoenes) Michelangelo, 1475–1564. The complete work, revised. and added new edition, Cologne et al. 2014
  • (Editor, together with Susanne Wegmann) The image of the new faith. The Cranach reredos in the Schneeberg St. Wolfgang Church, Regensburg 2011
  • Sculptures for the papacy. Life and work of Andrea Bregno in 15th century Rome , Leipzig 2010

Essays

  • (together with Tamara Tolnai) Le eccezioni confermano la regola. Collaborazioni e 'famiglie' di monumenti sepolcrali nella scultura romana del Quattrocento, in: La scuola scultorea romana del Quattrocento (= RinnovaMenti. Studi sul Rinascimento, 9), ed. by Claudio Crescentini and Sergio Risaliti, Rome 2018, pp. 41–57
  • Artistic self-representation and the perception of art in the Florentine Renaissance: Mino da Fiesole's sculptures in the Badia as 'exempla artis' for an 'artist's museum' ?, in: Sculpture Journal 25,1, 2016, pp. 29-44
  • 'Corriger la fortune' or 'laisser-faire'. Max Klinger, Georg Kolbe and Georg Wrba in the mirror of their estate regulations, in: Nicole Hegener and Kerstin Schwedes (eds.), The artist and his death. Testaments of European artists from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century, Würzburg 2012, pp. 309–333
  • (together with Nicole Hegener) With death on board. Artist's wills as sources of art history and artist sociology, in: Nicole Hegener and Kerstin Schwedes (eds.), The artist and his death. Testaments of European artists from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century, Würzburg 2012, pp. 11–52
  • Family picture with 'papa'. On the presumed multimedia memorial strategy of Pope Alexander VI, his mistress Vannozza Cattanei and their children in Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, in: Arne Karsten (ed.): The tomb of the favorite. Studies on the memorial culture of early modern favorites (= Humboldt-Schriften zur Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, 15), Berlin 2011, pp. 169–187
  • Fairytale cult and tactile experience. On Ludwig Sußmann-Hellborn's 'much-touched' "Sleeping Beauty" in the Alte Nationalgalerie, in: Yearbook of the Berlin Museums, NF, 50, 2008 (2009), pp. 165–176
  • For the original installation and the 'ideal' viewer of the funerary monument of Pope Martin V in San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome, in: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 70, 2007, 1, pp. 55–68
  • Absence and presence as a game with technology and art. On a baroque picture puzzle of King Christian V of Denmark, in: Margarete Jarchow (ed.): Encounters of Culture and Technology, Neumünster 2006 (= Studies and Research of the AG Humanities at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, 1), p. 111 -118

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personal data
SURNAME Pöpper, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen