Thomas W. Gaehtgens

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Thomas Wolfgang Gaehtgens (born June 24, 1940 in Leipzig ) is a German art historian . He was founding director of the German Forum for Art History in Paris and until 2018 director of the Getty Research Institute GRI in Los Angeles.

Life

Gaehtgens received his doctorate in 1966 at the Art History Institute of the University of Bonn on Germain Pilon. In 1972 he completed his habilitation on Joseph Vien at the University of Göttingen , after which he became an adjunct professor at the art history seminar. In 1979 he was doing research at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton , New Jersey , USA . From 1980 until his retirement in 2006 he was Professor of Art History at the Free University of Berlin . From 1985 to 1986 he conducted research at the J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Santa Monica , California . In 1992 he took over the organization of the XXVIII. International Congress for Art History in Berlin . In 1995 he took on a visiting professorship at the Collège de France . From 1992 to 1996 he was President of the Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art (CIHA). From 1998 to 1999 he was Chaire européenne at the Collège de France. Thomas W. Gaehtgens is the founding director of the German Forum for Art History ( Center allemand de l'histoire de l'art ) in Paris , which has been researching mainly German-French cultural relations since 1997, often in international cooperation. Since 2004 he has had an honorary doctorate from the Courtauld Institute of Art , London . He is a member and officer in numerous international institutions. His research areas are primarily French and German art and art history from the 18th to 20th centuries. In November 2007 he was appointed director of the Getty Research Institute GRI in Los Angeles.

In 2009 Gaethgens received the Grand Prix de la Francophonie de l'Académie Française . In 2011 he received an honorary doctorate from the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2015 he was awarded the Prix ​​Mondial Cino Del Duca . Since 1983 he has been a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

Gaethgens is married and has two sons. Gaehtgens is grandson of internist Louis Ruyter Radcliffe Grote and brother of physiologist Peter Gaehtgens .

Fonts

  • On the early and mature work of Germain Pilon. Critical studies of French sculpture around the middle of the 16th century. sn, Bonn 1966, (Bonn, University, dissertation, 1966).
  • Versailles as a national monument. The Galerie des Batailles in the Musée Historique by Louis-Philippe. Mercatorfonds, Antwerp 1984, ISBN 90-6153-135-7 .
  • The Berlin Museum Island in the German Empire. On the cultural policy of museums in the Wilhelmine era. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-422-06095-2 .
  • as editor: artistic exchange. Files of the XXVIII. International Congress for Art History, Berlin, 15. – 20. July 1992. = Artistic Exchange. 3 volumes. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-05-002296-5 .
  • as editor with Barbara Paul: Wilhelm von Bode: Mein Leben (= sources on German art history from classicism to the present. Vol. 4). 2 volumes (text volume, comment volume). Nicolai, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87584-637-0 .
  • as editor with Krzysztof Pomian : Le XVIIIe siècle (= Histoire Artistique de l'Europe ). Seuil, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-02-013222-2 .
  • L'art sans frontières. Les relations artistiques entre Paris et Berlin (= Le livre de poche 559 Reférences. Art ). Librairie Générale Française, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-253-90559-3 .
  • as editor with Kurt Winkler: Ludwig Justi: Becoming - Working - Knowledge. Memoirs from five decades (= sources on German art history from classicism to the present. Vol. 5). 2 volumes (text volume, comment volume). Issued from the estate. Edited and commented by Kurt Winkler and Tanja Baensch with the assistance of Tanja Moormann. Nicolai, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-87584-865-9 .
  • as editor with Christian Michel, Daniel Rabreau and Martin Schieder (eds.): L'art et les normes sociales au XVIIIe siècle (= Passagen. Vol. 2). Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-7351-0917-8 .
  • as editor with Isabelle Ewig and Matthias Noell: The Bauhaus and France. 1919-1940. = Le Bauhaus et la France (= Passagen. Vol. 4). Akademie-Verlag, Paris 2002, ISBN 3-05-003720-2 .
  • La statue de Louis XIV et son program iconographique. In: Isabelle Dubois, Alexandre Gady and Hendrik Ziegler (eds.): Place des Victoires. Histoire, architecture, société. Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7351-1003-6 , pp. 9-35.
  • Distance and appropriation. The discovery of French modernism in German art literature. In: Alexandre Kostka, Françoise Lucbert (Ed.): Distance and appropriation. Art relations between Germany and France 1870–1945 (= Passagen. Vol. 8). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-05-004061-0 , pp. 3-11.
  • L'art, l'histoire, l'histoire de l'art. With an introduction by Andreas Beyer and a foreword by Pierre Nora, Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-7351-1398-9 .
  • The Burning Cathedral. A story from the First World War , CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2018. ISBN 978-3-406-72525-8
  • Author of numerous articles on German and French art history from the 18th to the 20th century.

literature

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  1. ^ Getty Research Institute Director Thomas Gaehtgens to Retire in 2018
  2. ↑ a b Willibald Sauerländer: Mediation between the nations. To the art historian Thomas Gaehtgens for the 70th In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 24, 2010.
  3. ↑ Kai Michel: Back to Paradise. In: Die Zeit , August 27, 2007.
  4. ^ Grand Prix de la Francophonie de l'Académie Française
personal data
SURNAME Gaehtgens, Thomas W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaehtgens, Thomas Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig