Tilmann Buddensieg

Tilmann Buddensieg (born June 21, 1928 in Berlin ; † September 2, 2013 in Munich ) was a German art historian .

Life

Buddensieg studied art history, classical and early Christian archeology and Byzantine studies. It was 1956 at the University of Cologne with a dissertation on The Basler Antependium in Paris doctorate . After completing his doctorate, he initially worked as a volunteer at the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg until 1957 . From 1962 to 1965 he was an assistant at the Art History Institute of the Free University of Berlin . In 1965 he completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the afterlife of ancient architecture and sculpture in Rome . Since 1968 he has been a full professor for art history at the Free University of Berlin. He declined appointments to the Universities of Heidelberg (1968), Yale (1968) and Harvard in 1972. In 1978 he was appointed to a professorship at the University of Bonn , where he retired in 1993. Since 1995 he has been honorary professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Buddensieg lived in Berlin and Munich. His son was the photographer Tobias Buddensieg (1955-2010).

Tilmann Buddensieg died in Munich in 2013 at the age of 85. His grave is in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery in Berlin.

Important Nietzsche documents from Buddensieg's estate were bequeathed to the Nietzsche Documentation Center ( Nietzsche Society ) in Naumburg . In 1993, a commemorative publication entitled Abundance and Fulness was published in his honor .

Academic degrees

• Elève titulaire of the École des Hautes Études Paris 1955
• Diploma from the École du Louvre Paris 1955
• Dr. phil. Cologne 1956
• Habilitation in 1965, Free University of Berlin
• MA hon. Cambridge Kings College 1974
• Honorary professorship at Humboldt University Berlin 1995

Scholarships and fellowships

• Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University 1957–1960,
• Scholarship from the German Research Foundation , Italy 1960–1962 and 1969
• Visiting Scholar at the Warburg Institute in London
• Fellow at Kings College, Cambridge 1974
• Fellow Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 1985/86
• Visiting Scholar, Getty Center for the History of Arts and Humanities, Santa Monica USA 1988–1989

Memberships (selection)

• Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art, Section Allemande
• Board of Trustees of the Bibliotheca Hertziana , Rome 1968–1972
• Association of German Art Historians, Chairman 1968–1972
• Chairman of the Artistic Advisory Board of KPM - Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin GmbH, 1991–1999
• Expert on the Advisory Board of the Senate for Urban Development and Environmental Protection Berlin,
• 1992–1999 member of the advisory board of the Einstein Forum Potsdam Foundation , since 1992

Fonts (selection)

• Industrial culture. Peter Behrens and the AEG . Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-7861-1155-3 . (4th unaltered edition 1993) / English edition: MIT Press, Cambridge / Mass. 1984, ISBN 0-262-02195-1 .
• The useful arts. Design technology and art since the industrial revolution. Quadriga Verlag, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-88679-001-0 .
• Villa Hill . The Krupp house in Essen. Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1984 (2nd revised edition 2001), ISBN 3-88680-102-0 .
• Ceramics in the Weimar Republic 1919–1933. (Exhibition catalog) Electa, Milan 1984. / Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg 1985, without ISBN.
• Sciences in Berlin. 3 volumes, Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-7861-1501-X / ISBN 3-7861-1502-8 / ISBN 3-7861-1503-6 .

literature

• Andreas Beyer : Tilmann Buddensieg at the Bonn Institute for Art History from 1978–1993. In: Roland Kanz (Ed.): The Art History Institute in Bonn. History and scholars. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-422-07492-7 , pp. 289–295.

Web links

• Literature by and about Tilmann Buddensieg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Tilmann Buddensieg  in the German Digital Library
• Page about Buddensieg at the HU Berlin
• Website of the Wagenbach-Verlag about Buddensieg
• Obituary for the victory of Buddha by Michael Mönninger in the Berliner Tagesspiegel

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 632.
2. ↑ Documentation Center: Another view of Nietzsche from the Naumburger Tageblatt on November 20, 2013
3. ↑ Andreas Beyer , Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani and Gunter Schweikhart (eds.): Abundance and Fulness - Festschrift for Tilmann Buddensieg , Alfter 1993. ISBN 3-929742-06-3