Ursula Harter

Ursula Harter (* 1958 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German art historian .

Career

Ursula Harter studied art history , literary studies, archeology and European ethnology in Marburg / Lahn and at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . She completed several study visits to Paris and received her doctorate in 1993 from the Philipps University of Marburg with the interdisciplinary work "The temptation of St. Anthony between art and science: Flaubert, Moreau, Redon".

Catalogs, books

• Max Beckmann Roma, cat. Of the exhib. Rome 1996 (co-editor among others: Klaus Gallwitz), Turin & London 1996
• Max Beckmann Letters: Volume III: 1937–1950 (edited by Klaus Gallwitz and Ursula Harter), Munich & Zurich 1996
• The "temptation of St. Anthony" between religion and science. Flaubert, Moreau, Redon, Berlin 1998
• Max Beckmann and JB Neumann. The artist and his dealer in letters and documents from 1917 to 1950 (co-editor: Stephan von Wiese), Cologne 2011
• Aquaria in art, literature and science, foreword: Monika Wagner, Heidelberg 2014

Essays (selection)

• Max Beckmann "e lo sciocco piagnucolio professorale dei Valori Plastici", in: cat. Of the exhibition Max Beckmann Roma, ed. U. a .: Klaus Gallwitz, Ursula Harter, Turin & London 1996, pp. 29-39.
• "Scounded, skinned, worked to death", in: cat. Of the exhibition Alfred Hrdlicka, sculptures, drawings, prints 1945–1997, ed.: Klaus Klemp, Peter Weiermaier, Kilchberg & Zurich 1997, pp. 49–61.
• “Gustave Moreau: '… ​​un peintre d'une foi violente'”, in: Dossier de l'Art, No 51, Octobre 1998, pp. 38-47.
• “The birth from the sea: Odilon Redon and Jules Michelet”, in: Re-Visionen, ed .: Barbara Hüttel, Jeanette Kohl, Berlin 2002, pp. 177–194.
• “Le Paradis Artificiel. Aquariums, light boxes and other worlds behind glass ”, in: Lectures from the Warburg House, Vol. 6., ed. U. a .: Wolfgang Kemp, Gert Mattenklott, Berlin 2002, pp. 78–124.
• “The metaphor of the sea at Max Beckmann”, in: Cat. Of the Max Beckmann exhibition. People by the Sea, ed .: Heinz Spielmann, Ortrud Westheider, Hamburg 2003, pp. 138–144.
• “It's very interesting what the old boy says. The painter's picture of America comes from a very clever book: How Max Beckmann solved the Atlantis riddle ”, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 1, 2004, No. 203, p. 38.
• "Seductive sight of the Medusa: A milestone in natural history: The great French expedition to Australia from 1800 to 1804", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 27, 2004, No. 251, p. N 3 (Humanities supplement)
• “The auxiliary gunner who picked up the pencil. The French Charles-Alexandre Lesueur created works of art based on the model of nature with his Medusa portraits ”, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, No. 14, April 10, 2005, p. 69 (science, double page)
• "Artificial oceans or the invention of the aquarium", in: Cat. The sea in the room, edited by Elisabeth Schlebrügge, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz 2005, pp. 73–104.
• “You have to act a little more and be careful ...”, in: Kat. Der Ausst. "I'm fleeing into the woods". Max Beckmann in Baden-Baden, Heidelberg, Baden-Baden, Freiburg 2005, pp. 46–55.
• “The Prince of the Deep and Research. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: How Albert I of Monaco Promoted Oceanography ”, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 156, July 8, 2005, p. 52.
• Ocean. Audiobook - FAZ audio dossier, Frankfurt am Main 2006
• "The secret of embryonic life - from water droplets to micro-ocean", in: cat. Der exhib. As in the dream Odilon Redon, ed .: Margret Stuffmann, Max Hollein, Ostfildern 2007, pp. 86–93.
• "Les jardins océanique", in: Cat. Of the exhib. Odilon Redon: Le Ciel, La Terre, La Mer (translated into French by Cathérine Henry), ed. Laurence Madeline, Paris 2007, pp. 128-143.
• “Le résumé de la création” in: Cat. Of the exh. Odilon Redon: Le Ciel, La Terre, La Mer (translated into French by Cathérine Henry), ed. Laurence Madeline, Paris 2007, pp. 45-57.
• "The Aesthetic Theology of Water Animals", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 194, August 19, 2008, p. N 3 (Spiritual Science Supplement)
• "The Mystery of Depth", in: Cat. The exhib. Oceanomania. Souvenirs of Mysterious seas from the Expedition to the Aquarium. A Mark Dion Project, ed. U. a .: Mark Dion, Sabrina Basta, London 2011, pp. 75-87.
• “America - To the deepest depths of civilization”, in: Cat. Max Beckmann and America, ed .: Jutta Schütt, Max Hollein, Ostfildern 2011, pp. 252–261.
• "The missed rendezvous: Max Beckmann and Jörg Ratgeb", in: Kat. Der Ausst. Max Beckmann in Frankfurt, ed .: Klaus Gallwitz, Evelyn Brockhoff, Frankfurt 2015
• "Victor Hugos Unterwelten", in: Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte, Vol. Heft XII / 2 (Summer 2018), pp. 101–114 (2018)

Web links

• Fabriozio d'Amico, Allucinato Beckmann, La Repubblica, February 14, 1996
• Ulf Erdmann Ziegler, review exhibition Redon, All the disembodied heads, 31.1. 2007
• Discussion of the catalog for the Beckmann & America show at the Städelmuseum in Frankfurt in 2011
• [1] Olaf Peters, review by Ursula Harter, Stephan von Wiese, Max Beckmann and JB Neumann 2013
• Brita Sachs: Book review Max Beckmann & JB Neumann "We want New York!" - in Frankfurter Allgemeine, updated on June 14, 2013
• Leonie Breebaart, Oog in oog met mysterieuze diepten, met de bron van het leven. A study of intrigerende (kust) historical feiten en anecdotes… 23 August 2014
• Stefanie Handke on Ursula Harter: Aquaria in Art, Literature and Science September 23, 2014
• Helmut Mayer: Ursula Harter's history of fascination with the aquarium, Frankfurter Allgemeine, October 23, 2014
• Review: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 24, 2014, p. 12, Harter, Ursula: Aquaria in art, literature and science
• Cultural history of underwater ballet: Jean Painlevés, February 19, 2015
• Matthias Gräub's book tip “The golden age of aquariums” January 8, 2015
• Christian Mayer on "The Small Ocean" December 18, 2015
• Herman Reichenbach on AQUARIA - in ART, LITERATURE and SCIENCE, (International Zoo News, No. 417 March / April 2016)