Uwe Albrecht (art historian)

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Uwe Albrecht (born August 30, 1954 in Kiel ) is a German art historian and university professor .

Life

Uwe Albrecht studied art history, classical archeology and prehistory and early history at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , the University of Poitiers and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he obtained a doctorate in 1982 with a dissertation on French late medieval palace architecture. phil. received his doctorate. He was initially a research assistant at the Art History Institute of the University of Kiel and completed his habilitation there in 1989. Since 1991 he has been researching and teaching, initially as a private lecturer, and since 1995 as an associate professor at the University of Kiel.

Albrecht's two long-term research projects stand out among his numerous publications, catalogs and conference proceedings:

  • The development, jointly funded by the German Research Foundation and the Possehl Foundation , and the establishment of an online database together with the archeology and monument preservation department of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck for wall and ceiling painting in Lübeck houses from 1300-1800 , in which all known wall and ceiling paintings in Over 400 old houses in Lübeck's old town were recorded and documented as far as possible in images in order to serve as a work tool for Lübeck's monument preservation and to give researchers and the interested public an insight into the otherwise closed interiors of the Lübeck old town as a UNESCO World Heritage Site . This project ran from 2005 to 2010 and has been completed.
  • Since 1990, Albrecht has been running a large long-term basic research project on medieval wood sculpture and panel painting in northern Germany with the support of the DFG and other sponsors . The result of the work is the corpus of medieval wood sculpture and panel painting in Schleswig-Holstein (1200–1535) , consisting of eight volumes and approx. 1400 objects to be described , of which the two Lübeck volumes have been published since 2005 and Volume III Schleswig. Schloss Gottorf was published in 2016.

Fonts

The following fonts are a selection.

  • Old town renovation in Kappeln , Kappeln 1982 (with H.-G. Andresen)
  • From the castle to the palace. French palace architecture in the late Middle Ages , Worms 1986
  • The seat of nobility in the Middle Ages. Studies on the relationship between architecture and way of life in Northern and Western Europe , Munich / Berlin 1995
  • Urban archeology in Kiel. Excavations after 1945 in words and pictures , Neumünster 1996 (with A. Feiler)
  • The renaissance building of the Celle Castle. On the genesis of the Zwerchhaus and the image program of the facades of the 16th century (= Celle contributions to regional and cultural history. Series of publications by the city archive and the Bomann Museum, vol. 32), Celle 2003
  • Corpus of the medieval wooden sculpture and panel painting in Schleswig-Holstein.
    • Volume I: Hanseatic City of Lübeck - Sankt Annen Museum , Kiel 2005
    • Volume II: Hanseatic City of Lübeck. The works in the city area , Kiel 2013
    • Volume III: Schleswig. Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation at Gottorf Castle , Kiel 2016

Web links

  • Biography at the Art History Institute of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage of the database of wall and ceiling paintings in Lübeck houses from 1300-1800
  2. ↑ DFG research project ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Art History Institute of the University of Kiel @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstgeschichte.uni-kiel.de
  3. ↑ Publication directory Albrecht ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Art History Institute of the University of Kiel @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstgeschichte.uni-kiel.de
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel