Association of German Art Historians
The Association of German Art Historians , based in Bonn, is a professional association for art historians who work in Germany or in German institutions. The association organizes u. a. the German Art Historians' Day, which takes place every two years. With almost 3,300 members, it is one of the largest associations in the German humanities.
history
The association was re-established in 1948 as part of the first German Art History Conference in Brühl . In addition to the Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft eV , it was a professional association for art historians. Another aim was to establish contact with the art historians who had emigrated during the Nazi era . The initiative to found this association went back to the first chairman Hans Jantzen and his successors Hans Kauffmann , Herbert von Eine and Heinrich Lützeler .
At the art historians' day in Ulm in 1968 an open conflict broke out, which led to the Ulm association splitting off.
Art historians' days and chairperson
- 1948 Brühl, Augustusburg Castle, Hans Jantzen
- 1949 Munich , Nymphenburg Palace
- 1951 Berlin-Charlottenburg
- 1952 Nuremberg , Hans Kauffmann
- 1954 Hanover
- 1956 Essen , Hans Kauffmann
- 1958 Trier
- 1960 Basel , Herbert von One
- 1962 Regensburg
- 1964 General Assembly Bonn, Herbert v. One
- 1965 Münster
- 1966 General Assembly in Münster
- 1968 Ulm, Tilmann Buddensieg
- 1970 Cologne
- 1972 Konstanz , Willibald Sauerländer
- 1972 Extraordinary General meeting
- 1974 Hamburg
- 1976 Munich, Dietrich Ellger
- 1978 Düsseldorf : Art-Science-Public
- 1980 Mainz : Questions of contemporary art history, Georg Friedrich Koch
- 1982 Kassel
- 1984 Stuttgart , Herwarth Röttgen
- 1986 Berlin : Preserve - Explain - Use. Art history and artistic heritage
- 1988 Frankfurt : Art-History-Modern-Postmodernism, Dethard von Winterfeld
- 1989 Darmstadt : Scientific symposium on cult figure and myth formation
- 1990 Aachen : European Art - Art of Nations
- 1992 Berlin: General meeting and forum: Art history through its professional fields, Reinhold Baumstark
- 1994 Dresden : Germany and its eastern neighbors
- 1997 Munich: The staging of the work of art, Sybille Ebert-Schifferer
- 1999 Jena : Modern Times
- 2001 Hamburg : What was art history in the 20th century?, Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper
- 2003 Leipzig : Art among the arts
- 2005 Bonn: contemporaneity as a challenge, Georg Satzinger
- 2007 Regensburg
- 2009 Marburg : Canon, Georg Satzinger
- 2011 Würzburg : Genius loci
- 2013 Greifswald : Without borders, Kilian Heck
- 2015 Mainz : The value of art
- 2017 Dresden : Art Local - Art Global, Kilian Heck
goals and tasks
The association is dedicated to the classic professional fields of museum, monument preservation, teaching and freelance work.
He is a member of the German Art Council and represents the interests of art historians in relation to state institutions.
He also takes a public position on current issues relating to the preservation of monuments, museum politics and art-historical education. In 2010, the association protested in an open letter against the amendment to the Monument Protection Act in Saxony. In addition, the association protested in 2010 against the dissemination of "job advertisements calling for unpaid work by specialists" in response to the search for volunteer editors of the e-journal kunsttexte.de. In 2011, under his chairmen Georg Satzinger and Hubert Locher, he published a memorandum in Würzburg on the conversion or discontinuation of the “ General Artist Lexicon ” by the Walter de Gruyter publishing house .
At the 2011 Art History Conference in Würzburg, the association awarded the Deubner Prize of the Association of German Art Historians to the Dr. Peter Deubner Foundation , which is awarded every two years on Art Historians' Day as a doctoral and essay prize. Magdalena Holzhey from Düsseldorf received the dissertation prize endowed with 5,000 euros for her work “In the draftsman's laboratory. Joseph Beuys and the natural sciences ”(Berlin 2009). Jan von Brevern from Berlin received the essay prize of 2,000 euros for his essay “Clouds and Mountains. John Ruskin's 'Law of Obscurity' ”.
In 2011 the association had 2,600 members, in 2017 almost 3,300 members
The art history journal Kunstchronik is the association's newsletter.
literature
- Nikola Doll: The first German art historians' day in 1948. In: Nikola Doll et al. (Hrsg.): Art history in National Socialism. Contributions to the history of a science between 1930 and 1950. Weimar 2005, pp. 325–337.
- H. Hammer-Schenk, D. Waskönig, G. Weiss (Eds.): Art history brushed against the grain? 10 years Ulm Association . 1968-1978. History in documents. Ulmer Verein, Marburg 1997, ISBN 3-93758-00-5 . (New edition of the Hanover 1979 edition)
- Annette Dorgerloh (Red.): 30 years of the Ulm Association . Strategies of survival I. Jonas, Marburg 1999 (volume of critical reports . 27, 2, 1999).
Individual evidence
- ↑ member associations. German Art Council, accessed December 9, 2011 .
- ↑ Open letter: Draft for the amendment of the law for the protection and maintenance of cultural monuments in the Free State of Saxony (SächsDSchG) (status 03/2010). (PDF; 719 kB) Accessed December 9, 2011 .
- ^ Protest from the Association of German Art Historians. (No longer available online.) Artifact - magazine for young art history and art, archived from the original on April 18, 2012 ; Retrieved December 9, 2011 . 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.
- ↑ Job advertisements calling for unpaid work by professionals. Retrieved December 9, 2011 .
- ↑ The text of the memorandum on kunsthistoriker.org , accessed on June 10, 2016
- ^ Deubner Prize 2011 of the Association of German Art Historians e. V. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 1, 2012 ; Retrieved December 9, 2011 . 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.
