Wolfgang Brassat

Wolfgang Brassat (born January 4, 1960 in Düsseldorf ) is a German art historian and professor of art history with a focus on recent and recent art history.

Life

After graduating from high school, Brassat studied art history, modern German literature, history and European ethnology at the Philipps University of Marburg and the University of Hamburg from 1981 . In Marburg he completed his master's thesis “New Research on the Eucharist Cycle by Peter Paul Rubens ”. In 1990 he received his doctorate from Wolfgang Kemp with the dissertation “Tapestries and Politics. Functions, contexts and receptions of a representative medium ”. From June 1990 to May 1991 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Center of History of Art and the Humanities in Los Angeles, and from June 1991 postgraduate at the Marburg graduate school “Art in Context”.

From January 1992 to January 1998 he held the position of a research assistant at the Art History Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum , where he worked in the Faculty of History in 1998 with the text “From Raffael to Le Brun. Studies in History Painting in the Age of Eloquence ”.

This was followed by various substitute professorships at the University of Bonn , the University of Frankfurt am Main , the University of Tübingen , the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Ruhr University Bochum, as well as a research grant from the German Research Foundation. Since April 2006, Wolfgang Brassat has held the chair for art history, particularly recent and recent art history, at the University of Bamberg .

Scientific contribution

Brassat's research focuses in particular on painting as well as sculpture and tapestry from the late Middle Ages to the present day, the connection between visual arts and rhetoric and the history of the communicative use of works of art.

Publications (selection)

Books

• Tapestries and Politics. Functions, contexts and reception of a representative medium (Phil.Diss. Marburg 1990). Berlin, Gebr. Mann, 1992.
• The Raffael tapestries in the Munich Art Academy . (Series of publications by the Academy of Fine Arts Munich). Publisher: Academy of Fine Arts Munich 2002. 2., extended. u. update 2014 edition. ISBN 978-3-932934-10-0
• The history picture in the age of eloquence. From Raffael to Le Brun . (Studies from the Warburg House. 6.) Oldenburg Akademieverlag, Berlin 2003. ISBN 978-3-05-003757-8

editor

• With Hubertus coal (ed.), Methods reader art history. Texts on the methodology and history of art history. Deubner Verlag for Art, Theory & Practice. Cologne 2003. 2nd edition 2009. ISBN 978-3-937111-02-5
• Rhetoric. An international yearbook, vol. 24: Bild-Rhetorik, Max Niemeyer. Tübingen 2005. ISBN 978-3-484-60475-9
• Together with Steffen Bogen u. David Ganz: Pictures - Spaces - Viewer. Festschrift for Wolfgang Kemp on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Berlin 2006.
• Ferdinand Tietz 1708-1777. Symposium and exhibition on the occasion of the 300th birthday of the Rococo sculptor. (Writings of the Institute for Archeology, Historical Monuments and Art History. 1.), Petersberg: Imhof 2010.
• Handbook of rhetoric of the fine arts. (Handbooks of rhetoric. 2.) De Gruyter Mouton. Berlin, Boston 2017. ISBN 978-3-11-033149-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Brassat in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the Chair of Art History Bamberg
• List of publications .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Brassat Vita
2. ↑ See points: Review journal for the history of science: Wolfgang Brassat: The Raffael tapestries in the Munich Art Academy