Wolfgang Schenkluhn

Wolfgang Schenkluhn (born October 9, 1952 in Groß-Umstadt ) is a German art historian . From 1995 to 2018 he was professor of art history in the Middle Ages at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg .

Life

Schenkluhn studied art history, philosophy and sociology from 1974 to 1982 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the Philipps University in Marburg . He received his doctorate in 1983 from Marburg University with the dissertation Ordines studentes. Aspects of the church architecture of the Dominicans and Franciscans in the 13th century for Dr. phil. In the same year, until 1984, Schenkluhn became a research assistant at the Liebieghaus , the sculpture collection, in Frankfurt am Main.

From 1984 he worked as a university assistant at the University of Stuttgart . 1990 habilitated to Schenkluhn at the University of Stuttgart with the habilitation San Francesco in Assisi. Ecclesia specialis. The vision of Pope Gregory IX. from a renewal of the church to university professor . In 1992 he took over a professorship at the Stuttgart Art Academy , in 1993 at the University of Tübingen and from 1994 to 1995 at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. In 1995 Schenkluhn was given a full professorship for medieval art history at the University of Halle.

His work and research focus are monastery architecture in Europe, Ottonian art, architecture and sculpture of the Middle Ages as well as portrait painting, visual studies and monument preservation. From 1998 to 2003 he was dean or vice dean of the Faculty of Art, Orient and Classical Studies and the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Halle. From 2003 to 2006 Schenkluhn was Vice Rector for Studies and Teaching, from 2006 to 2008 Managing Director of the Institute for Art History and Archeologies in Europe and from 2006 to 2010 a member of the Academic Senate of the University of Halle.

Schenkluhn took over the chairmanship of the State Monument Council in Saxony-Anhalt from 1995 to 2015. Among other things, he has been a member of the German National Committee of ICOMOS since 1996 , since 1998 a member of the advisory board of the Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt , since 2004 a member of the scientific advisory board of the Luther Memorials Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt , since 2006 a member of the Historical Commission for Saxony-Anhalt and of 2006 to 2019 chairman of the European Romanesque Center . He is the author and reviewer of over 80 specialist publications and editor or co-editor of the series Hallesche Contributions to Art History , More Romano and the series of the United Cathedral Founders of Merseburg and Naumburg and the Zeitz Collegiate Foundation .

Publications (selection)

author

• Ordines studentes. Aspects of the church architecture of the Dominicans and Franciscans in the 13th century. ( Dissertation ), Mann, Berlin 1985. ISBN 3-7861-1409-9 .
• Post-antique small sculptures. Volume 1, Middle Ages 11th Century to 1530/40, Gutenberg, Melsungen 1987. ISBN 3-87280-041-8 .
• The cathedral in Reims. Architecture as a venue for political meanings. with Hans-Joachim Kunst , Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1988. ISBN 978-3-596-23936-8 .
• San Francesco in Assisi. Ecclesia specialis. The vision of Pope Gregory IX. of a renewal of the church. ( Habilitation thesis ), Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1991. ISBN 978-3-534-11374-3 .
• Architecture of the mendicant orders. The architecture of the Dominicans and Franciscans in Europe. Primus, Darmstadt 2000. ISBN 978-3-89678-159-8 .

editor

• Kunsthaus Heylshof Foundation. Critical catalog of the painting collection. Werner, Worms 1992. ISBN 978-3-88462-087-8 .
• The world in the year 1000. with Franz-Josef Brüggemeier , Herder, Freiburg 2000. ISBN 978-3-451-27090-1 .
• Uncovered. A new Ottonian church building on Magdeburg Cathedral Square. Part 1 with Harald Meller , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle 2005. ISBN 978-3-910010-87-1 .
• Romanesque in Europe. Communication - tradition - reception. with Leonhard Helten, Kratzke, Leipzig 2009. ISBN 978-3-9811555-1-8 .
• Uncovered. Research excavations at Magdeburg Cathedral. 2006-2009. Part 2 with Harald Meller and Boje E. Hans Schmuhl , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle 2009. ISBN 978-3-939414-44-5 .
• Magdeburg Cathedral in a European context. with Andreas Waschbüsch, Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012. ISBN 978-3-7954-2451-0 .
• Art and culture in Ottonian times. Research on the early Middle Ages. with Andreas Ranft , Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2013. ISBN 978-3-7954-2715-3 .
• Cultural routes as a concept. 20 years of Romanesque Road. with Andreas Ranft, Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2016. ISBN 978-3-7954-2912-6 .

Web links

• Website of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schenkluhn in Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• Works by and about Wolfgang Schenkluhn  in the German Digital Library
• Writings by Schenkluhn, Wolfgang 1952– in the Index theologicus
• Publications by Wolfgang Schenkluhn in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Entry about Schenkluhn, Wolfgang in the index of the German biography