Wolfgang Urban (Conservator)

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Wolfgang Urban (* 1948 in Stetten ) is a German professor , deacons and diocesan conservator in retirement .

Life and activity

After graduating from high school, which he passed at the state high school in Sigmaringen , Urban studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Tübingen .

Wolfgang Urban was from 1976 to 1986 employees of the German Research Foundation funded Collaborative Research Center 8 "Late Middle Ages and Reformation" involved in the critical edition of at the University of Paris incurred Sentences commentary of Nominalists and Augustinians Gregory of Rimini . He arranged for the critical edition of works by the Erfurt Augustinian hermit Johannes von Paltz , including his early New High German main work “Die Himmlische Fundgrube” (first published in 1490), including Middle Low German versions of the text and detailed introduction to the history of its origins and traditions, as well as three Latin sermons by this older friar of Martin Luther . In the review of Adolar Zumkeller's main work on the theology of the Erfurt Augustinian hermits, he was able to demonstrate that Gregory of Rimini had a strong influence on the Erfurt Augustinian theologians through the literal adoption of entire text passages in the doctrine of grace .

For the “ Historical Dictionary of Philosophy ” he wrote the articles “ Quality II. (Middle Ages)” and “ Quantity II. (Middle Ages)”. The article on the category of being, quantity, has no preceding example in terms of content and scope.

While researching manuscripts from the library of the former Benedictine Abbey of Wiblingen in the library of the Wilhelmsstift Tübingen, he identified one of Albert von Sachsen (born 1316 in Rickmersdorf as Albrecht Rike; died 1390 in Halberstadt) as Albrecht III. Bishop von Halberstadt, wrote a commentary on the cosmological writings ( De coelo et mundo ) of Aristotle, a copy of the Compendium theologiae veritatis by Hugo Ripelin of Strasbourg, a number of works by the leading theologian Johannes Gerson in the first third of the 15th century and the Latin works Text Liber vitae (Book of Life), in which a version of the Latin model postulated by the Germanist Wolfgang Stammler for the Book of Life , previously known only in early New High German tradition , may be hidden.

In a richly illuminated manuscript of the “Heavenly Treasure Trove” of Johannes von Paltz in Ripuarian (Cologne) dialect, which was created in Cologne in 1508 in 1508 and shows multiple Cologne coats of arms in the illuminations , he identified the 21 full-page miniatures as creations of the Master of the Bartholomew Altar .

He is the discoverer of the positions of the Tübingen late scholastic Konrad Summenhart (around 1458–1502), which are important for the history of the natural sciences, and his reflections on the possibility of the existence of a vacuum and that of 1501 from, which contradict Aristotelian natural philosophy and its principle of the " horror vacui " he thought of the possibility of a multitude of worlds . He worked on the master of Messkirch and the master of the Darmstadt Passion .

The most comprehensive representation of the iconography of Martin von Tours to date in works of art from the 6th to the 20th century comes from Wolfgang Urban . His iconographic studies include a. "Theological aesthetics and meaning of images in the frescoes by Andreas Meinrad von Au in Wald [Hohenzollern] and in Sigmaringen", "The sermon of images as a cultural asset " (here together with works from the Middle Ages on the Herrenberg Altar by Jerg Ratgeb and the one in the State Gallery The sculpture crucifixion [1962/1963] by Joseph Beuys kept in Stuttgart and on the Stuppach Madonna by Matthias Grünewald. His essay on the Baindter Plague Cross and the Stuppach Madonna by Matthias Grünewald deals with the theological and piety-historical backgrounds of Crucifixus dolorosus .

In conjunction with Heinz Georg Tiefenbacher and Egon Reiner, he provided the documentation "Create Space for God", which was accompanied by interpretation and describes church building and ecclesiastical art in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart from 1971 to 1991, as well as with Paul Kopf "Time - Spaces" the special documentation of church construction in the Catholic Dean's Office in Ludwigsburg from 1945–1990.

Activity as diocesan curator and museum director

Since 1991 he has been diocesan curator of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart , since 1993 he has been curator of the Diocesan Museum of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart in Rottenburg am Neckar . As director of the Diocesan Museum from 1992 to 1996, he carried out the re-presentation of the holdings of the diocesan collection for the refurbishment of the museum in the former Carmelite monastery church in Rottenburg . Under his leadership, the art collection of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese was expanded to include more than 500 objects of painting, sculpture and popular piety , including those by Jörg Zürn (a member of the Zürn family of sculptors ), Christoph Daniel Schenck , Johann Zick and Johann Michael Fischer , Joseph Wannenmacher . An additional qualitative increase experienced the field of sculptures of the late Gothic period by winning the Roland Collection Swiss, including a Madonna of Strasbourg Frari Master of 1478, a man of sorrows of Michel Erhart , works by Hans Thoman, and the master of the altar of Mauer bei Melk .

He expanded the stock of the diocesan art collection to include the previously neglected 20th century through the acquisition of paintings and graphics by Wilhelm Geyer , Otto Dix , HAP Grieshaber , Otto Herbert Hajek, Andy Warhol , Roland Peter Litzenburger , Klaus Herzer, Volker Stelzmann , David Bennett , Roland Schauls , Tobias Kammerer . He dedicated numerous exhibitions with accompanying catalogs to art and contemporary artists: Andreas Grunert, Dieter Groß, Otto Herbert Hajek , Jacques Gassmann , Klaus Herzer, Günther Uecker , Hanspeter Münch , Martin Schmid (* 1927, painter, son of Carlo Schmid ), Klaus Gaida, David Bennett, Zbigniew Sałaj, Hermann Weber . He retired on April 1, 2013. The author of numerous publications on church, cultural and art history is also a lecturer at the seminar for modern history at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. On April 26, 2016, Wolfgang Urban was honored with the title of Professor from the State of Baden-Württemberg by Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann . Thanks to his erudition and eloquence , Urban has acquired a large audience during lectures and tours.

Comic book author

Wolfgang Urban is the author of numerous comics that have also been translated into French and Italian , for example about Saint Martin von Tours, Saint Mauritius and his companions (1993; German and French), Saint Liborius , Niklaus Wolf von Rippertschwand (1756-1832) (2009 ; German, French, Italian) and on the history of Baden-Württemberg .

Appreciation of his work by speeches at the farewell

Publications (selection)

  • Wolfgang Urban: Worthy of a cathedral. The masterpiece of the Bingen Altarpiece . Photos by Reiner Löbe. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2018, ISBN 978-3-95976-111-6 .
  • Wolfgang Urban: Baroque church Steinhausen . A wealth of meaning in architecture and art . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89870-906-4 .
  • Wolfgang Urban: The Oberndorfer Altar. A late Gothic masterpiece . With a contribution by Alexandra Countess Schwerin . Photos by Joachim Feist. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2015, ISBN 978-3-89870-891-3 .
  • Ewald Plohmann (Ed.): Ewald Plohmann. Prints 1971–2014. With a text by Wolfgang Urban. E. Plohmann, Gaildorf 2014.
  • Wolfgang Urban: Saint Martin. Sadifa Media Verlags-GmbH, Kehl am Rhein 2013, ISBN 978-3-88786-524-5 .
  • Wolfgang Urban: Parish church "Maria Krönung" in Stuppach. The Stuppacher Madonna. The masterpiece returns to Stuppach (= Vernissage , vol. 20, no. 6 = no. 196). Vernissage-Verlag, Heidelberg [2012] (= Vernissage masterpieces ).
  • Wolfgang Urban with Melanie Prange (arrangement): Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg - paintings and sculptures 1250–1550. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7995-0753-0 .
  • Harald Kiebler (Hrsg.): Shine of Faith and Piety. The cathedral treasure of Rottenburg. Represented and developed by Wolfgang Urban. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2012, ISBN 978-3-89870-707-7 .
  • Alois Brunner, Genoveva Nitz (ed.): David Bennett [Ill.]: The face…; a Jewish look at Christian issues. (on the occasion of the exhibition "David Bennett - The Face ... a Jewish View on Christian Issues" in the Cathedral Treasury and Diocesan Museum , September 16 to October 31, 2011). With contributions by Engelbert von der Lippe and Wolfgang Urban. Klinger, Passau 2011, ISBN 978-3-86328-107-6 .
  • Wolfgang Urban: Masterpieces of the late Gothic. (= Vernissage , vol. 18, No. 16 = 188). Vernissage-Verlag, Heidelberg 2011, DNB 1010543059 .
  • Wolfgang Urban: The Archangel Michael in Faith and History. Sadifa-Media, Kehl am Rhein 2010, ISBN 978-3-88786-419-4 .
  • Wolfgang Urban: Masterpieces of the late Gothic. Image and meaning. The Roland Schweizer Collection of the Rottenburg Diocesan Museum. Süddeutsche Verlag-Gesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-0889-6 .
  • Catholic rectory St. Moriz, Rottenburg-Ehingen (ed.), Dieter Manz, Wolfgang Urban: In the footsteps of St. Mauritius . On the occasion of the anniversary year "800 years of St. Moriz Church " in Rottenburg-Ehingen. 1209-2009 . Rottenburg-Ehingen. Catholic parish office St. Moriz, Rottenburg am Neckar-Ehingen am Neckar 2009.
  • Wolfgang Urban: "Come on, we're going up to the Lord's Mountain!". Architecture and spirituality . Motherhouse Church of St. Vincent of the Merciful Sisters of St. Vincent von Paul in Untermarchtal . ( Cyclists' church - thanks and gas station on the Danube cycle path ) . [Photos by Edgar Briemle.] Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2009, ISBN 978-3-89870-540-0 .
  • Rosemarie Vollmer [Ill.]: The other place. Painting . [On the occasion of the double exhibition Zwie, Rosemarie Vollmer and Karl Vollmer in the Kulturverein Zehntscheuer e. V. and in the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg from February 15 to March 22, 2009] / [Text authors: Wolfgang Urban ...] (= [Thomas] Lindemann's library , volume 64). info Verlag, Karlsruhe 2009, ISBN 978-3-88190-534-3 .
  • [Wolfgang Urban]: Catholic parish church St. Michael in Denkingen . Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2008, ISBN 978-3-89870-530-1 .
  • [Wolfgang Urban]: Parish Church Salvator , Stuttgart [- Weilimdorf ] gable . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2008, ISBN 978-3-89870-489-2 .
  • Wolfgang Urban (Ed.): Berta [Maria Innocentia] Hummel [Ill.] - World of Flowers - Peter Wittmann . [On the occasion of the exhibition "Berta Hummel - Blumenwelten - Peter Wittmann" in the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg from June 3rd to August 5th 2007]. With a contribution by Genoveva Nitz (= publication by the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg , No. 15). Diözesanmuseum, Rottenburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88294-375-7 .
  • [Wolfgang Urban]: Parish Church of St. Margareta, Laudenbach . [Photos: Konrad Rainer; Diözesanarchiv Rottenburg.] Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-396-3 .
  • Wolfgang Urban with the collaboration of Manfred Kluckert (ed.): Zbigniew Sałaj [Ill.] , Soft sculptures (works and installations in paper). Catalog [for the exhibition Zbigniew Sałaj Soft Sculptures]. Exhibition in the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg, May 28, 2006 to September 10, 2006. With a foreword by Johannes Kreidler. Texts by Gerhard Birkhofer , Wolfgang Urban (= publication of the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg , No. 14). Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg, Rottenburg 2006, ISBN 3-88294-365-3 .
  • Wolfgang Urban: Saint Martin of Tours . Sadifa-Media, Kehl am Rhein (2004), ISBN 3-88786-205-8 .
  • Werner Groß / Wolfgang Urban: Suevia sancta. Swabian witnesses of faith . Schwabenverlag, Ostfildern, 2004, ISBN 3-7966-1110-9 .
  • Wolfgang Urban: Tangents. Old and new art from the Rottenburg Diocesan Museum. German Bishops' Conference , May 19, 2004 to March 10, 2005 . [Secretariat of the German Bishops' Conference, Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse 9, Bonn. Texts: Wolfgang Urban] (= art in the guest house Joachimstrasse [15, Bonn] ). Schwabenverlag, [Ostfildern] 2004.
  • Helen Pavel; Franz-Walter Schmidt (Ed.): Byt i bycie . On the occasion of the exhibition series "Being and Dasein" within the framework of the cultural encounters between Baden-Württemberg and Poland : "Kulturportrait Baden-Württemberg" in Poland 2002/03; Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa [w Łodzi] [Central Textile Museum], Łódź , 3.X. – 27.X.2002; Pałac Sztuki TPSP [Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie, the Palace of Art of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Kraków , Kraków , October 31 - December 1, 2002] = Being and being / [Pentaton-Kulturnetz eV; Education center in Hägenau. Texts: Wolfgang Urban; Franz-Walter Schmidt. Translation: Sława Lisiecka; Urszula Olszowska.] Hans-Peter Hauf [Ill.] (= Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa ). Pentaton-Kulturnetz e. V., Stuttgart; Bildungshaus Hägenau, Gaildorf-Hägenau 2002, ISBN 83-912351-6-5 .
  • Wolfgang Urban (Ed.): Gaida paints . Klaus G. Gaida (Ill.). On the occasion of the Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa exhibitions "Gaida Malt" in the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg from May 7th to June 9th, 2002 and "Gaida's Pictures" in the Schöntal Monastery from July 7th to September 30th 2002. (= publication of the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg , No. 12 ). Süddeutsche Verlag-Gesellschaft, Ulm [on the Danube] 2002, ISBN 3-88294-326-2 .
  • Wolfgang Urban (Hrsg.): Hanspeter Münch [Ill.] - Icons of color . [This catalog will be published on the occasion of the exhibition "Hanspeter Münch, Icons of Color" in the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg from March 15 to April 28, 2002.] (= Publication of the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg , No. 11). Diözesanmuseum, Rottenburg 2002, ISBN 3-88294-324-6 .
  • Wolfgang Urban (Ed.): Martin Schmid [Ill.] - Life landscapes . [Catalog for the exhibition Martin Schmid: Life Landscapes, from September 17 to October 26, 2002 in the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg] (= publication of the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg , No. 13). Diözesanmuseum, Rottenburg 2002, ISBN 3-88294-328-9 .
  • Wolfgang Urban (arrangement): Günther Uecker [Ill.] - ash pictures and graphics. Exhibition in the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg 2001 . [Catalog for the exhibition Günther Uecker: ash pictures and graphics ] / catalog edited by Wolfgang Urban. Texts by Michael Kessler ...] (= publication of the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg , No. 9). Diözesanmuseum, Rottenburg 2001, ISBN 3-88294-315-7 .
  • Wolfgang Urban: Places of Silence . Monasteries in Baden-Württemberg . With pictures by Hans Siwik. Text by Wolfgang Urban. Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk , Stuttgart, 1998, ISBN 3-460-33083-X .
  • Werner Groß and Wolfgang Urban (eds.): Dieter Groß [Ill.] , Himmelsleitern . A book accompanying the exhibition in the Rottenburg Diocesan Museum, March 19 to May 4, 1997 . [Catalog: Dieter Groß and Wolfgang Urban] (= publications of the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg , No. 2). Schwabenverlag, Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-7966-0892-2 .
  • Zollernalbkreis (ed.): Andreas Zekorn / Andreas Zoller: Expression and faith. The artist and church painter August Blepp [Ill.] (1885–1949) . [Catalog for the exhibitions in the Zollernalbkreis district office ....] With a contribution by Wolfgang Urban. Zollernalbkreis, Balingen 1996, ISBN 3-927249-08-4 .
  • Heinz Georg Tiefenbacher, Wolfgang Urban, Egon Reiner: Creating space for God. Church construction and religious art in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart . [Ed. on behalf of the Episcopal Ordinariate of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.] Süddeutsche Verlag-Gesellschaft, Ulm [an der Donau] 1992, ISBN 3-88294-153-7 .
  • Wolfgang Urban: Wilhelm von Hirsau . Reformer and founder of the monastery (= from the series Swabian Saints ). Schwabenverlag, Ostfildern 1991, ISBN 3-7966-0692-X .
  • [Catholic Dean's Office Ludwigsburg (ed.)], Paul Kopf, Wolfgang Urban: Time - Spaces. Catholic church building and religious art in the Ludwigsburg district . 1945–1990 . Süddeutsche Verlag-Gesellschaft, Ulm [on the Danube] 1990, ISBN 3-88294-154-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gregorii Ariminensis Lectura super primum et secundum Sententiarum .
  2. ↑ Other forms of name: Johannes Jeuser / Geisser / Geuser / Genser / Zenser, Johannes Palatinus and others; born in Pfalzel near Trier around 1445, died in the Augustinian Hermit Monastery of Mühlheim near Koblenz (today in the Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein district ) in 1511. The monastery founded by Johannes von Paltz in 1493 was abolished in 1573.
  3. ↑ See Wolfgang Urban [reviewer]: Zumkeller, Adolar OSA: Original sin, grace, justification and merit according to the teaching of the Erbeter Augustinian theologians of the late Middle Ages , Würzburg 1984. In: Theologische Revue 83 (1987), pp. 37-40.
  4. ↑ See Historical Dictionary of Philosophy , Volume 7, Sp. 1752–1758, Sp. 1796–1808.
  5. ↑ See Wolfgang Urban: Ex bibliotheca monasterii Wiblingensis . In: "Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte" 6 (1987), pp. 221-238.
  6. ↑ Today Rickensdorf, community Bahrdorf , integrated community Velpke , district Helmstedt .
  7. ↑ Quaestiones super quatuor libros Aristotelis de caelo et mundo
  8. ↑ See Wolfgang Urban: Introduction "Himmlische Fundgrube". In: Johannes von Paltz: Opuscula . Edited and edited by Christoph Burger [et al.], Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1989, pp. 187–192 with 21 illustrations between pp. 200 and 201. - On the manuscript cf. Hartung & Karl, Munich, auction 37 (1982), p. 10, no. 13.
  9. ↑ See Helmut Feld on this . In: Conradi Summenhart Opera omnia , 1. Mainz 2004, p. IX.
  10. ↑ See Wolfgang Urban: The signature of the "Master of Messkirch". In: Heilige Kunst 23 (1986–1987), pp. 56–73.
  11. ↑ See Wolfgang Urban: The Baindter Altar of the Master of the Darmstadt Passion. In: Otto Beck (Ed.): Baindt. Hortus Floridus. History and works of art of the former Cistercian women - imperial abbey . Festschrift for the 750th anniversary of the founding of the monastery 1240–1990 , Munich / Zurich 1990, pp. 99–106.
  12. ↑ In: Eugen Buri, Ingeborg-Maria Buck: Andreas Meinrad von Au 1712–1792. Catalog for the exhibition "Old School". May 16 to July 19, 1992 . Sigmaringen 1992, pp. 86-100.
  13. ↑ In: Andreas Weiß, Stefan Ihli (Ed.): Protection of cultural assets and the Church, Bible and Canon Law . Frankfurt a. M. [et al.] 2004, pp. 63-96.
  14. ↑ See Wolfgang Urban: Das Baindter Pestkreuz. In: Otto Beck (editor), see note 7, pp. 117–122.
  15. ↑ Beautifully magnificent . The "Stuppacher Madonna" is a guest in the Rottenburg Diocesan Museum . Ulm 1999; see. Wolfgang Urban: The image of Mary as a world view. The Stuppacher Madonna by Matthias Grünewald. In: Heavenly Shine. Raffael , Dürer and Grünewald paint the Madonna . Ed. Andreas Henning, Arnold Nesselrath . Munich [et al.] 2011, pp. 60–65; see. ders .: Parish church " Maria Krönung " in Stuppach . The Stuppacher Madonna. The masterpiece returns to Stuppach. (= Vernissage , vol. 20, No. 6 = No. 196). Vernissage-Verlag, Heidelberg [2012] (= Vernissage masterpieces ).
  16. ↑ Cf. Heinz Georg Tiefenbacher, Wolfgang Urban, Egon Reiner: Creating space for God. Church construction and religious art in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart . [Ed. on behalf of the Episcopal Ordinariate of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.] Ulm 1992
  17. ^ Paul Kopf, Wolfgang Urban: Time - Spaces. Catholic church building and religious art in the Ludwigsburg district 1945–1990 . Ulm 1990.
  18. ↑ Cf. Wolfgang Urban, contributions by Melanie Prange: Meisterwerke der Spätgotik. Image and meaning. The Roland Schweizer Collection in the Rottenberg Diocesan Museum . Ostfildern, Ulm 2010.
  19. ↑ The emergency name is based on the artist's activity at the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice, which is also called "Frari Church" or "Frari" for short.
  20. ↑ For the years 1514 to 1525 in Memmingen verifiable picture carver who is identified by some researchers at least partially with the master of Ottobeuren
  21. ↑ A picture carver not known by name, who worked from around 1500 to 1525 and made the carved altar for the parish and pilgrimage church of the Birth of Mary in Mauer around 1510 . Mauer is a village in the market town of Dunkelsteinerwald in the Melk district within the Mostviertel region of the federal state of Lower Austria in the Republic of Austria .
  22. ↑ See the broadcast of SWR2 on May 31, 2014 Wolfgang Urban, diocesan conservator Rottenburg. In conversation with Reinold Hermanns : "Wolfgang Urban [...] is an outstanding expert on church history."
  23. ↑ The cycle ash pictures created by Günther Uecker in 1986 is a reaction to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that occurred on April 26, 1986.
personal data
SURNAME Urban, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diocesan conservator
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Stetten am kalten Markt