Horst Bredekamp

Horst Bredekamp ( born April 29, 1947 in Kiel ) is a German art historian.

Life and work

Bredenkamp studied art history, archeology, philosophy and sociology in Kiel, Munich, Berlin and Marburg. In 1974 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the art as a medium of social conflicts, especially the images battles from late antiquity to the Hussite Revolution, at the Philipps- University Marburg. He then worked as a trainee at Liebighaus in Frankfurt am Main, in 1976 as an assistant at the Art History Department, University of Hamburg.

In 1982 he was appointed as Professor of Art History at the University of Hamburg, in 1993 he moved to the Humboldt -Universität zu Berlin. In 2005 he held the Gadamer - endowed professorship. Residencies spent Bredenkamp at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1991 ), Institute for Advanced Study Berlin ( 1992), Getty Center, Los Angeles (1995 and 1998) and at the Collegium Budapest ( 1999). From 2003 to 2012, he was a Permanent Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. Since 2004, Bredenkamp is a member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle. Bredenkamp is also a board member of the Ernst Schering Foundation.

The research focus of Horst Bredekamp are iconoclastic, sculpture of the Romanesque, Renaissance art and Mannerism, Political iconography, art and technology, new media. In 2000 he founded the project " The Technical Image " at the Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology ( PAC ) of the Humboldt University of Berlin, which developed under his guidance with image- critical methods a theory of pictorial knowledge in the fields of science and technical and medical visualizations. Since 2008, directs Bredenkamp the newly established DFG DFG-Research College " Picture Act and Embodiment " at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

In June 2012, he successfully for the Humboldt University in the framework of the second phase of the Excellence Initiative of the federal and state governments to promote the excellence cluster image design knowledge. An interdisciplinary laboratory solicit.

" Galileo of artists"

In 2007 appeared Horst Brede Kamps monograph Galilei of the artists. The moon, the sun, the hand that involved a surfaced in an American bookseller in 2005, Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius special issue, were included in the previously unknown, Galileo attributed ink drawings. After a thorough inspection, including material technical studies this sensational special issue of a research team led by Horst Bredekamp was found to be genuine. Brede Kamps in the German newspapers anthemic celebrated monograph According disclosed Galileo through the telescope obtained lunar and solar drawings that the style of the illustrations on the meaning of the sitter decided, ie the art of drawing Galileo was to be understood as an essential tool of his research, Galileo's scientific knowledge process quasi was made at the artistic drawing. The 2005 edition emerged proved to be from 2012 but as a forgery, which had been brought by alleged the Italian antiquarian Marino Massimo De Caro in the U.S. antique trade. Although it was to be from May 2012 from the fact that it had to be in the special edition of Sidereus Nuncius a forgery, the German public was not informed. Peter Frensch, the Vice President of the Humboldt University, instead pointed Bredekamp and his research group to re-examine the suspicious "Star Messengers ", and officially present the results in a further publication. The case was then but in December 2013 the German public public in response to an article in the American magazine The New Yorker and widely discussed in the following. On February 14, 2014 finally put Bredekamp and his research group at the Humboldt University, the third publication on the special issue before, in which it revised the results of the first two volumes and confirmed the special edition of Sidereus Nuncius as a forgery.

Awards and prizes

  • 2001: Sigmund Freud Prize for scientific prose of the German Academy for Language and Literature, Darmstadt
  • 2005: Aby M. Warburg Prize of the City of Hamburg
  • 2006: Max Planck Research Prize of the Max Planck Society and the Humboldt Foundation
  • 2009: Richard Hamann Prize of the University of Marburg for outstanding academic achievement in the history of art
  • 2010: Fritz Meyer- Struck Mann Prize for humanities and social science research
  • 2012: Fritz Winter Award of the Fritz-Winter -Stiftung
  • 2012: Berlin Science Award

Publications (selection)

  • Art as a medium of social conflicts. Images struggles of the late antiquity to the Hussite Revolution, Frankfurt ( Suhrkamp ) 1975.
  • Art in the Middle Rhine in 1400 ( with Herbert Beck and Wolfgang Beeh ), Frankfurt am Main ( Liebighaus ) 1975.
  • Horst Bredekamp ( with photographs by Wolfram Janzer ) Vicino Orsini and the Sacred Grove of Bomarzo. A Prince as an artist and anarchist, Worms ( Werner) in 1985; 2nd, revised. Ed in 1991.
  • Botticelli: Primavera. Florence as the garden of Venus, Frankfurt am Main ( Fischer) 1988; Reprint Berlin ( Wagenbach ) 2002.
  • Longing for antiquity and machinery faith. The history of the Kunstkammer and the future of art history, Berlin ( Berlin) 1992.
  • Florentine football. The Renaissance of the Games. Calcio as a celebration of the Medici, Frankfurt am Main (Campus ) in 1993; modified output Berlin ( Wagenbach ) 2001.
  • Representation and image magic of the Renaissance as a mold problem, Munich ( Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation) 1995.
  • Saint Peter's in Rome and the principle of productive destruction. Construction and dismantling of Bramante to Bernini, Berlin ( Wagenbach ) 2000.
  • Thomas Hobbes visual strategies. The Leviathan: archetype of the modern state. Plant illustrations and portraits, Berlin (Academy) 1999 Stark modified edition under the title of Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. The archetype of the modern state and its counterparts. 1651-2001, Berlin (Academy) 2003.
  • The windows of the monad. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ' Theatre of Nature and Art, Berlin (Academy), 2004.
  • Darwin's coral. The early evolution diagrams and the Tradition of Natural History, Berlin ( Wagenbach ) 2005.
  • Moving images. From the art to the final chamber, Berlin ( Wagenbach ) 2007.
  • Galileo the artist. The moon, the sun, the Hand, Berlin (Academy), 2007.
  • The artist as a criminal. One element of early modern law and political theory, Munich ( Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation) 2008.
  • Michelangelo. Five essays, Berlin ( Wagenbach ) 2009.
  • Theory of Bildakts. Frankfurter Adorno Lectures 2007, Berlin ( Suhrkamp ) 2010.
  • Leibniz and the revolution of garden art. Mr. Hausen, Versailles and the philosophy of music, Berlin ( Wagenbach ), 2012. ISBN 978-3-8031-5183-4.
  • The floating sovereign. Charlemagne and the visual politics of the body, Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8031-5186-5.
  • ( as co-editor ): Aby Warburg. Acts of international symposium, Berlin (Academy) in 1990.
  • ( as co-editor ): Edgar Wind. Art historian and philosopher, Berlin (Academy) in 1998.
  • ( as co-editor ): Theatre of Nature and Art. Wunderkammer of knowledge, 2 volumes, Berlin ( Henschel) 2000.
  • (as guest editor ): Yearbook of University History Vol 5 (2002): Topics band " University and Art", Stuttgart ( Steiner) 2002.
  • ( as co-editor ) Visual argumentation. The Mysteries of representation and the predictability of the world, Munich ( Fink) 2006.
  • ( as co-editor ) Classical / Gothic. Karl Friedrich Schinkel and the patriotic architecture. Munich / Berlin ( Engl. Art Publishing House ) 2007.
  • ( as co-editor ): The technical picture. Compendium of style history of scientific images, Berlin (Academy), 2008.
  • ( as co-editor ): In the center of Berlin. 200 years of art history at the Humboldt University, Berlin ( Gebr man) 2010.
  • ( as co-editor ): The original of the copy: Copies of the products and media transformation of antiquity, Berlin, New York ( de Gruyter) 2010.
  • ( as editor ): Galileo 's O, 3 vols, Berlin ( Academy ) 2011, 2014.
  • ( as co-editor ): See and do in Berlin (Academy), 2011.
  • (as series editor ): visual worlds of knowledge. Art History Yearbook for image critique, Berlin ( academy ), semi-annually since 2003 Vol 1.1: Images in processes - Band 1.2. Surfaces of the theory - Volume 2.1: Image techniques of martial law - Volume 2.2: Instruments of vision - Volume 3.1: Image Textile orders - Band 3.2: Digital form - band 4.1: color strategies - Volume 4.2: images without observer - Volume 5.1: Systemic rooms - Volume 5.2: Imagination of Heaven - Band 6.1: iconography of the brain - Volume 6.2: border images - Volume 7.1: Image Current View - Band 7.2: Appearing Mathematics - Volume 8.1: Contact Pictures - Volume 8.2: grayscale - Volume 9.1: preparations.
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