Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
The Central Institute for Art History (abbreviated CI) in Munich is a central research facility of art history in Germany.
It was founded in November 1946 and participated in the March 1, 1947 carries on. From the outset, the Central Institute had its seat at the former Nazi administration building, now the home of the cultural institutions. In the building on the Place Royal was set up a collection point for the recycling of the captured by the Nazis artworks in June 1945 by the American military government, the " Central Art Collecting Point ", emerged from the Central Institute ( " Central Art Institute "). Its founding director was the art historian Ludwig Heinrich Heyden Empire. He was followed from 1970 to 1989 Willibald Sauerland in the line after. Since 1991, Wolf Tegethoff 's (* 1953) Director of the Central Institute.
The Central Institute for Art History is understood " as a place of scientific exchange and international meetings " and the only art historical research institute of national importance in Germany and also the only non-academic art historical research institute in the Federal Republic of Germany. The Central Institute organizes lectures and conferences. Among the various publications of the Institute include the Real Dictionary of German art history and the monthly paper Kunstchronik.
The Central Institute in Germany offers unique opportunities for art historical research: the library of the Central Institute, a presence and open access library, holding over 500 000 volumes, about 1250 continuously subscribed journals and more than 50 000 auction catalogs, making it one of the world's largest art libraries. Your library, the library via an OPAC union catalog, the kubikat, after which it carries along with three art historical German institutes abroad, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome and, more recently, the German Forum for Art History in Paris. The kubikat proves not only individual volumes, but also essays. The photo library of the Central Institute presents its collections. These include a collection of about 650 000 black and white photographs, which is also accessible online Farbdiaarchiv for wall and ceiling painting and microfiche collections. The Farbdiaarchiv for wall and ceiling painting is since November 2005 integrated into the Prometheus image archive.
Numerous works of art that had been shown in Nazi Germany on major exhibitions were no longer shown after 1945 and also not shown. The Central Institute makes from October 2011 back online accessible, to enable social and art-historical debate.