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Martin Warnke

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Martin Warnke
Born(1937-10-12)12 October 1937
Died11 December 2019(2019-12-11)(aged 82)
Halle,Germany
OccupationArt historian

Martin Warnke(12 October 1937 – 11 December 2019) was a German art historian.

Life and work

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Warnke grew up in a German pastor's family in Brazil. He studiedart history,history and German literature at the universities of Munich, Madrid and Berlin. In 1963, he wrote a Ph.D. thesis onPeter Paul Rubensat theFree University of BerlinunderHans Kauffmann.In 1964 and 1965, he worked at the Berlin museums. In 1970, he completed his Habilitationsschrift on court art at theWestfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.From 1971 to 1978 he was a professor of art history at theUniversity of Marburg.In 1979, he moved to theUniversity of Hamburg,where he taught art history until his retirement in 2003.

Warnke represented a research direction that is particularly focused on the social history of art. He directed the Center for Political Iconography at theWarburg Haus, Hamburg.Here he devoted himself to the work of the important cultural theorist,Aby Warburg.

Warnke was a member of theDeutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtungand the Committee on the Preservation of German Cultural Heritage. From 1983 to 1984, he was a member of theInstitute for Advanced Study, Berlin.In 1987, he was a fellow at theGetty Research InstituteinSanta Monica, California.From 1998 to 1999, he was a member of theCollegium Budapest - Institute for Advanced Study.

Warnke died on 11 December 2019 inHalle,Germany, at the age of 82.[1]

Publications

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  • Kommentare zu Rubens.Berlin 1965.
  • Flämische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts in der Gemäldegalerie Berlin.Berlin 1967.
  • Das Kunstwerk zwischen Wissenschaft und Weltanschauung.Gütersloh 1970.
  • Bau und Überbau: Soziologie der mittelalterlichen Architektur nach den Schriftquellen.Frankfurt am Main 1976.
  • Peter Paul Rubens: Leben und Werk.Cologne 1977.[2]
  • Cranachs Luther: Entwürfe für ein Image.Frankfurt am Main 1984.
  • Politische Landschaft: Zur Kunstgeschichte der Natur.Munich 1992.
  • Hofkünstler: Zur Vorgeschichte des modernen Künstlers.2nd edition, Cologne 1996.
  • Geschichte der deutschen Kunst in drei Bänden,Vol. 2:Spätmittelalter und Frühe Neuzeit 1400–1750.Munich 1999.
  • Bildwirklichkeiten.Göttingen 2005.
  • Velázquez: Form & Reform.Cologne 2005.[3]
  • Peter Paul Rubens.Cologne 2006.
  • Könige als Künstler.Münster 2007.
  • (with Uwe Fleckner and Hendrik Ziegler),Handbuch der politischen Ikonographie.Vol. 1:Abdankung bis Huldigung.Vol. 2:Imperator bis Zwerg.2nd edition. Munich 2011.
  • Zeitgenossenschaft: Zum Auschwitz-Prozess 1964.Zurich 2014.

Awards

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References

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  1. ^"Rubens, Warburg und die Couchecke".Süddeutsche Zeitung(in German). 2019-12-11.
  2. ^Henning Ritter, "Durch die Scheinwelt zur Wirklichkeit: Martin Warnke zeigt das politische Engagement Peter Paul Rubens'", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 4 October 2006.
  3. ^See the review by Hans Zitko,Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft,Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 302–308.
  4. ^Henning Ritter,Lebenswerk,Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,9 November 2006.
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