Michael Diers

Last updated

Michael Diers (born 15 March 1950, in Werl, West Germany) is a German art historian and professor of art history in Hamburg and Berlin.

Contents

Diers studied art history, literature, and philosophy in Münster and Hamburg, where he received his doctorate with a thesis on Aby Warburg. He also received his postdoctoral lecture qualification in 1994. From 1990 to 1992 he was assistant professor at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen, and subsequently at the Department of Art History, Universität Hamburg, in the joint research project "Politische Ikonographie". In 1994 he became lecturer at the Universität Jena, in 1999 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he also served as Director of the Department of Art History (2000–2002).

In 2004, Diers was appointed professor of art history and visual studies at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, where he retired in 2017. [1] In the same time, he was also adjunct professor of art history at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His fellowships include the IKKM (Weimar), [2] the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (Paris), the Bard College Center (New York), the Deutsches Studienzentrum (Venice), and the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, 2017/18). [3] Apart from his academic affiliations, Diers has also worked extensively as a free-lance art critic and curator. In his teaching practice and in his art historical research, Diers follows a motto he first encountered in a neon sculpture by Maurizio Nannucci: "All art has been contemporary". [4]

Diers' research interests are the art of the Renaissance and modern and contemporary art (photography, film, new media), focusing on political iconography, intellectual history, picture theory, and media theories. In 1991 Diers became first editor, and subsequently chief editor, of the renowned pocketbook series "Kunststück" (Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt, 1991–2001, 102 vols). From 2005 to 2007 he edited the series "FUNDUS" (Philo Fine Arts, Hamburg). He currently serves as co-editor of the "Studienausgabe Aby Warburg, Gesammelte Schriften" (De Gruyter, since 1998) and from 2004 to 2016 the monograph series "Humboldt-Schriften zur Kunst- und Bildgeschichte" (Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin).

Diers is a regular contributor to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Die Zeit and Tageszeitung.

Books

As editor

Related Research Articles

Aby Warburg German art historian and cultural theorist

Aby Moritz Warburg, better known as Aby Warburg, was a German art historian and cultural theorist who founded the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, a private library, which was later moved to the Warburg Institute, London. At the heart of his research was the legacy of the classical world, and the transmission of classical representation, in the most varied areas of Western culture through to the Renaissance.

Gottfried Boehm is a German art historian and philosopher.

Friedrich Kittler

Friedrich A. Kittler was a literary scholar and a media theorist. His works relate to media, technology, and the military.

Gustav Falke German writer

Gustav Falke was a German writer.

Franz Johann Joseph Bock (1823–1899) was a German theologian, archaeologist, and art historian.

Horst Bredekamp German art historian

Horst Bredekamp is a German art historian.

Sigrid Weigel is a German scholar of literary studies, critical theory, a specialist of cross-disciplinary research, and a leading scholar of Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg, and the cultural science (Kulturwissenschaft) around 1900. She held professorships at Hamburg, Zürich, and Berlin and established the internationally noted Advanced Studies “Center for Literary and Cultural Research” in Berlin. In 2016, she received the renowned Aby Warburg Prize of the City of Hamburg.

Carl Georg Heise was a German art historian. From 1945 to 1955 he was director of the Kunsthalle Hamburg.


Wilhelm Vöge was a German art historian, the discoverer of the Reichenau School of painting and one of the most important medievalists of the early 20th century. Whitney Stoddard called him the "father of modern stylistic analysis" for medieval art.

Ferdinand Franz Wallraf

Ferdinand Franz Wallraf was a German botanist, mathematician, theologian, art collector and Roman Catholic priest. His collection formed the founding nucleus of the Wallraf–Richartz Museum.

Gerhard Rühm

Gerhard Rühm is an Austrian author, composer and visual artist.

Frank Zöllner is a German art historian who has been a professor of art history at Leipzig University since 1996. He is a prolific scholar on the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci.

The Aby Warburg Prize is a science prize of the city of Hamburg. It was established in 1979. Since 1980, it is donated by the senate of the city for excellence in the humanities and social sciences. It is named after the Hamburg-born art historian Aby Warburg. The prize is worth 25,000 Euros and awarded every four years. Young scientists will receive a scholarship of 10,000 euros.

Martin Warnke was a German art historian.

Warburg Haus, Hamburg

The Warburg Haus, Hamburg is a German interdisciplinary forum for art history and cultural sciences and primarily for political iconography. It is dedicated to the life and work of Aby Warburg and run by the University of Hamburg as a semi-independent seminar. "It issues a series of art historical publications directly modeled on the original institution's studies and lectures, and is a sponsor of the reprinted 'Study Edition' released through the Akademie Verlag in Berlin."

F. C. Gundlach German art dealer, photographer and curator

Franz Christian Gundlach was a German photographer, gallery owner, collector, curator and founder.

Ulrich Pfisterer is a German art historian whose scholarship focuses on the art of Renaissance Italy. He is currently a professor of art history at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the director of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte.

Lottlisa Behling was a German art historian and botanist.

Michael Custodis is a German musicologist, sociologist and university lecturer at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster.

Kurt Karl Eberlein was a German art historian who was close to the Nazi ideology.

References

  1. ↑ "HFBK: Dr. Michael Diers". hfbk-hamburg.de.
  2. ↑ "Michael Diers — IKKM Weimar". www.ikkm-weimar.de. Retrieved 2020-02-01.
  3. ↑ "Scholar Year 2017/18 (Getty Research Institute)". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-01.
  4. ↑ "Maurizio Nannucci", Wikipedia, 2019-12-12, retrieved 2020-02-01

Sources

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.