Reinhard Liess (born 10 April 1937) is a German art historian. [1]
Born in Bunzlau, Silesia, Liess received his doctorate in 1965 from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich with the thesis Der frühromanische Kirchenbau des 11. Jahrhunderts in der Normandie. Analysen und Monographien der Hauptbauten. He habilitated in 1970 with a thesis on Wahrheit und Wirklichkeit in der Kunst des P.P. Rubens at the Technical University of Braunschweig, which was published in 1977 under the title The Art of Rubens. Liess became a university lecturer in 1971, taught art history as an associate professor in Braunschweig and University of Regensburg from 1974, as a university professor in Braunschweig from 1978, and at the University of Osnabrück from 1990 to 2002. From March to June 2001, he took a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the National University of Cuyo in Mendoza (Argentina). Liess retired on 30 September 2002. [2] [3] [4] [5]
In research and teaching, Liess is concerned with art from the Middle Ages to modern times, especially architecture, painting and graphic art. He was particularly interested in the planning history of the Strasbourg Cathedral and the person of Erwin von Steinbach. Most recently, in 2004, he published the anthology Jan Vermeer van Delft, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden. Drei Studien zur niederländischen Kunst; In 2003 Im Spiegel der "Meninas". Velázquez über sich und Rubens. [6]
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