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Hans Belting

January 18, 2023

Hans Belting (7 July 1935 – 10 January 2023) was a German art historian and theorist of medieval and Renaissance art, as well as contemporary art and image theory.

Hans Belting
Belting in 2016
Born(1935-07-07)7 July 1935
Andernach, Gau Koblenz-Trier, German Reich
Died10 January 2023(2023-01-10) (aged 87)
Berlin, Germany
Alma materUniversity of Mainz
OccupationArt historian

Biography

Belting was born in Andernach, Rhine Province, on 7 July 1935. He studied at the universities of Mainz and Rome, and took his doctorate in art history at the University of Mainz. Belting taught as a professor of art history at the University of Hamburg in 1966,[1] then at the University of Heidelberg, and from 1980 to 1992 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität at Munich.

From 1992 until his retirement in 2002, Belting was professor at the Institute for Art History and Media Theory at the State College of Design in Karlsruhe.[2] From October 2004 until the end of September 2007, Belting served as Director of the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (International Research Centre for Cultural Studies) in Vienna.[3]

Belting published his first monograph in 1962 (Die Basilica dei Ss. Martiri in Cimitile) and later authored more than thirty books, some of them translated into various languages. His essay The End of Art History? attracted considerable attention and Belting expanded it in successive editions.[4]

Belting died in Berlin on 10 January 2023, at the age of 87.[5]

Writings

Belting was known for his contributions to the field of Bildwissenschaft ("image-science"). His account of Bildwissenschaft sought to develop an anthropological theory of the image to examine its universal functions that span cultural distinctions, and considered the relationship between the image and the body.[6] Belting examined images used in religious contexts to identify the original non-artistic functions of images today considered art objects, and argued that "art" was a unit of analysis had emerged in the 16th century that obstructed corporeal engagements with images.[7]

In Likeness and Presence (1990), Belting argued for the necessity of understanding the ways images give meaning to their contexts, rather than gaining meaning from their contexts, to understand images as actors with their own agency.[8] Belting argued that art history as a disciplinary formation was outmoded and potentially obsolete,[9] and that a Bildwissenschaft capable of apprehending all kinds of images, the exact scope and methods of which remain uncertain, should be sought.[10] Pioneering the development of a global perspective on art studies and museum practice was the research project GAM - Global Art and the Museum, which Belting initiated in 2006 with Peter Weibel and Andrea Buddensieg at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. The project, which ran until 2016, took a look at new museum practices and the worldwide development of art biennials that have emerged beyond "Euramerica" (John Clark) since the end of the 1980s.[11] The project included the exhibition and publication The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989 (2011-2012) at ZKM | Center or Art and Media Karlsruhe.[12]

Fellowships and honours

 
Belting opening library with his books in Masaryk University, Brno.

Belting was a member of scientific academies in Germany and the U.S., including the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, and honorary member of the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (since 2006). He was a member of the Order pour le Mérite of Arts and Sciences[13] and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna (MUMOK). He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992,[14] and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2005.[15] He held a fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks of Harvard University in Washington, D.C.

In 2016 Belting donated his private library in three parts to the libraries of the institutes of art history at Free University of Berlin, at Danube University Krems (Austria) as well as the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University.[16] Hence the latter named the new library after him.[17][18]

Select works

  • —— (2013). Faces eine Geschichte des Gesichts (in German). München. ISBN 978-3-406-64430-6. OCLC 812376930.
  • —— (2011). Florence and Baghdad : Renaissance art and Arab science. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-05004-4. OCLC 701493612.
  • ——; Dunlap, Thomas (2011). An Anthropology of Images : Picture, Medium, Body. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14500-6. OCLC 691205559.
  • —— (2009). Looking through Duchamp's door : art and perspective in the work of Duchamp, Sugimoto, Jeff Wall. Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König. ISBN 978-3-86560-605-1. OCLC 499093764.
  • ——; Buddensieg, Andrea; Araújo, Emanoel; Global Art and the Museum; Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften; Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (2009). The global art world : audiences, markets, and museums. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz. ISBN 978-3-7757-2407-4. OCLC 427296651.
  • ——; Birken, Jacob; Buddensieg, Andrea; Weibel, Peter; Binter, Julia T. S. (2011). Global studies : mapping contemporary art and culture. Ostfildern, Germany. ISBN 978-3-7757-3202-4. OCLC 767534541.
  • ——; Bosch, Hieronymus (2012). Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of earthly delights. Munich: Prestel. ISBN 978-3-7913-3320-5. OCLC 829228470.
  • —— (2003). Art history after modernism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-04184-0. OCLC 48265530.
  • ——; Atkins, Helen (2001). The invisible masterpiece. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-04265-0. OCLC 46401602.
  • —— (1998). The Germans and their art : a troublesome relationship. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07616-9. OCLC 38468736.
  • ——; Jephcott, E. F. N. (1994). Likeness and presence : a history of the image before the era of art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-04214-6. OCLC 27769840.
  • —— (1990). The image and its public in the Middle Ages : form and function of early paintings of the Passion. New Rochelle, N.Y.: A.D. Caratzas. ISBN 0-89241-403-0. OCLC 19623960.
  • —— (1989). Max Beckmann : tradition as a problem in modern art. New York: Timken Publishers. ISBN 0-943221-06-4. OCLC 20261141.
  • ——; Wood, Christopher S. (1987). The end of the history of art?. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-04217-0. OCLC 14359049.

References

  1. ^ . hosting.zkm.de. Archived from the original on 22 March 2008. Retrieved 26 September 2008.
  2. ^ "The Chicago School of Media Theory > Members > Hans Belting". csmt.uchicago.edu.
  3. ^ "Beirat des Internationalen Kollegs in Weimar besetzt". idw-online.de.
  4. ^ Das Ende der Kunstgeschichte? (1983) was first read at a conference held at the Munich University in 1980, and ten years later as revised as Das Ende der Kunstgeschichte : eine Revision nach zehn Jahren, 1995 (ISBN 3-406-38543-5); an English translation was produced as Art History after Modernism, Chicago, 2003 (ISBN 0-226-04184-0)
  5. ^ "Kunst kommt von Kult". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 12 January 2023. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  6. ^ Rampley, Matthew (2012). "Bildwissenschaft: Theories of the Image in German-Language Scholarship". In Rampley, Matthew; Lenain, Thierry; Locher, Hubert; Pinotti, Andrea; Schoell-Glass, Charlotte; Zijlmans, Kitty (eds.). Art History and Visual Studies in Europe: Transnational Discourses and National Frameworks. Brill Publishers. p. 126.
  7. ^ Rampley 2012, pp. 126–7.
  8. ^ Craven, David (2014). "The New German Art History: From Ideological Critique and the Warburg Renaissance to the Bildwissenschaft of the Three Bs". Art in Translation. 6 (2): 143. doi:10.2752/175613114X13998876655059. S2CID 192985575.
  9. ^ Gaiger, Jason (2014). "The Idea of a Universal Bildwissenschaft". Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetic. LI (2): 214.
  10. ^ Gaiger 2014, p. 211.
  11. ^ "GAM - Global Art and the Museum | 2006 to 2016 | ZKM". zkm.de. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  12. ^ "The Global Contemporary | 17 September 2011 (All day) to 19 February 2012 (All day) | ZKM". zkm.de. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  13. ^ "Academy of the Third Millennium – Speakers". akademie3000.de.
  14. ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
  15. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  16. ^ Živný, Filip (20 April 2016). "Německého historika oslnili brněnští studenti, dá jim celoživotní sbírku". Mladá fronta DNES. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  17. ^ "Faculty of Arts MU: Slavnostní otevření Knihovny Hanse Beltinga". Masaryk university. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  18. ^ "Faculty of Arts receives thousands of books from an art historian". Masaryk university. Retrieved 21 May 2016.

External links

 
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January 18, 2023
hans, belting, july, 1935, january, 2023, german, historian, theorist, medieval, renaissance, well, contemporary, image, theory, belting, 2016born, 1935, july, 1935andernach, koblenz, trier, german, reichdied10, january, 2023, 2023, aged, berlin, germanyalma, . Hans Belting 7 July 1935 10 January 2023 was a German art historian and theorist of medieval and Renaissance art as well as contemporary art and image theory Hans BeltingBelting in 2016Born 1935 07 07 7 July 1935Andernach Gau Koblenz Trier German ReichDied10 January 2023 2023 01 10 aged 87 Berlin GermanyAlma materUniversity of MainzOccupationArt historian Contents 1 Biography 2 Writings 3 Fellowships and honours 4 Select works 5 References 6 External linksBiography EditBelting was born in Andernach Rhine Province on 7 July 1935 He studied at the universities of Mainz and Rome and took his doctorate in art history at the University of Mainz Belting taught as a professor of art history at the University of Hamburg in 1966 1 then at the University of Heidelberg and from 1980 to 1992 at the Ludwig Maximilians Universitat at Munich From 1992 until his retirement in 2002 Belting was professor at the Institute for Art History and Media Theory at the State College of Design in Karlsruhe 2 From October 2004 until the end of September 2007 Belting served as Director of the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften International Research Centre for Cultural Studies in Vienna 3 Belting published his first monograph in 1962 Die Basilica dei Ss Martiri in Cimitile and later authored more than thirty books some of them translated into various languages His essay The End of Art History attracted considerable attention and Belting expanded it in successive editions 4 Belting died in Berlin on 10 January 2023 at the age of 87 5 Writings EditBelting was known for his contributions to the field of Bildwissenschaft image science His account of Bildwissenschaft sought to develop an anthropological theory of the image to examine its universal functions that span cultural distinctions and considered the relationship between the image and the body 6 Belting examined images used in religious contexts to identify the original non artistic functions of images today considered art objects and argued that art was a unit of analysis had emerged in the 16th century that obstructed corporeal engagements with images 7 In Likeness and Presence 1990 Belting argued for the necessity of understanding the ways images give meaning to their contexts rather than gaining meaning from their contexts to understand images as actors with their own agency 8 Belting argued that art history as a disciplinary formation was outmoded and potentially obsolete 9 and that a Bildwissenschaft capable of apprehending all kinds of images the exact scope and methods of which remain uncertain should be sought 10 Pioneering the development of a global perspective on art studies and museum practice was the research project GAM Global Art and the Museum which Belting initiated in 2006 with Peter Weibel and Andrea Buddensieg at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe The project which ran until 2016 took a look at new museum practices and the worldwide development of art biennials that have emerged beyond Euramerica John Clark since the end of the 1980s 11 The project included the exhibition and publication The Global Contemporary Art Worlds after 1989 2011 2012 at ZKM Center or Art and Media Karlsruhe 12 Fellowships and honours Edit Belting opening library with his books in Masaryk University Brno Belting was a member of scientific academies in Germany and the U S including the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and honorary member of the Zentrum fur Literatur und Kulturforschung Berlin since 2006 He was a member of the Order pour le Merite of Arts and Sciences 13 and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna MUMOK He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 14 and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2005 15 He held a fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks of Harvard University in Washington D C In 2016 Belting donated his private library in three parts to the libraries of the institutes of art history at Free University of Berlin at Danube University Krems Austria as well as the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University 16 Hence the latter named the new library after him 17 18 Select works Edit 2013 Faces eine Geschichte des Gesichts in German Munchen ISBN 978 3 406 64430 6 OCLC 812376930 2011 Florence and Baghdad Renaissance art and Arab science Cambridge Mass Belknap Press of Harvard University Press ISBN 978 0 674 05004 4 OCLC 701493612 Dunlap Thomas 2011 An Anthropology of Images Picture Medium Body Princeton Princeton University Press ISBN 978 0 691 14500 6 OCLC 691205559 2009 Looking through Duchamp s door art and perspective in the work of Duchamp Sugimoto Jeff Wall Koln Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig ISBN 978 3 86560 605 1 OCLC 499093764 Buddensieg Andrea Araujo Emanoel Global Art and the Museum Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe 2009 The global art world audiences markets and museums Ostfildern Hatje Cantz ISBN 978 3 7757 2407 4 OCLC 427296651 Birken Jacob Buddensieg Andrea Weibel Peter Binter Julia T S 2011 Global studies mapping contemporary art and culture Ostfildern Germany ISBN 978 3 7757 3202 4 OCLC 767534541 Bosch Hieronymus 2012 Hieronymus Bosch Garden of earthly delights Munich Prestel ISBN 978 3 7913 3320 5 OCLC 829228470 2003 Art history after modernism Chicago University of Chicago Press ISBN 0 226 04184 0 OCLC 48265530 Atkins Helen 2001 The invisible masterpiece Chicago University of Chicago Press ISBN 0 226 04265 0 OCLC 46401602 1998 The Germans and their art a troublesome relationship New Haven Yale University Press ISBN 0 300 07616 9 OCLC 38468736 Jephcott E F N 1994 Likeness and presence a history of the image before the era of art Chicago University of Chicago Press ISBN 0 226 04214 6 OCLC 27769840 1990 The image and its public in the Middle Ages form and function of early paintings of the Passion New Rochelle N Y A D Caratzas ISBN 0 89241 403 0 OCLC 19623960 1989 Max Beckmann tradition as a problem in modern art New York Timken Publishers ISBN 0 943221 06 4 OCLC 20261141 Wood Christopher S 1987 The end of the history of art Chicago University of Chicago Press ISBN 0 226 04217 0 OCLC 14359049 References Edit E Hans Belting hosting zkm de Archived from the original on 22 March 2008 Retrieved 26 September 2008 The Chicago School of Media Theory gt Members gt Hans Belting csmt uchicago edu Beirat des Internationalen Kollegs in Weimar besetzt idw online de Das Ende der Kunstgeschichte 1983 was first read at a conference held at the Munich University in 1980 and ten years later as revised as Das Ende der Kunstgeschichte eine Revision nach zehn Jahren 1995 ISBN 3 406 38543 5 an English translation was produced as Art History after Modernism Chicago 2003 ISBN 0 226 04184 0 Kunst kommt von Kult Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 12 January 2023 Retrieved 12 January 2023 Rampley Matthew 2012 Bildwissenschaft Theories of the Image in German Language Scholarship In Rampley Matthew Lenain Thierry Locher Hubert Pinotti Andrea Schoell Glass Charlotte Zijlmans Kitty eds Art History and Visual Studies in Europe Transnational Discourses and National Frameworks Brill Publishers p 126 Rampley 2012 pp 126 7 Craven David 2014 The New German Art History From Ideological Critique and the Warburg Renaissance to the Bildwissenschaft of the Three Bs Art in Translation 6 2 143 doi 10 2752 175613114X13998876655059 S2CID 192985575 Gaiger Jason 2014 The Idea of a Universal Bildwissenschaft Estetika The Central European Journal of Aesthetic LI 2 214 Gaiger 2014 p 211 GAM Global Art and the Museum 2006 to 2016 ZKM zkm de Retrieved 30 May 2021 The Global Contemporary 17 September 2011 All day to 19 February 2012 All day ZKM zkm de Retrieved 27 July 2021 Academy of the Third Millennium Speakers akademie3000 de Book of Members 1780 2010 Chapter B PDF American Academy of Arts and Sciences Retrieved 30 May 2011 APS Member History search amphilsoc org Retrieved 25 May 2021 Zivny Filip 20 April 2016 Nemeckeho historika oslnili brnensti studenti da jim celozivotni sbirku Mlada fronta DNES Retrieved 20 April 2016 Faculty of Arts MU Slavnostni otevreni Knihovny Hanse Beltinga Masaryk university Retrieved 20 April 2016 Faculty of Arts receives thousands of books from an art historian Masaryk university Retrieved 21 May 2016 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hans Belting Why the Museum New Markets Colonial Memories and Local Politics Keynote Lecture at the ZKM conference 19 October 2007 Dictionary of Art Historians Belting Hans Chicago School of Media Northwestern University Faculty Complete list of works Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Hans Belting amp oldid 1134339858, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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