Martin Warnke

Martin Warnke (born October 12, 1937 in Ijuí, Brazil) is a German art historian.

Life and work

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

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

Warnke is a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung and the Committee on the Preservation of German Cultural Heritage. From 1983 to 1984, he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin. In 1987, he was a fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Santa Monica, California. From 1998 to 1999, he was a member of the Collegium Budapest - Institute for Advanced Study.

Select publications

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Henning Ritter, "Durch die Scheinwelt zur Wirklichkeit: Martin Warnke zeigt das politische Engagement Peter Paul Rubens' ", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 4 October 2006.
  2. ↑ See the review by Hans Zitko, Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 302–308.
  3. ↑ Henning Ritter, Lebenswerk, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 9 November 2006.

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