Horst bredekamp galileo biography
- Horst Bredekamp (born 29 April 1947, in Kiel) is a German art historian and visual historian.
- Horst Bredekamp received his PhD in art history at the University of Marburg (1974).
- Horst Bredekamp is one of the leading exponents of Bildwissenschaft, roughly the German equivalent of visual studies.
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Galileo’s Thinking Hand
Bredekamp, Horst. Galileo’s Thinking Hand: Mannerism, Anti-Mannerism and the Virtue of Drawing in the Foundation of Early Modern Science, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110539219
Bredekamp, H. (2019). Galileo’s Thinking Hand: Mannerism, Anti-Mannerism and the Virtue of Drawing in the Foundation of Early Modern Science. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110539219
Bredekamp, H. 2019. Galileo’s Thinking Hand: Mannerism, Anti-Mannerism and the Virtue of Drawing in the Foundation of Early Modern Science. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110539219
Bredekamp, Horst. Galileo’s Thinking Hand: Mannerism, Anti-Mannerism and the Virtue of Drawing in the Foundation of Early Modern Science. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110539219
Bredekamp H. Galileo’s Thinking Hand: Mannerism, Anti-Mannerism and the Virtue of Drawing in the Foundation of Early Modern Science. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter; 2019. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110539219
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Horst Bredekamp received his PhD in art history at the University of Marburg (1974). After working at the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt am Main as a curator (1974-1976) he became Assistant Professor at the University of Hamburg, where he tenured as Professor of Art History in 1982. Since 1993 he is Professor of Art History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In addition he has been a permanent fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study/Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin (2003-2012). Since 2012 he is co-director of the Cluster Image Knowledge Gestaltung, Humboldt University of Berlin (with Wolfgang Schäffner) and since 2015 member of the steering committee of the Humboldt Forum, Berlin. He is member of several academies, among them the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina, Halle (since 2004) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2016). He has received numerous awards, among them the Sigmund Freud Award (2001) and the Max Planck Award (2006), and he became a member of the Ordre pour le mérite (2014). In November 2017, he will be awarded with the Schiller Award. He pu
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Horst Bredekamp
German art historian
Horst Bredekamp (born 29 April 1947, in Kiel) is a German art historian and visual historian.
Life and work
Bredekamp studied art history, archaeology, philosophy and sociology in Kiel, Munich, Berlin and Marburg. In 1974 he received his doctorate at the Philipps-Universität Marburg with a thesis on art as a medium of social conflicts, especially the "Bilderkämpfe" of late antiquity to the Hussite revolution. He worked first as a volunteer at the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt am Main, from 1976 as assistant in the division of Art History at the University of Hamburg.
In 1982 he was appointed professor of art history at the University of Hamburg, in 1993 he moved to the Humboldt University Berlin. Since 2003 he has been a Permanent Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, in 2005 the Gadamer-endowed chair.[1] Bredekamp was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1991), Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (1992), Getty Center, Los Angeles (1995 and 1998) and the Collegium Budapest (1999).
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