Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Horst Bredekamp
Professur für Mittlere und Neuere Kunstgeschichte
Senior Speaker of Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity.
Sophienstraße 22a
10178 Berlin
Room 1.07
Phone: +49 (0)30 2093-66198
Fax: +49 (0)30 2093-66206
E-Mail: horst.bredekamp@culture.hu-berlin.de
Appointments: upon request
Fields of Research
Iconoclasm, Romanesque sculpture, Renaissance art and Mannerism, Political Iconography, Art and Technology, New Media
Vita
Education and Career
1947 | Born 29 April in Kiel, Germany, the son of Captain Gerhard Bredekamp and his wife Hildegard (maiden name Nehring) |
1952 | Schooling in Kiel, Germany (Graduation 1966) |
1966 | Military Service in the West German Federal Navy |
1967 | Study of Art History, Archeology, Philosophy and Sociology in Kiel, Munich, Berlin and Marburg, Germany |
1974 | PhD in Art History at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany |
1974 | Internship at the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
1976 | Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Art History at Universität Hamburg, Germany |
1982 | Professor of Art History at Universität Hamburg, Germany |
Since 1993 | Professor of Art History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany |
2003-2012 | Permanent Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), Germany |
2012-2018 | Co-Director of the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (with Wolfgang Schäffner) |
Seit 2019 | Senior Deputy Director of the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany |
Invitations Awards and Fellowships
1974 | Dr. Richard-Hamann-Scholarship from the Federal State of Hessen, Germany |
1980 | Aby M. Warburg Development Award from the City of Hamburg, Germany |
1991 | Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA |
1992 | Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), Germany |
1995 | Visiting Scholar at Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles, USA |
1995 | Lecturer at Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, Munich, Germany |
1998 | Research Scholar at Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles, USA |
1999 | Visiting Scholar at Collegium Budapest, Hungary |
2001 | Sigmund Freud Award from the German Academy for Language and Poetry, Darmstadt, Germany |
2005 | Aby M. Warburg Award from the City of Hamburg, Germany |
2005 | Hans Georg Gadamer Professor at Heidelberg University, Germany |
2005 | Rudolf Wittkower Fellowship from the Bibliotheca Hertziana at the Max Planck Institute in Rome, Italy |
2005 | Lecturer at Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, Munich, Germany |
2006 | Max Planck Research Award from the Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation |
2007 | Theodor W. Adorno Lecture, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
2009 | Richard Hamann Award from the Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany |
2010 | Meyer-Struckmann-Award for Research in the Humanities from the Meyer-Struckmann-Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany |
2012 | Science Award from the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Germany |
2012 | Fritz-Winter-Award from the Fritz-Winter-Foundation, Munich, Germany |
2014 | Acceptance into the Ordre pour le mérite, Germany |
2015 | Awarded the Knight Commander´s Cross, Germany |
2016 | Lecturer at Carl-Schmitt-Gesellschaft e.V., Berlin, Germany |
2017 | Schiller Prize of the City of Marbach, Germany |
2019 | Horst Gerson Lecture, University of Groningen, The Netherlands |
2019 | Lecturer at Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, Munich, Germany |
2022 | XXI. Premio Internationale Flaiano di italienistica of the Ennio Flaiano Society and of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the best non-Italian non-fiction book of the year |
2022 | Honoris Causa in Philosophy, University of Turin |
Council and Board Memberships
1990-1992 | Member of the advisory council of the Mediale Hamburg, Germany |
1993-2012 | Academic Advisory Board Member of the New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania |
1993-1996 | Member of the international advisory committee of the Getty Grant Program, Los Angeles, USA |
1993-1996 | Honorary Member of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art |
1994-1996 | Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy III at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany |
1996-2004 | Member and Vice President of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art |
1997-2012 | Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), Germany |
1999-2002 | Member of the international advisory committee of the Getty Grant Program, Los Angeles, USA |
2002-2012 | Member of the Board of Trustees of the Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover, Germany |
2003-2009 | Member of the International Advisory Committee at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy |
2003-2019 | Member of the Board of Trustees of the Ernst Schering Foundation, Berlin, Germany |
2003-2010 | Member of the Wissenschaftliche Kommission Niedersachsen, Hanover, Germany |
2004-2006 | Member of the study group “The Future of the Humanities,” commissioned by the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat), Germany |
2004-2006 | Member of the Wissenschaftliche Kommission Niedersachsen’s study group on Humanities, Hanover, Germany |
2004-2016 | Member of the Bibliotheca Hertziana Advisory Council at the Max Planck Institute in Rome, Italy; and member of the Art Historical Institute Advisory Council in Florence, Italy |
Seit 2005 | Member of the endowment committee of the Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung |
2006-2007 | Member of the study group on “The Future of Media Studies,” commissioned by the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat), Germany |
2010-2015 | Member of the Advisory Council of the German Historical Museum (Deutsches Historisches Museum), Berlin, Germany |
2015-2018 | Member of the steering committee of Humboldt Forum, Berlin, Germany |
Memberships in Academic Societies
Since 1995 | Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany |
Since 2004 | Member of the German Academy of the Sciences Leopoldina, Halle, Germany |
Since 2011 | Member of the European Academy, London, UK |
Since 2016 | Member of the American Academy for Arts and Sciences, Cambridge / Berlin |
Exhibitions
1975 | Kunst um 1400 am Mittelrhein: Ein Teil der Wirklichkeit. Frankfurt am Main: Liebieghaus Museum Alter Plastik, 10 December 1975 – 14 March 1976. |
1985 | Natur und Antike in der Renaissance. Frankfurt am Main: Liebieghaus Museum Alter Plastik, 5 December 1985 – 2 March 1986. |
2000 | Theater der Natur und Kunst: Theatrum Naturae et Artis; Wunderkammern des Wissens. Berlin: Martin-Gropius-Bau, 10 December 2000 – 4 March 2001. |
2006 | Kreis Kugel Kosmos. Berlin: Pergamonmuseum, 8 June – 7 August 2006. |
2007 | Das abc der Bilder. Berlin: Pergamonmuseum, 27 June – 9 September 2007. |
2008 | Maß, Zahl und Gewicht. Berlin: Kunstbibliothek, 4 July – 28 September 2008. |
2009 | Anders zur Welt kommen – Das Humboldt-Forum im Schloss. Berlin: Altes Museum, 9 July 2009 – 17 January 2010. |
2012 | Von mehr als einer Welt. Die Künste der Aufklärung, Berlin: Kunstbibliothek, May – September 2012. |
2012 | Verführung Freiheit. Kunst in Europa seit 1945, Berlin: Deutsches Historisches Museum, 17. October 2012 – 10. February 2013. |
2016 | +ultra. gestaltung schafft wissen, Berlin: Martin-Gropius-Bau, 30. September 2016 – 8. January 2017. |
Publications
Monographs
This register lists the books in chronological order.
Arabic numerals denote the different editions.
Translations
Roman numerals in brackets refer to the list of monographs.
Chinese
1) | Sankt Peter in Rom: 2014 (X) | |
2) | Der Bildakt: Peking 2016: Yilin book (XVIII) |
English
Estonian
1) | Pilditegu. Frankfurdi Adorno-loengud aastast 2007, Tallinn 2020: TLÜ Kirjastus (XVIII) |
French
Italian
Japanese
Portuguese
1) | Teoria do Acto Icónico (Transl. Artur Morao), Lisbon 2015: KKYM (XVIII) |
Romanian
1) | Nostalgia Antichităţii şi cultul maşinilor. Istoria cabinetului de curiozităţi şi viitorul istoriei artei (Transl. Maria-Magdalena Anghelescu), Cluj 2007: Idea Design & Print (V) |
Spanish
Edited anthologies
I. | Aby Warburg. Akten des internationalen Symposions Hamburg 1990, Weinheim 1991: Wiley-VCH (with Michael Diers and Charlotte Schoell-Glass) |
II. | Edgar Wind. Kunsthistoriker und Philosoph, Berlin 1998: Walter de Gruyter (with Bernhard Buschendorf, Freia Hartung and John Michael Krois) |
III. | Theater der Natur und Kunst. Theatrum Naturae et Artis, 2 Vols. (Catalogue and Essays), Berlin 2000: Henschel Verlag (with Jochen Brüning and Cornelia Weber) |
IV. | Jahrbuch für Universitätsgeschichte, Bd. 5, Universität und Kunst, Stuttgart 2002 (with Gabriele Werner) |
V. | Berliner Thyssen-Vorlesung zur Ikonologie der Gegenwart 1, veranstaltet vom Kunsthistorischen Seminar und dem Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin sowie der Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Cologne, Munich 2002: Wilhelm Fink (with Gottfried Boehm) |
VI. | Bild, Schrift, Zahl. Reihe KULTURTECHNIK, Munich 2003: Wilhelm Fink (with Sybille Krämer) 2. Ed. 2009 |
VII. | Totenkult und Wille zur Macht. Die unruhigen Ruhestätten der Päpste in St. Peter, Darmstadt 2004: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (with Volker Reinhardt) |
VIII. | Visuelle Argumentationen. Die Mysterien der Repräsentation und die Berechenbarkeit der Welt, Munich 2006: Wilhelm Fink (with Pablo Schneider) |
IX. | Klassizismus – Gotik. Karl Friedrich Schinkel und die patriotische Baukunst, Berlin 2007: Deutscher Kunstverlag (with Annette Dorgerloh and Michael Niedermeier, in cooperation with Axel Klausmeier) |
X. | Dissimulazione onesta oder Die ehrliche Verstellung. Von der Weisheit der versteckten Beunruhigung in Wort, Bild und Tat. Martin Warnke zu Ehren. Ein Symposium (2003), Hamburg 2007: Philo Fine Arts (with Michael Diers, Ruth Tesmar and Franz-Joachim Verspohl) |
XI. | Das Technische Bild. Kompendium zu einer Stilgeschichte wissenschaftlicher Bilder, Berlin 2008: Akademie Verlag (with Birgit Schneider and Vera Dünkel) |
XII. | Ikonologie der Gegenwart, Munich 2009: Wilhelm Fink (with Gottfried Boehm) |
XIII. | Mathesis & Graphe: Leonhard Euler und die Entfaltung der Wissenssysteme, Berlin 2009: Walter de Gruyter (with Wladimir Velminski) |
XIV. | In der Mitte Berlins. 200 Jahre Kunstgeschichte an der Humboldt-Universität, Berlin 2010: Gebr. Mann Verlag (with Adam S. Labuda) |
XV. | Imagination und Repräsentation. Zwei Bildsphären der Frühen Neuzeit, Munich 2010: Wilhelm Fink (with Christiane Kruse and Pablo Schneider) |
XVI. | Galileo’s O. Vol. I: Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius. A Comparison of the proof copy (New York) with other paradigmatic copies, Berlin 2011: Walter de Gruyter (Eds.: Irene Brückle and Oliver Hahn) |
XVII. | Galileo’s O. Vol. II: Paul Needham, Galileo makes a book. The first edition of Sidereus Nuncius Venice 1610, Berlin 2011: Walter de Gruyter |
XVIII. | Galileo’s O. Vol. III: A Galileo Forgery. Unmasking the New York Sidereus Nuncius, Berlin 2014: Walter de Gruyter (with Irene Brückle and Paul Needham) |
XIX. | Galileo’s O. Vol. IV: Galileis denkende Hand. Form und Forschung um 1600, Berlin 2015: Walter de Gruyter |
XX. | The Technical Image. A History of Styles in Scientific Imagery, Chicago und London 2015: The University of Chicago Press (with Vera Dünkel and Birgit Schneider) |
XXI. | Haare hören – Strukturen wissen – Räume agieren. Berichte aus dem Interdisziplinären Labor Bild Wissen Gestaltung. Jahrestagung, 15. November 2014, in der Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Bielefeld 2015: transcript (with Wolfgang Schäffner) |
XXII. | Das Humboldt Forum. Die Wiedergewinnung der Idee, Berlin 2016: Verlag Klaus Wagenbach (with Peter-Klaus Schuster) |
XXIII. | Transformatio et Continuatio. Forms of Change and Constancy of Antiquity in the Iberian Peninsula 500-1500, Berlin 2017: Walter de Gruyter (with Stefan Trinks) |
XXIV. | +ultra knowledge & gestaltung, Leipzig 2017: Seemann Henschel Verlag (with Nikola Doll und Wolfgang Schäffner for the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge gestaltung at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) |
Edited Journals and Series
I. | kritische berichte. Mitteilungsorgan des Ulmer Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft, Marburg 1975-1986: Jonas Verlag (with Hubertus Gassner, Hans-Joachim Kunst, Franz-Joachim Verspohl and Eva-Maria Ziegler) |
II. | Aby Warburg. Gesammelte Schriften. Studienausgabe, Berlin 1998-2001: Akademie Verlag (with Michael Diers, Nicholas Mann, Salvatore Settis and Martin Warnke) |
III. | Pegasus. Berliner Beiträge zum Nachleben der Antike, Berlin 1999: Lukas Verlag (with Arnold Nesselrath) |
IV. | Bildwelten des Wissens. Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch für Bildkritik, Berlin, since 2003: Walter de Gruyter (with Gabriele Werner and Matthias Bruhn) |
V. | Actus et Imago. Berliner Schriften für Bildaktforschung, Berlin, 2011-2016: Walter de Gruyter Vol. I: Sehen und Handeln, Berlin 2011 (with John M. Krois) Vol. II: John M. Krois, Bildkörper und Körperschema, Berlin 2011 (with Marion Lauschke) Vol. III: Thomas Gilbhard, Vicos Denkbild. Studien zur Dipintura der Scienza Nuova und der Lehre von Ingenium, Berlin 2012 Vol. IV: Stefan Trinks, Antike und Avantgarde. Skulptur am Jakobsweg im 11. Jahrhundert: Jaca – León – Santiago, Berlin 2012 Vol. V: Das bildnerische Denken: Charles S. Peirce, Eds.: Franz Engel, Moritz Queisner and Tullio Viola, Berlin 2012 Vol. VI: Verkörperungen, Eds.: André Blum, John M. Krois and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Berlin 2012 Vol. VII: Das haptische Bild. Körperhafte Bilderfahrung in der Neuzeit, Eds.: Markus Rath, Jörg Trempler and Iris Wenderholm, Berlin 2013 Vol. VIII: John Bender und Michael Marrian, Kultur des Diagramms, Berlin 2014 (Transl. Veit Friemert) Vol. IX: Bodies in Action and Symbolic Forms, Berlin 2012 (with Marion Lauschke and Alex Artega) Vol. X: Ulrike Feist, Sonne, Mond und Venus. Visualisierungen astronomischen Wissens im frühneuzeitlichen Rom, Berlin 2013 Vol. XI: Paragone als Mitstreit, Eds.: Joris van Gastel, Yannis Hadjinicolaou and Markus Rath, Berlin 2014 Vol. XII: Bildakt at the Warburg Institute, Eds.: Sabine Marienberg and Jürgen Trabant, Berlin and Boston 2014 Vol. XIII: Robert Felfe, Naturform und Bildnerische Prozesse, Berlin 2015 Vol. XIV: Carolin Behrmann, Tyrann und Märtyrer. Bild und Ideengeschichte des Rechts um 1600, Berlin, Munich and Boston 2015 Vol. XV: Das entgegenkommende Denken, Eds.: Franz Engel and Sabine Marienberg, Berlin 2015 Vol. XVI: Formwerdung und Formentzug, Eds.: Franz Engel and Yannis Hadjinicolaou, Berlin 2016 Vol. XVII: Andreas Plackinger, Violenza, Berlin 2015 Vol. XVIII: Yannis Hadjinicolaou, Denkende Körper – Formende Hände, Berlin 2016 Vol. XIX: Markus Rath, Die Gliederpuppe, Berlin 2016 Vol. XX: Lidia Gasperoni, Versinnlichung, Berlin 2017 |
VI. | IMAGE WORD ACTION. IMAGO SERMO ACTIO. BILD WORT AKTION, Berlin, seit 2017: Walter de Gruyter (with David Freedberg, Sabine Marienberg, Marion Lauschke, Jürgen Trabant) Vol. I: 23 Manifeste zu Bildakt und Verkörperung, Eds.: Marion Lauschke and Pablo Schneider, Berlin and Boston 2018 Vol. II: Image Acts. A Systematic Approach to Visual Agency, Transl. Elizabeth Clegg, Berlin and Boston 2017 Vol. III: Ikonische Formprozesse. Zur Philosophie des Unbestimmten in Bildern, Eds.: Marion Lauschke, Johanna Schiffler and Franz Engel, Berlin and Boston 2018 Vol. IV: Symbolic Articulation. Image, Word, and Body Between Action and Schema, Ed.: Sabine Marienberg, Berlin and Boston 2017 Vol. V: Bredekamp, Horst: Ursprung des Bildakts, Berlin and Boston 2021 Vol. VI: Casper, Mark-Oliver: Social Enactivism, Berlin and Boston 2018 Vol. VII: Trabant, Jürgen: Giambattista Vico – Poetische Charaktere, Berlin and Boston 2019 Vol. VIII:Pawel, Anja: Abstraktion und Ausdruck, Berlin and Boston 2019 |
Commemorative Volumes
Portraits
Selection