Horst Bredekamp
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Website: http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/personen/professorinnen/horst-bredekamp / https://www.interdisciplinary-laboratory.hu-berlin.de/en/content/horst-bredekamp/
Horst Bredekamp has been Professor of History of Art at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 1993 and has been a Permanent Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study since 2003. In 2000, he founded the project »The technical picture« at the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik (Hermann von Helmholtz-Centre for the Study of Cultural Competencies) (HZK), which under his leadership seeks to develop visually critical methods, a theory of pictorial knowledge in the fields of science and technology and medical visualizations. Since 2008, Bredekamp has directed the DFG-Kolleg (German Research Foundation) research training group) »Picture Act and Embodiment«.
Research fields
Romanesque art, early modern art, iconoclasm, history of scientific illustration, art and techniques,history of the »Kunstkammer« , new media, the »Picture Act«.
Education and Career
- 1952 – 1966 Schooling in Kiel, Germany
- 1966 – 1967 Military Service in the West German Federal Navy
- 1967 – 1974 Study of History, Archeology, Philosophy and Sociology in Kiel, Munich, Berlin and Marburg, Germany
- 1974 PhD in Art History at the Philipps-Universität Marburg; Marburg, Germany
- 1974 Internship at the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 1976 Assistant Lecturer in the Art History Seminar at the Universität Hamburg; Hamburg, Germany
- 1982 Professor of Art History at the Universität Hamburg; Hamburg, Germany
- 1993 Professor of Art History at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin; Berlin, Germany
- 2003 – 2012 Permanent fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin); Berlin, Germany
- Since 2012 Director of the Cluster Image Knowledge Gestaltung, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (with Wolfgang Schäffner)
Invitations and Fellowships
- 1991 Visiting Member at the Institute for Advanced Study; Princeton, USA
- 1992 Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin); Berlin, Germany
- 1995 Visiting Scholar at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities; Los Angeles, USA
- 1998 Research Scholar at the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities; Los Angeles, USA
- 1999 Visiting Scholar at the Collegium Budapest; Budapest, Hungary
- 2005 Hans Georg Gadamer Professorial Chair at Heidelberg University; Heidelberg, Germany
- 2005 Rudolf Wittkower Fellowship from the Bibliotheca Hertziana at the Max Planck Institute in Rome, Italy
- 2007 Adorno-Lecture, Frankfurt am Main
Awards
- 1974 Richard Hamann Scholarship from the Federal State of Hessen, Germany
- 1980 Aby M. Warburg Development Award from the City of Hamburg, Germany
- 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
- 2006 Max Planck Research Award from the Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
- 2009 Richard Hamann Award from the Philipps-Universität Marburg; Marburg, Germany
- 2010 Meyer-Struckmann Award from the Meyer-Struckmann-Foundation, Düsseldorf
- 2012 Fritz Winter Award from the Fritz-Winter-Foundation, Munich
- 2013 Science Award from the Governing Mayor of Berlin
- 2014 Acceptance into the Ordre pour le mérite, Germany
- 2015 Awarded the Knight Commander´s Cross, Germany
Posts and Memberships
- 1990-1992 Member of the advisory council to the Mediale Hamburg; Hamburg, Germany
- 1993-2012 New Europe College’s Academic Advisory Board Member; Bucharest, Romania
- 1993-1996 Member of the Getty Grant Program’s international advisory committee; 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 the Humboldt University of Berlin; 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 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin); Berlin, Germany
- 1999-2002 Member of the Getty Grant Program’s international advisory committee; Los Angeles, USA
- 2002-2007 Member of the Nietzsche-Edition Commission of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Berlin, Germany
- 2002-2012 Member of the Volkswagen Foundation’s Board of Trustees; Hanover, Germany
- 2003-2009 Member of the International Advisory Committee at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa; Pisa, Italy
- 2003 Member of the Ernst Schering Foundation’s Board of Trustees; Berlin, Germany
- 2003-2010 Member of the Wissenschaftliche Kommission Niedersachsen; Hanover, Germany
- 2004-2012 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
- 2004-2006 Member of the study group on “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
- 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 Member of the Advisory Council of the German Historical Museum (Deutsches Historisches Museum), Berlin
- 2012-2014 Member of Bibliotheca Hertziana Advisory Council at the Max Planck Institute in Rome, Italy
- 2012 Member of the Art Historical Institute Advisory Council in Florence, Italy (chair)
Membership in Academic Societies
- 1995 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences and Humanities; Berlin, Germany
- 2004 Member of the German Academy of the Sciences Leopoldina; Halle, Germany
- 2010 Member of the European Academy, London