21 and 22 November 2024
(Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, PH 13)
The art historian Wolfgang Stechow (1896-1974) was one of the most important scholars of early modern art history around 1930 and was close to the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg in Hamburg. Stechow studied, obtained his doctorate and completed his habilitation at the art history department in Göttingen, where he worked as a lecturer from 1923 to 1935 and was appointed honorary professor. Forced out of office by the Nazis, Stechow began a second career in the USA, where he became an influential museum curator and art historian. He was considered an expert on the art of the Netherlands and practiced object-based teaching in Göttingen and Oberlin (Ohio). Stechow was an important pioneer for the iconographic method in the discipline, but at the same time a committed connoisseur and a pioneering curator. This conference is the first attempt to explore the significance of Wolfgang Stechow as an academic intermediary between Germany and the USA in terms of the history of science and emigration as well as art history.
Despite his expulsion from Germany, Stechow always remained closely associated with the Göttingen Institute and the art collection, which was expressed above all in the donation of his own collection of prints and drawings to the University of Göttingen. Works from this collection will be shown in an exhibition during the conference.
Programm
Donnerstag, 21. November 2024
(Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, PH 13)
13.00 Michael Thimann und Anne-Katrin Sors
Einführung
13.30 Nils Büttner (Antwerpen / Stuttgart)
Stechow, Rubens und die Antike
14.00 Tico Seifert (Edinburgh)
Reflections on Wolfgang Stechow and Rembrandt. With a Note on Jan Weenix’s The Five Senses
14.30 Kaffeepause
15.00 Anne-Katrin Sors (Göttingen)
Stechow´s connaisseurship and knowledge. The impact of his research on the Göttingen Artcollection
15.30 Verena Suchy (Nürnberg)
Wolfgang Stechow als Sammler: Sammlungsinteressen und Netzwerke
16.00 Besichtigung der Gemälde- und Skulpturengalerie im Auditorium
Führung durch die Ausstellung
18.30 Abendvortrag (Auditorium Hörsaal 11)
Andria Derstine (Oberlin/Ohio)
“A Genuine Future”: Wolfgang Stechow in Oberlin
Freitag, 22. November 2024
Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, PH 13
9.30 Thomas Schauerte (Aschaffenburg)
“Eroberung des Linienstils”. Stechow und Dürer
10.00 Bertram Kaschek (Stuttgart)
Ein dunklerer Bruegel. Wolfgang Stechows Position in der Bruegel-Forschung
10.30 Arwed Arnulf (Berlin / Göttingen)
Northern Renaissance Art. Sources and Documents, 1966 – Stechows Quellenanthologie in wissenschaftsgeschichtlicher Perspektive
11.00 Kaffeepause
11.30 Claudia Wedepohl (London)
“Stechow, Warburg, and the ‘bottega’ book of Marco del Buono and Apollonio di Giovanni, ‘the most fashionable and finished Florentine cassone painters”
12.00 Michael Thimann (Göttingen)
“Nachleben“ and Metamorphosis. Stechow´s Book about Apollo and Daphne
12.30 Christine Hübner (Leipzig)
“Lieber Freund Stechow” – Panofsky und Stechow
Abschlussdiskussion
Die Tagung wird per Zoom übertragen. Den Link finden Sie auf der Homepage des Kunstgeschichtlichen Seminars unter AKTUELL.
https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/304929.html
Veranstalter / Kontakt:
Prof. Dr. Michael Thimann und Dr. Anne-Katrin Sors
Georg August Universität Göttingen
Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar und Kunstsammlung
Nikolausberger Weg 15
37073 Göttingen
kunsts@gwdg.de