Lorenz Dittmann (27 March 1928, in

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– 11 March 2018) was a German

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

. Dittmann studied history of art at the University of Munich. In 1955 he completed a Ph.D. dissertation on Grünewald’s color, supervised by Ernst Strauss. In 1958, he moved to the Kunsthistorisches Institut of the

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, where he wrote a Habilitationsschrift on "Style, Symbol, and Structure" in 1965. In 1977 he was appointed professor of art history at the

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, where he remained until his retirement in 1996. His extensive work includes major exhibition catalogs and monographs, for instance, ''German Expressionism: The Colors of Desire'' (1981), ''Farbgestaltung und Farbtheorie in der abendländischen Malerei'' (1987), ''Kategorien und Methoden der deutschen Kunstgeschichte 1900-1930'' (1998), ''Die Wiederkehr der antiken Götter im Bilde: Versuch einer neuen Deutung'' (2001), ''Die Kunst Cezannes: Farbe, Rhythmus, Symbolik'' (2005), ''Matisse begegnet Bergson: Reflexionen zu Kunst und Philosophie'' (2008), ''Farbgestaltung in der europäischen Malerei - ein Handbuch'' (2010) and ''Weltbilder moderner Kunst: Werke von Kandinsky, Klee, Beckmann, Mondrian, Kokoschka im Licht phänomenologischer Philosophien'' (2013). Dittmann has accompanied the development of the

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and is a founding member of the museum's advisory board, taking over various tasks in the Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation. According to Christof Trepesch, Lorenz Dittmann was one of the few art historians who are able to draw the bow from the

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to contemporary art and who can talk about all genres and styles of art in art history with a secure view of essential facts.Lorenz Dittmann im Gespräch mit Christof Trepesch
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Lorenz Dittmann im Gespräch mit Christof Trepesch.Professor Lorenz Dittmann wird 85 Jahre alt.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dittmann, Lorenz 1928 births 2018 deaths German art historians Academic staff of Saarland University People from Munich

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