Frank Zöllner (born 26 June 1956) is a German art historian. He is among the leading authorities on the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci, about whom he has written numerous publications. These include book-length studies on the Mona Lisa and one of the two modern catalogues raisonnés of Leonardo's works, the other being by Pietro C. Marani.
Frank Zöllner | |
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| Born | 26 June 1956 Bremen, Germany |
| Known for | Scholarship on Leonardo da Vinci |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg (1987) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Italian Renaissance art |
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He has been a professor of art history at Leipzig University since 1996.
Life and career
editFrank Zöllner was born on 26 June 1956 in Bremen, Germany.[1] He first studied art history from 1977 to 1981.[2] From 1983 to 1985, he was an Aby Warburg Fellow at the Warburg Institute in London,[2] studying with the art historian Ernst Gombrich.[3] Zöllner attended the University of Hamburg, graduating in 1987 with a PHD on the Renaissance-era artistic reception of Vitruvius.[2][4]
Zöllner worked from 1988 to 1992 as a research assistant at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome.[2] He received his Habilitation degree from the University of Marburg in 1987.[2] Since 1996, Zöllner has been a professor of medieval and modern art history at Leipzig University.[5]
Zöllner's Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings (2003), alongside Pietro C. Marani's Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings (2000), is "the most thoroughly referenced catalogue raisonnés of Leonardo’s paintings".[6] He has also published a catalogue raisonné of works by Sandro Botticelli, in 2005.[7]
Honors and awards
edit- Leipzig Science Award of Saxon Academy of Sciences (2009)
- 2013 Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences
Selected writings
editBooks
edit- Zöllner, Frank (1987). Vitruvs Proportionsfigur: Quellenkritische Studien zur Kunstliteratur im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert [Vitruvius's Proportional Figure: Source-Critical Studies on Art Literature in the 15th and 16th centuries] (PDF) (Thesis) (in German). Worms: Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft. ISBN 978-3-88462-913-0. OCLC 18204225.
- Vitruvs Proportionsfigur. Quellenkritische Studien zur Kunstliteratur des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts. Worms 1987.
- Leonardo da Vinci. Mona Lisa. Das Porträt der Lisa del Giocondo. Legende und Geschichte. Frankfurt 1994. (feat.).
- La Battaglia di Anghiari di Leonardo da Vinci fra mitologia e politica. Lettura Vinciana 1997. Text [summary]
- Bilder des Frühlings und der Liebe: Die mythologischen Gemälde Sandro Botticellis. Munich/New York 1998.
- Leonardo da Vinci. Benedikt Taschen Verlag Cologne 1999. ISBN 3-8228-6363-7
- Michelangelos Fresken in der Sixtinischen Kapelle. Gesehen von Giorgio Vasari und Ascanio Condivi. Freiburg im Breisgau 2002 (Rombach Wissenschaften, Quellen zur Kunst, Bd. 17).
- Leonardo da Vinci. The Complete Paintings and Drawings. Cologne 2003.
- Papierpaläste. Illustrierte Architekturtheorie des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. Katalog zur Ausstellung vom 16. März bis 14. Mai 2005 in der Universitätsbibliothek Albertina (Schriften aus der Universitätsbibliothek, 9), Leipzig 2005.
- Sandro Botticelli. Munich 2005 [German]; 2005 [English], 2nd edn. 2015.
- "Speicher der Erinnerung". Die mittelalterlichen Ausstattungsstücke der Leipziger Universitätskirche St. Pauli, 2005 [editor].
- Leonardos Mona Lisa. Vom Porträt zur Ikone der Freien Welt (Wagenbachs Taschenbuch Band 552). Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-8031-2552-1
- Georg Wünschmann (1868–1937). Ein Leipziger Architekt und die Pluralität der Stile, Leipzig 2006 [editor].
- Michelangelo – Das vollständige Werk. (zusammen mit Christof Thönes und Thomas Pöpper), Cologne 2007
- Griffelkunst. Mythos, Traum und Liebe in Max Klingers Grafik. Plöttner Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3938442319
- Bewegung und Ausdruck bei Leonardo da Vinci. Plöttner Verlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3938442692
- Tübke Stiftung Leipzig. Bestandskatalog der Zeichnungen und Aquarelle. Plöttner Verlag, Leipzig 2009, [editor] ISBN 978-3938442739
Articles
edit- Leonardo's Portrait of Mona Lisa del Giocondo Gazette des Beaux-Arts 121(S.)115–138. 1993 DOI 10.11588/artdok.00004207 ISSN 0016-5530
- What the satyrs taught. – The Time # 31, July 29, 2010
- Neo Rauch Understand: With tighter Wade. – The Time # 22, May 26, 2011
References
editCitations
edit- ^ "Frank Zöllner". abART. Archive of Fine Arts. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ^ a b c d e "Zöllner, Frank (1956-)" (in German). Kalliope-Verbund. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ^ Reichwein, Marc (6 August 2021). "Bücher bereiten einen auf die Welt vor" [Books Prepare You For the World]. Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ^ Zöllner 1987.
- ^ Grasnick 2022, p. 401.
- ^ Farago & Landrus 2013, § "Catalogue Raisonnés".
- ^ "Frank Zöllner". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
Sources
edit- Farago, Claire; Landrus, Matthew (2013). "Leonardo da Vinci". Oxford Bibliographies: Renaissance and Reformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/OBO/9780195399301-0151. (subscription required)
- Grasnick, Armin (2022). Basics of Virtual Reality: From the Discovery of Perspective to VR Glasses. Luxemburg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-662-64201-6.