Die Architektur des "style rayonnant" und das Problem des Hofstils zur Zeit des Hl. Ludwig

Die Architektur des "style rayonnant" und das Problem des Hofstils zur Zeit des Hl. Ludwig

On 19 September 2012 at 3.30 pm. in IAH Prof. Peter Kurmann one of the leading experts on French and German Gothic architecture and architectural sculpture will deliver a lecture in German on contemporary view of the “court style” of the time of Saint Louis (the French King Louis XI, †1270). The problem of the court style defined by Robert Branner nearly 50 years ago (Saint Louis and the Court Style in Gothic Architecture, 1965), and its relationship to rayonnant architecture.

Peter Kurmann, from 1990 to 2010 Professor for the History of Mediaeval Art at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, has since the 1960s devoted himself (together with Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz) to research into the activity of the cathedral smelting works in Europe from the 12th to the 15th centuries, from the point of view of architecture, sculpture, and stained-glass windows.

The cathedrals he has focused on include those in Prague and Milan. His view of cathedrals is a comprehensive one, not tied to any particular methodological approach. For his lecture in Prague he chose the theme of the relationship between “rayonnant Gothic”, in other words French architecture roughly in the period 1230–1350, and buildings commissioned by the French monarch Louis IX, canonised as a saint in 1297.

Bibliography

see also Stephan Gasser, Christian Freigang – Bruno Boerner (eds.) : Architektur und Monumentalskulptur des 12.–14. Jahrhunderts. Festschrift für Peter Kurmann zum 65. Geburtstag, Bern etc. 2006, S. 769–779.

  • Die Kathedrale St. Nikolaus in Freiburg. Brennspiegel der europäischen Gotik, Lausanne 2007.
  • Chartres, la cathédrale, La Pierre-qui-vire 2001. (co-author Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz)
  • Mobilité des artistes ou mobilité des modèles? A propos de l’atelier des sculpteurs rémois au XIIIe siècle, Revue de l’Art CXX, 1998, pp. 23–34.
  • Un Colosse aux pieds d’argile. La chronologie de la sculpture française du XIIIe siècle repose-t-elle sur des dates assurées?, in: Épigraphie et iconographie. Actes du Colloque tenu à Poitiers les 5–8 octobre 1995, Poitiers 1996, pp. 143–151.
  • Der Regensburger Dom – französische Hochgotik inmitten der Freien Reichsstadt, in: Martin Angerer – Heinrich Wanderwitz (edd.), Regensburg im Mittelalter, Regensburg 1995, pp. 387–400.
  • Das Basler Münster – ein Denkmal staufischer Reichspolitik?, Unsere Kunstdenkmäler XLIII, (1992-1), pp. 67–84.
  • Restaurierung, Retrospektive, Rezeption, Retardierung und Rekonstruktion: Gedanken zur Denkmalpflege anhand historischer und zeitgenössischer Beispiele, in: Geschichte der Restaurierung in Europa I/ Histoire de la Restauration en Europe I, Actes du Congrès international Histoire de la Restauration 1989 à Interlaken, Worms 1991, pp. 14–28.
  • Gautier de Varinfroy et le probleme du style personnel d’un architecte au XIIIe siècle, in: Roland Rech (ed.), Les batisseurs des cathédrales gothiques, Strassbourg 1989, pp. 187–194.

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