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Gadamer and the late medieval art laboratory

meeting: Gadamer's hermeneutics and the late medieval art

scientists come to an interdisciplinary exchange at the University of Heidelberg and

Marietta Fuhrmann-Koch

Communications and Marketing

Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

02/08/2011 20:03

The "readability" and interpretation of late medieval art is concerned, the conference "The Image as Event", May 11 to 13 February 2011 by the Institute of Art History of the University. The occasion is the 111th Anniversary of the Heidelberg philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900 to 2002). Representatives from various disciplines will discuss Gadamer's hermeneutics and his concept of art for the scientific analysis of artistic representations of the late Middle Ages. In the opening ceremony, Prof. Dr. Martin Gessmann by the Philosophy Department at the University of Heidelberg speak on "The Hermeneutics and their future."

"In his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method 'has a antiessentialistischen Gadamer Concept of art developed to examine the processual nature of each work of art with words such as event and law enforcement to be taken. This approach seems particularly for the analysis and interpretation of art of the late Middle Ages particularly fruitful ", explain the organizers of the conference. Was initiated by the event, which was designed as a platform for the exchange of young and established scientists from Dominic Delarue, John Schulz and Laura Sobez from the Institute of European art history. The lectures dealt inter alia with the medieval view of the ruler in the picture, with the importance of commercial art in the 15th Century or an iconography of architecture. Hans-Georg Gadamer, on 11 February was born in 1900, worked from 1949 as a professor at the Philosophy Department at the University of Heidelberg and is recognized as the most influential representatives of philosophical hermeneutics in the 20th Century.

The conference "The Image as an event. Legibility of late medieval art "is part of the anniversary program for the 625th anniversary of the University of Heidelberg. The opening event on 11 February 2011 found the Institute of Art History, Seminar Straße 4 instead: The lecture by Prof. Gessmann begins by 17 clock. Following this, Prof. Dr. Arno thrust Bach (Basel) on from 18.45 clock "Representation and event. Gadamer's concept of the picture between Plato and Kant to speak. "

The program includes more public lectures, and it is on the Internet at http://www.iek.uni-hd.de/md/zegk/iek/veranstaltungen/programm_bild_als_ereignis.pdf available.