Rothenburg and Würzburg, 21. – 24.06.2017
Conference Program
In 1980, Michael Baxandall introduced the sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider and his artistic milieu to English-speaking art historians — specialists and non-experts alike — with his book The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany. This publication appeared just a year prior to the first major exhibition of Riemenschneider’s early works in Würzburg’s Mainfränkisches Museum (1981). In the wake of Baxandall’s contribution, several major exhibitions, including those in Washington, Nuremberg, and Würzburg, have been dedicated to the sculptor vis-a-vis his contemporaries in southern Germany. These exhibitions and accompanying volumes have promoted inquiry into Riemenschneider’s commissions, his workshop practice, and the contemporary artistic climate. But they have also led the sculptor’s works that survive in situ—and thus too large, heavy, or fragile to travel—to receive comparatively less scholarly attention. The Riemenschneider in Situ conferen e aims to redress this gap in art historical scholarship not only by examining the in situ artworks themselves but also the physical and discursive spaces in which they were installed.
Wednesday, 21.06.17
17h00, Wildbad, Rokokosaal
Katherine Boivin and Gregory Bryda
Welcome and introduction by conference organizers
Julien Chapuis, Leiter of Berlin’s Bode Museum
Plenary Address
18h30, Speakers’ Dinner
Thursday, 22.06.17
09h00 Wildbad, Rokokosaal
Session I: Place and Placement
Jeffrey Chipps Smith (University of Texas, Austin)
The Historiography of Place in early Riemenschneider Scholarship
Thierry Greub (Universität Köln)
Standort, Judas und Reliquienkreuz: Neue Aspekte zum Hl.-Blut-Altar von
Tilman Riemenschneider in Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Katherine Boivin (Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson)
Riemenschneider in Rothenburg: A Topography of the Altarpiece
10h45 Coffee Break
11h00 Wildbad, Rokokosaal
Session II: Social Context
Johannes Tripps (Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur, Leipzig)
Space, Light, and Liturgical Plays as Sources of Inspiration for
Riemenschneider’s Altarpieces
Mitchell B. Merback (The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)
From Immanence to Intercession: Modes of Sanctity, Pilgrimage Politics,
and the Creglingen Marienaltar
Gregory Bryda (Universität Hamburg)
Rothenburg’s Tale of Two Species
12h45 Speakers’ Lunch
14h00 Wildbad, Rokokosaal
Session III: Restoration
Michele Marincola (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New
York)
Riemenschneider’s Marienaltar in Herrgottskirche, Creglingen: A Review
of its Restoration History and the Application of a New Examination
Method
Volker Schaible (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart)
Das Marienretabel von Tilman Riemenschneider in der Herrgottskirche in
Creglingen – Ergebnisse einer ersten kunsttechnologischen Untersuchung
Matthias Weniger (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum)
The Münnerstadt Altarpiece – Once again on the question of its original
appearance
15h45 Coffee Break
16h00 Wildbad, Rokokosaal
Session IV: Multimedia Environment
Tim Juckes (Universität Wien)
Theand its Multimedia Environment: Metamorphoses of a Furnishing Ensemble in Sacred Space ca. 1460-1510
Reindert L. Falkenburg (New York University, Abu Dhabi)
‘Horror vacui’ – ‘amor vacui’: Riemenschneider’s Creglingen Retable in situ
Assaf Pinkus (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv)
Compilatio and Citatio at the Portal: The Last Judgment in Bern Cathedral
17h45 Moderation of Day One’s Proceedings
Jacqueline Jung (Yale University, New Haven)
Friday, 23.06.17: Excursion Day
09h00 Excursions commence for speakers and invited guests
Westkapelle, Rothenburger Jakobskirche
Franziskanerkirche
Detwang
12h00 Speakers’ Lunch in Creglingen
13h15 Creglingen Herrgottskirche
15h00 Maidbronn, ehem. Klosterkirche St. Afra
17h00 Würzburg Hotel Check-In
Saturday, 24.06.17
10h00 Würzburger Dom and Marienkapelle
12h00 Speakers’ Lunch
13h00 Tagungszentrum Festung Marienberg
Session V: Composition, Style, and Concluding Remarks
Hartmut Krohm (Technische Universität Berlin)
Faltentextur – Faltenrhetorik: Beobachtungen zur Lichtführung als künstlerischem Faktor im Werk Tilman Riemenschneiders und seiner Zeitgenossen
Hanns Hubach (Universität Zürich)
Winand von Steeg (1371-1453): Über Komposition und Farbe (um 1415/20)
Claudia Lichte (Direktorin of Mainfränkisches Museum)
Closing Remarks
14h45 – 17h Riemenschneider Galleries, Mainfränkisches Musum: Open to Attendees
