On Tuesday, 16 January, the Historical Institute at Paderborn University invites you to a lecture at the LWL Museum in the Kaiserpfalz at 8 pm. Prof Dr Romedeo Schmitz-Esser from the Heidelberg University will be giving a lecture on the topic of "With Dürer into the period around 1500 - everyday life and new beginnings at the end of the Middle Ages". The event is being organised in cooperation with the Paderborn branch of the Verein für Geschichte und Altertumskunde Westfalens and the Museum in der Kaiserpfalz. All interested parties are cordially invited.
Albrecht Dürer is one of the artists of the late Middle Ages whose paintings have enjoyed great recognition and popularity over the centuries. As a result, a large number of paintings, prints and drawings have survived, making his art a favoured object of art-historical study. In his lecture, Schmitz-Esser chooses a different approach to Dürer and presents him as a contemporary of the transition from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. This is possible because Dürer left behind numerous written testimonies in addition to many paintings, which together open up the possibility of opening up his lifeworld from family to school to workshop, as well as his relationships with other artists, scholars and the powerful, but also his piety, his view of the animal world, of the countries he travelled to or of sexuality and death. The lecture deals with the artist in his time and even more with the time in which the artist lived and which shaped him. With this approach, Schmitz-Esser, who teaches medieval history with a focus on the late Middle Ages at the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, is once again practising a cultural history which, based on the analysis of concrete objects, arrives at a comprehensive understanding of the time from which the objects originate. His multi-award-winning study on the corpse of the king in the Middle Ages already set standards in this respect.
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