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Frank Zöllner

b. 1956

German art historian

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Born 1956. Frank Zöllner is a German art historian, university teacher and teacher.

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.

He has been a professor of art history at Leipzig University since 1996.

Life and career Frank Zöllner was born on 26 June 1956 in Bremen, Germany. He first studied art history from 1977 to 1981. From 1983 to 1985, he was an Aby Warburg Fellow at the Warburg Institute in London, Zöllner attended the University of Hamburg, graduating in 1987 with a PhD on the Renaissance-era artistic reception of Vitruvius.

Honors and awards Leipzig Science Award of Saxon Academy of Sciences (2009) 2013 Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences

Selected writings Books

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. 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, 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, Bewegung und Ausdruck bei Leonardo da Vinci. Plöttner Verlag, Leipzig 2009, Tübke Stiftung Leipzig. Bestandskatalog der Zeichnungen und Aquarelle. Plöttner Verlag, Leipzig 2009, [editor]

Articles 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

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Leipzig University
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Leipziger Science Award; Prix Paul-Marmottan
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German art historian

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Frank Zöllner was born on 26 June 1956 in Bremen.

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Frank Zöllner is an art historian, university teacher and teacher.

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