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Ralf van Bühren


Ralf van Bühren (born 3 February 1962) is a German art historian, theologian, and Church historian, whose publications specialize on the history of Christian art and sacred architecture in general, as well as on the rhetorics of modern art, on the pastoral concern for contemporary artists, and on the liturgical art after the Second Vatican Council in particular.

Van Bühren was born in Bad Kreuznach. At the Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Trier, he finished his secondary school education in 1982. Between 1984 and 1991 van Bühren studied Art history at the University of Trier and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In Munich in 1988 he converted to the Roman Catholic Church.

In 1994 he received the PhD in Art history at the University of Cologne. The dissertation was published in 1998 as The works of mercy in the Art from the 12th-18th centuries. Iconographic changes caused by the modern reception of Rhetorics, in which art theory and rhetorics are discussed as origin of a persuasive mode of representation in the visual arts.

Between 1992 and 1995 van Bühren worked as pedagogical assistant in the Museumsdienst Köln at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum and Museum Ludwig in Cologne, in the data processing service of the Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, and as freelance collaborator in the Domforum Köln at the Cologne Cathedral and the romanesque churches of Cologne.


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