Wilhelm Worringer

Worringer ( born January 13, 1881 in Aachen, † March 29, 1965 in Munich) was a German art historian. He was married to the artist Marta Worringer.

Method

First, a literary scholar, joined Worringer soon to art history and studied with Heinrich Rückert, Georg Simmel and Heinrich Wölfflin. His methodical approach presents itself most clearly in his dissertation Abstraction and Empathy (1907 with Artur Weese in Bern ). This Worringer shared the currents in art generally in abstraction ( as a reaction of the people on the confusing environment and its lost position in the universe ) (which he equates with a nature - mimicking train. ) And empathy His formula: " Aesthetic enjoyment is objectified self- enjoyment "could be with the quote: " We enjoy in the forms of an artwork ourselves " translate. " As of empathy urge finds its satisfaction in the beauty of the organic as a condition of aesthetic experience, the urge to abstraction finds its beauty in the life-denying inorganic, in the crystallizer niches, generally speaking, in all abstract legality and necessity. " ( Quote: Abstraction and Empathy s 36) Adhere to Alois Riegl then he laid the foundation to integrate the nascent classical modernism and expressionism in the tradition of European art history. Bernard Myers writes Already Worringer together with Henri Bergson's Creative (r ) evolution a significant part of the ideological foundation of the German Expressionism. He also worked early Expressionism itself

Teaching

After his postdoctoral work with form problems of the Gothic in 1909 taught in Bern Worringer from 1915 as lecturer and from 1925-28 as an associate professor at the Art History Institute of the University of Bonn. In 1928 he became a professor at the University of Königsberg. Here he remained from 1933 to 1945 as the only German art historians into inner emigration by hiring its publications. In 1945 he was appointed to a professorship at the University of Halle. In 1950 he left the GDR for political reasons.

Works

  • Writings. Edited by Hannes Böhringer, Helga Grebing, Beate Söntgen. Munich 2004, 2 vols and 1 CD- ROM, ISBN 3- 7705-3641 -X
  • Abstraction and Empathy. Munich 1907
  • Formal Problems of the Gothic. Munich 1911
  • Preface to the reprint: Abstraction and Empathy. A contribution to the psychology of style. Munich 1948
  • Problems of contemporary art. Munich 1948
  • Smiles the Mona Lisa really, in: subject. Journal of the unity of culture, 2/ 1949, pp. 25-29
  • Jean Fouquet and Piero della Francesca, in: The Work of Art, 3/1949 (1 ), pp. 24-30
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