Wulf Herzogenrath
Wulf Herzogenrath ( born March 23, 1944 in Rathenow, Brandenburg ) is a German art historian and curator. He is considered a leading expert on video art and video installations.
Biography
Duke Rath studied art history, archeology and ethnography in Kiel, Berlin and Bonn. 1967 and 1968 he worked for the Württemberg Art Society basic exhibition catalog "50 Years of Bauhaus ". In 1970 he received his doctorate at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn with Herbert von Einem on the murals by Oskar Schlemmer. He then found a job at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, headed the art ring.
1973 Duke Rath was appointed the age of 28 to date, recent director of the Kunstverein. The Cologne Kunstverein, he headed for 16 years until 1989. During this period he was also a lecturer in art education at the Cologne factory schools (FH of Art and Design ).
In 1980, Duke Rath with some colleagues the work of German art associations ( ADKV ), its first chairman, he was for ten years. 1983-1997 Duke Rath was deputy speaker of the International Art Exhibition Manager Conference ( ICT).
He was appointed to the main curator of the National Gallery in Berlin to attend the new Museum of Contemporary at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin in 1989. 1994 different Herzogenrath to differences with the collector and the main lender of the museum Erich Marx and his art consultant Heiner Bastian from.
In September 1994, Duke Rath Director of the Kunsthalle Bremen was. Since 1995 he is also an honorary professor at the University of the Arts Bremen. 2006 Duke Rath was elected a member of the Visual Arts section of the Berlin Academy of Arts. In 2007 he was chairman of the jury and the Kaiser Ring of the town of Goslar. As a member of the University Council of the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig since 2003 Herzogenrath 2008 was its chairman. In the same year he was also appointed to the Board of Trustees for the new Bauhaus Museum in Weimar. 31 October 2011, Duke Rath finished his main occupation after 20 August 2011, he successfully completed the modernization and expansion of the Kunsthalle Bremen.
He was married to Stephanie Herzog Rath ( † 2012), the couple had six children. Herzogenrath lives as a pensioner and independent curator in Berlin since 2012.
Curatorial work
As director of the Cologne Kunstverein Herzogenrath conceived in 1976, the first European solo exhibition of video art pioneer Nam June Paik. At the design of the Documenta 6 (1977 ), where he was responsible for the video art, and the Documenta 8 (1987 ), he played a key role.
As the main curator of the National Gallery in Berlin Herzogenrath could numerous papers and early works by Marie Jo Lafontaine, Bill Viola, acquire Vostell, Nam June Paik and early works of media art for the museum collection.
At his instance and with the help of the Federal Cultural Foundation was held in 2006, the project 40jahrevideokunst.de held in which 59 historic and current video tapes from 1963 until today, at the same time in five museums, among others in the Kunsthalle Bremen, the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich and the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig were shown. The work is now temporarily available in the archives of various collections and institutions.
As director of the Kunsthalle Bremen Herzogenrath organized numerous exhibitions on media art and the Bremen collection's focus on " art around 1900 ", including 1999, the retrospective of video art pioneer Nam June Paik, 2000 The Blue Rider, 2002/ 03 Van Gogh: Fields, 2005/06 Monet and Camille - Portraits of Women in Impressionism or 2007 /08 Paula in Paris.
Writings
- 50 years of Bauhaus. Württemberg Art Society, 1968.
- Johann -Karl Schmidt ( eds.): Dix. On the 100th anniversary 1891-1991. Cantz, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 978-3-7757-0335-2.
- Andreas Kreul: Nam June Paik. There is no rewind button for life. Dumont, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8321-7780-5.
- Andreas Kreul: Sounds of the Inner Eye: John Cage, Mark Tobey and Morris Graves. University of Washington Press, Seattle 2002, ISBN 978-0-2959-8274-8.
- Andreas Kreul, Uwe Goldstein and Katarina Vatsella: Tomma Wember. 3 words only or four. Catalog, Hauschild, Bremen 2002, ISBN 3-89757-159-5.
Honors
- Bremer Medal for Art and Science ( 2011)