Peter Gorsen

Peter Gorsen (born November 16, 1933 in Danzig ; † November 8, 2017 in Vienna ) was an Austrian art scholar .

Life

Peter Gorsen studied at the University of Frankfurt , the subjects philosophy , psychology and art history. In 1965 he was with his dissertation on the phenomenology of the stream of consciousness to Dr. phil. PhD with Theodor W. Adorno and Jürgen Habermas . After receiving his doctorate, Gorsen took on a teaching position for literature and sociology at the University of Frankfurt. From 1973 to 1976 he was a lecturer in art and visual communication at the University of Giessen .

From 1977 until his retirement on September 30, 2002, he taught as professor for art history at the University of Applied Arts Vienna . There he headed the Institute for Museology from 1996 to 1998 .

Act

Since 1980 Gorsen has carried out interdisciplinary research and teaching on the extensive subject of art and disease. This enabled his work to follow the tradition of art-historical hermeneutics by Raymond Klibansky , Erwin Panofsky and Fritz Saxl . He has also worked on special topics in psychohistory , aesthetics , psychiatry and Art brut .

Right from the start, Gorsen observed and described the Viennese Actionism, which only existed for about ten years . In 2010 he was honored with the Hans Prinzhorn Medal .

Publications (selection)

• Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern . An interpretation . From Sydow-Zirkwitz, Frankfurt am Main 1962.
• On the phenomenology of the stream of consciousness. Bergson, Dilthey , Husserl , Simmel and the philosophical antinomies . (Dissertation University of Frankfurt). Bouvier, Bonn 1966.
• The obscene principle . Art, Pornography and Society . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1969.
• Sexual aesthetics. On the bourgeois reception of obscenity and pornography . (Dedicated to Hans Giese ). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1972, ISBN 3-499-25007-1 .
• Art and disease. Metamorphoses of the aesthetic imagination . European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1980.
• Transformed everyday life or transcendence of art . Syndicate, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-434-00466-1 .
• Salvador Dalí , the critical paranoid . European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1983.
• Of chaos and order of the soul. An interdisciplinary dialogue about psychiatry and modern art . (With Otto Benkert). Springer, Berlin et al. 1990.
• Attersee - Catalog raisonné 1963–1994 . Residence, Salzburg 1994.
• Karl Junker 1850–1912. The house in Lemgo . In: Ingried Brugger , Peter Gorsen, Klaus Albrecht Schröder (eds.): Art & Wahn . DuMont, Cologne. 1997. pp. 283-289, ISBN 3-7701-4274-8 .
• Beyond anatomy. Marionette and superman in the work of Kleist and Bellmer . Heilbronn, 2001.
• Gottfried Helnwein , the artist as an aggressor and damned moralist . Albertina, Vienna, exhibition catalog, 1985.
• On the problem of archetypes in art history. Carl Gustav Jung and Aby Warburg . In: Kunstforum international Vol. 127/1994, pp. 238–249.
• The entry of mediumism into art history . In: The Message. Art and occultism . Edited by Claudia Dichter, Hans Günter Golinski, Michael Krajewski, Susanne Zander. König, Cologne 2007, pp. 17–32, ISBN 978-3-86560-342-5 .
• The afterlife of Viennese Actionism. Interpretations and comments since 1969 . Ritter, Klagenfurt 2008 ISBN 978-3-85415-419-8
• Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern and his cosmos (together with Klaus Ferentschik ). Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86964-069-3 .

literature

• Christine Weder: Potentiated dialectic: The obscene as a formal principle of anti-pornographic art in Peter Gorsen. In: Intimate Relationships. Aesthetics and theories of sexuality around 1968. Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1947-9 , pp. 249–288.
• Martin Zeiller (ed.): Peter Gorsen - building blocks for a bibliography 1962–2018. Publication on the occasion of the event “Peter Gorsen Today and Tomorrow”: Discussion in memory of Peter Gorsen (1933–2017) in April 2018 organized by Eva Kernbauer, Art History, and Eva Maria Stadler, Art and Knowledge Transfer. Edition Angewandte, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-9504323-6-7

swell

• International art forum.
• Neue Galerie Graz Joanneumsviertel.
• Brief information about the exhibition organizers. der [im] perfect man ( action man ), archived from the original on February 6, 2013 ; accessed on November 14, 2017 (exhibition in Dresden). 
• From the archive: Peter Gorsen on Marxist Aesthetics. Radio Helsinki - Free Radio Graz, January 4, 2007, archived from the original on October 22, 2007 ; accessed on November 14, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Art History Department mourns Peter Gorsen (1933-2017). University of Applied Arts Vienna, accessed on August 31, 2018 . 
2. ^ Winner of the Hans Prinzhorn Medal . German-speaking Society for Art & Psychopathology of Expression eV, accessed on November 14, 2017.
3. ^ Gottfried Helnwein, the artist as an aggressor and damned moralist . Gottfried Helnwein's website January 1, 1985, accessed November 14, 2017.