Rainer Beck (art historian)

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Rainer Beck (left) with Osmar Osten in the vineyard, 2018

Rainer Beck (* 1947 in Stuttgart ) is a German art historian and professor emeritus at the Dresden University of Fine Arts . He has also owned a winery in Saxony since the 2000s .

Life

Rainer Beck studied art history, political science, history, German literature and theology and received his doctorate in 1977. In 1983 he received a professorship for art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and was president of this academy from 1985 to 1995, of which he is an honorary member . In 1995 Rainer Beck moved to Dresden , to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts , where he was professor for general art history until his retirement . Beck has been retired since 2013.

Rainer Beck was a board member of the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich from 1978 to 1990 . From 1989 to 1994 he was a board member of the Otto-Dix-Haus in Hemmenhofen . Today he is a member of the advisory board at the Toni-Merz-Museum Obersasbach.

Beck, who comes from a winemaking family on the part of his grandfather, has owned the Drei Herren winery together with two partners in the Hermannsberg house in Radebeul - Oberlößnitz since 2004 .

Act

Rainer Beck is regarded as a renowned German art historian who has rendered outstanding services to the work of the German painter and graphic artist Otto Dix , both through his scientific work and with numerous editions, publications, exhibitions and retrospectives that he has curated. You have given a new perspective on the life and work of Dix.

Beck is the new founder and co-editor of the series for art and philosophy Phantasos , which has been published regularly since 1997 and deals scientifically with the work of Dresden artists.

Fonts

Standalone publications
  • Otto Dix. The cosmic images. Between “longing” and “pregnant woman”. Verlag der Kunst (Philo Fine Arts), Dresden 2003, ISBN 3-364-00389-0 .
  • Otto Dix. 1891-1969. Time, life, work. Stadler, Konstanz 1993.
  • Truth, pluralism, art. A political-theoretical study on the intellectual foundations of plural democracy and its art. Vogel, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-920896-55-6 . (also diss.)
As editor
  • since 1997: Phantasos. Series of publications for art and philosophy of the Dresden University of Fine Arts. Edited by Rainer Beck and Constanze Peres, Verlag der Kunst Dresden (Philo Fine Arts), Dresden 1997 ff.
  • Ernst Rietschel and the Overcoming of Classicism: A sculptor between tradition and modern awareness of the times. Verlag Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn 2007, ISBN 978-3-7705-4508-7 .
  • Sandra Mühlenberend: Surrogates of nature. The historical anatomy collection of the Dresden Art Academy. In: Phantasos VI. Series of publications for art and philosophy of the Dresden University of Fine Arts. Edited by Rainer Beck, Constanze Peres and Gregor Stemmrich, Verlag der Kunst Dresden (Philo Fine Arts), Dresden 2007. ISBN 978-3-7705-4366-3 .
  • Wolfgang Rother: Space and Image Spaces. Studies by young artists. In: Phantasos V. Series of publications for art and philosophy of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Edited by Rainer Beck and Constanze Peres, Verlag der Kunst Dresden (Philo Fine Arts), Dresden 2004. ISBN 3-364-00436-6 .
  • Martin Schmidt: Wilhelm Rudolph . In light and in darkness. In: Phantasos IV. Series of publications for art and philosophy of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Edited by Rainer Beck and Constanze Peres, Verlag der Kunst Dresden (Philo Fine Arts), Dresden 2002, ISBN 3-364-00436-6 .
  • Stephan Weber, Erhard Frommhold , Hans Grundig : Creating in secret. In: Phantasos III. Series of publications for art and philosophy of the Dresden University of Fine Arts. Edited by Rainer Beck and Constanze Peres, Verlag der Kunst Dresden (Philo Fine Arts), Amsterdam, Dresden 2001, ISBN 90-5705-164-8 .
  • Wolfgang Rother: The arts and crafts school and the arts and crafts museum in Dresden. A building somewhere between late historicism and modernity. In: Phantasos II. Series of publications for art and philosophy of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Edited by Rainer Beck and Constanze Peres, Verlag der Kunst Dresden (Philo Fine Arts), Dresden 1999. ISBN 90-5705-128-1 .
  • Rainer Beck, Natalia Kardinar: Still. New beginning in 1947. For the reopening of the Academy of Fine Arts. In: Phantasos I. Series of publications for art and philosophy of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Edited by Rainer Beck and Constanze Peres, Verlag der Kunst Dresden (Philo Fine Arts), Dresden 1997, ISBN 978-3865300485 .
  • Art in the focus of the academies. [Festschrift for the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, 1662–1987.] Bruckmann, Munich 1984.
  • The art and the churches. The dispute over the pictures today. Edited by Rainer Beck, Rainer Volp and Gisela Schmirber, Bruckmann, Munich 1984, ISBN 978-3765419454 .
Articles and catalog contributions
  • "Escape is always wrong" - inner exile as emigration. Otto Dix in the Third Reich. In: Tel Aviver Yearbook for German History , 34/2006. Edited on behalf of the Minerva Institute for German History, Tel Aviv University. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0009-5 , pp. 149-178.
  • Catalog text in: Figure in wood: the early work of Josef Rikus and his teacher Karl Knappe. Exhibition, May 25 to August 20, 2000 in the Diözesanmuseum Paderborn. Edited by Christoph Stiegemann on behalf of the Archdiocese of Paderborn. Archbishop's Diocesan Museum and Cathedral Treasury, Paderborn 2000, ISBN 3-931664-09-0
  • Catalog text in: Porcelain becomes plastic again: Dresden porcelain. Exhibition catalog, New Edition of the Saxon Porcelain Manufactory / Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf . German Porcelain Museum, Hohenberg an der Eger 1999.
  • From collapse to formalism dispute. On the development of today's University of Fine Arts Dresden between 1945 and 1950. In: Dresden 1997.
  • Catalog text in: Georg Karl Pfahler : Pictures, Graphics, Objects 1995–1997. Municipal Art Museum Singen (Hohentwiel), November 21, 1997 to January 4, 1998. Published by Kunstverein Singen eV, Singen 1997.
  • Exposition Otto Dix et les Maîtres Anciens. Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, 7 septembre - 1er décembre. Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar 1996, ISBN 2-902068-20-4 . (Catalog)
  • Metropolis. Otto Dix. Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul, 2 Juillet - 18 Oct. 1998. Saint-Paul-de-Vence 1996, ISBN 2-900923-16-6 . (Catalog)
  • Catalog text in: young after '45. Art in Nuremberg - a decade and a generation. Nuremberg Art Gallery. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 1995, ISBN 3-928342-44-4 .
  • On the position of women in the Dix factory. In: Wulf Herzogenrath and Johann-Karl Schmidt (eds.): Dix. For the 100th birthday. Catalog, Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart / Nationalgalerie Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1991, pp. 251–260.
  • Catalog text in: Giselher Scheicher , pictures and collages, July 6 - August 19, 1989 , catalog for the Ursula Ehrhardt gallery in Nuremberg.
  • Werner Lichtner-Aix , work from the last few years. With a complete oeuvre catalog. d. Prints from 1984 to 1987. Kunstverl. Weingarten, Weingarten 1988.
  • Special print Otto Dix. With Otto Dix (Ill.) And Dietrich Bühler (Red.). [Special print for the Dix collection of the Stuttgart City Gallery] Zyma, Sindelfingen 1988.
  • Otto Dix. 1891-1969. Catalog, Museum Villa Stuck, 23 August to 27 October 1985. Stuck Art Nouveau Association, Munich 1985. ISBN 3-925501-00-2 .
  • Adolf Hoelzel : Departure to Modernity. Catalog, exhibition from April 1 to June 1, 1980, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich. Museum Villa Stuck, Munich 1980.
  • Käthe Kollwitz - more than a socialist comrade in arms. In: Politische Studien 29, H. 239, 1978, pp. 229-240.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Course directory of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts ( memento from April 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 26, 2011
  2. ↑ Jürgen Hohmeyer: Job affirmed. Did Otto Dix accuse war or, in the end, even glorify it? The dispute is now being reopened in Munich at the most extensive Dix exhibition to date. In: Der Spiegel 38/1985

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personal data
SURNAME Beck, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart