Achim Preiss

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Achim Preiß (born March 24, 1956 in Cologne ) is a German university professor, art historian, curator and painter. He is Professor of Architectural History at the Faculty of Design at the Bauhaus University Weimar .

Life

Achim Preiß is the son of the architect Georg Preiß and his wife Erika, b. Jansen. After elementary school, he attended the Städtische Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium from 1966 , where he passed the matriculation examination in 1975. He then studied art history with the minor subjects political science and urban planning at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn with professors Tilmann Buddensieg , Justus Müller-Hofstede , Leopold Ettlinger , Werner Oechslin , Eduard Trier , Werner Busch and Hugo Borger. In 1984 Achim Preiß did his doctorate under Hugo Borger on the history of the building of the medieval churchSt.Chrysantus and Daria in Bad Münstereifel .

In 1985, Achim Preiß was a university assistant at the art history seminar at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal with Donat de Chapeaurouge . In 1991 he received his habilitation for Middle and Modern Art History and in 1992 he took over the representation of the art history chair there.

In 1987 Achim Preiß was the editor of an art book series at the Klinkhardt & Biermann publishing house in Munich, which he edited under the name "ZeitZeugeKunst" with the support of his wife. In 1992, together with his wife Bettina Preiss, he founded a publishing house in combination with a database of research results in the humanities, which is now located in Weimar under the name VDG Verlag .

In 1992 he received a call to the Bauhaus University Weimar , which was connected with the assignment to set up the chair for architectural history as part of the newly founded faculty of design. From 1996 an intensive collaboration with the art collections in Weimar developed , which resulted in the organization of the three-part exhibition “Rise and Fall of Modernism” in 1999. Different views between artists such as Neo Rauch and curators led to the Weimar image dispute .

In 2005 Achim Preiß acquired and revitalized a historic windmill in Oberreißen . A free training and studio business developed here, which ultimately produced the “Bazonnale” exhibition series (together with Bazon Brock ) and the Krohne Institute for Experimental Cultural Industry. The latter is based in the Kirms-Krackow-Haus in Weimar.

Achim Preiß is married to Bettina Preiß , née Schneider. The couple has two sons.

Research focus and teaching

From the beginning, the focus of the lessons was on architectural history from the Middle Ages to modern times (Romanesque and Gothic sacred architecture, Roman Baroque, French church building from the 17th and 18th centuries, English town planning from the 17th to 19th centuries, museum architecture from the 19th and 20th centuries, 20th century art, architecture and design, as well as the history of the media). From 1992 the history of modernism and art history of the GDR was added. Ten years later, the architectural history teaching area was expanded to include future research. The art and architecture history of the early modern era is examined with regard to its strategic topicality. From 2007 onwards, teaching was expanded to include the application of cultural development theories to design and artistic practice.

Curatorial work (selection)

In 1985 he was responsible for the organization and implementation of the exhibition "Augustusburg Castle - Gründungshof - Burg - Schloß" on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the city of Brühl in the orangery of Augustusburg Castle . Four years later he was a consultant for a cultural program on the history of museums for WDR and produced a draft for a series of cultural programs for a private film company in Bonn. Also in 1989 he was responsible for the exhibition on the medieval city history of Münstereifel on the occasion of the reopening of the restored Church of St Chrysantus and Daria. Also in 1989 he organized an international scientific congress in the German-Italian cultural foundation “Villa Vigoni” in Menaggio / Como on the subject of “ Giuseppe Terragni (1902-43) - On the context of rationalist architecture in Italy”. Together with the Weimar artist Heinzz Flottran, Preiß was responsible in 2001 for the organization and implementation of an art campaign on the Kyffhäuser monument on the occasion of the 2001 Kyffhäuser Culture Days. In the same year he received an advisory and collaboration contract for the DFG project “Creation of a catalog raisonné by Henry van de Velde ”, which was led by the Weimar Art Collections . In 2007 he founded the “New Weimar School” with the artists Julia Langer and Jasmin Kleingärtner. In 2010 he founded the exhibition series “Bazonnale” with the New Weimar School, the Portal Art History, the VDG Verlag and the Cremer Institute in Bonn . The first Bazonnale was dedicated to the subject of "Lust", the Bazonnale 02 to the subject of "Afghanistan". The latter took place in the Weimar KET hall . The implementation of a "non-curated and therefore not censored major exhibition" met with criticism in the media. In 2010 Achim Preiß founded the Krohne Institute for Experimental Cultural Economy in the Weimar Kirms-Krackow-Haus. In addition to exhibitions of fine art and book presentations, discussions on art and cultural theory are held in the context of so-called salons .

Publications (selection)

  • The church of St. Chrysantus and Daria in Bad Münstereifel. The building history according to the results of archaeological excavations. sn, sl 1984, (Bonn, University, dissertation, 1984).
  • with Bazon Brock : Art on command? Thirty-three to forty-five (= time witness art ). Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7814-0285-1 .
  • with Stefan Germer : Giuseppe Terragni. 1904-1943. Modernism and Fascism in Italy. Klinkhardt and Biermann, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7814-0287-8 .
  • The museum and its architecture - The development in the first half of the 20th century - On the context of the museum designs and buildings by Wilhelm Kreis. sn, sl 1991 (Wuppertal, University, habilitation paper, 1991; printed as: The museum and its architecture. Wilhelm Kreis and museum building in the first half of the 20th century. VDG - Verlag and database for the humanities, Alfter 1992 (published 1993), ISBN 3-9803234-3-9 ).
  • as editor with Klaus-Jürgen Winkler: Weimar Concepts. The art and building college 1860–1995. VDG - publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-929742-84-5 .
  • Farewell to the art of the 20th century. VDG - publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 1999, ISBN 978-3-89739-082-9 .
  • with Holger Brülls and Klaus Gereon Beuckers : Art History Studies. Hugo Borger on his 70th birthday. VDG - publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 1995, ISBN 3-929742-79-9 .
  • The individualistic manifesto. The future of European societies. VDG - Verlag and database for the humanities, Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-89739-546-6 (2nd, improved edition: The individualistic manifesto. Our future is the Middle Ages. Ibid 2008, ISBN 978-3-89739-586- 2 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ VDG Verlag Weimar
  2. ↑ The rise and fall of modernity. ( Memento from May 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) In: Kulturberichte , 1/99.
  3. ↑ Rolf Bothe, Thomas Föhl (Ed.): Rise and Fall of Modernity. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 1999, ISBN 3-7757-0815-4 .
  4. ^ A tangible picture dispute. In: Berliner Zeitung , May 31, 1999.
  5. ^ Hanno Rauterberg : Kesseltreiben in Weimar. In: Die Zeit , No. 22/1999.
  6. ↑ Ulrike Bestgen, among other things (Red.): The Weimar picture dispute. Scenes from an exhibition. a documentation. VDG - publishing house and database for the humanities, 2000, ISBN 3-89739-127-9 .
  7. ^ Jörg-Heiko Bruns: Flea market of randomness. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , October 9, 2010.
  8. ↑ Jörg-Heiko Bruns: Criticism (PDF). (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on June 7, 2019 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bazonnale.de
  9. ↑ Michael Cremer: on the criticism of the Bazonnale 02 ( Memento from July 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Preiss, Achim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, curator, painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne