Alfred Weidinger

Alfred Weidinger, 2013

Alfred Weidinger (born June 3, 1961 in Schwanenstadt ) is an Austrian art historian , museum manager, photographer and has been managing director of OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH since April 1, 2020. Before that he was director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig .

Live and act

Weidinger studied after training at the school for watchmakers and micromechanics for watchmakers 1985-1997 art history and classical archeology at the University of Salzburg . He wrote his diploma thesis in 1992 on the landscape paintings by Gustav Klimt , his dissertation in 1998 on the early work of the Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka .

In 1992 he found a job at the Albertina in Vienna and initially worked as a curator for classical modernism together with Alice Strobl , compiling the catalog raisonné of Oskar Kokoschka's drawings and watercolors . When he changed management in 2000, he became vice director and authorized signatory of the Albertina. Together with Klaus Albrecht Schröder, he took care of the transformation of the Federal Museum into a scientific institution under public law and managed all renovation and construction projects.

When Agnes Husslein took over the management of the Belvedere in Vienna in 2007 , Weidinger became vice director and authorized signatory of the Museum Österreichische Galerie Belvedere . In the role of curator for modern art , he was also responsible for organizing exhibitions at home and abroad. By the end of Agnes Husslein's tenure in 2016, he organized the five most popular exhibitions at the Belvedere and the 21er Haus . After changing the managing director in January 2017, Weidinger was curator for classical modernism and head of the Belvedere Research Center, which he founded .

In August 2017 he took over the management of the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig .

Since 1980 he has been traveling to Africa as a freelance documentary photographer , taking series of portraits. He photographs both digitally and with film, preferring black and white. His latest project was a 3-part television documentary about the kings and tribal princes of Africa. For the 70th anniversary of the Rechnitz massacre , in 2014 he wrote the screenplay for the documentary “Árpád and Géza”.

In June 2019 it was announced that Weidinger would become the new scientific director of the Upper Austrian State Museum in Linz from March 2020 .

His main research interests are visual and applied arts as well as photography of the 20th and 21st centuries; he is also intensively involved with new media. As a museum manager, he advises museums around the world.

Awards

• 2018: Award of the professional title of professor by the Austrian Federal President.

Fonts

• Mona Horncastle, Alfred Weidinger: Gustav Klimt. The biography . Brandstätter, Vienna 2018. ISBN 978-3-7106-0192-7
• Translocation - Transformation. No. 4. Ai Weiwei Flies a Kite . Belvedere, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-903114-09-8
• Mona Horncastle, Alfred Weidinger: Klimt's Explicit Eroticism . In: Klimt & Shunga. Explicitly erotic from Vienna and Japan . Buchheim, Bernried 2016, ISBN 978-3-7659-1090-6
• Agnes Husslein-Arco, Luisa Ziaja, Alfred Weidinger (eds.): Oswald Oberhuber . Belvedere, Vienna, 2016, ISBN 978-3-902805-99-7
• Klimt's images of women. The woman, the ornament, the sexual object . Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86228-132-9
• Peter Weibel - media rebel . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König , Cologne 2014
• Gustav Klimt. Life and work . Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86859-311-2
• Kris Lemsalu . Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86859-292-4
• Gustav Klimt. The kiss - lovers . Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86859-309-9
• Gelatin hole . Sternberg Press, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-95679-019-5
• Clouds-Earth Twist. Bright Ugochukwu Eke . Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86859-291-7
• Gustav Klimt. Landscapes . Belvedere, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-902805-00-3
• (Ed.): 150 years of Gustav Klimt . Belvedere, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-901508-92-9
• Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann - pioneers of modernity . Prestel, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7913-5148-3
• Alfred Hrdlicka . Ruthless . Weitra, Provincial Library 2010, ISBN 978-3-902416-29-2
• Sleeping Beauty. Masterpieces of Victorian Painting . Belvedere, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-901508-83-7
• (Ed.) We want to set standards. 50 years of the St. Margarethen Sculpture Symposium . Weitra, Provincial Library 2009, ISBN 978-3-900000-46-2
• Oskar Kokoschka . The drawings and watercolors, 1897-1916 . Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-85349-290-1
• Gustav Klimt and the art show 1908 . Prestel, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7913-4225-2
• Oskar Kokoschka. Dreaming boy - enfant terrible (1906–1922) . Verlag der Provinz, Weitra 2008, ISBN 978-3-85252-902-8
• (Ed.) Gustav Klimt . Prestel, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3763-0
• Gustav Klimt and the artist company . Verlag der Provinz, Weitra 2007, ISBN 978-3-85252-856-4
• Fritz Wotruba - Simplicity and Harmony. Sculptures and drawings from the period 1927-1949 . Verlag der Provinz, Weitra 2007, ISBN 978-3-85252-835-9
• (Ed.) Lois Fasching - tirol 1369. Hay pictures and sculptures . Edition Anteros, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-85340-021-0
• (Ed.) Christian Ludwig Attersee - Sailing 1969 to 2006 . Edition Anteros, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-85340-022-7
• Reflexiones intimas. Photography, intermedia and conceptual art by Cuban artists . Edition Anteros, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85340-018-3
• KCHO . Casa 5 - Las Playas Infinitas . Edition Anteros, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85340-017-5
• (Ed.): The Thermopylae . Oskar Kokoschka - a great European. [Temporary Albertina in the Akademiehof from July 22 to September 26, 1998] . Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-900656-41-X
• Oskar Kokoschka. Dreaming Boy, Enfant Terrible. Oskar Kokoschka at the Vienna School of Applied Art . Oslo / Helsinki 1997
• Kokoschka and Alma Mahler . Documents of a passionate encounter . Prestel, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7913-1711-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Alfred Weidinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Museum director wants a quota of women in exhibits. Alfred Weidinger in portrait . In: mdr culture. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, October 21, 2017, accessed on June 28, 2019.
• The time from April 13th, 2020 - No. 16/2020: Alfred Weidinger “A museum doesn't bite” , Interview: August Modersohn

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://mdbk.de/museum/#team
2. ↑ Museum director wants a quota of women in exhibits. In: mdr.de. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, October 21, 2017, accessed on June 28, 2019 . 
3. ↑ orf.at of June 28, 2019: Alfred Weidinger takes over the Landesmuseum ; accessed on June 28, 2019