Andreas Kreul

Andreas Kreul (born June 23, 1961 in Bottrop ) is a German art historian , director of the collection of the Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation in Bremen and honorary professor at the University of Bremen.

Life

Kreul studied art history, general and comparative literature and German at the Ruhr University Bochum (1980–1986), Magister Artium 1986, dissertation in 1988 on Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach with Max Imdahl . From 1988 to 1989 he was at the Kunstring Folkwang in Essen and from 1989 to 1992 research assistant at the Kunsthalle Bremen . From 1992 to 2016 he was a lecturer in art history at the University of Bremen and from 1992 to 2012 he was curator for the paintings of the 20th and 21st centuries as well as the sculptures, coins and medals from the 16th to the 21st centuries at the Kunsthalle Bremen. Since 2012 he has been director of the collection of the Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation in Bremen and since 2016 honorary professor for art history at the University of Bremen. He has published numerous articles and curated exhibitions on the baroque, Japanese woodblock prints, classical modernism and contemporary art, including John Cage , Lovis Corinth , Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach , Luca Giordano , Wolfgang Hainke , Richard Hamilton , Martin Honert , Ilya Kabakov , William Kentridge , Max Liebermann , André Masson , Bjørn Melhus , Richard Oelze , Jörg Sasse , Mark Tobey and Wols .

Publications (selection)

• Impressionism in Germany , Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama; Urasoe Art Museum, Urasoe / Okinawa; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe; Seiji Togo Memorial Yasuda Kasai Museum of Art, Tokyo 1990
• The file 101 of the Kunsthalle Bremen. Japanese acquisitions by Dr. Perzynski / File 101 of the Kunsthalle Bremen. Japanese Acquisitions made by Dr Perzynski , in: Scenes from ancient Japan. Japanese woodblock prints owned by the artist. / Scenes from old Japan. Japanese woodcuts from our own collection, Kunsthalle Bremen, arr. v. Eiko Kondo, ed. v. Andreas Kreul / Siegfried Salzmann, Bremen 1990, pp. 252–265 (German), pp. 266–278 (English)
• Lovis Corinth: Die Kindheit des Zeus, 1905/06 , in: From the idea to the work, working group of independent cultural institutes, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Bonn 1991, pp. 80–90
• About the severity. Portraits of all kinds of artists , Kunsthalle Bremen 1994
• Martin Honert Fotója / Photograph by Martin Honert , in: Európa. Kreáció & re-kreáció. Europe. Creation & Recreation, Kunsthalle Budapest (Műcsarnok), Budapest 1995, pp. 28–30; 31–33 (Hungarian / English)
• Luca Giordano. Christ and the Adulteress , Kunsthalle Bremen 1995
• Regimen rerum and visitor direction. The State Hall of the Court Library in Vienna * Between pathos and reorganization. The Fischer von Erlach monographs by Albert Ilg , in: Fischer von Erlach and the Viennese Barocktradition, ed. v. Friedrich Polleroß , Vienna: Böhlau Verlag 1995, pp. 210–228; 389-403
• Gray nature in a colorful theory. Notes on personal impressionism in Max Liebermann's writings , in: "Nothing is less deceptive than appearance" Max Liebermann - the German impressionist, Munich: Hirmer Verlag 1995, pp. 96-102
• The Collegiate Church of Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlachs in Salzburg. On the relationship between the parish and the sanctuary. Considerations following Leibniz , in: Religion and Religiosität im Zeitalter des Barock [= Wolfenbütteler Arbeit zur Barockforschung, Vol. 25], ed. v. Dieter Breuer; Barbara Becker-Cantarino; Heinz Schilling; Walter Sparn, Wiesbaden: Verlag Otto Harrassowitz 1995, Vol. 1, pp. 305-330
• John Cage. Essay , Kunsthalle Bremen 1998
• "To convert a place into a state of mind". Gordon Matta-Clark and Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach , in: Barockberichte 18/19, Salzburg 1998, pp. 128–133
• Ireland • Romantic shit. Landscapes , in: Richard Hamilton - Subject to an Impression, Kunsthalle Bremen 1998, pp. 36–47; 72-81
• Ilya Kabakov: The Metaphysical Man , Kunsthalle Bremen 1998
• Doppelganger. Replicas and 'other originals' of works from the Kunsthalle Bremen , Kunsthalle Bremen 1999
• Allegories of the Blind Spot. On the more recent pictures by Jörg Sasse , in: Unschärferelationen. Photography as a dimension of painting, ed. v. Stephan Berg / René Hirmer / Bernd Schulz, Kunstverein Freiburg im Marienbad , Freiburg im Breisgau / Kunstmuseum Heidenheim / Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken 1999/2000, Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag 2000, pp. 89–90
• Times are changing - on the way! From the 20th century! A selection of works from the Kunsthalle Bremen 1950–2000 , Kunsthalle Bremen 2000
• Faces of scripture. Notes on Richard Oelze's sketches , in: Die Söhne des Junggesellen. Richard Oelze. Loners of surrealism, Kunsthalle Bremen / Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag 2000, pp. 56–63
• “Buy Hokusai. Art Gallery". The collection of Japanese woodblock prints and other 'Asian themes' in the Kunsthalle Bremen. In: Bremen - East Asia. A changing relationship. 100 years of the East Asian Association Bremen. ed. v. Hartmut Roder , Hauschild Verlag : Bremen 2001, pp. 312-319
• "The measure of the palm is sacred". Wols - watercolors, drawings and prints 1936 - 1949. An exhibition on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death. The Karin Hollweg Collection , Kunsthalle Bremen 2001
• The beholder's contract. Incomparable perspectives following the baroque architecture of Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach , in: Eine barocke Party. Moments of world theater in contemporary art. Dinos and Jake Chapman, Wim Delvoye , Ulrike Grossarth , Yvonne Rainer , Sam Taylor-Wood and Paul Thek, ed. v. Sabine Folie / Michael Glasmeier, Kunsthalle Wien 2001, pp. 64–81
• Working on the picture , in: Jörg Sasse. Working on the picture, Kunsthalle Bremen, Munich: Schirmer / Mosel Verlag 2001, pp. 13–19
• Sounds of the Inner Eye. Mark Tobey • Morris Graves • John Cage. Excerpts from contributions at the last Pacific Friendship Meeting of the Satie Society , in: Sounds of the Inner Eye. Mark Tobey • Morris Graves • John Cage, Kunsthalle Bremen, Munich: Schirmer / Mosel Verlag 2002, pp. 54–69
• Color is fire. The Karin & Uwe Hollweg Collection , Bremen: Verlag HM Hauschild 2002
• Sounds of the Inner Eye. Mark Tobey • Morris Graves • John Cage. Excerpts from papers presented at a Pacific Friendships meeting of the Satie Society , in: Sounds of the Inner Eye. Mark Tobey • Morris Graves • John Cage, Museum of Glass. International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma, Seattle / London: University of Washington Press 2002, pp. 54–77
• "Whirring Dorothy". Some remarks on the film 'Far Far Away' by Bjørn Melhus , in: Bjørn Melhus - Video, ed. v. Wulf Herzogenrath / Anne Buschhoff, Kunsthalle Bremen / lothringer13 / halle - place for current art and new media, Munich, Bremen: Verlag HM Hauschild 2002, pp. 44–71 (German / English)
• Prophetic light. Experiences in front of some pictures by Mark Tobey , in: Inexpressibly beautiful. The mystical paradox in 20th century art, Kunsthalle Erfurt 2003, pp. 339–344 (German), 346–349 (English)
• Rilke. Worpswede. An exhibition as a fantasy about a book , Kunsthalle Bremen 2003
• air flow. Essays on Art , ed. v. Selmar Feldman, Cologne: Salon Verlag 2004
• Baroque as a task , Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 2005
• Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. Direction of the relation. With a directory of sculptural and architectural works, an extensive bibliography and new color photographs of the buildings by Georg Parthen , Salzburg: Anton Pustet Verlag 2006
• The Street of Shattered Schemes. A diary • About the severity , in: Visions & Re-Visions on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, ed. v. Wolfgang Hainke, H & H Schierbrok Edition 2006, pp. 260–321; 358-365
• Eyebeam , in: There is no rewind button for life. Homage to Nam June Paik, ed. v. Wulf Herzogenrath / Andreas Kreul, Cologne: DuMont Kunst- und Literaturverlag 2007, pp. 80–81
• Scenes from ancient Japan. The ukiyo-e collection of the Kunsthalle Bremen , ed. v. Wulf Herzogenrath / Andreas Kreul, arr. v. Andreas Kreul / Thomas Schrader, Stiftung Kunstforum der Berliner Volksbank / Kunsthalle Bremen 2008
• Collection. Karin and Uwe Hollweg , Cologne: DuMont Verlag 2011
• [Silence and other noises, right:] Hamlet de Brooklyn. Conversing with (e-) out… , in: “John Cage and… visual artists - influences and suggestions”, ed. v. Wulf Herzogenrath / Barbara Nierhoff-Wielk, Cologne: DuMont Verlag 2012, pp. 272–289
• A whale of a view. A stranding report on the W (H) / ALE project by Wolfgang Hainke / A diary on the W (H) / ALE project by Wolfgang Hainke , in: W (H) / ALE - ON VIEW. Auftauchen / Abtauchen - On letting go as a principle, ed. v. Wolfgang Hainke, Bremen: H & H Schierbrok Edition 2015, pp. 520–638; 647-666

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Kreul in the catalog of the German National Library