Beat Wismer

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Beat Wismer (2006)

Beat Wismer (born April 23, 1953 in Ruswil ) is a Swiss art historian . From 1985 to 2007 he was director of the Aargauer Kunsthaus in Aarau and from March 1, 2007 to the end of September 2017, director general of the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf .

Life

Wismer studied art history from 1973 to 1980 at the University of Basel with the minor subjects political philosophy and folklore . He graduated with a licentiate with the evaluation summa cum laude from. In 1977 he became assistant at the Archive for Swiss Art History in Basel . In 1981 he was a research assistant at the Kunstmuseum Luzern with Martin Kunz , he also assisted Stanislaus von Moos at the chair for modern and contemporary art at the University of Zurich . 1983/84 lectureships at the University of Zurich followed.

Wismer curated numerous exhibitions and publications on modern and contemporary art as well as Swiss art, for example Equilibre - balance, equivalence and harmony in the art of the 20th century 1993, cloud images. From William Turner to Gerhard Richter 2005 and Per Kirkeby. Crystal. Reflections, Relationships, and References in 2006.

He took part in various symposiums and lectures at home and abroad and was a member of numerous juries . Since 1983 Wismer has been and is a member of various commissions, foundations and associations, including the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art and the Swiss Werkbund . Until 2001 he was a member of the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia .

Wismer retired on October 1, 2017. His successor as General Director of the Museum Kunstpalast Foundation will be Felix Krämer .

Beat Wismer is married and has two daughters (* 1981 and 1984). Today he lives in Düsseldorf and Aarau .

Publications (selection)

  • Mondrian's aesthetic utopia. Lit, Baden 1985, ISBN 3-906700-04-6 (publication of the revised master's thesis).
  • Ricco 1915-1972 . Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau 1988, ISBN 3-905004-04-6 (Catalog for the exhibition at the Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau [15 May – 26 June 1988])
  • Notes on the history of the Aargau Art Collection. In: Da Füssli a Hodler. Pittura svizzera dall'Illuminismo al Moderno dalle collezioni del Museo Cantonale di Aarau. Electa, Milano 1992, ISBN 88-435-3955-8 (catalog for the exhibition in the Museo d'Arte Moderna di Ca 'Pesaro, Venice; in addition to the introduction, various artist monographs by BW).
  • Beat Wismer (Ed.): Karo-Dame: Constructive, concrete and radical art by women from 1914 to today , Lars Müller publishing house, Baden, 1995, ISBN 3-906700-95-X
  • On the role of drawing in Helmut Federle's work. In: Helmut Federle: Black Series I + II and Neighborhood of Colors, published by BW Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau 1998, ISBN 3-907044-77-0 (publication for the traveling exhibition of the same name 1998/99; responsible for exhibition and publication: BW).
  • Sibylle Omlin, Beat Wismer (Hrsg.): The memory of painting - A reading book on painting in the 20th century. Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2000 (2nd edition 2001), ISBN 3-88375-436-6 (publication for the exhibition of the same name; responsible for exhibition and publication: BW).
  • The still possible. In: Albrecht Schnider: The still possible. Published by the Aargauer Kunsthaus. Modern art publishing house, Nuremberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-938821-69-5 .
  • The last pictures from the painter. In: Franz Müller (Ed.): Martin Disler. Published by the Swiss Institute for Art Research. Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-85881-179-0 (on the occasion of Martin Disler's retrospective at the Aargauer Kunsthaus 2007; responsible for the exhibition: BW).
  • Fragile beauty. Glass in the eyes of art. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2135-6 (publication for the exhibition of the same name; responsible for exhibition and publication: BW).
  • Diana and Actaeon. The forbidden look at nudity. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2357-2 (publication for the exhibition of the same name; responsible for exhibition and publication: BW).
  • El Greco and the modern age. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3326-7 (publication for the exhibition of the same name; responsible for exhibition and publication: BW).

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personal data
SURNAME Wismer, beat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss exhibition curator
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruswil