Beat Wyss

Beat Wyss (born October 29, 1947 in Basel ) is a Swiss art historian and professor of art history and media theory at the Karlsruhe University of Design ( HfG Karlsruhe ).

Life

Beat Wyss studied art history , philosophy and German literature in Zurich . From 1980 to 1983 he was a scholarship holder of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the Free University of Berlin and at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma . From 1986 to 1989 he worked as a lecturer at Artemis Verlag (Zurich and Munich ) and as a lecturer for architectural and cultural history at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).

After a substitute professorship at the University of Bonn and a stay as a visiting scholar at the Getty Center in Santa Monica , Wyss was appointed professor of art history at the Art History Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum in 1991. A visiting professorship at Cornell University , Ithaca, NY (1996) was followed by a call to the University of Stuttgart , where he headed the Institute for Art History until 2003. Since 2003 he has been professor for art history and media theory at the State University of Design in Karlsruhe, where he was also the spokesperson for the graduate school “Image - Body - Medium. An anthropological perspective ”acted. From 2008 to 2011 he was Professorial Fellow at the Swiss Institute for Art Research in Zurich . From February to June 2013 he was a Kress Fellow in the Literature of Art at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute , Williamstown, Massachusetts. He has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 2001 .

In 2001 Wyss was awarded the Art and Culture Prize of the City of Lucerne .

Fonts (selection)

• Sorrow of completion. From the aesthetics of German idealism to cultural criticism of modernity (= debate. 14). Matthes & Seitz, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-88221-357-4 (later as: Mourning of completion. On the birth of cultural criticism. ).
• The will to art. On the aesthetic mentality of the modern age. DuMont, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7701-3769-8 (In Spanish: La voluntad de arte. Sobre la mentalidad moderna. Traducción Helena Bernabé Blanco. Abada, Madrid 2010, ISBN 978-84-96775-66-4 ).
• The world as a t-shirt. On the aesthetics and history of the media. DuMont, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7701-4020-6 .
• From the image to the art system (= art history library. 32). 2 volumes. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-86560-030-1 .
• The return of the new (= Fundus books. 163). Philo & PhiloFineArts, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86572-533-2 .
• After the great stories (= Edition Suhrkamp. 2549). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-12549-6 .
• Images of globalization. The World Exhibition of Paris 1889. Insel-Verlag, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-458-17485-1 .
• Renaissance as a cultural technique (= Fundus books. 204). Philo Fine Arts, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86572-689-6 .

literature

• Jürgen Stöhr: Theories also have their fate: Max Imdahl - Paul de Man - Beat Wyss. An empathy for modern art historiography. transcript, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1403-9 .

Web links

• Beat Wyss on the website of the Karlsruhe University of Design

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences as reflected in its inaugural speeches 1944–2008. Winter, Heidelberg 2009, p. 47.
2. ↑ Bildwissenschaft und Bildanthropologie (n) - A balance in retrospect to the front ( Memento from October 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ www.sik-isea.ch ( Memento from March 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Beat Wyss ( Memento from March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )