Christian Weikop

Christian Poul Weikop (* 1970 ) is a British art historian and lecturer at the University of Edinburgh .

Life

Christian Weikop teaches art history of the 19th and 20th centuries with a focus on German and Austrian art. He is the founder and director of the VARIE Research Forum for German Visual Culture at the University of Edinburgh. He is one of the few experts in German modern and contemporary art that the younger English-speaking scientific community can boast. His research areas include German Romanticism , Expressionism , Bauhaus , Dada , New Objectivity , Neo-Expressionism , Avant-Garde Magazines, German woodcut art, German and Austrian Secessions, and in a broader sense also cultural politics and cultural exchange.

In 2005 he received his PhD from the University of Birmingham . His dissertation was entitled Arboreal expressionism: myth, medium, material and memory: the aesthetics of cohesion and subversion in Brücke's woodcut culture .

The anthology Bridging History: New Perspectives on Brücke Expressionism, edited by him in 2011, received a lot of attention from experts . This contains contributions from international expressionism experts such as Rose-Carol Long , Reinhold Heller, Timothy O. Benson , Monika Wagner, Shulamith Behr, Colin Rhodes, Tanja Pirsig, Aya Soika, Donald Kuspit , John-Paul Stonard and Christian Saehrendt . Sherwin Simmons praised Burlington Magazine : '"... this anthology draws on fresh topics and new research approaches, it points the way to further research. One of the book's strengths lies in Christian Weikop's witty introduction, which provides the essays with thematic brackets and traces the reception of Brücke art by newer artists. "

It is considered to be Weikop's merit to have overcome the linguistic boundary that exists between German and international expressionism research and to position German expressionism more strongly as a cultural heritage of the world. Christian Weikop has published numerous essays on German art in magazines and exhibition catalogs, some in close collaboration with institutions such as the Neue Galerie in New York or the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg and the New Walk Museum & Art Gallery and the Tate Gallery . He has also organized a number of scientific conferences.

Publications (selection)

• (as ed.) Bridging History: New Perspectives on Brücke Expressionism. May 2011, ISBN 978-1-4094-1203-8 . 
• (as ed.) Modernist Magazines: A Critical and Cultural History, Volume 3: Europe 1880-1939. Oxford University Press, 2013.

 

Essays and catalog chapters

• Introduction to German, Swiss, and Austrian Magazines  as well as chapter: Transitions: From Expressionism to Dada and Berlin Dada and the Carnivalesque. In: Peter Brooker, Sascha Bru, Andrew Thacker, Christian Weikop (eds.): Modernist Magazines: A Critical and Cultural History, Volume 3: Europe 1880–1939. Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Bridge and Canonical Association. In: Reinhold Heller (ed.): Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin, 1905–1913. Exhibition catalog, Hatje Cantz, 2009, pp. 102–127. (Exhibition Neue Galerie New York, 2009).
• Karl Schmidt-Rottluff's arboreal expressionism. In: Rosa Schapire and the Expressionists. Exhibition catalog. Hatje Cantz, 2009, pp. 186-215. (Museum for Arts and Crafts, Hamburg, 2009).

Web links

• Christian Weikop on the website of the University of Edinburgh (English)
• Literature by and about Christian Weikop in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.germanexpressionismleicester.org/films/expert-films/christian-weikop/
2. ↑ Entry of the dissertation in the library of the University of Birmingham  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ http://www.visitleicester.info/things-to-see-and-do/arts-museums-exhibitions/georgbaselitz/
4. ↑ http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/in-focus/heroic-symbols-anselm-kiefer /
5. ↑ So z. B. Centenary of the Brücke (1905/2005): Pioneers of German Expressionism , at the University of Sussex , 8./9. September 2005; Contested Histories in German Visual Culture 1871–1990 , together with Deborah Lewer, 33rd Annual AAH Conference, University of Ulster , Belfast, April 12, 2007; August Sander and Weimar Germany , National Galleries of Scotland / Research Forum for German Visual Culture, VARIE-University of Edinburgh, Hawthornden Lecture Theater, May 13, 2011.