Eduard Beaucamp

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Eduard Beaucamp (born June 15, 1937 in Aachen ) is a German art critic and publicist .

life and work

Il Guercino (1591–1666): Madonna and Child , oil on canvas (donated by Beaucamps 2010)

Beaucamp's grandfather was a lawyer and came from Laon . His mother moved to Aachen after the early death of her husband. Eduard Beaucamp attended the humanistic grammar school in Aachen and, after graduating from high school, completed an apprenticeship as a publishing bookseller in Cologne. He then studied German literary history, art history and philosophy at the Universities of Freiburg and Munich . He received his doctorate in 1966 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn under Benno von Wiese . In 1962 he worked for a short time with Rudolf Alexander Schröder in Bergen (Chiemgau) .

At the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

In 1966 he went to Frankfurt am Main as an art critic and feature editor for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . At an early stage he campaigned for the avant-garde around Joseph Beuys “[...] and enthusiastically participated in the discovery of New York Pop Art. But then in the early 1970s he was one of the first to express doubts about the continued vitality of modernity ”. Beaucamp documented these concerns in 1976 in his anthology Das Dilemma der Avantgarde . He retired in 2002, but he is still associated with the newspaper with occasional reviews. Since the late 1960s he has paid particular attention to and appreciates the art of the former GDR , especially the Leipzig School .

Private life

Eduard Beaucamp is married and lives in Frankfurt am Main. As part of an exhibition, 5 collectors show your favorites , Barbara and Eduard Beaucamp showed their private art collection in the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig in 2009 . In December 2010 the couple donated a painting by the Italian baroque painter Guercino to the Städel art museum in Frankfurt .

Fonts (selection)

  • Literature as self-expression. Wilhelm Raabe and the possibilities of German realism. Bouvier, Bonn 1968 (dissertation).
  • The avant-garde dilemma. Suhrkamp, ​​1976, ISBN 978-3-518-06829-8 .
  • Werner Tübke: Working Class and Intelligence. A contemporary test of history. Fischer, 1985, ISBN 3-596-23922-2 .
  • The art questioned. Critical forays from Donatello to Beuys. Prestel, 1988, ISBN 3-7913-0856-4 .
  • The entangled artist. Against the legend of the immaculate avant-garde. DuMont, Cologne 1998, ISBN 978-3-7701-4734-2 .
  • Werner Tübke. Master sheets. Prestel, 2004, ISBN 978-3-7913-3188-1 .
  • Werner Schmalenbach . (Conversations), Walther König, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-86335-049-9 .
  • Feats. A dance with the zeitgeist. Philo Fine Arts / Fundus-Bücher 211, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86572-679-7 .
  • In the mirror of history. The Leipzig School of Painting. Edited by Matthias Bormuth , Richard Hüttel and Michael Triegel. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-1720-8 .
  • Werner Tübke. My heart feels optically. From the diaries, sketches and notes. Edited and introduced by Annika Michalski and Eduard Beaucamp. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3036-8 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Hahn (Ed.): Literature in Frankfurt. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main, 1987, ISBN 3-610-08448-0 . P. 43.
  2. ^ Sebastian Preuss: End of an era: the art critic Eduard Beaucamp resigns. In: Berliner Zeitung of December 28, 2002.
  3. ↑ Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Il Guercino (1591–1666), Madonna and Child , around 1621–1622, oil on canvas, 64 × 50 cm
personal data
SURNAME Beaucamp, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, art critic and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen