Elmar Zorn

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Elmar Zorn (2014)

Elmar Zorn (* 1945 in Hof (Saale) ) is a German art consultant, exhibition curator and publicist.

Life

Zorn studied art, literature and theater studies in Munich. During his doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation for Rome, he did his doctorate on the subject of "Karl Wolfskehl in Exile" as a contribution to the history of German-Jewish exile literature. From 1978 to 1984 he held a leading position in the Munich cultural department; The most important initiatives were Spielmotor e. V., first model of a public-private partnership between the city of Munich and BMW AG, appointment of Sergiu Celibidache as GMD of the Munich Philharmonic, invention of the Munich piano summer , concept for the event series "Speeches about one's own country: Germany" and the preparation for Foundation of the Munich Film Festival. He then set up the EZO Art Directorate for international cultural exchange and was chief curator of the “Culture Concepts Sprengel” (Munich, Berlin, New York). In 1988 and 1989 he was artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen and in 1993 was appointed artistic director of Richard Meier's newly built Ulmer Stadthaus . He was a co-founder of the Bartuz Foundation / “Société Imaginäre” (Washington, Buenos Aires and Berlin). Furthermore, he headed the network “Art in Nature” Paris / Vienna, founded the initiative “Fudamenta MM. Arts, Sciences and Technologies for a New Millennium” with UNESCO (Paris / Venice) and the “Curatorial Partners”, a working group of Museum directors, exhibition organizers and art journalists from various countries, whose spokesman he is to this day. From 1999 to 2001 he was the curator of the Federal Garden Show in Potsdam . Since 2013 he has also been the artistic director of the online art space "Curator's Choice". He lives and works in Munich and Traunstein.

Publications (selection)

  • Elmar Zorn (contribution): Introduction; Blossoming Landscapes of Memory - Introduction to the "Diana" chapter of "New Gardens". In: Sou Via Meng, Martin Zeller (Ed.): NEW GARDENS II DIANA. 2014, ISBN 978-99965-905-4-2 .
  • Elmar Zorn (Ed.): Icons of Abstract Imagination. In: Sergey Dozhd: Psy Art. New Spaces for Art. Damm and Lindler, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-9815294-3-2 .
  • Elmar Zorn (contribution): You should get an idea. The draftsman Rudi Wach. In: Weiermair (Ed.): Rudi Wach. La porta delle mani. Palombi & Partner, Rome 2014, ISBN 978-88-6060-633-4 .
  • Elmar Zorn (Ed.): Inge Doldinger. Catchers of Light: Catchers of Light. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7774-2168-1 .
  • Elmar Zorn (Ed.): Taisa nasser. alchemy of color. damm und lindlar Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-9815294-0-1 .
  • Elmar Zorn (article): Art and nature, a field of tension, published in "Andreas Legath - Südwärts". Humpeneder-Graf (ed.). Kehret Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86828-218-4 .
  • Elmar Zorn (contribution): Concrete lines. In: Factory tour of Jusha Müller. close different close. Kösel, Altusried / Krugzell 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-033890-8 .
  • Elmar Zorn (contribution): Culla delle Materie. In: Giorgio (ed.): Fuggitivo. Città de Castello 2010, ISBN 978-88-500-0481-2 .
  • Elmar Zorn (contribution): Wax homage to body and mind. In: Meighörner (ed.): Rudi Wach - Once I was a hand - sculptures and drawings. 2010, ISBN 978-3-900083-23-6 .
  • Elmar Zorn (contribution): Das große Lachen / Hearty Laughter. Prestel Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7913-4033-3 .
  • Elmar Zorn (contribution): Art meets Science - Rita Adolf-Wollfarth's picture cycle of nanocubism. In: Jara GmbH (Ed.): Rita Adolf-Wollfarth - Nanocubism. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7774-2481-1 .
  • Elmar Zorn (contribution): child prodigy, patriot, European. Bernd Schwarzes life in art. In: Kunstmuseum Bonn (Hrsg.): Bernd Black Drawings Drawings. BM Medienverlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-929790-79-3 .
  • Elmar Zorn (contribution): Introduction. In: TROPPO VERO - painting by Bernd Schottdorf. Milan 2004, ISBN 88-202-1667-1 .
  • Elmar Zorn (Ed.): NIDS. In: NILS-UDO NIDS. Editions Cercle D`Art, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7022-0675-1 .
  • Elmar Zorn (contribution): Creation is a long bond. In: Kunstmuseum Bonn (ed.): Walter Urbach Papaver. Reschke, Steffens and Kruse, Berlin / Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-929790-54-8 .
  • Elmar Zorn (contribution): CREATORE DI NUOVI MONDI PITTORICI. In: Zaunschirm (Ed.): Johann Julian Taupe - Between the formats. 1997, ISBN 3-85013-461-X .

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME Anger, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art advisor, exhibition curator and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Hof (Saale)