Ernst Wolfgang Mick

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Ernst Wolfgang Mick (born June 10, 1926 ; † 2004 ) was a German art historian . He was director of the German Wallpaper Museum in Kassel .

Live and act

After training as a painter from 1946 to 1948 and working as a freelance artist between 1946 and 1951, Mick studied art history from 1952 to 1958 at the Philosophical Faculty of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . He received his doctorate on the subject of iconographic studies on Joannes Holzer 1709–1740 . From 1958 to 1960 he worked as a volunteer at the Kunsthalle Bremen . From 1960 to 1964 he was a lecturer in art history at the Bremen Art School . In the diocese of Münster / Westphalia he worked from 1964 to 1968 as diocesan curator and cathedral thesaurar , after which he was cultural advisor at Böttcherstraßen GmbH Bremen . From there he moved to the German Wallpaper Museum in Kassel in 1974, where he took over the management. He retired in the early 1990s ; He died in 2004.

The history of wallpaper became his research area, about which he wrote several books and articles. He said he was bibliophile and particularly interested in Goethe . This was expressed in his voluntary work : Mick was president of the Society of Bibliophiles from 1977 to 1979 . V. and for many years deputy chairman of the Goethe Society Kassel.

Writings and contributions

  • Around 1800. German art from Schadow to Schwind. Exhibition Kunsthalle Bremen, May 24th - August 2nd, 1959. Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen 1959. (Participation.)
  • Hans Retzlaff: masterpieces of art around the birth of the savior. A picture book. Fuldaer Verlags-Anstalt, Fulda, 1961. (Explanations.)
  • The Weser. (= German Land - German Art ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1962.
  • Bernhard Hoetger . Memorial exhibition for his 90th birthday. Böttcherstraße, Bremen, April 19 to July 19, 1964. Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, August 23 to September 27, 1964. Böttcherstraße, Bremen, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster 1964. (Participation.)
  • Muenster. Book 2: The St. Paulus Cathedral . 1265/1965 , Advertising and Traffic Office, Münster 1965. (Participation.)
  • Christophorus . (= Saints in pictures and legends ; Volume 24). Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen, 1968.
  • Paper wallpaper. In: Frankfurter Kunstverein (ed.): Zauber des Papiers , Verlag Biermann + Boukes, Frankfurt am Main 1973, pp. 100-105.
  • Show more - find more appeal. Treasures from the wallpaper museum. In: Association of German wallpaper manufacturers (ed.): Wallpaper newspaper. Floor consultant , 83rd year, No. 22, Koch, Stuttgart 1974, p. 12.
  • From the history of the German Wallpaper Museum. In: Society of Bibliophiles (Hrsg.): Wandelhalle der Bücherfreunde. News paper of the Society of Bibliophiles , Vol. 17, No. 4, Rosen [?], Berlin [?] 1975, pp. 106-109.
  • Style wallpapers. A foray through the holdings of the only special museum for printed wallpaper that has existed in Kassel since 1923. In: color + design. Information on design with color from practice for practice , No. 7, 1977, p. 16 f.
  • German Wallpaper Museum (ed.): Twelve panels from the Molière wallpaper. (= Print of the ark ; No. 75). Lometsch, Kassel 1976. (Portfolio; explanation of pictures.)
  • The Society of Bibliophiles e. V. In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel , 34th year, 1978, A172 – A173.
  • Old colored paper. (= The bibliophile paperbacks ; Volume 140). Harenberg, Dortmund 1979, ISBN 3-88379-140-7 .
  • Goethe's edged leaves. (= The bibliophile paperbacks ; Volume 295). Harenberg, Dortmund 1979, ISBN 3-88379-295-0 . (Editing.)
  • The wallpaper museum and its visitors. In: Tapetenzeitung International , Vol. 90, No. 20, SN-Verlag Michael Steinert [?], Großensee [?] 1981, pp. 56–59.
  • Wallpaper as closer home. A chapter in wallpaper history. In: Tapetenzeitung International , Vol. 90, No. 23/24, SN-Verlag Michael Steinert [?], Großensee [?] 1981, pp. 10-11.
  • Major works of the German Wallpaper Museum in Kassel. Edited by Takahiko Sano, Gakken, Tokyo 1981. (2 volumes, in three languages: Japanese, German, English.)
  • Françoise Teynac, Pierre Nolot, Jean-Denis Vivien: The wallpaper. Room decoration from 5 centuries. History, material, manufacture. Callwey, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7667-0631-4 . (Editing of issues and foreword)
  • German Wallpaper Museum Kassel. Thiele and Schwarz, Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe, 1983, ISBN 3-87816-044-5 . (Originally the annual edition of the Hessische Brandversicherungsanstalt, 1983.)
  • Johann Evangelist Holzer (1709–1740). An early painter genius of the 18th century. (= Schnell & Steiner artist library ). Schnell and Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-7954-0366-9 .
  • Austerlitz. 1805. The most extraordinary of all wallpapers and an art document of the first order. Callwey, Munich 1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of the celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Mick. Ernst Wolfgang, S. 309 .
  2. ↑ Hildegard Hutzenlaub: Historical wallpapers in Hesse from 1700 to 1840 . Inaugural dissertation to obtain the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main 2005, introduction, p. 1 ( d-nb.info [PDF; 19.4 MB ; accessed on March 21, 2019]).
  3. ^ Jörg Westerburg: History of the Goethe Society Kassel. In: goethe-society-kassel. Stefan Grosche, 2011, accessed on March 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mick, Ernst Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1926
DATE OF DEATH 2004