Frank R. Werner

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Frank R. Werner (born May 7, 1944 in Worms am Rhein ) is a German architectural historian and author . He deals with the architectural history of the 20th century. In his younger years he also emerged as a visual artist.

Life

Werner studied painting, philosophy and architecture at the universities of Mainz, Hanover and Stuttgart from 1965 and graduated in 1972 with the architecture diploma at the University of Stuttgart . Until 1982 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Building History and Construction Survey at the University of Stuttgart. He then worked as a lecturer in building history at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart .

In 1983 he was appointed by the Berlin Senate together with Pierluigi Nicolin, Marco De Michelis and Werner Oechslin as the scientific director of the exhibition "IBA 1994/97 - Idea, Process, Result" in Berlin's Martin-Gropius-Bau .

In 1988 Werner was appointed professor at the Department of Architecture at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . In 1991 he moved to the new chair for building history, architectural theory and design history at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart , before accepting the position of full university professor and head of the newly created institute for architectural history and architectural theory at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal in 1993. In the same year he was appointed managing director of the institute for environmental design at the university. From 1999 to 2003 Werner was dean of the university's architecture department.

In 1999 he took over the management of the Galerie für Architektur und Arbeit (GAAG) in Gelsenkirchen and in 2001 was appointed a member of the “Baukultur NRW” committee by the North Rhine-Westphalia building ministry. In 2002 he was a founding member of the European research association CoRa for architectural theory and architectural history. In 2003 he became an associate member in the PhD program of the TU Delft for architectural theory and the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam .

From 2005 to 2007 Werner was dean of the architecture department of the F department (architecture, design, art) at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . As a visiting professor he has taught in Los Angeles , Barcelona , Vienna , Mendrisio and Milan, among others .

In 2010 he was appointed full member of the class of the arts at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the Arts .

Werner retired in 2011 .

He is a member of the Deutscher Werkbund and an honorary member of the Association of German Architects .

Before his time as a university lecturer and journalist (i.e. between 1967 and 1974), Frank Werner also became known as an artist: through graphic editions (color serigraphs and collages, among others at Luitpold Domberger in Filderstadt), edition objects and exhibitions, especially in 1969 through a Solo exhibition in Stuttgart with large-format hard-edge pictures at the gallery owner Hans-Jürgen Müller , who was also represented at the Cologne art market (now Art Cologne) from 1969 to 1971 . Particularly characteristic of Werner's work are pictures and objects in which the different spatial depths of the colored surfaces are not only simulated by different color densities and temperatures, but are actually produced in three dimensions: on the one hand by collaged color carriers (mostly cardboard), on the other hand by multicolored structures constructed like a backdrop Objects. Works by Frank Werner can be found e.g. B. at the Ro Gallery (Long Island City, NY), the Edition Domberger, the Galerie Wiedmann, in at least two private collections in Stuttgart and in the art collection Schwenk at Haigerloch Castle. Frank Werner's artistic position can be classified under Concrete Art , Color Field Painting and Hard Edge , against the background of the cross-art theoretical superstructure of the Stuttgart School .

Werner lives in Schöppingen .

Publications (selection)

  • FR Werner, A. Menges: BMW Welt, Munich / Coop Himmelb (l) au , Stuttgart / London: Ed. Menges 2009, ISBN 978-3-932565-66-3 .
  • FR Werner: NORD / LB, Magdeburg / Bolles + Wilson , Stuttgart / London: Ed. Menges 2003, ISBN 3-930698-51-X .
  • R. Ilsinger, FR Werner: Study Center Inffelduchten of the TU Graz / Szyszkowitz + Kowalski , Graz: House of Architecture 2001, ISBN 3-901174-42-7 .
  • FR Werner: Covering + exposing: the architecture of Coop Himmelb (l) au , Basel / Berlin / Boston: Birkhäuser 2000, ISBN 3-7643-6079-8 .
  • H. Kollhoff, JP Kleihues, PL Wilson, FR Werner: The urbanized landscape , Munich: Aries 1995, ISBN 3-920041-62-3 .
  • FR Werner, S. Schneider: New Ticino Architecture - Perspectives of a Utopia , Stuttgart: DVA 1991, ISBN 3-421-02955-5 .
  • FR Werner: Classicisms and Classics: Tendencies of Contemporary European Architecture , Stuttgart: DVA 1985, ISBN 3-421-02847-8 .
  • FR Werner: The wasted modernity: European architectural concepts after 1950 that have remained paper , Stuttgart: DVA 1981, ISBN 3-421-02563-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willi Bongard: Cologne art market 1969: Put money in your bags. In: zeit.de. October 10, 1969. Retrieved October 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ PRICES + OFFERS. In: zeit.de. April 2, 1971. Retrieved October 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Frank Werner Print 1971 In: rogallery.com , accessed on October 9, 2018 (color serigraph by Frank R. Werner)
  4. ↑ Edition Domberger: Originalgraphiken Frank Werner In: domberger.de , accessed on October 9, 2018 (portfolio with 6 color collages)
  5. ↑ Werner, Frank Rolf - Galerie Wiedmann In: galeriewiedmann.de , accessed on October 9, 2018.
  6. ↑ Catalog: Frank Werner and Werk 326 In: kunstsammlung-schwenk.de , accessed on October 9, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Frank R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werner, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architectural historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms on the Rhine