Franz Wilhelm Kaiser

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Franz Wilhelm Kaiser (* 1957 in Boppard ) is an international art scholar and exhibition organizer. Since the termination of his most recent position as director of the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg in May 2019, he has been working as a freelancer. He is married to the French writer and publicist Marie-Noël Rio . Both live in Hamburg and Paris.

overview

Franz Kaiser's examination of the functions of art - both as a social phenomenon and as a free space for the individual appropriation of reality - is characterized by a constant interplay of theory and practice: exhibition concepts are based on theoretical studies and their practical implementation are reality tests of theory, which in the Connection with the exhibition must reach a wider audience. The overriding motif of his thematically wide-ranging exhibition practice is a question that every artist puts in front of his work and that offers potential points of contact for everyone, namely the relationship between art and reality. Even for abstract painters like Mondrian , Malewitsch or Kandinsky , this question was central. Insofar as this relationship is primarily understood as depicting, denotative, both in academic art history and in the dominant art-critical discourse, they block access to a more complex, aesthetic content, without which the project of all avant-gardes must ultimately remain incomprehensible. Art history and the art-critical discourse are originally European disciplines, and if art were only an illustration of reality, it would quickly become redundant in a globalized world. Franz Wilhelm Kaiser hopes that an interdisciplinary approach that focuses on art's very own relationship to reality will provide new thinking tools that are indispensable for the continued existence of art.

Life

Franz Wilhelm Kaiser studied educational sciences in the subjects of art, history, sociology and philosophy at the University of Kassel . In 2006 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the relationship between art and reality at the University of Leiden.

After initial professional experience in technical assistance and didactic support for Documenta 7 , he completed a traineeship at the Van Abbemuseum , Eindhoven in 1984 and worked as an assistant to the artist and curator Johannes Gachnang for the exhibition Idea, Process, Result at the Martin Gropius Bau Berlin and as an assistant of the founding director Rudi Fuchs for the opening exhibition Ouverture des Castello di Rivoli , Turin. In 1984 and 1985 he was involved in the organization of the Nouvelle Biennale de Paris in the Grande Halle de la Villette. From 1985 to 1986 Franz Kaiser worked as curator of the Le Nouveau Musée de Villeurbanne, Lyon. This was followed by the first exhibition management at Le MAGASIN - Center National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble from 1986 to 1989. Here he was also involved in the establishment of the École du MAGASIN, a new form of curatorial training at the time, which found many international followers.

Franz Wilhelm Kaiser (2014)

He also curated the exhibition Meltem (with Jean-Michel Alberola, Lothar Baumgarten , Clegg & Guttman, Jannis Kounellis , Sol LeWitt , Hermann Nitsch , Giulio Paolini , Sarkis , Serge Spitzer , Pierre Weiss and the Oresteia by Iannis Xenakis ) at Château d 'Oiron, which was subsequently institutionalized as the Center National d'Art. The artists interpreted the spectacular architecture of the Renaissance castle with in-situ work. The work Les animaux de la pleine lune , realized by Lothar Baumgarten, was purchased by the French state.

From 1989 to 2016 Franz Kaiser was exhibition director at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag , including the Fotomuseum Den Haag and the GEM - Museum of Contemporary Art. As part of the restructuring of the museum with a view to its privatization in 1998, he played a key role in the development of a new exhibition sector, which made it possible to rationalize exhibition production and increase the frequency of exhibitions. As part of this activity, he expanded the spectrum of his own exhibition activities from contemporary art to classical modernism and into the 19th century. He cooperated with institutions such as the Pushkin Museum , the Russian State Museum, the Tate Gallery , the Center Pompidou , the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the Lenbachhaus and others. v. a. and developed intellectually impressive exhibition concepts that were convincing in terms of visitor orientation. From June 1, 2016 to May 31, 2019, he was director of the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg , initiated by the ZEIT Foundation . Franz W. Kaiser is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Karel Appel Foundation, Amsterdam and has been Vice President of the Karel Appel Estate Foundation since 2010. Since the summer semester 2017 he has been professor of art history (professorship according to § 17 HmbHG) at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HFBK).

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Insicuro Noncurante - Alighiero Boetti's retrospective . Le Nouveau Musée de Villeurbanne (Lyon), Nice, Eindhoven, 1986–1987.
  • John Baldessari - Composition for Violin and Voices (males) , Magasin / Center national d'art contemporain de Grenoble, 1987.
  • Meltem : Armando , Jean-Michel Alberola, Lothar Baumgarten , Joseph Beuys , James Brown , Glegg & Guttmann, Jannis Kounellis , Sol LeWitt , Herman Nitsch , Giulio Paolini , Sarkis , Serge Spitzer , Cy Twombly , Pierre Weiss . Château d'Oiron (Deux-Sèvres, France), Grenoble, 1987–1988.
  • Ger van Elk - De la nature des genre ; on behalf of the Association Française de l'Action Artistique and the Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst. Grenoble, Düsseldorf, 1987–1988.
  • Paul-Armand Gette - Transect ; on behalf of the European Visual Arts Center EVAC, Ipswich. Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, 1990.
  • Rhizome - A European Art Exhibition: Bülent Evren, Shirazeh Houshiary , Anish Kapoor , Kazuo Katase , Edu Kisman, Jan Pei Ming, Hidetoshi Nagasawa , Iba Ndiaye, Joseph Semah, Sarkis ; on behalf of the Refugees, Minorities and Asylum Seekers Department of the Dutch Ministry of Culture (in collaboration with the Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst). Gemeentemuseum, The Hague 1991.
  • Serge Spitzer - Index . The Hague, Düsseldorf, Valencia, Leeds, 1992–1994.
  • Sol LeWitt Drawings Retrospective. The Hague, Münster, Winterthur, Leeds, Paris, Boston, Baltimore, 1993–1995.
  • Niele Toroni - Histoires de peintures / Interventions . Gemeentemuseum Den Haag / Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1994.
  • Russian avant-garde 1900–1930 - the Chudnovsky Collection, St. Petersburg . Museum Paleis Lange Voorhout, The Hague, 1995.
  • Art as resistance, German painting between the wars - the Marvin and Janet Fishman Collection . Museum Paleis Lange Voorhout, The Hague, Helsinki, Stockholm, Brussels, 1995.
  • From Monet to Matisse - masterpieces from the Pushkin Museum (in collaboration with the Pushkin Museum ), The Hague 1996.
  • Wols - the painter as a photographer (in collaboration with the Goethe Institute and the Institute for Foreign Relations). The Hague, 1999.
  • Art and Religion in Russia (in collaboration with the Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg). The Hague, 2003.
  • Hans Hartung - conceptuel avant la lettre ; on behalf of the Fondation Hans Hartung et Anna Eva Bergman. Issoudin, The Hague, Dunkerque, Angers, Madrid, 2003–2008.
  • Arnulf Rainer et sa Collection d'Art Brut ; on behalf of the Maison Rouge, Paris. Paris, The Hague, Gent / Deurle, 2005–2006.
  • 7. Seven artists in the Roger Raveel Museum: Amedée Cortier, Raoul de Keyser , René Heyvaert, Guy Mees, Roger Raveel , Dan van Severen , Marthe Wéry ; on behalf of Cera Holding. Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen-aan-de-Lei, Belgium, 2007.
  • Cézanne , Picasso , Mondrian (in collaboration with the Réunion des Musées Nationaux and the Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence). The Hague, 2009.
  • Imi Knoebel - Fishing (in collaboration with Deutsche Bank Kunst, Frankfurt a. M.), The Hague 2010.
  • Kandinsky and Der Blaue Reiter (in collaboration with the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich) , The Hague, 2010.
  • Markus Lüpertz - In Divine Light . The Hague, 2011.
  • Paris, City of Modern Art (in collaboration with the Pompidou Center , Paris), The Hague 2011.
  • Gustave Caillebotte - an impressionist and photography (in collaboration with the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt). The Hague, 2013.
  • Mark Rothko (in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC). The Hague, 2014.
  • Anton Corbijn - Hollands Deep . The Hague, Berlin, 2015–2016.
  • Jürgen Partenheimer - Das Archiv (in collaboration with the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich). The Hague, 2015.
  • Robert Barry - Works 1962 until present . Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, 2015.
  • Karel Appel Retrospective. The Hague, 2016.
  • The birth of the art market - Rembrandt , Ruisdael , van Goyen and the artists of the Golden Age . Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, 2017.
  • Anton Corbijn - The Living and the Dead . Hamburg, 2018.
  • Karel Appel - Figure / Paysage. Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, 2019.
  • America! - Disney | Rockwell | Pollock | Warhol . Hamburg 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dpa: Franz Wilhelm Kaiser leaves the Bucerius Kunst Forum. In: msn news. dpa, May 21, 2019, accessed on August 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ See also the Lema Iconography
  3. ^ Paul Oskar Kristeller: The Modern System of the Arts: A Study in the History of Aesthetics (II) . In: Journal of the History of Ideas . tape 13 , no. 1 , 1952, ISSN  0022-5037 , p. 17-46 , doi : 10.2307 / 2707724 , JSTOR : 2707724 .
  4. ↑ Franz-W. Kaiser, Faculteit der Letters: Art Reality: Investigation of kinds of world appropriation. October 12, 2006, accessed August 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Franz-W. Kaiser, Faculteit der Letters: Art Reality: Investigation of kinds of world appropriation. October 12, 2006, accessed August 6, 2019 .
  6. ^ Alighiero Boetti, Franz Kaiser, Giovanni Battista Salerno: Alighiero e Boetti - Insicuro Noncurante . Ed .: Alighiero Boetti, Franz Kaiser, Giovanni Battista Salerno. Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne (Lyon) 1986, ISBN 2-905985-00-3 .
  7. ^ Guy Saint-Bonnet, Franz Kaiser, Michel Rio, Graziella Lonardi Buontempo, DM Thomas: Meltem - Work in Progress . Ed .: Franz Kaiser, Marie-Noël Rio. Incontri Internazionali d'Arte / Electa / Magasin - Center National d'Art Contemporain, Naples / Grenoble 1988.
  8. ^ Paul Donker-Duyvis, Franz-W. Kaiser: Ger van Elk: De la nature des genre . Ed .: Magasin - Center national d'art contemporain de Grenoble. Magasin - Center national d'art contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble 1988, ISBN 2-906732-15-X .
  9. ↑ Franz-W. Kaiser, Jiri Svestka: "On the nature of the genre" . Ed .: Art Association for Rhineland and Westphalia. Art Association for Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1988.
  10. ↑ Lucius Burckhardt, Paul-Armand Gett, Franz-W. Kaiser, Jeremy Rees: Paul-Armand Gette: Transect - and some other attitudes towards landscapes . Ed .: Franz-w. Emperor. European Visual Arts Center, Ipswich 1990, ISBN 0-9516363-0-8 .
  11. ^ Marianne Brouwer, Gilles Deleuze, Paul Donker Duyvis, Félix Guattari, Franz-W. Kaiser, JL Locher: Rhizome - A European Art Exhibition: Bülent Evren, Shirazeh Houshiary, Anish Kapoor, Kazuo Katase, Edu Kisman, Ming, Iba Ndiaye, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Sarkis, Joseph Semah . Ed .: Franz-W. Kaiser, Paul Donker Duyvis. Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst / Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague 1991, ISBN 90-71465-24-1 .
  12. ↑ Dan Cameron, Franz-W. Kaiser, Harald Szeeman: Serge Spitzer - Index 1972/1992 . Ed .: Franz-W. Emperor. Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague 1992, ISBN 90-6730-086-1 .
  13. ^ Rudi Fuchs, Franz W. Kaiser: Sol LeWitt - Drawings 1958-1992 . Ed .: Franz-W. Kaiser, Susanna Singer. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague 1992, ISBN 90-6730-092-6 .
  14. ↑ René Denizot, Rudi Fuchs, Franz-W. Kaiser, Niele Toroni, Chang Yen Yuan: Niele Toroni - Catalog raisonable - suite n ° 2 . Ed .: Marja Bloem, Franz Kaiser. Haags Gemeentemuseum / Stedelijk Museum, The Hague / Amsterdam 1994.
  15. ↑ Feliks Čudnovsky, David Hasàn, Franz-W. Kaiser, Jonieke van Es: Russische Avant-Garde / Russian Avant-Garde . Ed .: David Hasàn, Franz-W. Emperor. Museum Paleis Lange Voorhout / Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, The Hague / Gent 1995, ISBN 90-5349-161-9 .
  16. ↑ Franz-W. Kaiser: Art as verzet - Duitse schilders in het Interbellum . Ed .: Franz-W. Emperor. Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, Gent 1995, ISBN 90-5349-176-7 .
  17. ↑ Franz-W. Kaiser: Art et Resistance - Les peintres allemands de l'entre-deux-guerres . Ed .: Franz-W. Emperor. Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, Gent 1995, ISBN 90-5349-176-7 .
  18. ↑ Irina Antonova, Jonieke van Es, JL Locher, Patty Wageman: Van Monet dead Matisse - Fringe Meesters uit het Poesjkin Museum in Moscow . Ed .: Haags Gemeentemuseum. Haags Gemeentemuseum / Electa, The Hague / Milan 1996.
  19. ↑ Franz-W. Kaiser: WOLS - de signs as photo graphics . Ed .: Franz-W. Kaiser, Hans-L. Perforator. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague 1999.
  20. ↑ Franz-W. Kaiser, Jevgenia Petrova, Inge Wierda: Art + religion in Russia . Ed .: Jevgenia Petrova & Franz-W. Emperor. Uitgeverij Waanders / Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Zwolle / Den Haag 2002, ISBN 90-400-8760-1 .
  21. ↑ Franz-W. Kaiser, Anne Pontégnie, Vincente Todoli: Hartung x 3 . Ed .: Fondation Hans Hartung et Anna-Eva Bergman. Fondation Hans Hartung et Anna-Eva Bergman / Expressions contemporaines, Antibes 2003, ISBN 2-909166-12-0 .
  22. ^ Roger Cardinal, Antoine de Galbert, Franz-W. Kaiser, Bernard Vouilloux: Arnulf Rainer et sa collection d'Art Brut . Ed .: Franz-W. Emperor. La maison rouge / Fage éditions, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-84975-048-4 .
  23. ↑ Hans Janssen, Franz-W. Kaiser, Brigitte Léal, Sylvie Patin, Anne Roquebert, Benno Tempel: Cézanne / Picasso / Mondriaan - In nieuw perspectief . Ed .: Franz-W. Emperor. Uitgeverij Waanders / Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Zwolle / Den Haag 2009, ISBN 978-90-400-8636-6 .
  24. ↑ Hubertus Butin, Jörg Heiser, Friedhelm Hütte, Franz-W. Kaiser, David Moos, Petra Richter, Johannes Stüttgen, Benno Tempel: Fishing - Deutsche Bank Collection and New Works . Ed .: Deutsche Bank Art / Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Deutsche Bank / Gemeentemuseum The Hague / Dr. Cantz'sche Druckerei, Frankfurt a. M. / Den Haag / Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-942294-06-5 .
  25. ^ Helmut Friedel, Doede Hardeman, Annegret Hoberg, Franz-W. Kaiser, Benno Tempel: Kandinsky en Der Blaue Reiter . Ed .: Franz-W. Kaiser, Doede Hardeman. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag / Uitgeverij Ludion, The Hague / Antwerp 2010, ISBN 978-90-5544-950-7 .
  26. ↑ Rudi Fuchs, Franz-W. Kaiser, Benno Tempel: Markus Lüpertz - In't God'lijk Licht / In Divine Light . Ed .: Franz-W. Emperor. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague 2011, ISBN 978-94-6130-026-3 .
  27. ↑ Saskia Bekke-Proost, Franz-W. Kaiser, Benno Tempel, Lieke Wijnia: Parijs - Stad van de modern art 1900-1960 . Ed .: Franz-W. Emperor. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag / Uitgeverij Ludion, The Hague / Antwerp 2011, ISBN 978-94-6130-033-1 .
  28. ↑ Karin Sager, Ulrich Pohlmann, Franz Kaiser, Gilles Chardeau: Gustave Caillebotte - Een Impressionist en de photography . Ed .: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague 2013, ISBN 978-90-6730-142-8 .
  29. ↑ Harry Cooper, Franz-W. Kaiser, Henk van Os, Earl A. Powel, Benno Tempel, Joost Zwagerman: Mark Rothko . Ed .: Harry Cooper, Franz-W. Kaiser, Bennno Temple. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag / Uitgeverij Hannibal, Den Haag / Veurne (B) 2014, ISBN 978-94-91376-98-6 .
  30. ^ Anton Corbijn, Franz Kaiser, Seán O'Hagan, Benno Tempel: Anton Corbijn - Hollands Deep . Ed .: Franz Kaiser. Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8296-0683-7 .
  31. ↑ John Burnside, Anne Carson, Oswald Egger, Rudi Fuchs, Bruno Glatt, Antje von Graevenitz, Owen Griffith, Franz-W. Kaiser, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Gerhard Mack, Lebogang Mashile, Petra Maria Meyer , Jürgen Partenheimer, Nigel Prince, Anna Rühl, Werner Schnell, Klaus Schrenk, Carla Schulz-Hoffmann, Jan Thorn-Prikker, Sabine Thümmler: Jürgen Partenheimer - Das Archive / The Archive . Ed .: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen. Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen / DISTANZ Verlag, Munich / Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95476-046-6 .
  32. ↑ Robert Barry, Franz-W. Kaiser: Conversations with Robert Barry . Ed .: Robert Barry, Franz-W. Kaiser, Greta Meert. ISBN 978-90-826463-0-6 .
  33. ↑ Karel Appel, Rudi Fuchs, Franz-W. Kaiser, Klaus Ottmann, Benno Tempel: Karel Appel Retrospective . Ed .: Franz-W. Emperor. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Den Haag / Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-86335-884-6 .
  34. ^ Franz Wilhelm Kaiser, Friso Lammertse, Michael North, Gero Seelig, Jaap van der Veen: The birth of the art market - Rembrandt, Ruisdael, van Goyen and the artists of the Golden Age . Ed .: Franz Wilhelm Kaiser, Michael North. Bucerius Kunst Forum / Hirmer Verlag, Hamburg / Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7774-2907-6 .
  35. ^ Anton Corbijn, Daria Dittmeyer-Hössl, Franz Wilhelm Kaiser, Marie-Noël Rio: Anton Corbijn - The Living and the Dead . Ed .: Franz Wilhelm Kaiser. Bucerius Kunst Forum / Schirmer-Mosel Verlag, Hamburg / Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-8296-0834-3 .
  36. ^ Franz Wilhelm Kaiser: Highbrow / Lowbrow - On the legitimacy of a cultural sphere of values ​​in the age of globalization. In: Academia.edu. Academia.edu, January 7, 2019, accessed November 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kaiser, Franz Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Boppard