Gerd Presler

Gerd Presler (2004)

Gerd Presler (born November 27, 1937 in Hanover ) is a German theologian , religious educator and art scholar .

Life

Gerd Presler studied German language and literature, philosophy, Protestant theology, pedagogy and art history at the universities of Münster , Berlin and Copenhagen until 1958, after attending the grammar school in Oldenburg, Dortmund . At the theological faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University , he wrote a dissertation on the Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard under Ernst Haenchen . In February 1972 Presler took over a professorship at the Karlsruhe University of Education for systematic theology and religious education. As part of his theological research, he published on Martin Luther King, Jr. and Søren Kierkegaard. In 1996 he received his doctorate for the second time at the Philosophical Faculty of Heidelberg University with a thesis on Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's sketchbooks .

The focus of his scientific work lies in the fine arts. His publications include books about the artist group Die Brücke , Art brut ( L'Art Brut. Art between genius and madness ) and about the New Objectivity ( painting of the New Objectivity. Splendor and misery of the 20s ).

Presler developed catalogs of works: prints by the Dangaster painter Franz Radziwill as well as the updated and expanded new edition of the prints by the Dane Asger Jorn . With catalog raisonnés of the sketchbooks by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Edvard Munch , Ludwig Meidner , Asger Jorn, Karl Hofer and Walter Stöhrer, as well as collaboration with Max Beckmann and Willi Baumeister , he laid the foundations for the terminology and systematic recording of this hitherto hardly explored branch of artistic creation. In The Sketchbook - Lucky Fall of Art History , published in 2017, he presented the scientific criteria for the characterization of the creative place “sketchbook” for the first time. The spectrum of investigations ranges from Degas , Munch, Kandinsky , Picasso , Kirchner to Marc , Arp , Beckmann, Schiele and Jorn to Baumeister, Oskar Schlemmer , Joan Mitchell , Paul Thek and Arnulf Rainer . In the art magazines art - Das Kunstmagazin und Weltkunst , Presler published extensive thematic reviews. He had research stays in Oslo, Silkeborg (DK), Washington, Davos, Geneva, Zurich, Albissola, Hamburg, Munich, Nuremberg, Leipzig, Stuttgart.

He wrote about the European copper engraving cabinets in Basel , Vienna, Berlin, Dresden (“Libraries of Seeing”); to the “Centers of New Objectivity” (Karlsruhe, Berlin, Hanover, Munich). The FAZ-Magazin published interviews on Pontus Hultén , Ernst Beyeler , Werner Haftmann , Thomas Grochowiak , Roman Norbert Ketterer and Eberhard W. Kornfeld .

Gerd Presler is an honorary member of the “Museumsforening Jorn”, Silkeborg, Denmark, founding and honorary member of the “Martin Luther King Center”, Werdau and a member of the “ Karl Hofer Committee ”, Cologne.

Fonts

• Martin Luther King. 18th edition 2016 (= Rowohlt Taschenbuch. Volume 333).
• Gerd Presler, The Enigmatic Worlds of Uwe Bremer, in. Bunter Graphik-Almanach V, Fifth selection from the monthly magazine "Die Kunst", Karl Thiemig Verlag, Munich 1985, pp. 75–84
• Write presentations, give presentations. UTB, drawings by Jürgen Döhmann
• Painting of the New Objectivity. Splendor and misery of the 20s. dumont TB 285.
• L'Art Brut. Art between genius and madness. dumont TB 111.
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's etchings. In: Weltkunst. May 15, 1994, p. 1335.
• Brücke greets Dr. Rosa Schapire. Kunsthalle Mannheim.
• as publisher: Franz Radziwill, catalog raisonné of prints. Engelhardt and Bauer, Karlsruhe 1993.
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, his women, his models, his pictures. Prestel-Verlag, Munich.
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, catalog raisonné of the sketchbooks. Davos / Karlsruhe.
• Edvard Munch, catalog raisonné of the sketchbooks. Oslo / Karlsruhe.
• The painters of the "Brücke" Heckel, Kirchner, Mueller, Nolde, Pechstein, Schmidt-Rottluff. rororo TB.
• In search of paradise. The painters of the artist group "Brücke". In: The painters of the artist group "Brücke". Apolda 2007, ISBN 3-935144-18-0 , pp. 170-177.
• Asger Jorn, catalog raisonné of the sketchbooks. Silkeborg / Karlsruhe.
• Franz Radziwill. Watercolors, drawings, prints. Dangast 1989. (Comments on the early graphic work)
• Willy Hinck, painter from Dangast. Karlsruhe 1997.
• Why is Edvard Munch so current. A realist of feelings. In: ART - the art magazine. No. 2, 2001, pp. 12-24.
• Festschrift for Eberhard W. Kornfeld. Bern 2003. (Two texts together with Klaus Albers)
• Franz Radziwill, From Expressionism to Magical Realism. Hamburg 2006.
• Franz Radziwill, watercolors. The picture before the picture. Oldenburg 2007. (works on paper)
• Franz Radziwill - threateningly familiar worlds. Paderborn, Bonn / Bayreuth 2006/7. (Franz Radziwill and Max Beckmann)
• Radziwill and modern art. Oldenburg 2008. (self-portraits)
• Expressionism. Prelude to modernity. Bremen 2008. (1907: Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich Heckel in Dangast; From the bridge to the bank)
• New research. Bridge Archive, 23/2008. (Three texts together with Klaus Albers)
• Asger Jorn, catalog raisonné of prints. 2nd edition Silkeborg / Munich 2009.
• with Felicitas Baumeister: Willi Baumeister, catalog raisonné of the sketchbooks. Stuttgart 2010.
• with Christiane Zeiller: Max Beckmann, The Sketch Books. Washington / Munich 2009.
• Friedemann Hahn. Kehrer, Heidelberg 2008.
• Gerd Presler: Franz Radziwill: 'Muschelkalkmühle in Varelerhafen' and 'Grodenstraße nach Varelerhafen', in: The painter Franz Radziwill in the time of National Socialism, Dangast / Wilhelmshaven 1911/12, p. 88 f. ISBN 978-3-86678-499-4
• Walter Stöhrer, catalog raisonné of the sketchbooks. Karlsruhe / Scholderup / Berlin 2012.
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, facsimile of the sketchbook 159. Galerie Koch, Hanover 2012.
• Edvard Munch - Ernst Ludwig Kircher. Galerie Thomas, Munich 2012.
• Ludwig Meidner, catalog raisonné of the sketchbooks. Karlsruhe / Frankfurt 2013.
• Karl Hofer. Catalog raisonné of the sketchbooks. van Ham Art Publications, Cologne 2015.
• Edvard Munch. The scream - the end of a mistake. eBook. XinXii-GD Publishing, Karlsruhe 2015.
• Fränzi - end of a mistake. Three “bridge” painters - one model. Karlsruhe 2015.
• "Papa, our Franz is hanging there". Encounters with Franz Radziwill. Karlsruhe / Weingarten 2014, ISBN 978-3-941850-46-0 . (Limited, numbered and signed private print)
• The Prints A Joint Chapter. In: Jorn + Munch. Catalog of the exhibition in the Munch Museum Oslo and the Museum Jorn . Silkeborg, 2016/2017, pp. 182–191.
• The sketchbook - a stroke of luck in art history. digital art book, Karlsruhe / Weingarten 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-056940-1 .
• Gerd Presler: Kirchner tanzt, in: Kirchner's Kosmos: Der Tanz Hirmer-Verlag, Munich 2018, pp. 14-27 ISBN 978-3-7774-3158-1
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, The Sketchbooks, The Sketchbooks. Kirchner Museum, Davos 2019, ISBN 978-386833-275-9 .
• Edvard Munch. “A line of coal on a wall can be greater art than ten pictures in a fine gold frame”. In: Inseparable - Frames and Pictures by the Brücke Artists. Brücke Museum Berlin / Buchheim Foundation Bernried am Starnberger See, König Books, London 2020, pp. 347–351.
• Review of: Eberhard Schmidt: Where in this world? The painter Franz Radziwill. Biography. Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle / Saale 2019; In: Journal für Kunstgeschichte / journal of Art History. ISSN 1432-9506, No. 24, 2/2020, pp. 196-202
• To the first - to the second - to the eightieth! Eberhard W. Kornfeld, born on September 23, 1923. In: Weltkunst. October 2003, pp. 1458f.

Web links

Commons : Gerd Presler  - Collection of Images

• Website of Gerd Presler