Gert Selle

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Gert Selle (* 1933 in Saarbrücken ) is a German art educator and design theorist . He coined the term aesthetic education and wrote standard works on design history .

life and work

Gert Selle studied German , art history and art education in Frankfurt am Main and Kassel . 1960–1967 he was an art teacher in Frankfurt am Main. Subsequently, until 1972 lecturer at the Werkkunstschule, later technical college in Darmstadt . In 1973 he was appointed to the Chair of Fine Arts - Visual Communication at the PH Lower Saxony in Braunschweig, later TU Braunschweig . In 1981 Selle changed to the professorship for theory, didactics and practice of aesthetic education at the University of Oldenburg . In 1999 he retired .

In the first publications, Gert Selle worked on design and cultural-historical topics such as the ideology and utopia of design. On the social theory of industrial design (1973), Art Nouveau and the art industry. On the economy and aesthetics of the applied arts around 1900 (1974), The history of design in Germany from 1870 to today. Development of the industrial product culture (1978). The last one in particular has been published several times since then and is considered a standard work in design. Together with Michael Andritzky he wrote the study area living. Didactic non-fiction book from the nursery to the city (1979) and with the collaboration of Jutta Boehe culture of the senses and aesthetic education. Everyday life, socialization, art lessons in Germany from the German Empire to the Federal Republic (1981). The following works aim at an aesthetic education that focuses on experience-related and art-related practice. For example use of the senses. Eine Kunstpädagogische Praxis (1988) as author and editor of several books and series. In 1994 he rewrote the history of design in Germany . Gert Selle contributed to the art pedagogical discourse and in particular justified his skepticism towards any form of didactic "planning rationality". Since his retirement, Gert Selle has been working more artistically, as an essayist and as a picture maker. In 2010 Gert Selle supported the knowledge platform designwissen.net.

Publications (selection)

  • Ideology and utopia of design. On the social theory of industrial design , DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1973. ISBN 3-7701-0658-X
  • Art Nouveau and Art Industry. On the economy and aesthetics of the applied arts around 1900 . Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1974. ISBN 3-473-61410-6
  • The history of design in Germany from 1870 to today. Development of industrial product culture . DuMont, Cologne 1978. ISBN 3-7701-0945-7
    • Revised and expanded new edition: Design history in Germany. Product culture as design and experience . DuMont, Cologne 1987. ISBN 3-7701-1927-4
  • (with the collaboration of Jutta Boehe): Culture of the senses and aesthetic education. Everyday life, socialization, art lessons in Germany from the German Empire to the Federal Republic . DuMont, Cologne 1981. ISBN 3-7701-1187-7
  • (together with Jutta Boehe): Living with beautiful things. Adaptation and stubbornness in everyday living . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1986. ISBN 3-498-06189-5
  • Use of the senses. An art educational practice . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1988. ISBN 3-499-55467-4
  • About the disturbed relationship between art education and current art. A criticism with practical consequences . BDK, Hannover 1990. ISBN 3-927268-07-0
  • Your own four walls. To the hidden history of living . Campus, Frankfurt am Main, New York 1993; 2nd edition 1996. ISBN 3-593-34923-X
    • Updated and expanded new edition: Your own four walls. Living as a reminder . form + Zweck, Berlin 2011. 978-3-935053-37-2
  • History of design in Germany . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, New York 1994; Study edition 1997. ISBN 3-593-35154-4
    • Updated and expanded new edition: History of Design in Germany . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, New York 2007. ISBN 978-3-593-38487-0
  • Seven things. A book about things . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, New York 1997. ISBN 3-593-35672-4
  • Said aside. About culture, art, design and education . Anabas Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000. ISBN 3-87038-328-3
  • Design in everyday life. From the Thonet chair to the microchip . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, New York 2007. ISBN 978-3-593-38337-8
  • In the house of things. Attempt at a phenomenological orientation . With drawings by Astrid Brandt . Surface, Frankfurt am Main, Darmstadt 2015. ISBN 978-3-939855-37-8

exhibition

  • "The ingenious design of the 80s", Internationales Design Zentrum West-Berlin, 1982

literature

  • Helga Kämpf-Jansen: Aesthetic Research: Paths through everyday life, art and science. Towards an innovative concept of aesthetic education. 3rd slightly changed edition, Tecton Verlag, Marburg, 2012, p. 269. ISBN 3-82885-621-7
  • Karl-Josef Pazzini, Eva Sturm , Wolfgang Legler, Torsten Meyer (Eds.): Gert Selle: Aesthetic Education or Education in the Second Modern Age? About a problem of continuity in didactic thinking. Hamburg University Press, 2004, ISBN 3-937816-04-6 , download
  • Georg Peez: Introduction to Art Education. 4th ed., Volume 16, W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, p. 25, p. 63f., Pp. 68-72. ISBN 978-3-17-022391-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petra Eisele: BRDesign. German design as an experiment since the 1960s. Böhlau Cologne, 2005, ISBN 3-41216-504-2
  2. ↑ Sponsors of the designwissen.net platform , January 2010, accessed April 12, 2015


personal data
SURNAME Selle, Gert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art educator, design theorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken