Heinz Willi Wirth
HW Wirth (born April 13, 1928 as Heinz Willi Wirth in Dortmund ; † December 4, 2012 in Butzbach - Hoch-Weisel ) was a German philologist , art historian , painter and professor emeritus at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. His sons are Ingo Wirth and Kai Helge Wirth.
Studied at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf , student of Theo Champion and Bruno Goller . First exhibition in 1956 in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf . Foundation of the artist group "Young Realists". As a result, his pictures were u. a. seen at exhibitions in Düsseldorf, Darmstadt, Krefeld, Berlin, Heidelberg, Vienna, Oberhausen, Geneva, Bonn, Augsburg, Remscheid, Rouen, Ostend, Mannheim, Witten, Frankfurt am Main. Pictures owned by a number of museums and in government and private collections.
In 1965, Wirth was appointed professor to the chair for Classical Philology and Art Studies - Fine Arts and Art Education . He also founded the gallery in the Dessau House, which, under his direction, served from 1978 to 1986 for encounters and intellectual exchange in the wider area of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, its students and university teachers. It offered: exhibitions, music evenings, lectures and discussions on various topics. Main topics persecution and discrimination of Sinti and Roma, Jews and other minorities, art under persecution, art as contemporary criticism, films about marginalized groups in society.
He was one of the initiators of the Römerberg Talks in Frankfurt am Main.
Works
- Altamira - New Findings: Prehistoric Fresco Reveals Its Secrets , Alpha Literatur-Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-8311-2054-4
- Aesthetics: articulation a. Communication in d. Fine arts , Kramer Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-7829-1069-9
- "Ways of realistic art in the work of HW Wirth" illustrated book, Agency for Information Design - Verlag Hilbinger, Frankfurt am Main 1978 with 12 plates (Lithos Wittemann + Küppers, Frankfurt am Main)
Web links
- Works by HW Wirth in the German National Library
- HW Wirth in April 2013 in a newsletter from the University of Frankfurt, page 6 below, page 7 with portrait photography
- HW Wirth on the Römerberg Talks homepage
- http://galerie-im-dessauerhaus.de/
- HW Wirth as a member of the group "Young Realists" in Düsseldorf 1956
- Prof. Wirth named in the book of his son Kai Helge "Sternbilder, Seewege am Himmel" as the author on the same topic (p.176)
- Wirth in the thanks of his son Kai Helge Wirth "The Origin of the Zodiac Signs", p. 105
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wirth, Heinz Willi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wirth, HW |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist, art historian, painter and professor emeritus in Frankfurt |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dortmund |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 2012 |
| Place of death | Butzbach |