Herbert Lachmayer

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Herbert Lachmayer (* 1948 in Vienna ) is an Austrian curator and both founder and former chairman of the Da Ponte Institute and the DA PONTE Research Center in Vienna.

Life

Herbert Lachmayer grew up in an educated middle-class family in Josefstadt, Vienna .

He studied philosophy , sociology and art history in Vienna, Frankfurt am Main (here with Theodor W. Adorno , Jürgen Habermas , Alexander Mitscherlich , Oskar Negt , Ulrich Oevermann and Bruno Liebrucks ) and Berlin (here with Jacob Taubes and Dieter Henrich, among others ). After a few years, which Lachmayer lived in Germany after his studies , he finally returned to Austria and began teaching at universities.

In addition to teaching, he worked as a curator of art exhibitions. The Mozart exhibition is one of his achievements in this area . Experiment Enlightenment in Vienna at the end of the 18th century in the Vienna Albertina in 2006.

As part of the exhibition, Lachmayer developed an artistic-scientific technique that became known as Staging Knowledge and that serves to convey cultural-historical content.

Herbert Lachmayer held the position of owner representative at the Linz reinforced concrete sleeper factory SSL for six years as a senior authorized signatory .

From 2001 until bankruptcy in 2008, he headed the Da Ponte Institute for Librettology, Don Juan Research and Collection History, a research facility that he founded and financed. In the institute, scholars conducted research on the 17th and 18th centuries, primarily with the libretto as a source, they publish, design exhibitions, and advise theater people. Since an opera performed at that time was never older than five years, the current tendencies of the courtly, absolutist aristocratic society can be read from the libretti. She also worked with the DFG opera project , and was affiliated with the Don Juan Archive Vienna . The institute went bankrupt in December 2008.

Lachmayer was in charge of the successor organization founded in 2009 under the name "DA PONTE Research Center" until 2014.

Herbert Lachmayer is married to the art theorist and curator Brigitte Felderer and lives in Vienna.

Teaching

Herbert Lachmayer had been teaching since the 1970s and had been professor at the Institute for Fine Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Artistic and Industrial Design in Linz since 1991 . He was head of the "Experimental Design" master class and until 2002 chairman of the Art & Tek Institute at the Art University Linz. Lachmayer also taught at times at the University of Vienna , University College London , Stanford University , Bauhaus University Weimar and the Berlin University of the Arts , where he a. a. held joint courses with Julius Posener .

Exhibitions (selection)

1991

  • The bathroom. A cultural history of bathing culture in the 19th and 20th centuries, Hermesvilla

1996

1998

2000

2003/2004

2004/2005

2006

2008

  • Why does Carl August need a Goethe? - Princely longing for individualism, Weimar City Palace

2009

2010

2011

2014

2018

Publications (selection)

  • Executive floor, Vienna 1982;
  • Surf: Studies u. Objects on types of speed / Klaus Pinter, Edition Tusch Wien, ISBN 3-85063-121-4 .
  • Furniture and interiors at Otto Wagner, together with P. Asenbaum and P. Haiko, Vienna 1983
  • Documentation of the exhibition Klaus Pinter - New Works 1984-85: Palais Ferstel - Grosser Ballsaal, Vienna, Falter Verlag Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-85439-015-7 .
  • Design as a functional sculpture, Falter Verlag Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-85439-024-6 .
  • Klaus Pinter - Zerschnitte: Work 1986 - 87 / Landesgalerie am Oberösterr. Landesmuseum, published by Upper Austria. Landesmuseum Linz 1987, ISBN 3-900746-03-6 .
  • The bathroom. A cultural history of the bathroom in the 19th and 20th centuries, Residenz Verlag 1991, ISBN 3-7017-0723-5 .
  • Erwin Reiter: Sculptures 1962–1993, Verlag Stiftung Wörlen 1993, ISBN 3-928844-04-0 .
  • Ernst Giselbrecht - Abbundhalle Murau, House of Architecture Graz 1994, ISBN 3-901174-11-7 .
  • An Archigram program 1961-74; A Guide to Archigram 1961-74, Academy Edition 1995, ISBN 1-85490-376-4 .
  • Wiener Orte, 19 works by Elsa Prochazka: exhibition October / November 1996, Aedes, gallery and architecture forum, published by gallery and architecture forum Kristin Feireiss, Berlin
  • Archimedia - Institute for Arts and Technology - Projects 95/97, Archimedia Verlag Linz 1997
  • Work & culture, Ritter Verlag Klagenfurt 1998 (4 volumes)
  • With Reinhard Eisendle, Elfie Miklautz : The kitchen. On the history of an architectural, social and imaginative space, Böhlau Verlag Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-205-99076-5 .
  • Bad Deutsch-Altenburg - Pictures of a Region, Böhlau Verlag Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-205-99150-8 .
  • Unique pieces: jewelry artists from Linz, Zurich and Pforzheim, Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 2000, ISBN 3-85415-274-4 .
  • All jewelry. Museum for Design Zurich, Lars Müller Verlag, Baden, 2000, ISBN 3-907078-32-2 .
  • Mozart. Experiment Enlightenment in Vienna at the end of the 18th century. Volume of essays and exhibition catalog (on the occasion of the exhibition Mozart. The Enlightenment Experiment in Vienna at the End of the 18th Century, Albertina, Vienna: March 17 to September 20, 2006), Hatje Cantz Verlag 2006, Ostfilderndes (3 volumes)
  • Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: a completely normal child prodigy, Holzhausen Verlag Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85493-123-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Lachmayer at Perlentaucher.de
  2. Interview for Salve TV
  3. Rococo? Reinvent! - Portrait on falter.at from September 20, 2006 ( Memento from January 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. Jart.at: Mozart - Experiment Enlightenment  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.jart.at  
  5. VCÖ: Herbert Lachmayer - directly asked  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.vcoe.at  
  6. ^ WELT-Online, Mozart was a pornosopher - Herbert Lachmayer on the composer's mysterious parallel worlds, March 10, 2006
  7. Börse-Express dated December 23, 2008 ( Memento of the original dated April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.boerse-express.com
  8. DA PONTE Research Center website
  9. Splace magazines, over Herbert Lachmayer
  10. DER STANDARD, print edition, March 17, 2006
  11. Wien.at: Vienna Lectures
  12. Kunsthalle Wien: Wunschmaschine world invention
  13. Timetools: Annual brochure 1997/98  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 4.1 MB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.timetools.at  
  14. Museum für Gestaltung Zürich: Alles Schmuck ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-gestaltung.ch
  15. FAZ.net: Kissed twice awake from slumber
  16. Da Ponte Research Center: Exhibition "Mozart. The Enlightenment Experiment in Vienna at the End of the 18th Century"
  17. Welt Online: “Mozart was a pornosoph”: Herbert Lachmayer on the composer's puzzling parallel worlds
  18. Deutschlandfunk: Jew, priest, librettist
  19. ^ Da Ponte Research Center: Exhibition "Wolfgang Amadée. A completely normal child prodigy"
  20. ^ Salve TV: Art Festival Portrait - curator Herbert Lachmayer
  21. Youtube: Haydn Explosiv Documentation
  22. ^ Salve TV: Conjuring National Identity - The Bernhard Room
  23. Da Ponte Research Center: Exhibition "One will probably still be allowed to dream"
  24. Thüringische Landeszeitung: Black-red-gold melange in Jena
  25. ^ Da Ponte Research Center: Exhibition "Black - Red - Gold
  26. Da Ponte Research Center: Exhibition "Mozart's Da Ponte Operas"
  27. ^ Da Ponte Research Center: Imagination and Pharmacy
  28. Da Ponte Research Center: Exhibition "GUSTAV MAHLER - Productive Decadence in Vienna around 1900"
  29. Da Ponte Research Center: Exhibition "MEDIAL LIFE [T] SPACES - Are we threatened with a digital home?"
  30. Salzburg Festival: ROSSINI MANIA, Vienna 1822 exhibition as part of the Whitsun Festival
  31. dorf.tv: ROSSINIMANIA, Vienna 1822
  32. Concett Gallery: RUDOLF POLANSZKY - retrospective