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Hermann Raum (born August 24, 1924 in Pommelsbrunn ; † January 23, 2010 in Kirch Rosin ) was a German caricaturist and art scholar.

Life

Raum studied from 1947 to 1948 at the Nuremberg Art College and from 1951 to 1953 at the Leipzig College of Graphics and Book Art .

In 1955 he moved to the GDR and lived in Rostock. In addition to his work as a cartoonist, he pursued a career in art history. From 1960 to 1976, Raum headed the Institute for Art History at the University of Rostock, where he received his doctorate in 1962 and completed his habilitation in 1972. From 1977 to 1982 Raum served as director of the Moritzburg State Gallery in Halle / Saale and from 1977 to 1988 as Vice President of the Association of Visual Artists in the GDR. Between 1978 and 1983 he taught as an honorary professor at the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art and from 1982 to 1989 at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art , where Raum was also the prorector. From 1982 he was responsible four times for the official contribution of the GDR in the pavilion of decorative arts at the Venice Biennale , in which countries traditionally exhibit that do not have their own pavilion in the Giardini . As an emeritus art scholar, Raum last lived in Kirch Rosin near Güstrow, where he died in 2010.

A small bundle of his work is in the House of History Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Publications (selection)

  • The fine arts of the FRG and West Berlin, Leipzig 1977.
  • Fine arts in the GDR. The other modernity, Leipzig 1978.
  • Bernhard Heisig. Printmaking & drawing (together with Bernhard Heisig and Karl Max Kober), Halle / Saale 1979.
  • Fine arts in the GDR. The other modernity. Works - tendencies - lasting, Berlin 2000.

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personal data
SURNAME Room, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German caricaturist and art scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Pommelsbrunn
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2010
Place of death Church Rosin