Jan Thorn-Prikker (art writer)
Jan Thorn-Prikker (* 1949 ) is a German art writer .
life and work
Thorn-Prikker studied German, education, history and philosophy in Bonn.
Thorn-Prikker has published as a freelance art critic in German and international magazines, books and radio stations. His literary critical work Revolutionary Without Revolution comes from 1978 . Interpretations of the works of Georg Büchner .
From 1989 to 2006 he was the editor-in-chief of the bimonthly international magazine Kulturchronik , published by "Inter Nationes". After the merger with the Goethe-Institut , the magazine was renamed Kulturjournal . In 2006 it was discontinued.
He interviewed Gerhard Richter , Helmut Federle , Günter Umberg , Jürgen Partenheimer and wrote essays on Thomas Schütte and Bernhard Frize . He dealt with contemporary architecture by Heinz Bienefeld , Nikolaus Bienefeld and Roger Diener . One focus of his work is photography.
Together with Klaus Honnef he published the volume Lichtbildnisse. The portrait in the history of photography. For panoramic photography by Klaus Kinold he wrote the text.
Jan Thorn-Prikker lives in Bonn.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jan Thorn-Prikker in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thorn-Prikker, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art writer and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |