Karin Thomas

Karin Thomas (born June 27, 1941 in Cologne , née Pannhaus ) is a German art historian and writer.

Life

Karin Thomas studied art history , German , philosophy and history from 1960 to 1965 with a state examination. Then she worked briefly in the teaching post. From 1971 to 2003 she was editor and since 1986 chief editor for art at the Cologne publishing house DuMont , where she edited exhibition catalogs on contemporary art, including Western art (1981) and from here (1984) as well as numerous monographs and encyclopedias. As a freelance journalist, she wrote twenty non-fiction and school books on art history, numerous essays, catalog articles and exhibition reviews.

In 1971 she published her first book Bis heute , which structures the international art history of the 20th century in terms of style. A total of twelve expanded and updated editions will appear up to 2004, as well as licensed editions in Japan and Spain. After the publication of Until today, Karin Thomas published, among other things, Art in Germany since 1945 , Blickpunkt Moderne. A history of art from romanticism to today (2010) and, together with Fritz Seydel and Hubert Sowa, the KUNST picture atlas .

She has been married to the historian and author Rüdiger Thomas since 1966. Both have two children and three grandchildren and live in Bergisch Gladbach .

Work (selection)

• Til today. Style history of the fine arts in the 20th century . DuMont, Cologne 1971 (12th edition 2004), ISBN 3-8321-1939-6
• DuMont's little specialist dictionary on 20th century art . M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1973 (9th edition 1997)
• Heinz Mack . Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen 1975
• Painting in the GDR 1949–1979 , DuMont, Cologne 1980
• Art in Germany since 1945 . DuMont, Cologne 2002
• Focus on modernity. A history of art from romanticism to the present day . DuMont, Cologne 2010
• Art practice today. A documentation of the current aesthetics . M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1972
• Alan Frederick Sundberg. Drawings. Documentation 1971–1983 . Verlag Galerie Utermann, Dortmund 1983
• Together with Götz Adriani , Winfried Konnertz : Joseph Beuys . DuMont, Cologne 1973 (paperback edition Joseph Beuys Leben und Werk , 3rd edition 1986); revised and exp. New edition, DuMont, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-7701-3321-8
• (with Gerd de Vries) DuMont's artist lexicon from 1945 to the present , DuMont, Cologne 1977 (3rd edition 1981)
• Twice German art after 1945. 40 years of proximity and distance . DuMont, Cologne 1985
• (with Götz Adriani and Winfried Konnertz) Joseph Beuys. Life and work . Adults u. streamlined new edition DuMont, Cologne 1981 (DuMont Pocket Books 108); 2nd act. 1984 edition; 3rd edition 1986
• Tradition and avant-garde in Prague . With contributions by Václav Havel , Jiří Gruša , Susanna Roth, Josef Hlaváček . DuMont, Cologne 1991
• (with Rüdiger Thomas) Heavenly harmonies. Sacred spaces and sacred music . (Architectural photographs by Achim Bednorz). With 2 CDs. DuMont, Cologne 2005
• (with Fritz Seydel and Hubert Sowa) Image Atlas KUNST . Ernst Klett Verlag / Erhard Friedrich Verlag, Stuttgart / Velber 2007, ISBN 978-3-12-205080-1
• The world cultural heritage. German-speaking area . DuMont, Cologne 1994 (ed. With Hans Christian Hoffmann and Dietmar Keller)
• German photography. Power of a medium 1870–1970 . DuMont, Cologne 1997 (edited with Klaus Honnef and Rolf Sachsse)
• DuMont's 20th Century Art Dictionary. Artists, styles and terms . DuMont, Cologne 2000 (2nd edition 2006)
• Our world cultural heritage . DuMont, Cologne 1998 (2nd edition 2003) (with Hans Christian Hoffmann and Dietmar Keller)
• The Rhine. Our world cultural heritage . DuMont, Cologne 2003 (ed. With Hans Christian Hoffmann and Dietmar Keller)
• Our world cultural heritage. Park landscapes in Germany . DuMont, Cologne 2005

Web links

• Literature by and about Karin Thomas in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage Karin Thomas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.klett.de/produkt/isbn/3-12-205080-3
2. ↑ Homepage Rüdiger Thomas