Karl Georg Kaster

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Karl Georg Kaster (born May 18, 1943 in Elberfeld ; † June 20, 1997 in Trier ) was a German art historian and museum educator.

Life

Karl Georg Kaster was born as the only child of the commercial manager Wilhelm Heinrich Maria Kaster and Maria Kaster, née Oberbeck. After graduating from high school at the Carl-Duisberg-Gymnasium Wuppertal-Barmen in 1962, Kaster studied art history (German, history, archeology and philosophy) at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . During his studies in 1971 he took on mediation tasks as a tutor at the institute “Junior Year in Munich at the University of Munich” and from 1972 became involved at the Museum Pedagogical Center in Munich . He did his doctorate in 1973 with Professor Dr. Friedrich Piel . As an editorial assistant on volumes 1 (1973) to 3 (1974) of the "Iconography of the Saints" (volumes 5 to 7 of the complete edition, Verlag Herder), he was able to distinguish himself in specialist circles. In the publications edited by Kaster, which were created in teams of authors, he combined scientific precision with narrative analysis in order to also reach a non-subject-specific readership. Karl Georg Kaster died while preparing for the Council of Europe exhibition “1648. War and Peace in Europe ”. For this major project, he has been the deputy exhibition commissioner in Professor Dr. Klaus Bußmann (Director of the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History Münster, Exhibition Commissioner) and responsible for the Osnabrück exhibition area. The Council of Europe exhibition was successfully presented in 1998 in Osnabrück and Münster.

Karl Georg Kaster had a son and a daughter from his first marriage and two daughters from his second marriage.

Professional background

September 16, 1974 - December 31, 1981 Museum educator and deputy head of the Art Education Center (today: Art and Culture Education Center of the Museums , KPZ) in Nuremberg.

1974/1975 part-time job at the Städtisches Labenwolf-Gymnasium Nürnberg and at the Nürnberg-Kolleg (today: Hermann-Kesten-Kolleg Nürnberg) in the subjects of art education and music.

from January 1, 1982 museum educator and curator in the cultural history museum of the city of Osnabrück, from 1983 to 1992 additionally teaching position at the University of Osnabrück for museum education and museum didactics.

Focus of work

Karl Georg Kaster's main focus was conveying art-historical knowledge on questions of image and design aesthetics. As an exhibition curator and editor of various exhibition catalogs, he made significant contributions to this. As a museum educator, the intensive involvement of groups in working groups was always worth the effort, which such an organizational form for the conception and implementation of exhibitions implies. Because he was convinced that a regional museum would only have a future through participation in the sense of a reciprocal exchange.

Publications (selection)

Below is a selection of exhibitions that Karl Georg Kaster designed and whose catalogs he was responsible for creating:

  • The portrait - from the picture of the emperor to the election poster. An exhibition by the Art Education Center in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg 1977.
  • Art-historical terminology (publications of the KPZ in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, vol. 6), Nürnberg 1978.
  • Reformation in Nuremberg: upheaval and preservation . Exhibition in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, June 12 - September 2, 1979; Catalog of the same name for the exhibition (publications of the KPZ in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, vol. 9), Nürnberg 1979.
  • Osnabrück. 1200 years - progress and preservation. Profiles of civil identity. Exhibition at Kunsthalle Osnabrück July 15 - November 16, 1980 Catalog of the same name for the exhibition, Nuremberg 1980.
  • Felix Nussbaum (1904 Osnabrück - 1944 Auschwitz). A biographical and iconographical interpretation of his work, Cologne 1989.
  • Forty years of campaign advertising in the Federal Republic. An exhibition in the Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück, in: Yearbook of Advertising in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Issue 27, Berlin: Econ Verlag, 1990, pp. 40–44.
  • Felix Nussbaum. Ostracized art - exile art - resistance art. Exhibition in the Cultural History Museum Osnabrück, May 6th - August 26th 1990; Catalog of the same name for the exhibition (Osnabrück Cultural Monuments - Contributions to the Art and Cultural History of the City of Osnabrück, Vol. 3) Bramsche 1990.
  • Adolf Frohner. Emancipation of the flesh. Exhibition at Kunsthalle Osnabrück, February 17– March 31, 1991 in the series “Legacy - Hommage à Felix Nussbaum”; Catalog of the same name for the exhibition, Bramsche 1991.
  • VDMIAE. God's word remains forever. 450 years of the Reformation in Osnabrück. Exhibition April 18 - August 29, 1993 St. Marienkirche Osnabrück; Catalog of the same name (Osnabrück Cultural Monuments - Contributions to the Art and Cultural History of the City of Osnabrück, Vol. 6) Bramsche 1993.

literature

Thorsten Heese, "... a separate local for art and antiquity". The institutionalization of collecting using the example of Osnabrück museum history (Osnabrück cultural monuments, contributions to the art and cultural history of the city of Osnabrück, Volume 12), Bramsche 2004. ISBN 3-89946-016-2

Thomas Kaufmann, Thirty Years War and Peace of Westphalia. Church history studies on Lutheran confessional culture (contributions to historical theology, 104), Tübingen 1998. ISBN 978-3-16-146933-6

Karl Georg Kaster, didactic framework for the concept of a historical museum for Nuremberg's industrial culture, in: Horst Henschel (ed.), Museum and Democratic Society. Preliminary considerations on the concept of a historical museum for Nuremberg's industrial culture (writings of the Art Education Center in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg, issue 4), Nuremberg 1979, pp. 59–161.

Karl Georg Kaster, attempts to rehabilitate the historical object in the museum, in: Udo Liebelt (Hg), Museum of the Senses (specialist conference of the working group of German-speaking members of ICOM / CECA in the Sprengel Museum Hanover November 22-25, 1989), Hanover 1990, Pp. 32-43.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kaster personnel file, City of Osnabrück
  2. ^ Foreword by Thomas Kaufmann, Thirty Years War and Peace of Westphalia. Church history studies on Lutheran denominational culture, Tübingen 1998, VII.
  3. ↑ Karl Georg Kaster: From the one-dimensional to the multi-dimensional of history. On the concept of the city history exhibition of the cultural history museum . In: attacks. Magazine for art and culture . No. 13 , 1987, pp. 4-7 .
  4. ↑ Thorsten Heese: "... an own local for art and antiquity". The institutionalization of collecting using the example of Osnabrück museum history . In: Osnabrück cultural monuments - contributions to the art and cultural history of the city of Osnabrück . tape 12 . Rasch Verlag, Bramsche 2004, p. 250-254 .
personal data
SURNAME Kaster, Karl Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum educator
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1997
Place of death trier