Klaus Honnef
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Klaus Honnef (born October 14, 1939 in Tilsit , East Prussia (now Sowetsk , Russia)) is a German art historian , art critic , exhibition curator and theorist for artistic photography . He is the author of numerous books on contemporary painting and photography.
Life
Career
After graduating from the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen in 1960, Honnef studied sociology and history at the University of Cologne from 1960 to 1965 . During his studies he worked as a freelance film, theater and art critic for Aachener Nachrichten , Kölnische Rundschau and Düsseldorfer Nachrichten . In 1965 he became editor and head of the cultural department at "Aachener Nachrichten". Together with the gallery owner Will Kranenpohl, the artists Benno Werth , Rune Mields and others, he founded the Center for Current Art - Two-Way Traffic in the Theaterstrasse 50 in Aachen in 1968 and managed it until 1970. There he organized one of the first institutional exhibitions with works by Gerhard Richter .
Act
From 1970 to 1974 Honnef was the managing director of the Westphalian Art Association in Münster. He pursued progressive projects with exhibitions such as Arte Concreta , Konzept ist die Form or solo exhibitions by Lawrence Weiner , Sigmar Polke and Jörg Immendorff . In 1972 he was responsible for the "Idea + Idea / Light" department on Harald Szeemann's Documenta 5 together with Konrad Fischer .
From 1974 to 1999 Honnef acted as exhibition manager at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn , from 1974 to 1994 responsible for the temporary exhibitions and from 1994 to 1999 as head of the “Photography” department. At Documenta 6 in 1977 he was together with Evelyn Weiss curator of the painting and photography departments . With their look back on 150 years of photo history, they directed interest to the artistic creative power of the medium.
In 1980 Honnef was appointed honorary professor for the theory of photography at the Kassel Art College . From 1986 to 2004 he took on substitute professorships and teaching positions at the University of Trier , the University of Cologne, the Braunschweig University of Art and various universities of applied sciences. From 2004 to 2009 he was a lecturer at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal .
From 1998 to 2008 Honnef acted as Vice President of the German section of the International Art Critics Association (AICA). He was a co-founder of the Photo Archive society in Bonn, of which he has been chairman since 2002. Since 2000, Honnef has been a freelance exhibition curator and art critic for KUNSTFORUM International , Die Welt , Kunstzeitung , and EIKON . International magazine for photography & media art , Photonews - newspaper for photography and for artists - critical lexicon of contemporary art .
The collective work Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhundert , Volumes 1 + 2 (1998), published by the Cologne-based Taschen Verlag , achieved a high circulation in German and English , in which he - alongside Karl Ruhrberg and Manfred Schneckenburger - was one of the main authors.
Awards
- 1988: Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettre of the Republic de France
- 2011: Culture Prize of the German Society for Photography
Curated exhibitions
Westphalian Art Association
- 1973: Lawrence Weiner ; Winfred Gaul retrospective 1953–1973
- 1971: Rune Mields ; Hanne Darboven
Rheinisches Landesmuseum
- 1995: Axel Hütte , landscape
- 1979: In Germany. Aspects of contemporary documentary photography. [Höfer, Hütte, Ronkholz, Struth]
- 1977: Liselotte Strelow : Portraits 1933–1972
- 1976: Karl Blossfeldt : Photographs 1900–1932
- 1976: 200 years of American painting, 1776–1976
- 1975: Bernd and Hilla Becher : Photographs 1957 to 1975
Traveling exhibition for the Foreign Office
- 1985: Interim balance: New German painting. New gallery at the Joanneum, Graz; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn and in the forum for contemporary art, Innsbruck
Fonts
- Concept art. Phaidon Verlag, 1971, ISBN 3-87635-035-2 .
- Klaus Honnef: 150 years of photography. Zweiausendeins, Mainz / Frankfurt am Main 1977. (Extended special edition of Kunstforum International: 150 Years of Photography III / Photography at documenta 6 , Volume 22)
- Contemporary art. Taschen, Cologne 1987, ISBN 978-3-8228-0063-8 .
- Assembly as an aesthetic principle, Wolf Vostell's concept of work . In: Wolf Vostell . Retrospective 92, Edition Braus, Heidelberg, 1992, ISBN 3-925520-44-9 .
- Paths to Art Criticism. Texts between theory and artist praise. Steinmeier, Deiningen 1999, ISBN 3-9805962-5-7 .
- Nothing but art ... writings on art and photography. DuMont, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7701-3611-X .
- Pop art . (Taschen Basic Art Series), 3rd edition. Taschen Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-8228-2216-7 . (As well as English and Italian edition)
- Andy Warhol 1928-1987. Art as commerce. 9th edition. Taschen, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-8228-6378-7 .
- Art criticism today. Texts between evaluation and advertising. Steinmeier, Deiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-939777-39-7 .
- with HA Schult : Home = Heimat , 950 years Siegburg , published by Stadtmuseum Siegburg. Bernstein , Bonn 2014, ISBN 978-3-945426-01-2 .
- Gerhard Richter. Taschen, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-8365-7523-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Klaus Honnef in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Klaus Honnef in the German Digital Library
- Klaus Honnef on kunstaspekte.de
- Short biography and short bibliography
- WDR 3 (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) Saturday talk on April 16, 2016
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Richter. Two-way traffic. Aachen. Catalog 3/69. March 27 to April 22, 1969.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Honnef, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian, curator and art critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tilsit |