Lothar Romain

Lothar Romain (born April 19, 1944 in Geilenkirchen ; † July 14, 2005 in Berlin ) was a German journalist, curator and art scholar.

Life

Romain studied art history , theater studies , German literature and philosophy at the University of Cologne . During his studies he worked for the radio ( Südwestfunk Baden-Baden), where he worked as an editor from 1968 . Since 1973 he was university policy, then culture and media policy advisor to the party executive of the SPD . From 1976 to 1980 he headed the culture department at “ Vorwärts ”. 1980–1981 he was editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine “ergo”, which was published by Carl Hanser Verlag Munich for the Foreign Office . From 1982 to 1984 he worked as a culture editor at Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne.

Romain ran various cultural magazine projects as well as the artistic direction of several exhibitions and was a book and trade magazine author. He was responsible for the concept of documenta 6 in 1977 and was on the advisory board of documenta 8 in 1987 . As an art critic he emerged with numerous publications ("About Beuys ", "Positions - Painting from the Federal Republic of Germany", " Bernhard Heiliger ", " Bernard Schultze ", " Winfred Gaul ", " Andy Warhol " and others).

Since 1987 Lothar Romain has been the founder and co-editor of “ Artists - Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art ”. In 1989 he and Siegfried Salzmann wrote the last major monograph on Saints. He was curator of the exhibition " Bernhard Heiliger Retrospective 1945–1995" in the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn 1995 and coined the first posthumous retrospective in 1998 in the National Museum Szczecin .

From 1989 to 1995 he was curator of the project "Art in Public Space", u. a. with the well-known nine "bus stops". In addition, he worked as a curator in foundations, such as since 1989 in the foundation “Bremer Sculptor Prize”, the “Bernhard Heiliger Foundation” and in 1998 during the revival of the “ Foundation Wredow's Drawing School ” created by August Wredow in Brandenburg an der Havel .

From 1992 to 1996 Romain was Professor of Art History of the 20th Century at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , and in 1996 he became President of the Berlin University of the Arts (HdK). He redesigned this institution and in 2001 it was renamed Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK).

In 2003, Lothar Romain was elected to replace the deceased Axel Zerdick as a representative of the Regional Rectors' Conference of the Berlin universities in the Broadcasting Council of the RBB , whose chairmanship he took over on January 1, 2005.

Fonts

• On the history of the German art association . In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher Kunstvereine (Ed.): Art landscape Federal Republic . Stuttgart 1984, pp. 11-37.
• Wolf Vostell. The multiple as a strategy . In: Wolf Vostell , Retrospective 92nd Edition Braus, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-925520-44-9 .
• Winfred Gaul. The painter . Hirmer, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7774-8190-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Lothar Romain in the catalog of the German National Library