Ole Wittmann

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Ole Wittmann

Ole Wittmann (born August 31, 1977 in Henstedt-Ulzburg ) is a German art historian and curator . With his research on tattoos, he is "for the first time comprehensively raising the tattoo into the focus of art-historical consideration."

Life

After graduating from high school, Wittmann trained as a communications manager and worked as a customer consultant in advertising agencies. From 2002 he studied art history, cultural anthropology and sociology in Hamburg. In 2015 he did his doctorate on the human body as an image carrier for tattoos. His dissertation, Tattoos in Art , was published in 2017.

"With his work, Wittmann is for the first time comprehensively placing the tattoo in the focus of an art-historical view ... In particular, the fact that he goes beyond the previously predominant view of art activities related to the tattoo makes his work an asset for research."

- portalkunstgeschichte.de

Between 2009 and 2016 he worked as a research assistant at the Arno Schmidt Foundation , and at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg he accompanied the special tattoo exhibition . He also worked as a lecturer at the University of Hamburg .

Wittmann was the curator of the special exhibition Tattoo Legends. Christian Warlich on St. Pauli , which was shown from November 27, 2019 to May 25, 2020 in the Museum of Hamburg History.

research

Ole Wittmann (right) & Manfred Kohrs in the Museum for Hamburg History 2019

From 2015 to 2020 was Wittmann Postdoc - Scholarship of the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Culture. In cooperation with the Museum for Hamburg History , he is leading a research project on the estate of the tattoo artist Christian Warlich . In 2017, Wittmann published and published the first publication of the Warlich estate project in collaboration with the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences and Arts : A multi-award-winning edition of the tattoo template album, Book No. 3 from Warlich's competitor Karl Finke .

Wittmann has been research director and board member of the Institute for German Tattoo History eV (IDTG) since 2018. One of the ongoing research projects that Wittmann is carrying out together with Manfred Kohrs deals with the tattoo artist and piercer Horst Linienbach.

Works and publications (selection)

  • Christian Warlich: Tattoo Flash Book. Template album of the King of Tattooists / Original Designs by the King of Tattooists , Munich: Prestel 2019, ISBN 978-3-7913-5896-3 (book trade edition) , ISBN 978-3-00-062733-0 (Collector's Edition).
  • Tattoos in art. Materiality - Motifs - Reception, Berlin: Reimer 2017, ISBN 978-3-496-01569-7 .
  • Karl Finke: Book No. 3. A template album by the Hamburg tattooist / A Flash Book by the Hamburg Tattooist, Henstedt-Ulzburg: Warlich estate 2017, ISBN 978-3-000-56648-6 .
    • Contributions in: Friedman, Anna Felicity: The World Atlas of Tattoo, New Haven: Yale University Press 2015, ISBN 0-300-2104-85 , p. 182; 185-186; 188.
    • “Homage to a legend. Philipp Ohme tattoos motifs by Christian Warlich ” , in: Tattoo Kulture Magazine 14, Issue 3, May / June 2016, pp. 56–59.
    • “Tattoo-Legenden”, in: Hamburg History Live , No. 2, 2016, pp. 16–21.
    • “Exposing shame. Damien Hirst's tattoo work butterfly, divided “, in: Inga Klein / Nadine Mai / Rostislav Tumanov (Ed.): Coverings and revelations. (In-) Visibilities from a Cultural Studies Perspective , Berlin: Reimer 2017 (= series of the Isa Lohmann-Siems Foundation, Vol. 10), ISBN 978-3-496-01574-1 , pp. 104–126.
    • “Work aging and outline: On the blurring of tattoos”, in: Iris Därmann / Thomas Macho (Ed.): Under the skin. Tattoos as logo and pictograms , Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2017, ISBN 978-3-7705-5920-6 , pp. 179–208.
    • Alina Tiews and Ole Wittmann: “'There's something like that!' - Tattoos in post-war television ”, in: Hamburger Flimmern 24, 2017, pp. 10–13.
    • “'World famous from Hamburg to all seaports'. About the once most famous tattoo artist in St. Pauli ”, in: Karl Finke: Book No. 3. A template album by the Hamburg tattooist / A Flash Book by the Hamburg Tattooist , ed. by Ole Wittmann, Henstedt-Ulzburg: Nachlass Warlich 2017, ISBN 978-3-000-56648-6 , pp. 3-15.
    • “Christian Warlich. A tattoo icon ”, in: Christian Warlich: Tattoo Flash Book. Template album of the King of Tattooists / Original Designs by the King of Tattooists , ed. by Ole Wittmann, Munich: Prestel 2019, ISBN 978-3-7913-5896-3 (book trade edition), ISBN 978-3-00-062733-0 (Collector's Edition), pp. 75–99.
    • “Finke - Warlich - Hoffmann. The tattoo metropolis Hamburg ”. In a publication on Herbert Hoffmann, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König 2019.
    • “Shame Laid Bare. Damien Hirst's Tattoo Work butterfly, divided “, in: Tattoo Histories: Transcultural Perspectives on the Narratives, Practices, and Representations of Tattooing , ed. by Sinah Kloß, Rutledge 2019, ISBN 978-0-367-33325-6 .

literature

  • Heide Heim: The Holy Grail , Tattoo Magazine , No. 248, Vol. 22, October 2016, pp. 74–83.
  • Andreas Coenen: “Warlich - Finke - Wittmann. On the ways of the Hamburg tattoo tradition "[Interview with Ole Wittmann], in: Tattoo Kulture Magazine No. 21, July / August 2017, pp. 30–38.
  • Paul-Henri Campbell : Tattoo & Religion. The colorful cathedrals of the self. (Interviews) pp. 79 - 85: Ole Wittmann - On butterflies and the art-historical view of tattoos , Heidelberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-88423-606-2 .
  • Sabrina Ungemach: The tattoo researchers Ole Wittmann & Manfred Kohrs. In: Tattoo Kulture Magazine No. 35 November / December 2019, pp. 22–28.

Awards

Media response (selection)

  • NDR 1 Welle Nord - Andresen - The Schleswig-Holstein Talk: Dr. Ole Wittmann - art historian researches tattoos. November 14, 2017 8:00 p.m.
  • NDR Typisch !: Under the skin - Hamburg tattoo researcher Ole Wittmann by Ralph Alexowitz, first broadcast on March 23, 2017.
  • DEUTSCHLANDFUNK KULTUR Kompressor: There is no turning back - the triumphant advance of face tattoos. Conversation with Ole Wittmann. 19th October 2018.
  • DIE ZEIT (Hamburg edition) Kilian Trotier: History with serious consequences , No. 17, April 20, 2017, p. 1.
  • ARTE Xenius: Tattoos. That gets under your skin. 4th September 2019.
  • ARD Tagesthemen : Exhibition on tattoo legend: 100 years ago first studio opened in Hamburg. November 26, 2019.
  • ZDF-Mittagsmagazin : Christian Warlich: The "King of Tattoo Artists". November 27, 2019, 2 min.
  • ARD Tagesschau : Tattoo exhibition in the Museum of Hamburg History. November 27, 2019, 12:00 p.m.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefanie Handke: Ole Wittmann: Tattoos in art. Materiality - Motives - Reception, Reimer 2017. In: portalkunstgeschichte.de. December 12, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Katja Engler: The anchor tattoo on the neck of the empress. In: WORLD. February 8, 2015, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ MKG : Archive February 13 to September 6, 2015 Tattoo
  4. ^ Foundation Historical Museums Hamburg: Tattoo Legends. Christian Warlich on St. Pauli. In: Ruhr University Bochum word mark. April 11, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ olewittmann.de lectures, accessed on July 29, 2019
  6. ↑ Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture: Postdoc research project “The legacy of the Hamburg tattoo artist Christian Warlich (1891–1964)”. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Kilian TROTIER: history with serious consequences. In: TIME. April 10, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Heide Heim: Karl Finke's master album is being printed! In: Tattoo magazine . July 11, 2017, accessed January 1, 2019 .
  9. ^ Manfred Kohrs: Horst H. Linienbach the forgotten pioneer. In: Tattoo Kulture Magazine Issue No.32 of April 12, 2019, pp. 28-40.
  10. ↑ Leipzig Book Fair , Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde Leipzig: Tattoos in Art (Mar 16, 2018)
  11. ↑ ndr.de: Dr. Ole Wittmann - art historian researches tattoos
personal data
SURNAME Wittmann, Ole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and curator
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Henstedt-Ulzburg