Patrick Werkner

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Patrick Werkner (* 1953 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian art historian and professor emeritus at the University of Applied Arts Vienna .

Life

Werkner held several visiting professorships, for example at Bard College / New York 1989/90, at Stanford University / California 1990, Paris Lodron University Salzburg 1992, the University of Freiburg im Breisgau 1994/95 (substitute professorship) and the University of Leiden / NL 2001 and 2013. Werkner published 17 books as author or editor and around 100 scientific articles, with the focus on the art of the 20th century and Viennese modernism .

From 2004 to 2012 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Austrian Studies in the Netherlands and represented the Austrian Ministry of Science. From 2004 to 2018 he was head of the art collection and archive of the University of Vienna with the Oskar Kokoschka Center , the costume and fashion collection and the Victor J. Papanek Foundation.

In February 2018, on the occasion of his retirement, he was awarded the Ring of Honor of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The university dedicated a commemorative publication to him on this occasion.

Curator activity

  • 2011 co-curator of the exhibition “DYNAMICS! Cubism, Futurism, Kineticism ”, Belvedere Palace Vienna
  • 2013 Co-curator of the exhibition “Oskar Kokoschka - the focus on me”, Vienna, Leopold Museum
  • 2017 Co-curator of the exhibition “150 Years of the University of Applied Arts Vienna - Aesthetics of Change”, Vienna, MAK

Publications (selection)

  • Physique and psyche. Austrian early expressionism. Vienna - Munich: Herold 1986, ISBN 978-3-7008-0343-0 . Americ. Edition: Austrian Expressionism - The Formative Years. Palo Alto, California: The Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, 1993.
  • Country Art USA. From the origins to the large-scale projects in the desert. Munich: Prestel 1992.
  • (Ed.) Egon Schiele: Art, Sexuality and Viennese Modernism. Palo Alto, California: Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, 1994, ISBN 978-0-930664-14-5 (English).
  • with G. Sultano: Oskar Kokoschka. Art and Politics, 1937–1950. Vienna - Cologne - Weimar: Böhlau 2003, ISBN 978-3-205-77030-5 .
  • Art since 1940. From Jackson Pollock to Joseph Beuys. UTB textbook, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau 2007. ISBN 978-3-8252-2972-6 .
  • with G. Bast, A. Husslein-Arco, H. Krejci (eds.): Wiener Kinetismus. A Moving Modernism / Viennese Kineticism. Modernism in Motion. edition applied by Verlag Springer, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-211-99143-5 .
  • with B. Reinhold (Ed.): Oskar Kokoschka - an artist's life in photographs / An artist's life in photographs. From the Oskar Kokoschka Center at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. edition applied by Verlag Birkhäuser, Vienna 2013.
  • with G. Bast, A. Seipenbusch-Hufschmied (Eds.): 150 Years University of Applied Arts Vienna - Aesthetics of Change. edition applied by Verlag Birkhäuser, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-052517-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Art Collection and Archive Vienna - History
  2. orf.at: Ring of Honor of the Applied for art historian Werkner . Article dated February 28, 2018, accessed February 28, 2018.
  3. Bernadette Reinhold, Eva Kernbauer (Ed.): Interstices between tones. Viennese modernism, contemporary art, collecting practice. Festschrift for Patrick Werkner. Berlin - Boston: De Gruyter 2018. ISBN 978-3-11-059195-8
  4. Ceremony for the retirement. Facsimile digital . Retrieved August 3, 2018.