Peter Michel (art scholar)

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Dr. Peter Michel July 2019

Peter Michel (born October 14, 1938 in Freyburg (Unstrut) ) is a German art historian , publicist and exhibition organizer.

Life

Peter Michel comes from a family of craftsmen . After attending the Kant high school in Berlin-Lichtenberg and graduating from high school , he studied German and art education at the Pedagogical Institute in Erfurt from 1956 to 1959 . From 1959 to 1964 he was a teacher at the Oberschule Neudorf in the Erzgebirge . He then worked in the Annaberg district management and in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district management of the Free German Youth (FDJ). From 1970 to 1974 he was an aspirant at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED ; there he did his doctorate on the subject of "Interrelationships between professional and non-professional art". In 1974 he became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBK) and a member of the central board of the VBK. From 1974 to 1987 he headed the magazine “ Bildende Kunst ” (organ of the central board of the VBK) published by Henschel Verlag .

Because of public criticism of the curriculum for the subject of art education , it was regulated in 1976 by the Ministry of Popular Education of the GDR . A year later, a controversy followed with Hans Koch about the timeliness of the term “ socialist realism ”.

From 1979 to 1991 he was a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art . From 1987 to 1989 he worked as secretary of the central board of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBK). At the end of 1989 he resigned from the VBK and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany - Party of Democratic Socialism (SED / PDS). Until the publishing structure was dissolved, he was the artistic and technical director of the children's book publishing house in Berlin for a short time ; this was followed by unemployment. From 1991 until 2003 he worked as a freelancer for pb-Verlag Munich, exhibition maker and freelance journalist. Michel has worked in 19 European and non-European countries. Since 1990 his main focus has been on the respectful handling of art created in the German Democratic Republic . In 1995 he donated a collection of texts for archiving and research to the Art Research Center at the Getty Center . In 1991, Michel became a founding member of the Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity (GBM) and a member of the GBM's national board. He was the spokesman for the GBM's “Culture” working group and a founding member of the “Art from the GDR” group of friends. From 2004 to 2008 and in 2012 he was the editor-in-chief of the GBM's ICARUS magazine , which was discontinued that same year.

Peter Michel is married to Maria Michel, b. Weigel, and father of three children.

Publications and exhibitions (selection)

Own book publications

  • The easel in the Hühnerhof , Der Kinderbuchverlag Berlin (2 editions 1981,1982)
  • Book pictures. Klaus Ensikat and his illustrations , presented by Peter Michel, Der Kinderbuchverlag Berlin 1989
  • Arrival in freedom. Essays against the loss of value over time , Verlag am Park, Berlin 2011
  • Germany as a cultural nation? Polemic against the modern vandals , with documentary image section; Verlag Wiljo Heinen, Berlin and Böklund 2013, ISBN 978-3-95514-003-8
  • Artists at the turn of the century I. Biographical miniatures and a prologue by Armin Stolper , Verlag Wiljo Heinen, Berlin and Böklund 2016, ISBN 978-3-95514-911-6
  • Artists at the turn of the ages II. Biographical miniatures and a prologue by Wiljo Heinen , Verlag Wiljo Heinen, Berlin and Böklund 2018, ISBN 978-3-95514-912-3
  • Conscience drummers. Essays on fine arts 1994–2018 , Verlag Wiljo Heinen, Berlin and Böklund, 2018, ISBN 978-3-95514-036-6 .

Contributions to other book publications and catalogs

  • Myth and Ethos. Essay for the monograph “ Heidrun Hegewald - Drawings, Painting, Graphics, Texts” , ed. by Angelika Haas and Bernd Kuhnert, ARTE-MISIA-PRESS Berlin 2004
  • Lexicon Artists in the GDR , ed. by Dietmar Eisold, Verlag Neues Leben Berlin 2010, head of the editorial group
  • Text for the catalog “Gudrun Brüne - Traces of Life” of the Museum am Dom Würzburg , ed. by Michael Koller and Jürgen Lenssen, undated
  • "With head and heart" , text for the catalog " Nils Burwitz - It's about time ..." on the occasion of his personal exhibition in the ALTE POST forum in Pirmasens 2017

Article in the German press

  • The naive - transfiguration and reality , series of articles in the magazine “Bildnerisches Volksschaffen”, issues 2 to 5/1974
  • 20 years of culture vandalism. GDR art is supposed to evaporate quickly as "an ugly raindrop of history" , in: Special issue of the magazine "Deutsche Geschichte": 20 years of the German-German dilemma - an honest balance with no alternative, unity in discord, issue 1/2010

Articles in foreign newspapers and magazines

  • Concert pitch of sculpture. Comments on the exhibition “Small sculptures and graphics from the GDR” in Moscow , in: Soviet literature (German-language edition, Moscow), issue 11/1976
  • Cathedral of an age. On the panorama painting by Werner Tübkes in Bad Frankenhausen , in Vytvarny Zivot (Bratislava), volume 3/1987; Müvészet (Budapest), No. 11–12 / 1986; Iskusstvo (Sofia), issue 8/1986; Tvortschestvo (Moscow), issue 9/1986; arta (Bucharest), issue 1/1987

Article in the magazine "Marxistische Blätter"

  • Five difficulties in dealing with art Willi Sitte , issue 4/1994
  • Writing about the art history of the GDR or the anatomy of a change of faith , Issues 1 and 2/2001

Article in Icarus magazine

  • Prisoner number B 3936. The arge Weg Heinrich Sussmanns , issue 2/2005
  • Make the situation transparent. Laudation for the presentation of the human rights prize by the GBM association to Heidrun Hegewald, Willi Sitte and Walter Womacka , issue 1/2010
  • Crimes against German culture. Thoughts on the 75th anniversary of the opening of the exhibition “ Degenerate Art ” in Munich , issue 3–4 / 2012

Articles in the daily newspaper Junge Welt

  • Reflection in a removed memorial. Dedicated to Heidrun Hegewald , October 20, 2006
  • He is here with us. Thoughts on the 130th birthday of Pablo Picasso , October 25, 2011
  • Theatrum mundi. September 14, 1989: Inauguration of the panorama picture "Early bourgeois revolution in Germany" by Werner Tübke in Bad Frankenhausen , September 13/14, 2014
  • Dialectical realism. Basic term for an art history of the GDR. On the death of the art historian Peter H. Feist , August 4, 2015
  • Form your own judgment. The Potsdam Museum Barberini shows art from the GDR - including numerous pictures that were no longer on display after 1990 , November 15, 2017
  • (More than 100 articles for press, radio, television and catalogs; lectures and readings in Germany and abroad)

Exhibitions

  • Personal exhibition of the Moscow painter Tatjana Nasarenko in the House of Citizenship Bremen 1986 (opening speech)
  • Your own look. Berlin art critics show art of their choice in the Ephraim-Palais Berlin 1988 (participation with own collection, catalog text)
  • Personal exhibition of the Austrian Jewish painter Heinrich Sussmann in the Otto-Nagel-Haus Berlin 1989 (conception, organization, opening speech)
  • Gerhard Rommel on his 80th birthday. Exhibition in the Klostergalerie Zehdenick 2014 (opening speech)
  • Four life paths. Two artist couples in the Armenian tradition. Exhibition in the Kulturhaus Berlin-Karlshorst 2016 (co-curator, catalog author, statement on the opening)
  • Participation in numerous other exhibitions in Freudenstadt, Wittlich, Seeheim-Jugenheim, Neu-Ulm, in the GBM gallery and other Berlin galleries, in Kuopio (Finland), in the art gallery Gera, the Evangelical Academy Meißen, the municipal gallery Eisenhüttenstadt, im Art Association Templin u. a.

Participation in juries

literature

Awards and honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.berlin.de/ba-marzahn-hellersdorf/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/2013/pressemitteilung.308040.php%7CPressemitteilung Bezirksamt Marzahn-Hellersdorf
  2. ↑ April 19: Art space talk with Peter Michel , Bürgerportal Bernau, with a short biography Michels
  3. ↑ Farewell after 18 years
personal data
SURNAME Michel, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Freyburg (Unstrut)