Rainer K. Wick

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Rainer K. Wick (2009) with a brooch by the artist Dieter Reick

Rainer K. Wick (born June 18, 1944 in Mechernich ) is a German art historian , art educator , specialist journalist, photographer and retired university professor.

Life

Wick attended the Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium in Bonn , where he passed the school leaving examination in 1963. From 1963 to 1969 he studied art history , art education , pedagogy and sociology in Bonn and Cologne . In 1969 he passed the 1st state examination for teaching at upper secondary level. After the second state examination in 1971, he was Studienassessor , then teacher and senior teacher at the Technical School of Design in Cologne, where he taught in the type-specific subjects (design). In 1975 he received his doctorate from René König with an art-sociological dissertation on Happening and Fluxus . Until 1978 he worked in school, most recently as director of studies in the function of a pedagogical specialist for art and design at the overall seminar in Cologne.

From 1979 to 1985 he was a professor in the field of design and art education at the University of Essen . His main area of ​​work was teaching in the design engineering course (teaching degree SII, professional subject). In 1985 he completed his habilitation in art education at the University of Essen with an examination of the educational concepts of the Bauhaus . In 1986 he was appointed to the chair for art and cultural education at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal , which he held until his retirement in 2009. His teaching activities ranged from art didactics and art studies to artistic practice with a focus on drawing and photography.

On the occasion of his 60th birthday, the University of Wuppertal presented him with the commemorative publication “Topoi. Contributions to a cultural-archaeological determination of the place ” , whose individual contributions document the breadth of Wick's scientific interests. Since 2010 Wick u. a. for the online culture magazine "Musenblätter" and for the "Portal Art History".

job

In addition to general questions of art didactics, special topics from the history of art and design of the 20th century as well as the history of art in Italy and the sociology of art, the following areas in particular are the focus of Rainer K. Wick's teaching, research and publication activities: the Bauhaus and his pedagogical concepts, the German Werkbund as an institution of art and cultural pedagogy, individual questions of historical art pedagogy, possibilities and limits of design theory, photo history and photo didactics.

In the area of ​​artistic practice, Wicks focuses on photography. He has come to the fore in exhibitions and publications primarily with his travel photographs, mainly in black and white, with which he moves in the tradition of classical modern photography and so-called subjective photography .

In addition to book publications and articles in magazines, catalogs and encyclopedias, Wick has the university series “Context. Series of publications for art, art education and cultural education ”at the University of Wuppertal founded and published (discontinued in 2009). He is a member of the German Society for Photography eV (DGPh), the Bauhaus-Archives eV Berlin and the ICOM Germany (German National Committee of the International Museum Council).

Publications (selection)

  • The art of Italy. Architecture, painting, sculpture from antiquity to today. Philipp von Zabern / Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2014.
  • Workshop photography. History, technology, design. (together with Wolfgang Vollmer), Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 2012.
  • Bauhaus. Art and education. (= Artificium. Writings on art and art education, vol. 33), Athena Verlag, Oberhausen 2009.
  • Correspondence. Photographs 1968–2009. Selected and introduced by Rolf Sachsse, Verlag Müller und Busmann, Wuppertal 2009.
  • Eugene Batz . A Bauhaus artist takes a photo. , Wuppertal and Cologne 2008 (= context. Series of publications for art, art education and cultural education at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, vol. 6)
  • Art school reform (= art ← design → design, booklet 10, published by Saar College of Fine Arts), Saarbrücken 2004.
  • Hans Friedrich Geist and the Art of the Child. Bauhaus - Third Reich - post-war period. (Ed.), Wuppertal 2003 (= context. Series of publications for art, art education and cultural education at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, vol. 5)
  • Perspectives - points of view. Five photographers: Charles Compère, Kerstin Falbe, Horst Hahn, Bernd Sippel, Rainer K. Wick. Wuppertal 2002 (= context. Series of publications for art, art education and cultural education at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, vol. 4)
  • Between the Bauhaus tradition and self-profiling: the Ulm University of Design. (= Art ← Design → Design, Issue 9, published by Saar College of Fine Arts), Saarbrücken 2001.
  • Bauhaus. Modern art school. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2000; English: Teaching at the Bauhaus. , Ostfildern 2000.
  • Johannes Itten . Art education as experiential education? (= Trailblazer of modern experiential education, issue 50, edition erlebnispädagogik), Lüneburg 199.7 (Greek: Γιοχάννες Ίττεν. Η εικαστική παιδαγωγική ως ολισγΝικα ΚΕΙΜΕΝΑαιι ιωγικ 2000; ΩΚΕΙΜΕΝΑ ΕΙΚΑΣΤΙΚωΩικ 2000;
  • Bauhaus. The early years. (Ed.), Wuppertal 1996 (= context. Series of publications for art, art education and cultural education at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal University, Vol. 1).
  • Bonato . Art in public space. Locher Verlag, Cologne 1996.
  • Photography and Aesthetic Education. (Eds.), Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich 1992.
  • The new way of seeing. From photography at the Bauhaus to subjective photography. (Eds.), Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich 1991.
  • Johannes Itten : image analysis. Otto Maier, Ravensburg 1988. (Dutch: Johannes Itten. Beeldende kunst in beeld. Analyzes van vorm en inhoud. De Bilt 1990; French: Johannes Itten. L'étude des oeuvres d'art. De l'art antique à l'art modern. Paris 1990.)
  • Is the Bauhaus education up to date? (Ed.), Verlag Walther König, Cologne 1985.
  • Between art and design. (Ed.), Kunstforum International 66 (1983).
  • Color and architecture. (Ed.), Kunstforum International 57 (1983).
  • Bauhaus pedagogy. DuMont, Cologne 1982 (2nd revised edition Cologne 1984, 3rd revised and expanded edition, Cologne 1988, 4th revised and expanded edition, Cologne 1994; Spanish: La pedagogiá de la Bauhaus. Madrid 1986; Portuguese: Pedagogia da Bauhaus. Sao Paulo 1989).
  • Art sociology - visual arts and society. (Ed. Together with Astrid Wick-Kmoch), DuMont, Cologne 1979.
  • Art as a social process. (Ed.), In: Kunstforum International 27 (1978).
  • On the symbolism in Wolf Vostell's Happening Regen , in Kunstforum International, Volume 24, 6/1977.
  • Nam June Paik . Music, flux, video. in: Kunstforum International 18 (1976), pp. 206-237.
  • Astrid and Rainer Wick, objects and symbols at Wolf Vostell . Wolf Vostell retrospective 1958–1974. New National Gallery Berlin, Berlin, 1974.
  • On the sociology of intermediate art practice. Happenings, fluxus, promotions. Self-published, Cologne 1975.
  • On the theory of the happening. in: Kunstforum International, 8–9 (1973).
  • Rainer Wick and Astrid Kmoch: Objects and symbols at Vostell - marginalia for his happenings . In: Wolf Vostell. Electronically . New gallery in the Alten Kurhaus, Aachen 1970.
  • Vostell sociologically. Self-published, Bonn, 1969.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ed. by Hermann J. Mahlberg (Wuppertal 2004)
  2. ↑ Musenblätter - The independent culture magazine
  3. ^ Portal art history
personal data
SURNAME Wick, Rainer K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wick, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art scholar, art and culture educator and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Mechernich