Rainer Metzger

This article deals with the art historian Rainer Metzger, for the photographer see Reiner Metzger .

Rainer Metzger (born July 3, 1961 in Geisenhausen , Lower Bavaria ) is a German art historian , author , curator and critic . He has been teaching art history at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe since 2004 .

Life

Metzger studied art history , modern history and modern German literature in Munich and Augsburg from 1982 to 1988 . During his studies he published art-critical texts and essays in daily newspapers and art magazines. After graduating, the first major publications followed, including a two-volume monograph on Vincent van Gogh (together with Ingo F. Walther) for Taschen Verlag . From 1989 to 1990 Metzger was an assistant at the master class for experimental design ( Wolfgang Flatz ) at the University for Artistic and Industrial Design Linz (then still a university). In 1994 he received his doctorate "summa cum laude" with a dissertation on "Art in Postmodernism. Dan Graham" , which was published two years later by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König. In the same year, 1994, Metzger moved from Munich to Vienna and worked as an editor for visual arts and architecture for the daily newspaper Der Standard , which he left in 1997. From 1997 to 2000 he was employed as a research assistant at the Institute for Art History at the University of Stuttgart and from 1997 to 2002 he was also a visiting professor at the University of Artistic and Industrial Design in Linz . At the same time, he was writing a habilitation thesis entitled "Art of literality - literal art. An attempt at an iconology of modernity" , which was accepted in 2002. Metzger then taught as a private lecturer at the Institute for Art History at the University of Stuttgart until 2004 . In October 2004, Metzger moved to Karlsruhe and has since taught art history at the State Academy for Fine Arts. He has been a corresponding member of the Vienna Secession since 1997 . Metzger lives with his wife, the critic Daniela Gregori, and two daughters in Karlsruhe and Vienna.

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publicist

As a freelance author and art critic, Metzger has been writing regularly since the nineties for the daily newspapers Der Standard , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Tages-Anzeiger and the art magazines Kunstforum International , Camera Austria and Parnass . Since 2001 he has been the author of the “Relectures” column for Kunstforum international . Between 2001 and 2017, Metzger wrote a blog for the online art magazine artmagazine.cc . In addition to his publications in print and online media, he has written numerous catalog texts on the artists Franz Ackermann , Stephan Balkenhol , Erwin Bohatsch , Xenia Hausner , Gustav Kluge , Rosa Loy , Markus Lüpertz , Lois Renner , Martin Walde , Lawrence Weiner , zur Olbricht Collection and for the group exhibitions “Desired Worlds. New Romanticism in the Present ” (2005, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt ), “ Made In Germany ” (2007, Kunstverein , Kestnergesellschaft , Sprengel Museum Hannover ), “ Best of Austria. An Art Collection " (2009, Lentos Linz), " Masterpieces of Modernism - The Batliner Collection " (2009, Albertina Vienna ), as well as for the 50th anniversary of steirischer herbst (2017, Graz) and the 120th anniversary of the Vienna Secession ( 2018).

curator

In addition to his journalistic activities, Metzger has participated in numerous exhibitions as a curator or artistic advisor, including “FLATZ - Images of Violence” ( Kunsthalle Krems ), “Images of Violence” ( Museumsquartier Wien ) and “Context: War” (in collaboration with Viennese galleries) as part of the event series “Art against Violence” in 2002. Together with Christa Steinle , he curates the exhibition “Religion Power Art - The Nazarenes ” in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2005). Metzger was a scientific advisor for the exhibition project " Mozart " (2006) in the Albertina in Vienna. With the artist Eduard Angeli , he set up his exhibition at the Museo Correr in Venice in 2008 .

From 2001 to 2003, Metzger was a member of the artistic advisory board of the Admont Benedictine Abbey . From 2004 to 2007 he was appointed to the Advisory Board for Fine Arts of the Federal Chancellery of the Republic of Austria . Since autumn 2017 he has been a member of the scientific advisory board of Zott artspace in Munich and since autumn 2018 he has been a member of the purchasing jury for the art acquisitions of the Ministry of Science, Research and Art of the State of Baden-Württemberg .

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Own publications

• Vincent van Gogh - all paintings (together with Ingo F. Walther). Taschen Verlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-8228-0396-0 .
• Postmodern art . Dan Graham . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-88375-211-8 .
• The death at work. Images of violence / violence of images - a guide for Vienna . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85498-244-5 .
• Literal. Image and art in the modern age . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-88375-766-7 .
• Gustav Klimt . The graphic work . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85498-428-6 .
• Berlin . The twenties . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2006. New edition: dtv, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-902510-42-0 .
• Munich. The great time around 1900 . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2008. New edition: dtv, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-85033-166-1 .
• Christian Ludwig Attersee . His life - his art - his time (with Daniela Gregori) . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85033-421-1 .
• Swinging London . Art and culture 1956–1970 . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85033-356-6 .
• Monet to Picasso . Masterpieces from the Albertina . Batliner Collection . Albertina, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7913-6519-0 .
• The city . From ancient Athens to the megacities . A world story in stories. Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85033-881-3 .
• Berlin in the 1920s . Taschen Verlag, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3836550529 .
• Vienna 1900. Art Design Architecture Mode (together with Christian Brandstätter and Daniela Gregori). Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3710601095 .

editor

• About the Canonical (themed volume), Kunstforum international Vol. 162, Ruppichteroth October 2002
• Art criticism (special issue), Parnass September 2003
• About art in the light of competition, envy and rivalry (themed volume). International Art Forum, Ruppichteroth Summer 2004

Web links

• Literature by and about Metzger, Rainer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.kunstakademie-karlsruhe.de/index.php?id=19
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ http://www.artmagazine.cc/index.html
4. ↑ http://www.me-berlin.com/