Richard W. Eichler

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Richard Wenzel Eichler (born August 8, 1921 in Liebenau , Czechoslovakia , † July 15, 2014 in Munich ) was a German art historian.

Life

Eichler, who came from the Sudetenland , which has been part of the German Reich since 1938 , did military service as a reserve officer from 1940 to 1945 and worked as a publishing editor and freelance author after 1945. Even before 1945 he edited the works of F. K. Günther , Paul Schultze-Naumburg and Wolfgang Willrich .

Eichler's book Könner, Künstler, Scharlatane , published for the first time in 1960, was successful , with which the author took a stand against the alleged dominance of abstract art in post-war Germany. The book The Controlled Art Decay represented similar tendencies . Under postmodern circumstances, Eichler pleaded for The Return of the Beautiful (1984). In the right - wing extremist Grabert and Hohenrain publishers, he published several books and articles in the associated magazine Germany in the past and present . He wrote articles for publications of the right-wing extremist, neo-pagan Thule seminar , for example in its first book The Immortal Heritage. Alternatives to the principle of equality and in the journal elements , where he in the article The birth of art from the myth , drawing on Kurt Hübner and Martin Heidegger his understanding of art against a regional boundaries border "World Art", against an expanded definition of art and against modernism is strength . At the Federation for German Writing and Language , he published the article Glanz und Elend der Deutschen Sprache . Eichler was General Secretary and founding member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts , member of the Federal Assembly of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft , member of the Witikobund , member of the German Unitarian religious community and speaker at the neo-pagan associations Artgemeinschaft and Nordic Ring, the pan-Nordic organization "Northern League" and the German seminar .

Richard Eichler received the Schiller Prize (Munich 1969), the Landscape Prize (1977) and the Adalbert Stifter Medal (1982). In 1979 Franz Josef II , the ruling Prince of Liechtenstein , awarded Eichler the title of professor for his services in the field of fine arts and language cultivation. In 1990 he was awarded the poet's stone shield from the Dichterstein Offenhausen association, which was banned in 1999 due to being re- employed by the National Socialists .

The German guild shaft led Eichler as a member.

Works

  • Experts, artists, charlatans (1960)
  • Artists and Works (1962)
  • The controlled art decay (1965)
  • The tattooed muse. A History of Art in Caricatures (1965)
  • Liebenau in the Sudetenland (1966)
  • Liebenau in the Sudetenland. Addendum: Some well-known Liebenauer (1968)
  • Much Favor for Bad Art (1968)
  • Bewitched Mother Tongue (1974)
  • The return of the beautiful (1984)
  • Our Spiritual Heritage (1995)
  • Building culture against the destruction of form (1999)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard W. Eichler: The visual arts of today in the crosshairs of the cultural revolutionaries . In: Pierre Krebs (ed.): The imperishable legacy. Alternatives to the principle of equality . Grabert , Tübingen 1981, p. 373 ff .
  2. ↑ Richard W. Eichler: The birth of art from myth . In: elements . No. 4 , 1990, pp. 20–34 ( online [PDF]).
  3. ^ Nadir (Internet portal) : Eichler, Richard W .; Retrieved July 6, 2010
  4. ↑ March 24, 1979 in Ostpreußenblatt (PDF; 12.3 MB)
  5. ↑ Jens Mecklenburg (ed.): Handbook of German right-wing extremism. Elefanten Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88520-585-8 , p. 328.
personal data
SURNAME Eichler, Richard W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eichler, Richard Wenzel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Liebenau , Northern Bohemia , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH 15th July 2014
Place of death Munich