Rolf Wedewer

Rolf Wedewer (born September 13, 1932 in Münster , † October 26, 2010 in Leverkusen ) was a German art historian , curator and museum director.

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Morsbroich Castle Museum

Wedewer was born the son of the painter Josef Wedewer . He studied art history , geography , philosophy and German at the University of Münster , where he became an active member of the Catholic student association KStV Cimbria in the KV . After completing his doctorate, he worked as a journalist for radio, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Second German Television . From 1965 to 1995 Wedewer was director of the Museum Schloss Morsbroich in Leverkusen, where he focused his purchase and exhibition policy on European Informel (including Peter Brüning , Karl Fred Dahmen , Bernard Schultze , Emilio Vedova ), the new tendencies ( Piero Manzoni , Lucio Fontana ), who dedicated ZERO , Op-Art , analytical painting and monochrome. He was the author of numerous books on modern art . In 1999 he received the Kurt Lorenz Prize , Leverkusen. In 2001 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . Rolf Wedewer was the initiator of the Wolf Vostell project and the Fluxus movement in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2005 to set up a collection and research center in the Morsbroich Museum, but this could not be realized.

Wedewer lived in Leverkusen, he was married to Ursula Wedewer-Böcker, the couple had a daughter.

Image terms. Notes on the theory of new painting , Kohlhammer, 1982, ISBN 3-17083007-4
On the linguistic quality of images. A contribution to the analogy of language and art, DuMont, 1985, ISBN 3-7701-1770-0
Landscape painting between dream and reality. Idyll and conflict , DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern, 1986, ISBN 3770103548
References to Wolf Vostell . In: Wolf Vostell, Retrospective 92. (Ed.): Rolf Wedewer, Edition Braus, Heidelberg, 1992, ISBN 3-925520-44-9 .
Form and meaning. Primitivism, Modernism, Strangeness , König Buchhandlung, 2000, ISBN 978-3883754154
Art Informel painting: Loss of the world and self-assertion , Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3422065604

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SURNAME	Wedewer, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German art historian, museum director and curator
DATE OF BIRTH	September 13, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Muenster
DATE OF DEATH	October 26, 2010
Place of death	Leverkusen