Siegfried Weiß (art historian)

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Siegfried Weiß (* 1942 in Rybnik , Upper Silesia; † June 13, 2020 ) was a German painter , graphic artist , art educator and art historian .

Life

Siegfried Weiß, son of an architect and building supervisor, grew up in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and Büdingen , where he graduated from the Wolfgang-Ernst-Gymnasium in 1961 . Until 1969 he studied architecture and urban planning at the TH Darmstadt with a diploma and was then briefly employed in the architecture office of Alexander von Branca in Munich . He then completed a degree in art teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1975/77 1st and 2nd state exams; 1976 diploma from the academy with Rudi Tröger ).

Siegfried Weiß worked part-time as an art teacher at the Icking grammar school from 1978 , and at the Maximiliangymnasium in Munich from 1982 . In addition to his work as a teacher, he continued his artistic work and also worked on art-historical research projects. He also studied art history, Byzantine art history and Slavic studies at the University of Munich from 1986 to 1992 , where he received his doctorate in 1992 under Hermann Bauer . At the end of the 2006/07 school year he retired as a high school teacher.

Artistic work

Green Planet, monotype 2014

As a freelance painter, he worked under the name of Siegfried Burkhardt Weiß, from realistic to non-objective representations on various topics. He painted and created experimental prints, collages, small sculptures and photographs.

Exhibitions

Siegfried Burkhardt Weiß participated in several group exhibitions, including the large art exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in Munich (1975, 1976, 1977, 1984, 1985) and the Intergrafik in Berlin / GDR in 1984, as well as several solo exhibitions, including:

  • 1983 in Munich in the gallery workshop in Westend
  • 1984 in Melbourne in the Niagara Galleries and in Munich, Hilton Art Gallery, and in Gießen in Galerie 42
  • 1986 in Cracow at the Plastyka Artists' Gallery
  • 1999 in Büdingen

Works in public buildings

  • Muzeum Historyczne Miasta in Krakow , Portrait of Jerzy Panek (1984)
  • Municipal collections in Büdingen , pen drawings
  • Muzeum Narodowe in Krakow, portrait of Jerzy Panek with Pimbek dog
  • Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich, portrait Werner Heisenberg

Art historical work

As an art historian, Weiß worked on biographies and catalog raisonnés of visual artists with a focus on the members of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . His dissertation with the title Ernst Bosch (1834–1917) and his contribution to "Narrative Painting" at the Düsseldorf School of Painting in the 19th Century was submitted in 1992. In 2009 the book Preyer followed , which contains the catalog raisonnés of Johann Wilhelm Preyer (1803–1889) and Emilie Preyer (1849–1930). Among other things, he worked on a catalog raisonné of paintings and drawings by Ludwig Knaus (1826–1910).

He wrote numerous catalog and encyclopedia entries, essays on the fine arts, book and exhibition reviews; From 1996 to 2005 he published a number of articles, mainly on Munich and Düsseldorf art, in the magazine Weltkunst . He offered research on individual works of art in the visual arts. Weiss also researched the archives of the Maximiliansgymnasium and wrote several biographies of former students who had developed into famous personalities.

Publications (selection)

  • Ernst Bosch (1834–1917), Life and Work. On Düsseldorf painting of the 2nd half of the 19th century . Dissertation University of Munich 1992.
  • with Hans Paffrath (ed.): Johann Wilhelm 1803–1889 and Emilie 1849–1930 Preyer. With the catalog raisonné of the paintings by Johann Wilhelm and Emilie Preyer . Wienand, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86832-003-9
  • Desired career "art". Painter, graphic artist, sculptor: Former students of the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium from 1849 to 1918 . Allitera-Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 .
  • Max Clarenbach 1880–1952. The painter of Lower Rhine landscapes . Heimat- und Kulturkreis Wittlaer eV, Düsseldorf 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Weiß: For science and fatherland - the brothers Hans and Eduard Buchner. Maximiliansgymnasium Munich (ed.): Photo yearbook 2020.
personal data
SURNAME White, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiss, Siegfried Burkhardt (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, art teacher and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Rybnik , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 2020