Silke Wenk

Silke Wenk (born January 6, 1949 in Waldshut ) is a German art historian .

life and work

Silke Wenk studied art history, sociology and philosophy in Freiburg and Berlin . In 1980 she received her doctorate from the University of Bremen .

After completing his studies, Wenk worked in exhibitions and art education. She had lectureships at various universities. From 1984 to 1990 she worked as a research assistant at the Berlin University of the Arts .

Wenk completed his habilitation at the University of Hamburg with the font Petrified Femininity. Allegories in Modern Sculpture .

Between 1988 and 1993 Silke Wenk was visiting professor at the University of Kassel , Technical University of Braunschweig , the University of California, Davis and the University of Tübingen .

In 1993 she became professor for the theory and history of art and visual culture as well as art and cultural studies gender studies at the University of Oldenburg . From 2005 to 2010 she was also the director of the Institute for Cultural Studies: Art, Textile, Media .

Publications

• On the social function of art: historical analysis and empirical investigation in companies in the Federal Republic. Dissertation, University of Bremen, 1980, ISBN 978-3-891-44021-6 .
• Petrified femininity. Allegories in Modern Sculpture. Böhlau, Cologne 1996, ISBN 978-3-412-02595-3 .
• An “altar of the fatherland” for the new capital? Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt am Main 1996.
• Henry Moore, Large Two Forms: An Allegory of the Modern Welfare State. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 978-3-596-12137-3 .
• with Sigrid Schade : Studies on visual culture. Transcript, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-89942-990-9 ( online ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Silke Wenk in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the University of Oldenburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FAZ, Beate Soentgen: Petrified Femininity .
2. ^ University of Oldenburg: Silke Wenk Director of the Institute for Cultural Studies .