Thomas Röske

Thomas Röske, 2017 in the Nebbienschen garden house in Frankfurt am Main

Thomas Röske (* 1962 in Reinbek ) is a German art historian and exhibition organizer. Since 2002 he has headed the Prinzhorn Collection at Heidelberg University Hospital .

Life

Thomas Röske, son of an architect, grew up in Hamburg-Bergedorf and graduated from the Hansa-Gymnasium there in 1981. From 1981 to 1986 he studied art history, musicology and psychology at the University of Hamburg and graduated with a master's thesis on Correggio's “Amori di Giove” . From 1986 to 1987 he did his alternative military service at the Langenfeld State Psychiatric Hospital. He then moved to Frankfurt am Main . In 1991 he received his doctorate from Hamburg University. The work was published in 1995 under the title The Doctor as an Artist. Aesthetics and psychotherapy with Hans Prinzhorn (1886–1933). In 2015 he completed his habilitation at the University of Frankfurt with a thesis on art in a psychiatric context. Art historical perspectives .

From 1991 to 2001 Röske was a member of the board of the New Aschaffenburger Kunstverein e. V., from 1996 its deputy chairman. From 1993 to 1999 he taught as a research assistant at the Art History Institute of the University of Frankfurt am Main , and from 1996 to 1999 he was deputy spokesman for the Graduate School Psychological Energies in the Fine Arts initiated by Klaus Herding . Röske occasionally worked as a freelance exhibition curator. From 2000 to 2001 he lived in London for study purposes . In 2001 he was appointed exhibition curator at the newly opened Prinzhorn Collection Museum in Heidelberg . He has been running this house since November 2002. Röske regularly gives lectures at the Institute for European Art History at the University of Heidelberg and at the Art History Institute at the University of Frankfurt. Since April 2012 he has been President of the European Outsider Art Association .

Röske has been researching and teaching primarily on art history topics since the 18th century. The focus is on psychiatry and art, outsider art , classic modern painting, homosexuality and art.

honors and awards

The German-speaking Society for Art & Psychopathology of Expression eV (DGPA) awarded him the Hans Prinzhorn Medal in 2015 for his research and exhibition projects on the subject of art and psychiatry.

Publications

• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: The dance between women - an art monograph , Frankfurt am Main (Insel-TB) 1993.
• Documents of a friendship. Botho Graef and Hugo Biallowons in Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's pictures. In: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: from Jena to Davos. Exhibition catalog Jenaer Kunstverein, Leipzig 1993, pp. 40–48.
• The doctor as an artist - aesthetics and psychotherapy with Hans Prinzhorn (1886–1933). Bielefeld 1995.
• 'Liebende Knaben' - On the representation of homosexual men and women in the work of Christian Schad. In: O. Klodt. K. Michels, Th. Röske, D. Schröder (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Fritz Jacobs on the 60th birthday. Münster 1996, pp. 193-213.
• 'But maybe I can see and shape something new after all' - Kirchner in Königstein. In: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. "Kirchner in Königstein" - watercolors, drawings, prints, photographs, exhibition catalog Galerie Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst. Hoechst 1999, pp. 9-32.
• Correggio's 'Leda' - a repressed image. In: Wessel Reinink, Jeroen Stumpel (Ed.): Memory & Oblivion. Proceedings of the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art held in Amsterdam, September 1-7, 1996. Dordrecht 1999, pp. 265-274.
• Traces of Psychology: The Art Historical Writings of Ernst Kris. In: American Imago. vol. 58 No. 1, Spring 2001, pp. 463-477.
• with Bettina Brand-Claussen and Maike Rotzoll (eds.): Cause of death: euthanasia. Conceals murders during the Nazi era. Exhibition catalog Prinzhorn Collection Heidelberg. Heidelberg 2002.
• “Isn't that really pathological?” - Kirchner and the “sick” in art. In: Expressionism and madness. Exhibition catalog Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation, Schloss Gottorf. Munich 2003, pp. 156–163.
• The companion in life - the relationship between Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Erna Schilling. In: Roland Scotti: magazine IV: Erna and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - An artist couple. Davos 2003, pp. 11-34.
• with Henrik Jungaberle (Ed.): Rausch im Bild - Bildrausch. Drugs as a media of art in the 1970s. Prinzhorn Collection Heidelberg. Heidelberg 2004.
• Looks at men's bodies in Michael Sweerts (1618–1664). In: Mechthild Fend, Marianne Koos (ed.): Masculinity in view. Visual staging in art since the early modern period. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, pp. 121–135.
• The draftsman as a negative artist - Max Klinger and Arthur Schopenhauer . In: Günther Baum, Dieter Birnbacher (Hrsg.): Schopenhauer and the arts. Göttingen 2005, pp. 118-136.
• 'A movement of superhuman force' - exceptional experiences in expressionist art historiography. In: Ulrich Pfisterer, Anja Zimmermann (Ed.): Animations / Transgressionen. The work of art as a living being. (= Hamburg research on art history. IV). Berlin 2005, pp. 229–245.
• 'innocently locked up here and plundered'. The embroidered 'Staats-Album' (1871-76) by Emma Mohr from Erfurt. In: Heiner Fangerau, Karen Nolte (ed.): “Modern” institutional psychiatry in the 19th and 20th centuries - legitimation and criticism. (= Medicine, Society and History. Supplement No. 26). Stuttgart 2006, pp. 361-369.
• with Bettina Brand-Claussen (Ed.): Der Luft-Loom und other dangerous influencing machines / The Air Loom and other dangerous influencing machines. Exhibition catalog Prinzhorn Collection Heidelberg. Heidelberg 2006.
• 'Friendship whose enigmatic root cause is only possible through an artistic metaphor': To a double portrait of Oskar Kokoschka. In: Karen Buttler, Felix Kraemer (Ed.): Jacobs-Weg. On the trail of an art historian. Homage to the researcher friend and teacher. Fritz Jacobs on his 70th birthday. Weimar 2007, pp. 235-254.
• with Bettina Brand-Claussen (Ed.): Artists in the wrong. Exhibition catalog Prinzhorn Collection. Heidelberg 2008.
• Psychosis as an artist. Leo Navratil's 'Schizophrenia and Art' - a criticism. In: Georg Theunissen (Ed.): Outsider art. Exceptional sculptures by people with intellectual and psychological disabilities. Bad Heilbrunn 2008, pp. 103–117.
• 'Wahnsinnige' - reflections on revolutionary portrait drawings by Johann Georg von Dillis. In: Treatises of the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft. Volume LIX, 2008, pp. 255-266.
• with Ingrid von Beyme (Ed.): Surrealismus und Wahnsinn / Surrealism and Madness. Exhibition catalog Prinzhorn Collection. Heidelberg 2009.
• In the intersection of the circles - Vaslaw Nijinsky draws. In: Dance of Colors. Nijinsky's eye and abstraction. Exhibition catalog Hamburger Kunsthalle. Hamburg 2009, pp. 69–85.
• with Doris Noell-Rumpeltes (Ed.): Walking through the air - Josef Forster, the institution and the art. Exhibition catalog Prinzhorn Collection. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-88423-361-0 .
• The image of men in Helmut Kolles' work - four approximations. In: Helmut Kolle - A German in Paris. Exhibition catalog Museum Gunzenhauser. Edition Minerva, Chemnitz / Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-938832-73-8 , pp. 162-171.
• Art and outsider art in the 20th century. In: Karin Dannecker, Wolfram Voigtländer (ed.): Art Outsider Art. Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814373-3-1 , pp. 11–16.
• Erich Spießbach - An outbreak in creativity. In: "The triple graduate idiot". The Erich Spießbach phenomenon. Exhibition catalog. Friedenstein Castle Foundation Gotha, Gotha 2012, ISBN 978-3-940998-15-6 , pp. 47-103.
• Between symptoms of illness and art - works by those with experience in psychiatry. In: Stavros Mentzos, Alois Münch (ed.): The creative in the psychosis. (= Forum of psychoanalytic psychosis therapy. Volume 28). Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-45236-3 , pp. 107–126.
• with Ingrid von Beyme (Ed.): unseen and unheard of. Artists react to the Prinzhorn Collection. Volume 1: Fine arts, film, video Volume 2: Literature, theater, performance, music. Heidelberg 2013 and 2014.
• with Steffen Krüger (Ed.): In the service of the I - Ernst Kris today. Vienna 2013.
• with Rainer Stamm (ed.): The other miller from Siel. Bielefeld 2013.
• Outsider Art or Concept Art? In: Alfred Wieczorek, Thomas Schirmböck (Ed.): The city of women. Miroslav Tichý. Exhibition cat. ZEPHYR. Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86828-360-0 , pp. 235–239.
• Between deer and mega coats of arms - the wall paintings by Julius Klingebiel. In: Andreas Spengler, Manfred Koller, Dirk Hesse (eds.): The Klingebiel cell. Life and artistic creation of a psychiatric patient. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-30043-5 , pp. 13-36.
• Sexualized suffering. To some of Richard Grune's lithographs. In: Imago. Interdisciplinary yearbook for psychoanalysis and aesthetics. Volume 2, Giessen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8379-2264-6 , pp. 155-167.
• with Maike Rotzoll (Ed.): Wilhelm Werner - Steleationshaben. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-88423-470-9 .
• with Sabine Hohnholz and Maike Rotzoll (eds.): War and madness. Art from civil psychiatry to the military and World War I. Works from the Prinzhorn Collection. Exhibition catalog Military History Museum Dresden and the Prinzhorn Collection Heidelberg. (= Forum MHM. Series of publications by the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr. Volume 7). Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-88423-481-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Röske in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PD Dr. phil. Thomas Röske prinzhorn.ukl-hd.de. Retrieved September 5, 2015.