Wend Fischer

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Wend Fischer (born January 5, 1916 in Berlin ; † 2005 ) was a German art critic , editor and museum director.

Life

Wend Fischer, son of the student councilor Friedrich Fischer and his wife Elisabeth, née Eggebrecht, passed the Abitur at the humanistic Prinz-Heinrich-Gymnasium in Berlin-Schöneberg in 1934 . Wend Fischer then turned to studying philosophy , psychology and art history at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , which he graduated in 1939.

Wend Fischer, who had worked as an art critic since 1948 after various professional assignments, took up an editorial position at the magazine of the German Werkbund Werk und Zeit in 1952 .

In 1965 he was elected director of the State Museum Die Neue Sammlung , succeeding Hans Eckstein . In this function, he designed the successful exhibition The Hidden Reason in 1971 . Functional design in the 19th century .

In 1975 he and the Secretary General Gustav Barcas von Hartmann directed an exhibition on the Werkbund with a great catalog. Two traveling exhibitions in cooperation with Josef Lehmbrock , 1971: " Profitopolis or: Man needs another city " and 1979: "From Profitopoli $ to the city of people (book accompanying the exhibition with contributions by Wend Fischer, Josef Lehmbrock, Vilma Sturm , Manfred H. Siebker, Hubert Hoffmann , Hans Paul Bahrdt , Dieter Oeter, Aloys Bernatzky , Gerhard Scholz and Hugo Kükelhaus ), run around the world. Wend Fischer, who was elected a full member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art , resigned in 1980 .

Wend Fischer married Brunhild Haase in 1952. The children named Babette and Kay came from this connection. He died in 2005 at the age of 89.

Publications (selection)

  • Construction, space, device, in: The art of the 20th century, R. Piper, Munich, 1957
  • Plastic, in: The art of the twentieth century, 3rd, R. Piper, Munich, 1957
  • Zoltan Székessy , in: Monographs on Rhenish-Westphalian Art of the Present, Vol. 30., A. Bongers, Recklinghausen, 1965
  • Industrial buildings 1830-1930: a photographic documentation, Munich, 1967
  • Security and freedom. Building with Glass, Scherpe, Krefeld, 1970
  • The hidden reason Functional design in the 19th century. Munich January 29 to March 28, 1971. Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, 1971
  • The New Collection: A selection from the museum's holdings, State Museum for Applied Arts, Munich, 1972
  • From Profitopoli $ to the City of People (with Josef Lehmbrock), Die Neue Sammlung, Munich 1979

literature

  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XV. Edition of Degeners who is it ?, Arani Verlags-GmBH., Berlin, 1967, pp. 450, 451.
  • The work of art, Volume 25, Woldemar Klein Verlag, Baden-Baden, 1972, p. 47.
  • Achim Klünder: Culture magazines of the third television programs, 1964-1973, in: Picture and sound carrier directories, No. 5., Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv, Frankfurt am Main, 1975, p. 142.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Spiegel: "Profit became the measure of all things". Der Spiegel, February 7, 1972, accessed on April 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Josef Lehmbrock and Wend Fischer: From Profitopoli $ to the city of people . Ed .: Die Neue Sammlung. Munich 1979.
  3. ↑ From $ Profitopoli the city of men. Styrian Society for Cultural Policy, November 19, 1979, accessed April 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Wend
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art critic, editor and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 2005