Wieland Schmied
Wieland Schmied (born February 5, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main ; † April 22, 2014 in Vorchdorf , Upper Austria ) was an Austrian art historian and critic , exhibition maker, literary scholar and writer , and since 1986 professor of art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , from 1995 to 2004 President of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts .
Life
Wieland Schmied was the eldest son of the Austrian philosopher Walther Schmied-Kowarzik and his second wife, the German-Baltic poet Gertrud von den Brincken from Kurland . He grew up in Frankfurt am Main and Friedberg and in 1939 moved with his parents to Vienna. After graduating from high school in Mödling , he studied law (doctorate in 1951) and art history at the University of Vienna . He had been an Austrian citizen since 1949.
After receiving his doctorate, Schmied worked on the editorial team of the magazine Die Furche . From 1960 to 1962 he was an editor at Insel Verlag and an art critic at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . From 1963 to 1973 he was director of the Kestner Society in Hanover, then until 1975 chief curator of the Nationalgalerie Berlin , from 1978 to 1986 he was director of the DAAD in Berlin and head of the Berlin artist program as successor to Karl Ruhrberg and from 1980 to 1999 president of the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg .
From 1986 to 1994 he was professor of art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He was the rector of this academy from 1988 to 1993. From 1988 to 2004 he was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and there from 1992 to 1995 director of the "Department of Fine Arts", from 1995 to 2004 president of the academy. In 2006 he received an honorary doctorate from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Wieland Schmied had been married to the graphic artist and photographer Erika Schmied since 1966 , with whom he published several books. They became parents of two daughters. Most recently he lived in Vorchdorf / Lederau in Upper Austria, where he died after a serious illness in April 2014 at the age of 85.
Exhibitions
As director of the Kestner Society in Hanover, Wieland Schmied organized a total of 99 exhibitions, for whose catalogs he wrote numerous forewords and other contributions. From Berlin he curated many important international exhibitions at home and abroad on the art of the 20th century. In 1977 he was responsible for the “Hand Drawings” department at Documenta 6 in Kassel , and he was also in charge of the “New Objectivity and Surrealism” department at the 15th European Art Exhibition in Berlin. For the Goethe Institute in 1980, together with Eberhard Kolb and Eberhard Roters, he created the exhibition and catalog “Critical Graphics of the Weimar Period”, which was shown worldwide and which made German graphics of the 1920s known for the first time. At the Katholikentage in Berlin in 1980, Signs of Faith - Spirit of the Avant-garde , he curated the exhibition “Religious Tendencies in Art of the 20th Century” and in 1990 Contemporary Eternity the exhibition “Traces of the Transcendent in Art of Our Time”. In 1982 Schmied was a member of the board of trustees of the Zeitgeist exhibition in Berlin.
Literary work
In addition to numerous works on art and literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, Wieland Schmied also published his own poetry. He was u. a. friends with HC Artmann , Thomas Bernhard and Friedensreich Hundertwasser (Friedrich Stowasser).
Schmied saw a main source of artistic inspiration in spirituality ; he used to remember that inspiration, like spirituality, is born of esprit . He also referred explicitly to non-Christian spirituality and religious history . Man complete his creatureliness by becoming creative himself. "Man as creator has before him the archetype of God the Creator."
Awards
- 1959: Theodor Körner Prize
- 1975: Honorary Citizen of the City of New Orleans
- 1979: Awarded the title of professor by the Federal President of the Republic of Austria
- 1984: Prize of the City of Vienna for Journalism
- 1989: Gold coat of arms medal of the state capital Salzburg
- 1989: Hans Prinzhorn Medal
- 1990: Large Federal Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1991: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
- 1993: Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism for 1992
- 1994: Friedrich Märker Prize for essayists
- 1996: Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Silver
- 1997: Bavarian Order of Merit
- 1997: Theo Wormland Prize for the complete works of art writing
- 1998: Great Silver Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 1999: Paracelsusring of the city of Salzburg
- 1999: Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Salzburg
- 1999: Bavarian Maximilian Order
- 2001: Culture Medal of the Province of Upper Austria
- 2003: Lifetime achievement honored by the Bible and Culture Foundation
- 2006: Dr. hc from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- 2010: Badge of honor in gold from the city of Mödling
- 2011: Gold Medal for Services to the State of Vienna
Works
- From the Chinese to the children. 1957
- Map of the wind. Poems. 1957
- The poetic in art. 1960
- Window into the invisible. To the art of the Christians. 1960
- Heinrich Schliemann . No Troy without Homer . Two decades of archaeological research, ed. v. Wieland Schmied, 1960
- Left and right the night . 1962
- Wine from the graves . Poems, 1962
- Fantastic realism painting. The Vienna School. 1964
- Richard Oelze . 1965
- Mark Tobey . 1966
- Fantastic realism painting. The Vienna School. 1964
- Pioneer of modern art, 50 years of the Kestner Society . 1966
- Alfred Kubin . 1967.
- Josef Albers , on his 80th birthday. Lithographs - Serigraphs. 1968.
- New objectivity and magical realism in Germany 1918–1933. 1969
- Rudolf Hausner . 1970
- Brewer . Monograph with catalog of works, 1972
- 200 years of fantastic painting. 1974
- Painting after 1945 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. 1974
- Hundertwasser . 1974
- Caspar David Friedrich. 1975
- Werner Heldt. 1976
- Wilhelm Thöny. 1976
- After Klimt. 1979
- Chess with Marcel Duchamp . Poems, 1980
- Francis Bacon . 1985
- Other voices. Memories. 1985
- The contradictions of the Ezra Pound. 1987
- Rudolf Hoflehner. 1987
- De Chirico and his shadow. 1989
- Art, art history art academy. 1990
- Touches. Essays. 1991
- Matta. 1991
- Salvador Dalí . The riddle of desire. 1991, ISBN 3-492-11206-4 .
- The five hammers of Wolf Vostell . 1992, ISBN 3-924306-30-3 .
- Ezra Pound . A life between art and politics. 1994
- with Erika Schmied : Thomas Bernhard's houses. 1995
- Edward Hopper . Pictures from America. 1995
- Painting in Austria 1945–1995. Exhibition catalog Künstlerhaus Wien (publisher), 1996
- Max Weiler . Another picture of nature. 1998
- with Erika Schmied: Thomas Bernhard's World. 1999
- Ezra Pound Studies I , 2000, ISBN 3-89086-752-9 .
- with Erika Schmied: Thomas Bernhards Austria. 2000
- The other modernity - De Chirico and Savinio . 2001
- HC Artmann . 1921-2000. Memories and essays. 2001, ISBN 3-89086-727-8 .
- History of Fine Arts in Austria - 20th Century. (Ed.), 2002, ISBN 3-7913-2516-7 .
- Memories of Ezra Pound. 2002, ISBN 3-89086-719-7 .
- Hundertwasser - Oeuvre catalog. (Ed.), 2002
- Difficult beauty. Ezra Pound and the fine arts. Ezra Pound Studies II. 2003, ISBN 3-89086-705-7 .
- Where is the journey of art going? Essays, 2003
- Passion and a cool look. Comparative art history. 2004
- with Erika Schmied: Hundertwasser's paradises. 2004
- Encounter with Samuel Beckett in Berlin. 2006, ISBN 3-89086-681-6 .
- with Erika Schmied: Hermann Nitsch . The person behind his actions. 2006
- Images of the Bible. Painters from seven centuries tell the life of Jesus. 2006, ISBN 3-87173-365-2 .
- From creation to the apocalypse. 2007
- with Erika Schmied: Thomas Bernhard . Life and work in pictures and texts. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7017-3089-6 .
- Not just color but blood too. 14 attempts via Hermann Nitsch. 2008, ISBN 978-3-85252-792-5 .
- Lust for contradiction. Biographical. 2008, ISBN 978-3-87173-105-1 .
- The artist to whom the world remained a mystery. Giorgio de Chirico nine times. 2009, ISBN 978-3-85252-943-1 .
- Between night side and day side. Poems. 2009, ISBN 978-3-85252-709-3 .
- Good evening, maestro. Nightly conversations in the museum. 2010, ISBN 978-3-87173-905-7 .
- Paul Celan . 2010
- Ox and donkey and other animals in the Bible. 2011
- Openings. 2011, ISBN 978-3-900000-77-6 .
- Auersberger's true story and other texts about Thomas Bernhard. One alphabet. 2014, ISBN 978-3-99028-258-8 .
- A bird's researches on the nature of things. The world of surrealism. Photographs by Erika Schmied. 2014, ISBN 978-3-99028-336-3 .
literature
- Eugen Blume (inlet): Joseph Beuys. Provocation of the vital substance of society / art and anti-art (panel discussion "open ended. Art and anti-art" between Max Bense , Joseph Beuys , Max Bill , Arnold Gehlen and Wieland Schmied, January 27, 1970), Volume 3; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-88609-077-9 .
- Wolf Vostell. Happening, Dé-coll / age. In: Wolf Vostell retrospective 1958–1974. New National Gallery Berlin, Berlin, 1974.
- Against the current. Wieland Schmied. Images and texts , ed. and designed by Erika Schmied, 2016, ISBN 978-3-99028-448-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mittelbayerische.de
- ↑ Alex Stock: Spirituality of the Avant-Garde. What could be learned from Wieland Schmied. In: Voices of the Time . Vol. 68 (2014), pp. 312-316, here p. 314.
- ^ Wieland Schmied: Spirituality in the art of the 20th century. In: Communio , Vol. 12 (183), pp. 73-90, here pp. 76, 78.
- ↑ Wieland Schmied: Window into the Invisible. To the art of the Christians . Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg 1960.
- ↑ Wieland Schmied in the catalog for the exhibition “Presence Eternity. Traces of the transcendent in the art of our time ”, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, April 7 to June 24, 1990, p. 48.
- ↑ DGPA
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
Web links
- Entry on Wieland Schmied in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Rimbaud Published by Wieland Schmied
- Publishing house library of the province: Wieland Schmied
- Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
- Literature by and about Wieland Schmied in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Wieland Schmied in the German Digital Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schmied, Wieland |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian essayist and art historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1929 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 2014 |
Place of death | Vorchdorf |