Wilfried Wiegand

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Wilfried Wiegand (born January 24, 1937 in Berlin ; † May 8, 2020 ) was a German journalist and art historian with a research focus on the history of art, photography and the theory and practice of art criticism . Among other things, he wrote publications on Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol as well as on the history of film and photography.

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Journalist and art historian

Lewis Carroll : Alexandra "Xie" Kitchin as a tea merchant, 1873 , photograph, from the Wilfried and Uta Wiegand collection

Wilfried Wiegand studied art history in Berlin with Hans Kauffmann , in Munich with Hans Sedlmayr and in Hamburg with Wolfgang Schöne . In 1971 he received his doctorate in Hamburg.

From 1966 to 1968 Wiegand was editor of the daily newspaper Die Welt , then until 1969 editor of the news magazine Der Spiegel and until 2002 editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) , for which he was from 1981 to 1985 and from 1997 to 2001 as a cultural correspondent in Paris was active. From 1986 to 1996 Wiegand was the feature editor of the FAZ . In 1996 he was guest of honor at the Villa Massimo in Rome.

Since 2003 Wiegand has been a lecturer at the Institute for Art and Musicology at the Technical University of Dresden and on July 16, 2008 he was appointed honorary professor for the history of modern art at this university. In June 2017, the TU Dresden awarded him an honorary doctorate “in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the field of art and cultural-historical mediation as well as his special merits in the research of photography and film”. Wilfried Wiegand lived in Berlin.

The Uta and Wilfried Wiegand photo collection

In 2011, the Frankfurt Art Museum Städel acquired a collection of photographs that Wiegand and his wife, fashion designer Uta Wiegand, have been putting together since 1975. The collection includes around 200 original photographs from the early 19th century to the classic modern of the 1930s and includes works by Eugène Atget , Brassaï , Julia Margaret Cameron , Lewis Carroll , Gertrude Käsebier , Dora Maar , Eadweard Muybridge , Man Ray , among others , August Sander , Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz . It traces the development of the medium of photography over the first hundred years. Photographs from the Wiegand Collection have been shown together with paintings and sculptures as part of the new presentation of Modern Art 1800–1945 at the Städel Museum since November 17, 2011. In January 2017, the museum again showed photographs from the couple's collection alongside paintings.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Ruisdael studies: attempting an iconology of landscape painting. Hamburg 1971 (dissertation).
  • with Rainer Crone: Andy Warhol's revolutionary aesthetic. Melzer, Darmstadt 1972.
  • Pablo Picasso with self-testimonies and photo documents. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1973. 21st edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-499-50205-7 .
  • Early days of photography: 1826–1890. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-7973-0339-4 .
  • The truth of photography. Classic confessions to a new art. Edited by Wilfried Wiegand. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-10-091504-6 .

Web links and sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see On the death of Wilfried Wiegand: Curator in the imaginary museum, message faz.net May 12, 2020
  2. ↑ Hon.-Prof. Dr. Wilfried Wiegand - academic career. Technical University of Dresden, accessed on November 5, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Wilfried Wiegand receives an honorary doctorate from the TU Dresden. Technische Universität Dresden, June 23, 2017, accessed on November 5, 2017 .
  4. ^ Nicola Kuhn: Berlin's icons of photo art: light images, shadowy sides. In: Der Tagesspiegel . July 27, 2013, accessed November 5, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Michael Hierholzer: Limitless art in the garden wing. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . November 15, 2011.
  6. ↑ The eye. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. January 24, 2017, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Wiegand, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 2020