Wilhelm Worringer

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Wilhelm Worringer (born January 13, 1881 in Aachen , † March 29, 1965 in Munich ) was a German art historian . He was married to the artist Marta Worringer .

method

Initially a literary scholar, Worringer soon switched to art history and studied with Heinrich Rückert , Georg Simmel and Heinrich Wölfflin . His methodical approach is most clearly presented in his dissertation Abstraction and Empathy (1907 with Artur Weese in Bern ). In 1908 it was published as a book by Piper Verlag in Munich. In it Worringer divided the movements in art in general into abstraction (as a reaction of man to the confusing environment and his lost position in the world as a whole) and empathy (which he equates with a trait imitating nature.) His formula: “Aesthetic enjoyment is objectified self-enjoyment "Could be translated with the quote:" We enjoy ourselves in the forms of a work of art. " "Just as the urge to empathize as a prerequisite for aesthetic experience finds its satisfaction in the beauty of the organic, so the urge to abstraction finds its beauty in the life-negating inorganic, in the crystalline, generally speaking, in all abstract laws and necessity." (Quote: Abstraction and Empathy, p. 36) Following up on Alois Riegl , he laid the foundation for integrating the emerging classical modernism and expressionism into the tradition of European art history . Even Bernard Myers writes Worringer along with Henri Bergson's Creative (r) development a significant portion of the ideological foundation of German Expressionism to. He also worked early on Expressionism itself.

Teaching

After his habilitation with the work Formprobleme der Gotik 1909 in Bern, Worringer taught from 1915 as a private lecturer and from 1925 to 1928 as an associate professor at the Art History Institute of the University of Bonn . In 1928 he became a professor at the University of Königsberg . Here he remained from 1933 to 1945 as the only German art historian in inner emigration by stopping his publications. In 1945 he took up a professorship at the University of Halle . In 1950 he left the GDR for political reasons.

Honors

Since 1949 he was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Works

  • Fonts . Edited by Hannes Böhringer , Helga Grebing , Beate Söntgen. Munich 2004, 2 volumes and 1 CD-ROM, ISBN 3-7705-3641-X
  • Abstraction and empathy . Dissertation 1907; Piper, Munich 1908;
    • New edition, ed. by Helga Grebing. With an introduction by Claudia Öhlschläger to Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7705-4434-9
  • Gothic form problems . Munich 1911
  • Preface to the reprint: abstraction and empathy. A contribution to style psychology . Munich 1948
  • Problems of contemporary art . Munich 1948
  • Does the Mona Lisa really smile? , in: Subject. Zeitschrift für die Einheit der Kultur, 2/1949, pp. 25–29
  • Jean Fouquet and Piero della Francesca , in: The artwork, 3/1949 (1), pp. 24–30
  • Egyptian art - problems of its valuation , R. Piper & Co. Verlag, Munich, 1927, printed by Oscar Brandstetter in Leipzig

literature

  • Wilhelm Worringer. New contributions to German research. Wilhelm Worringer on his 60th birthday . Edited by Erich Fidder. Koenigsberg. Canter. 1943. 233 pp.
  • Hannes Böhringer and Beate Söntgen (eds.): Wilhelm Worringers art history . Munich. 2002
  • Metzler-Kunsthistoriker-Lexikon . Stuttgart / Weimar 1999, pp. 493-495
  • Frank Büttner: The “empathy” paradigm with Robert Vischer , Heinrich Wölfflin and Wilhelm Worringer , in: Christian Drude (ed.): 200 years of art history in Munich. Munich 2003, pp. 82-93
  • Heinrich Dilly : Wilhelm Worringer's Halle publications , in: Wolfgang Schenkluhn (ed.): 100 years of art history at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Halle 2004 (= Hallesche Contributions to Art History, 5/6), pp. 163–180
  • Helga Grebing : The Worringers. Educational citizenship as a meaning in life. Wilhelm and Marta Worringer (1881–1965) . Parthas, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-936324-23-5
  • Udo Kultermann: The history of art history . Munich 1990, p. 192/193
  • Heinrich L. Nickel: The beginning again after the Second World War. Memories of Wilhelm Worringer and Hans Junecke , in: Wolfgang Schenkluhn (ed.): 100 years of art history at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Halle 2004 (= Hallesche Contributions to Art History, 5/6), pp. 181–190
  • Claudia Öhlschläger: urge to abstract. Wilhelm Worringer and the spirit of modernity. Paderborn 2005.
  • Norberto Gramaccini and Johannes Rößler (Eds.): Hundred Years of “Abstraction and Empathy” . Constellations around Wilhelm Worringer. Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-7705-5302-0

iconography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marta Worringer. In: www.fembio.org. Retrieved September 15, 2016 .
  2. ^ Members of the SAW: Wilhelm Worringer. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed December 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Worringer, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1965
Place of death Munich