Wolfgang Max Faust

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Grave site, Stubenrauchstrasse 43–45, in Berlin-Friedenau

Wolfgang Max Faust (born February 8, 1944 in Landstuhl ; † November 21, 1993 ) was a German art theorist and editor-in-chief of the art magazine " Wolkenkratzer "; a promoter and critic of German gestural painting of the 1980s. Faust received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin . He shared a long-term relationship and friendship with Eckehard Kunz, the pastor of the Berlin Martin Luther congregation. Faust committed suicide in 1993, suffering from the effects of AIDS. His estate is in the archive of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, his unusual tombstone in the Schöneberg III cemetery .

Works (selection)

  • Pictures become words. On the relationship between fine arts and literature in the 20th century or From the beginning of art in the end of the arts , Hanser Verlag, Munich 1977, ISBN 3446124268
  • Hungry for pictures. Contemporary German painting (with Gerd de Vries), "DuMont Documents", DuMont Reiseverlag, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3770114426
  • So there is all this. Everyday life, art, AIDS. An autobiographical report , Hatje Cantz Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-89322-523-4 .
  • Farewell to art (?)
  • Martin Kippenberger and Co - A Document (Commentator)

literature

  • Volker Albus, Ulf Erdmann Ziegler , Egbert Hörmann; Frank Wagner (preface): Immediate Past - Interrupted Careers: Christian Borngräber, Wolfgang Max Faust, Manfred Salzgeber. Three cultural mediators of the eighties , NGBK, Berlin 2000, ISBN 392679660X
  • Stefanie Kreuzer: Catastrophe as a mode of transition of cultural systems in the 20th century and the phenomenon of transition in Wolfgang Max Faust , Peter Lang Publ., Frankfurt / M. 2002, ISBN 3631381670

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Individual proof

  1. ↑ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller, Man for Man, page 220
personal data
SURNAME Faust, Wolfgang Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art theorist, editor-in-chief of the art magazine Wolkenkratzer
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Landstuhl
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1993