Wolfgang Reiss

Wolfgang tear at his desk

Wolfgang Reiss (born June 11, 1944 in Lissewo / West Prussia) is a German university professor for aesthetic education and art education .

Career

Wolfgang Reiss studied at the Kassel Art College . After completing the artistic-scientific state examination, he did his doctorate in 1980 under Wolfgang Kemp with a thesis: Art Education in the Weimar Republic - History and Ideology. After passing the second state examination, he worked as a teacher at high schools in Bad Hersfeld and Düsseldorf.

In 1981 he became a member of the art department of the Hessian Institute for Teacher Training.

From 1982 to 1986 he was seconded to the University of Essen and began basic research on children's drawings. In addition to individual research, more than 36,000 images of children were systematically evaluated in these investigations. It is one of the largest empirical studies in the German-speaking area since 1905 by Georg Kerschensteiner. In 1993, he completed his habilitation in art education at the University of Essen with the results of research into the aesthetic behavior of 6 to 14 year old children and adolescents.

In 1995 he was appointed professor for art education at the Faculty 24 of Fine Arts at the University of Mainz , which is now the Mainz School of Art . After his release in 2009 he continued to represent the chair until 2011. Since the 1980s he has been a lecturer a. a. at the Universities of Kassel, Wuppertal, Frankfurt a. M. and Bern.

In 2005 and 2006 he was a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Kabul at the invitation of the Goethe Institute.

Work areas

• Aesthetic socialization (artistic behavior) of children and young people
• History of aesthetic education, individual questions of historical art education, art education.

Publications (selection)

• Art Education in the Weimar Republic - History and Ideology. Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel 1981.
• Art education and politics, presented using the example of Gustav Kolb in: On the situation of art education, series of the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig, part 1, basic questions and tasks of aesthetic education , vol. 9, Braunschweig 1986.
• Catalog of the international painting and drawing competition "My - Your - Our World", pictures of children from 22 developing countries and the Federal Republic of Germany. Kindernothilfe, Duisburg 1991.
• The children's drawing of the six to fourteen year olds - investigation into the children's image of school childhood. Luchterhand Verlag Neuwied / Berlin 1996.
• Survey and evaluation of children's drawings in: Friederike Heintzel (Hrsg.): Methods of Childhood Research. Beltz Juventa Verlag Weinheim and Basel, 2nd edition 2012.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Reiss in the catalog of the German National Library
• Deans of the departments of the University of Mainz