Wolfgang Ullrich (art historian)

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Ullrich 2012 at the “Image!” Conference in Marburg

Wolfgang Ullrich (* 1967 in Munich ) is a German art historian and cultural scientist .

Life

Ullrich studied philosophy and art history and received his doctorate in 1994 from Thomas Buchheim . Between 1997 and 2003 he was a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , followed by visiting professorships at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg and at the University of Design in Karlsruhe . He held teaching positions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland . Since 2006 he has been professor of art history and media theory at the Karlsruhe University of Design, since 2014 Vice Rector for Research. In 2015 he resigned his professorship; he works and lives as a freelance author in Leipzig and Munich.

In his writings he deals with the history and criticism of the concept of art, with questions relating to the sociology of images and consumption theory. Above all, he is concerned with the armament of the concept of art, which has overestimated its role in modernity. He diagnoses the resulting excessive demands on artists and art recipients and pleads for a more sober view of the works of art. In his publications, Ullrich treats art methodologically on an equal footing with other visual phenomena, for example with images from advertising , photojournalism or propaganda .

Controversy about Neo Rauch's picture "Der Anbräuner"

In a contribution by ZEIT entitled Auf dunkler Scholle in May 2019, Ullrich counts the Leipzig painter Neo Rauch to a group of “right-wing artists who acted as the last defenders of artistic freedom ” and used the narrative that Germany was a “ DDR 2.0 ”. In response, Rauch painted the picture Der Anbräuner , which was bought at an auction for € 750,000 by Christoph Gröner , who, according to his own statement, wants to present it in the foyer of one of his planned “Common Sense Association”. In an interview with Deutschlandfunk Kultur , Ullrich emphasized that he “assumed that Rauch had right motives, but by no means made him a Nazi - he does that himself.” In an interview with Die Welt , Rauch explained that he wanted the image to be understood as a “well-deserved slap in the face” . Jens Hinrichsen defended Ullrich in monopoly and judged that the "thesis that right-wing artists are currently invoking artistic freedom is not so easy to wipe off the table" and that Rauch is not "across the board as a right-wing artist [in Ullrich's essay]. titled "would. On his blog commented Ullrich auctioning and balanced, "If an image that an unwelcome critics fecal shall revile you, is declared the symbol image for common sense, that makes it a blanket defamation of critics and intellectuals."

Works

  • The garden of the wild. A study on Martin Heidegger's event thinking. Fink, Munich 1996 (also dissertation at the University of Munich 1994).
  • Uta from Naumburg. A German icon. Verlag Klaus Wagenbach , Berlin 1998 (paperback 2005).
  • With your back to art, the new status symbols of power. Wagenbach, Berlin 2000.
  • The story of blurring. Klaus Wagenbach Verlag, Berlin 2002 (Japanese translation 2006, Bulgarian translation 2012) (paperback 2009).
  • Hang lower. About dealing with art. Wagenbach, Berlin 2003 (Japanese translation 2008).
  • What was art? Biographies of a Concept. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16317-5 .
  • Pictures on a trip around the world. A criticism of globalization. Wagenbach, Berlin 2006.
  • Want to have. How does the consumer culture work? S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006.
  • Wanted: art! Phantom image of a joker. Wagenbach, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8031-2577-4 .
  • Refined art. Exercise before reproductions. Wagenbach, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8031-5178-0 .
  • Prosperity phenomena. A collection of examples. Philo Fine Arts, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86572-581-3 .
  • Believe in art. Wagenbach's pocket library No. 673. Wagenbach, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8031-2673-3 .
  • All just consumption. Critique of the aesthetic education. Wagenbach, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8031-2699-3 .
  • The Spirit's Presence. A science poetics. Wagenbach, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8031-2729-7 .
  • Winning art. New nobility, dear lust. Wagenbach, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8031-3660-2 .
  • The creative person. Dispute over an idea. Residence, Salzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7017-3388-0 .
  • True master values. Style criticism of a new confessional culture . Wagenbach, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-8031-3668-8 .
  • Selfies. The return of public life . Wagenbach, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-8031-3683-1 .
As editor

Exhibitions

Prizes / awards

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Ullrich (art historian)  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb00041229_00001.html (p. 15)
  2. ↑ According to [1]
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Ullrich: Art freedom: On dark clod . In: The time . May 21, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed July 31, 2019]).
  4. ↑ mdr.de: Neo Rauch "Der Anbräuner" | MDR.DE. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Martin Machowecz: Neo Rauch: A painted replica . In: The time . June 27, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed July 31, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Neo Rauch's “Der Anbräuner”: Painting shows painting with excrement - and brings 750,000 euros . In: Spiegel Online . July 29, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed July 31, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Martin Machowecz: Neo Rauch: Among sales artists . In: The time . July 31, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed August 1, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Neo Rauch and his “protest picture” - who is the “tanner”? Accessed July 31, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ Boris Pofalla: Neo Rauch and Rosa Loy: The general hill of "Comrade" Kahane . July 6, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed July 31, 2019]).
  10. ↑ verkackt: Neo Rauch is a very bad cartoonist. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  11. ↑ "Der Anbräuner" by Neo Rauch - a collection of links and a short comment on the auction. July 29, 2019, accessed on August 1, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Ullrich, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ulrich, Wolfgang (misspelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich