Wolfgang Kermer's father died as a result of an injury from World War I, when Wolfgang Kermer was only one year old.
13 Facts About Wolfgang Kermer
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Wolfgang Kermer completed long study visits to museums and collections in various countries to compile a critical catalog of medieval painted diptychs as a basis for the temporal, regional and iconographic interpretation of this pictorial form, which was at times highly valued in private devotion.
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Wolfgang Kermer promoted international exchanges with artists and art educational institutions in Australia, Austria and South Korea.
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Wolfgang Kermer founded and edited the series of publications Akademie-Mitteilungen, Beitrage zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Stuttgart and WerkstattReihe and has written articles and books on modern artists and art education.
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Wolfgang Kermer has been the curator of numerous exhibitions and high school events and founded in 1975 the Academy Collection, which he built up over the course of more than two decades with works by current and former teachers as well as alumni.
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In 1972, while visiting the Royal College of Art in London, Wolfgang Kermer met Sam Herman, one of the pioneers of the studio glass movement, who was then head of the Glass Department.
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From 1975 Wolfgang Kermer was able to organize more exhibitions after a court order had succeeded in freeing the university's exhibition hall, which had been blocked by the illegal storage of obsolete computers since 1971.
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One of his specialties is the art and art education of Willi Baumeister: On the occasion of his 100th birthday, Wolfgang Kermer organized in 1989 the first retrospective of his work as typographer and advertising designer.
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Some of Baumeister's writings Wolfgang Kermer reedited in 1999 and 2006.
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In 1987 Wolfgang Kermer discovered the forgotten artistic heritage of the Stuttgart Jewish painter Alice Haarburger, who was murdered in the Holocaust.
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Wolfgang Kermer succeeded in preventing an unworthy dissolution of the artistic estate.
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Wolfgang Kermer is married to French artist France Kermer and lives now in Kusel and Cendrecourt after living in Neunkirchen, Stuttgart, Renningen, Rutesheim and Schillersdorf.
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In 1984 Wolfgang Kermer was awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 2006 he became Honorary Senator of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.