Andreas Neufert (born August 16, 1961) is a German

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Biography

On his father's side Neufert is related to the architect Ernst Neufert (1900–1986), to the philologist Friedrich Vollmer (1867–1923), to Anna Maria Lasinsky (Freiin von Knapp) (1782–1839) the German-Polish romantic poet, and to the German-Polish Lasinsky family. On his mother's side he has German-English ancestors in the families Garrels and Russell.Helmut Lensing: ''Russell, Emil.'' In: ''Studiengesellschaft für Emsländische Regionalgeschichte.'' Band 16, Haselünne 2009, S. 215–226. Neufert studied

art history Art history is the study of Work of art, artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history. Tradit ...

, philosophy and literature at the universities of

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and

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, and took his doctorate at the Witten/Herdecke University. His dissertation about the Austrian-Mexican surrealist

Wolfgang Paalen Wolfgang Robert Paalen (July 22, 1905 in Vienna, Austria – September 24, 1959 in Taxco, Mexico) was an Austrian-Mexican painter, sculptor, and Aesthetics, art philosopher. A member of the Abstraction-Création group from 1934 to 1935, he joine ...

is mainly concerned with the aspect of the Viennese philosophical tradition of (

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, Ernest Mach). It was published 1999 under the title ''Im Inneren des Wals'' at

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Wien/New York. 1993/94 he worked as guest curator at the Museum Moderner Kunst – Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, and 1994 as co-curator of the retrospective exhibition Wolfgang Paalen in the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; Neufert became a regular guest-curator at the MACG, Mexiko (1994–98) and realized f.e. exhibitions like ''Recuerdo del Paraiso eternal'',

André Breton André Robert Breton (; ; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first ''Surrealist Manifesto'' (''Manifeste du surréalisme'') ...

. He has extensively researched the life of

, the

surrealist Surrealism is an art movement, art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike s ...

artist and thinker. 2015 he published the 700 pages biography on Paalen ''Auf Liebe und Tod'' (Parthas Berlin). In 2019 he curated a Wolfgang Paalen Retrospective Exhibition for the

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in Vienna. Neufert has three children and lives with his family in Berlin-Schöneberg and Bork am See (

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). Since 2002 he has worked as a freelance curator and author.

Selected works

* ''Engagement und Distanz.'' Aspekte einer Sammlung. Edition van de Loo, München, 1992, (collection of 35 Essays by Andreas Neufert about

Pierre Alechinsky Pierre Alechinsky (; born 19 October 1927) is a Belgian artist. He has lived and worked in France since 1951. His work is related to tachisme, abstract expressionism, and lyrical abstraction. Life Alechinsky was born in Schaerbeek, Belgium, to ...

Günter Brus Günter Brus (27 September 1938 – 10 February 2024) was an Austrian painter, performance artist, graphic artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer. Biography Brus grew up in Mureck, attended the Kunstgewerbeschule Graz and went to Vienna ...

Jean Dubuffet Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (; 31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French Painting, painter and sculpture, sculptor of the School of Paris, École de Paris (School of Paris). His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called "low art" a ...

Asger Jorn Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 – 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International. The largest collection of Jorn's works� ...

Henri Michaux Henri Michaux (; 24 May 1899 – 19 October 1984) was a Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned for his strange, highly original poetry and prose, and also for his art: the Paris Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenhei ...

, Arnulf Rainer,

Antonio Saura Antonio Saura Atarés (September 22, 1930 – July 22, 1998) was a Spanish artist and writer, one of the major post-war painters to emerge in Spain in the fifties whose work has marked several generations of artists and whose critical voice is ...

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u.a.) (In

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) * ''Wolfgang Paalen. Im Inneren des Wals.'' – Monografie/Schriften/Oevrekatalog. Springer, Wien/ New York 1999. (In

) * ''Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas, Art versus Psychology – Psychology versus Art''. in: (In)disciplinas: Estética e Historia del Arte en el Cruce de los Discursos, XXII. Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte, Hrsg.v. Lucero Enriquez, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Istituto de Investigaciones Esteticas, México, 1999, pp. 281–297 * ''Celos, miedo y delirio en el signo de la Luna''. Essay, in: Alice Rahon. Una Surrealista en Mexico, Ausstellungskatalog Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico-City, 2009, pp. 90–117 (In

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) * ''The Totem as Sphinx'', in: Dawn Adès, Rita Eder, and Graciela Speranza, ''Surrealism in Latin America, Vivismo Muerto'', Getty Research Institute (Issues & Debates), Los Angeles, 2012, pp. 111–129 * ''Auf Liebe und Tod. Das Leben des Surrealisten Wolfgang Paalen'' (A Matter of Life and Death. The Life of the Surrealist Wolfgang Paalen), Berlin: Parthas, 2015 (In

)

References

*''This article incorporates translated material from the German Wikipedia article.''

External links

Website of Andreas Neufert

Beta Worldcat Archives of Getty Research Institute Debates on Surrealism in Latin America

Lecture of Andreas Neufert: The Totem as Sphinx, Wolfgang Paalen´s urgent Illuminations during his Voyage into Exile 1939 (Symposion ''Vivísimo Muerto: Debates on Surrealism in Latin America'' of the Getty Research Center, Los Angeles)

Discussion with Dawn Ades, Andreas Neufert and Daniel Garza Usabiaga about Wolfgamg Paalen

Booktrailer: Andreas Neufert, Auf Liebe und Tod

The official website about Wolfgang Paalen and Succession Wolfgang Paalen
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