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Wolfgang Kermer (born 18 May 1935 in
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) is a German
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, artist, art educator, author, editor, curator of exhibitions, art collector and
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. From 1971 to 1984 he was repeatedly elected
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of the
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and thus the first scientific and at the same time youngest teacher in this position in the history of the university. Under his rectorate, the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart was reformed in 1975 and 1978 on the base of two new university laws of the
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of
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and thus, for the first time in its history, authorized to set up diplomas for all courses. One of the accents of his work was the promotion of talented graduates of the academy: In 1978 he organized the first of the so-called ″debutant exhibitions″, an ″unconventional contribution to the promotion of young people″, supported financially by the State of Baden-Württemberg. Wolfgang Kermer′s focus is the history of
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, the art of
Willi Baumeister Willi Baumeister (22 January 1889 – 31 August 1955) was a German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics. Life Born ...
and the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and its predecessor institutions. He was the founder, publisher and editor of the publication series (1972–1978), (1975–2004), (1996–2006) and ″Die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart im Spiegel der Presse 1970/1971″ (2008). On the occasion of his 75th birthday, the
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called Wolfgang Kermer ″the memory of the Stuttgart Art Academy″.


Biography


Life and education

Born as the son of the
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n-born Austrian
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Franz Kermer (1893–1936), Wolfgang Kermer spent his childhood and youth in Neunkirchen (Saar), where he attended elementary school (''Bachschule'') and high school (''Gymnasium am Krebsberg''). His father died as a result of an injury from
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, when Wolfgang Kermer was only one year old. The Viennese engineer Alois Kermer (1894–1967), who designed the first Austrian record-breaking glider after
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in 1923 (located in the
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), was his uncle. Wolfgang Kermer's childhood memories include a long stay in 1938 with relatives in
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in
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. At the end of
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he lived in
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, where his family had fled after losing their home in Neunkirchen in a bombing raid at the end of 1944 and where he escaped a fighter plane attack on broad daylight and witnessed the American invasion of the city on 26 March 1945. From the age of six he received piano lessons, which made him waver in his professional ideas between music and art. In 1954 his first solo exhibition with paintings and drawings took place in the municipal library of his hometown. After graduating from high school in 1956, he studied
visual arts education Visual arts education is the area of learning that is based upon the kind of art that one can see, visual arts—drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and design in jewelry, pottery, weaving, fabrics, etc. and design applied to more practic ...
at the Staatliche Schule für Kunst und Handwerk
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and at the
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;
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, philosophy,
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,
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and
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at the universities of
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,
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and
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. The beginning of his studies was marked by four basic semesters and the encounter with the photographer
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. From 1956 to 1957 he completed a two-semester basic course in Saarbrücken with Oskar Holweck, who further developed his teaching on the instructions of his teacher Boris Kleint, an
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student. Otto Steinert made it possible for Kermer to use the abundant photo workshops at the Saarbrücken School of Arts an Crafts for his experimental photographic work (photograms). After he had passed the entrance examination in 1957, Wolfgang Kermer studied for two semesters at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart with Hannes Neuner,
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and
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student at the
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, where he encountered an open form of teaching that remained exemplary for him throughout his years as a university lecturer. In the winter semester of 1958/59 he sat in the academy's bronze workshop under Herbert Heinzel, where he met the sculptors Emil Cimiotti, Otto Herbert Hajek and Paul Reich and their working methods. In 1959 he stayed in Paris for a period of time and studied as a scholarship holder of the French government at the
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. After passing the exams in ″Werktechnik″ in 1959, in art education in 1961, in philosophy and additionally in education science in 1962 in Stuttgart, he was awarded in 1966 the title PhD by University of Tübingen ''
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'' with the dissertation ''Studien zum Diptychon in der sakralen Malerei; von den Anfängen bis zur Mitte des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts. Mit einem Katalog''. From 1961 to 1962 he was at the
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artistic and research assistant (Faculty of architecture, Chair of Professor Maximilian Debus, a student of
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). From 1963 to 1965 he worked as an artistic assistant for photography at the Art History Institute of the University of Tübingen. At this time, after more than a decade of artistic work, that includes paintings, drawings, graphics, photographs related to
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, he stopped his exhibition activities to devote himself entirely to his scientific research. He completed long study visits to museums and collections in various countries to compile a critical catalog of medieval painted
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s as a basis for the temporal, regional and iconographic interpretation of this pictorial form, which was at times highly valued in private devotion. Wolfgang Kermer was last present with prints in the traveling exhibition ″Neue Deutsche Graphik″, which started in 1962 and was shown in 28 cities in the Federal Republic of Germany, with paintings in 1964 in the Galerie Elitzer Saarbrücken (with Horst Linn) and at the annual exhibitions of the Baden-Württemberg Artists′s Association and the Saarland Artists′ Association.


Career

Teaching art history since 1966, Wolfgang Kermer worked more than thirty years at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, from 1972 as professor and chair holder. After various art-historical articles for the
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and the
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, he published a critical report on the state of the Stuttgart Academy during the
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and called for a reform of the training of art teachers Since 1969 he has been active in university politics as an elected member of the Academy Senate and as a member of various university bodies in Baden-Württemberg. In order to avoid conflicts of interest, he gave up his work as chairman of the art educators association Württemberg (today: BDK und Deutscher KunsterzieherBaden-Württemberg) after two years in 1972 after being elected rector of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart in 1971. These elections took place for the first time in the history of the university with the participation of all university groups, professors and lecturers, assistants, technical teachers and representatives of the administration. 1973, 1976 and 1980 confirmed by the university committees in this position, he remained rector of this institution until 1984, where he made profound content and organizational reforms after the students protests in the late sixties against backward training conditions, against unlawful admission procedures for studies and the lack of examination and study regulations, against nepotism and the Nazi Past of professors. The legal status of the academy has been clarified, the inner structure was reorganized, diploma degrees were introduced for all programs and new regulations for admission to studies were created. New types of support for students have been introduced. Kermer promoted international exchanges with artists and art educational institutions in Australia,
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and
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. His special attention was on previously neglected public relations. He founded and edited the series of publications (1972–1978), (1975–2004) and (1996–2006) and has also written articles and books on modern artists and art education. He 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. Main acquisitions included works by
Willi Baumeister Willi Baumeister (22 January 1889 – 31 August 1955) was a German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics. Life Born ...
, Gunter Böhmer, Paul Uwe Dreyer,
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, Marianne Eigenheer, Rudolf Hoflehner, Alfred Hrdlicka,
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, Rudolf Schoofs,
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. In 1972, while visiting the
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in
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, Wolfgang Kermer met Sam Herman, one of the pioneers of the studio glass movement, who was then head of the Glass Department. Two years later, he curated Herman′s first solo exhibition in Germany in Stuttgart. As a connoisseur of modern glass design, Wolfgang Kermer, together with and Jörg F. Zimmermann, promoted the expansion of the traditional glass workshop of the Stuttgart Academy with a studio glass furnace in 1983/84, which made it the only art university in Germany that enabled students of all disciplines to work freely with hot glass. From 1975 Wolfgang Kermer was also 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. One of the highlights was the exhibition of Austrian artist Walter Pichler in 1981 with drawings and plans for his architectural projects. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart after World War II, Wolfgang Kermer has organized the large-scale exhibition "Zwischen Buch-Kunst und Buch-Design: Buchgestalter der Akademie und ehemaligen Kunstgewerbeschule in Stuttgart", which was shown in 1996 at the State Library of Württemberg in Stuttgart and in 1997 at the
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. Kermer's scholarly work has been devoted since the 1970s to the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and world-famous professors like
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Adolf Hölzel Adolf Richard Hölzel (13 May 1853 – 17 October 1934) was a German painter. He began as a Realist, but later became an early promoter of various Modern styles, including Abstractionism. Biography Hölzel was born in Olmütz. His father was ...
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Willi Baumeister Willi Baumeister (22 January 1889 – 31 August 1955) was a German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics. Life Born ...
, , Alfred Hrdlicka. One of his specialties is the art and art education of Willi Baumeister: On the occasion of his 100th birthday, Kermer organized in 1989 the first retrospective of his work as typographer and advertising designer (with
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). The Design Magazine ''form'' called the exhibition an ″exciting documentation″. Baumeister's lithographs printed from Erich Mönch at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart he exhibited in 1975, and in 1979 the exhibition "Hommage à Baumeister" has shown the artistic creations from twelve of his most famous students. His art theory and pedagogic views he devoted publications in 1971 and 1992. Some of Baumeister's writings Kermer reedited in 1999 and 2006. Guest events organized by Wolfgang Kermer in the 1980s with artists such as Roland Goeschl, Richard Hamilton, Oswald Oberhuber, Walter Pichler and
Arnulf Rainer Arnulf Rainer (born 8 December 1929) is an Austrian painter noted for his abstract informal art. Rainer was born in Baden, Austria. During his early years, Rainer was influenced by Surrealism. In 1950, he founded the ''Hundsgruppe'' (''dog gro ...
as well as co-operative exhibitions such as ″Art Education in Korea: Studies from the College of Fine Arts Seoul National University″, ″Anton Kolig″, ″The young Kokoschka″ and ″Brancusi Photographe″ activated the public relations work of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, a special concern Kermers since the beginning of his rectorate. His work as rector of the university, which Wolfgang Kermer dedicated to the guiding principle, as he put it, ″that academies only educate tomorrow′s artists if they serve the people of today″, he summarized in a 1984 report on the status and structure of the university, the various departments, their staffing and the workshop equipment as well as the number of students in the diploma courses. In 1987 Wolfgang Kermer discovered the forgotten artistic heritage of the Stuttgart Jewish painter , who was murdered in the
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. He succeeded in preventing an unworthy dissolution of the artistic estate. In 2016, he donated two paintings by the artist, which he had acquired in art galleries, to the Museum Spendhaus at
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, the native town of Alice Haarburger. In the same year, 50 years after the Nazi action
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, Wolfgang Kermer took the ″first research step″ to work through the chapter ″The Stuttgart Academy in the Third Reich″ with the publication of the volume ″Gottfried Graf and the ′degenerate art′ in Stuttgart″ by Werner P. Heyd. As far as his own artistic work is concerned, Kermer has exhibited his abstract paintings, drawings, etchings and photographs in more than thirty solo and group exhibitions in Germany since 1954, in France since 2003 In a 2006 interview, he described his return to artistic work after a long break in the late 1970s as ″a revitalizing measure″ for his scientific work. Also active as art collector – after meeting
Erwin Eisch Erwin Eisch (; 18 April 1927 – 25 January 2022) was a German artist who worked with glass. He was also a painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Eisch's work in glass, along with that of his friend and colleague Harvey Littleton, embodies the i ...
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, Wolfgang Kermer was one of the first, if not the first, to collect works of the studio glass movement privately in Germany as early as the 1960s, and this at a time when museums were not yet interested for the new departure in glass art – he donated his private collections of international studio glass, modern French ceramics as well as contemporary paintings, graphics und sculptures to museums in
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, Neunkirchen and
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. On the occasion of his seventieth birthday in 2005, he gave his hometown Neunkirchen under the title ″Stuttgarter Begegnungen″, among others, works by
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, Alfred Hrdlicka,
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, Chris Newman,
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, Michael Sandle,
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Micha Ullman Micha Ullman ( he, מיכה אולמן, born 1939) is an Israeli sculptor and professor of art. Biography Ullman was born in Tel Aviv to German Jews who immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933.Michal Lando''Art that hints at big questions,''The F ...
, Jörg F Zimmermann. The Donation Wolfgang Kermer to the Frauenau Glass Museum in 1982 includes works by numerous major studio glass artists and glass designers, including
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Erwin Eisch Erwin Eisch (; 18 April 1927 – 25 January 2022) was a German artist who worked with glass. He was also a painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Eisch's work in glass, along with that of his friend and colleague Harvey Littleton, embodies the i ...
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, Sam Herman,
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, Jörg F Zimmermann. In 2017, he presented the Frauenau Glass Museum with an extensive collection of hand-blown glasses, ″Homage to the unknown glassblower″ he called his donation, typical examples of the production of long-gone glassworks in eastern France. Together with his wife, he donated to the city of Sarreguemines in 2018 their collection of works by important French ceramists from the period 1970–2000. In 2007 he acquired the artistic estate and personal documents of the forgotten graphic artist and painter in order to donate them to the Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen. In 2010 he published the
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of the drawings. Wolfgang Kermer is married to French artist and lives now in
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(Germany) and Cendrecourt (France, Region
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) after living in Neunkirchen, Stuttgart,
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Rutesheim Rutesheim is a town located in the district of Böblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Location Rutesheim is situated directly to the Highway 8 (Bundesautobahn 8), from the town Leonberg, from the city Stuttgart and just from Stuttgart Airport ...
and Schillersdorf (
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in
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in north-eastern France).


Trivia

The collection of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart contains a full-length portrait of Wolfgang Kermer, which the Austro-German painter Herwig Schubert (1926–2019) created in 1980.


Honors

In 1984 Wolfgang Kermer was awarded the
Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellect ...
and in 2006 he became Honorary Senator of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.


Published works (selected)


Author

* ''Wolfgang Kermer: Grafik''. Grafisches Kabinett Saarbrücken, Markthallenstraße 19, 16. 8. – 17. 9. 1961 (Text by Wolfgang Kermer, on attached sheet) * ''Der Kampf um die Bilder: Kunst aus Byzanz – 9. Ausstellung des Europarats in Athen'' * ''Studien zum Diptychon in der sakralen Malerei: von den Anfängen bis zur Mitte des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts: mit einem Katalog''. Düsseldorf: R. Stehle, 1967 naug. Diss.: Philosophie: Tübingen: 1966* ''Evangelium scriptum cum auro pictum: Faksimile-Ausgabe einer karolingischen Prachthandschrift'' * ''Herbert Strässer: Plastiken, Skulpturen, Reliefs, Zeichnungen''. Saarbrücken, Buchdruckerei und Verlag Karl Funk, 1968 * ''Der Zukunft geöffnet oder in Zukunft offen? Zu Struktur und Situation der Stuttgarter Kunstakademie''. In: Baden-Württemberg, Heft 7/1969, pp. 19–23; Heft 8–9/1969, pp. 31–36 * ''Die Ausbildung der Kunsterzieher: Anmerkungen zur Situation im Stuttgarter Gebiet'' * ''Einige Aspekte der Kunstlehre Willi Baumeisters''. In: ''175 Jahre Friedrich-Eugens-Gymnasium Stuttgart''. Stuttgart: Belser, 1971, pp. 126–152 * ''I. rsterRechenschaftsbericht des Rektors der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart über die Zeit vom 22. Dezember 1971 – 22. Dezember 1972: dem Großen Senat erstattet am 14. Februar 1973''. Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, der Rektor, Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1973 * '' Sam Herman''. Exh. cat. Stuttgart: Galerie Günther Galetzki, 1974 * ''Glasbilder: Arbeiten der Glaswerkstätte''. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1974 (loose leaves in portfolio) * ''Symposion Leonberger Heide: Sommersemester '74: Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart''. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1974 (works by Otto Baral, Herbert Baumann, Ivo Bay Müller, Utz Gerhard Brocksieper, Karl Ciesluk, Rainer Hantschke, Gerhard von Harpe, Michael W. Huber, Roger Krötz, Reinhard Scherer, Caspar Warnecke; loose leaves in portfolio) * ''Zwischen Industrie und Kunst''. Sonderschau im Design Center Stuttgart, 19. Februar bis 25. April 1976. Ed. Textilabteilung der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Leitung Leo Wollner. (Texts: Ferdinand Schäfer; Ernst Josef Auer; Wolfgang Kermer) Stuttgart: Design Center Stuttgart, 1976 (47 loose text and color plates, some with original textile samples, in portfolio) * ''Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart / Klasse für Allgemeine künstlerische Ausbildung: Aus der Klasse für Allgemeine künstlerische Ausbilung Hugo Peters''. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1976 (loose leaves in portfolio) * ''Zur Geschichte der Textil-Abteilung'', 1978 * ''Hommage à Baumeister: Klaus Bendixen, Karl Bohrmann, Peter Brüning, Bruno Diemer, Peter Grau, Klaus Jürgen-Fischer, Emil Kiess, Eduard Micus, Herbert Schneider, Peter Schubert, Friedrich Seitz, Ludwig Wilding''. Exh. cat. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1979 * ''Zur Kunstlehre Willi Baumeisters: ein Vorschlag zur Reform des künstlerischen Elementarunterrichts aus dem Jahre 1949. Die Studierenden Willi Baumeisters an der Staatlichen Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart 1946–1955. Verzeichnis der ″Didaktischen Tafeln″''. Exh. cat. ''Willi Baumeister: 1945–1955'',
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart The Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart was founded in 1827 and is one of the oldest art associations in Germany. The association, which today has around 3,000 members, is based in the Kunstgebäude Stuttgart and is dedicated to communicating ...
, Cantz, Stuttgart 1979, pp. 129–134, 147 * ''Zusammenfassender Bericht des Rektors für die Zeit vom 1. September 1976 bis 30. Juni 1980 vor dem Senat der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart am 8. Juli 1980''. Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, der Rektor, Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1980 * ''Die Professoren der Fachgruppen Grafik-Design, Innenarchitektur und Design: Ade, Brudi, Bruse, Franz, Heinle, Henning, Jacki, Klink, Kröplien, Lehmann, Mohl, Stadelmaier, Stemshorn, Votteler, Weidemann, Witzemann, Wollner''. Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart andeskunsthochschulwochen Baden-Baden 1981Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1981 * ''Werkstatt: die Werkstätten und ihre Lehrer; Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart''. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1982 * ''Zusammenfassender Bericht des Rektors für die Zeit vom 1. Juli 1980 bis 31. Dezember 1982 vor dem Senat der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart am 25. Januar 1983''. Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, der Rektor, Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1983 (including detailed press documentation) * ''Gunter Böhmer an der Stuttgarter Kunstakademie''. Stuttgart / Bern / Wien: Edition Cantz, 1987 * ''Österreichische Künstler der Gegenwart: Arbeiten auf Papier; Sammlung Kermer, Stuttgart''. Exh. cat.
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: Galerie im Taxispalais, 1987 (works by Siegfried Anzinger,
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Günter Brus Günter Brus (born 27 September 1938, Ardning, Styria, Austria) is an Austrian painter, performance artist, graphic artist, experimental filmmaker and writer. Brus grew up in Mureck, attended the Kunstgewerbeschule Graz and went to Vienna in 195 ...
, Tone Fink, Heinz Frank,
Bruno Gironcoli Bruno Gironcoli (27 September 1936 – 19 February 2010) was an Austrian modern artist. Born in Villach, Gironcoli began training as a goldsmith in 1951 in Innsbruck, completing his apprenticeship in 1956. Between 1957 and 1962 he studied in ...
, Roland Goeschl, Rudolf Hoflehner,
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, Alfred Hrdlicka, Martha Jungwirth, Kurt Kocherscheidt, Cornelius Kolig,
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, Ernst Len (since 1989 ″Eva" of the artist group Eva & Adele),
Oswald Oberhuber Oswald Oberhuber (1 February 1931 – 17 January 2020) was an Austrian painter, sculptor, and graphic artist. Biography Oberhuber learned sculpture at the Federal Trade School in Innsbruck. He also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna an ...
, Walter Pichler,
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, Gerhard Rühm, Herwig Schubert,
Rudolf Schwarzkogler Rudolf Schwarzkogler (13 November 1940 – 20 June 1969) was an Austrian performance artist closely associated with the Viennese Actionism group that included artists Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, and Hermann Nitsch. He was born the son of a doctor w ...
, Martin Walde, Othmar Zechyr) * ''Die Stuttgarter Jahre Alfred Hrdlickas: ″Eine Schule des Herausforderns″''. In: Ulrike Jenni / Theodor Scheufele (Ed.): ''Alfred Hrdlicka: Texte und Bilder zum sechzigsten Geburtstag des Bildhauers A. H.''. Moos & Partner, Gräfelfing 1988, , pp. 63–68 * ''Daten und Bilder zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart''. Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988 (= Improved offprint from: ''Die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: eine Selbstdarstellung''. Ed.: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Red.: Bernd Rau. Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988, , pp. 16–31) * ''Willi Baumeister – Typographie und Reklamegestaltung''. Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1989 * ''Willi Baumeister, Typografie + Reklamegestaltung: Vortrag 11. Mai 1990''. In: ''Frankfurter Architektursommer '90 (1990)''. Ed. Magistrat der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Dezernat Bau, Hochbauamt. (Texts: Dieter Bartetzko
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Frankfurt am Main: Magistrat der Stadt Frankfurt, 1992 (= Schriftenreihe des Hochbauamtes zu Bauaufgaben der Stadt Frankfurt am Main; 29), pp. 9–11 * ''Der schöpferische Winkel: Willi Baumeisters pädagogische Tätigkeit''. Ostfildern-Ruit: Edition Cantz, 1992 (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 7) * with Wolfgang Berger, Heike Heimann, Wolfgang Schneider, Peter Schmitt: '' Jörg F. Zimmermann: glass artist – verre contemporain''. Arnoldsche, Stuttgart 1993 (text german, english, french) * ''Aus Willi Baumeisters Tagebüchern: Erinnerungen an Otto Meyer-Amden,
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Paul Klee Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented wi ...
, Karl Konrad Düssel und
Oskar Schlemmer Oskar Schlemmer (4 September 1888 – 13 April 1943) was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923, he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working at the wo ...
; mit ergänzenden Schriften und Briefen von Willi Baumeister''. Ostfildern-Ruit: Edition Cantz, 1996 (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 8) * ''Zwischen Buch-Kunst und Buch-Design: Buchgestalter der Akademie und ehemaligen Kunstgewerbeschule in Stuttgart; Werkbeispiele und Texte''. Ausgew. und hrsg. von Wolfgang Kermer. Ostfildern-Ruit: Edition Cantz, 1996 * ''"1968" und Akademiereform: von den Studentenunruhen zur Neuorganisation der Stuttgarter Akademie in den siebziger Jahren''. Ostfildern-Ruit: Edition Cantz, 1998 (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 9) * ''Willi Baumeister: Stuttgart und die Schwaben''. Mit einem Nachwort von Wolfgang Kermer "Willi Baumeister und die Zeitschrift 'Der Querschnitt'". Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1999 (WerkstattReihe / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 6) * ''Hans von Kolb, Direktor der Kgl. Kunstgewerbeschule Stuttgart, 1896–1913''. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 2000 (WerkstattReihe / ed. Wolfgang Kermer, 9) * ''Willi Baumeister als Typograph und Reklamegestalter für die DLW.'' In: Gerhard Kaldewei (Ed.): ''Linoleum – Geschichte, Design, Architektur 1882–2000.'' Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000, , pp. 210–223 (English Edition, , pp. 210–223) * ''Sammeln für die Akademie: Anmerkungen zur Vorgeschichte, Gründung und Entwicklung der Akademiesammlung''. In: Gabriele Merkes (Ed.): ''Die Sammlung der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: Katalog der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart''. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 2000 pp. 13–21 * ''Willi Baumeister und die Werkbund-Ausstellung "Die Wohnung" Stuttgart 1927''. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 2003 (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 11) * ''Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen – Licht und Raum: Aufsätze, Vorträge, Interviews''. Mit einem Vorwort des Herausgebers und einer Laudatio von Johannes Hewel. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 2004 (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 12) * ''"Lieber Meister Hölzel..." (Willi Baumeister): Schüler erinnern sich an ihren Lehrer: zum 70. Todestag Adolf Hölzels am 17. Oktober 2004''. Mit einem Nachwort des Herausgebers. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 2004 (WerkstattReihe / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 11) * ''Die Sammlung der Stuttgarter Akademie: Einige Anmerkungen zur Gründung, Vorgeschichte und Entwicklung aus Anlass ihres 30–jährigen Bestehens''. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 2005 (Werkstattreihe / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 12) * ''Stuttgarter Begegnungen: Die Schenkung Wolfgang Kermer''. Exh. cat. Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, 18. Mai – 24. Juni 2005 d. Neunkircher Kulturgesellschaft gGmbH; Nicole Nix-Hauck. Katalog: Wolfgang Kermer* ''Aufruhr am Weißenhof: Zu Struktur und Situation der Stuttgarter Kunstakademie zur Zeit der Studentenunruhen 1968/69''. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 2006 (WerkstattReihe / ed. Wolfgang Kermer, 14) * ''Über Baumeister: der Künstler und Lehrer im Urteil seiner Schüler''. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 2006 (WerkstattReihe / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 15) (Texts by Klaus Bendixen, Heinz Bodamer, Klaus Erler, Fia Ernst, Erich Fuchs, Hans Werner Geerdts, Peter Grau, Marta Hoepffner, Hans-Dieter Ingenhoff, Klaus Jürgen-Fischer, Herbert W. Kapitzki, Frans Krajcberg, Eduard Micus, Fritz Seitz, Gerhard Uhlig; with lists of Baumeister student exhibitions) * ''Willi Baumeister: Cézanne''. Mit einer Einführung des Herausgebers. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 2006 (WerkstattReihe / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 16) * ''Wiener Blut am Weissenhof: die Stuttgarter Jahre Alfred Hrdlickas''. Mit zwei Texten von Alfred Hrdlicka. tuttgart taatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart 2008 * ''Die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart im Spiegel der Presse 1970''. Privatdruck, Stuttgart 2008 * ''Die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart im Spiegel der Presse 1971''. Privatdruck, Stuttgart 2008 * ''Schriftenreihen der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: Akademie-Mitteilungen 1972–1978; Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart 1975–2004; WerkstattReihe 1996–2006'', Impression ESPAO-MdS / www.espao.fr, 2008 * ''Publikationsverzeichnis'', Impression ESPAO-MdS / www.espao.fr, 2008 * ''Fritz Arnold: das grafische Werk 1917–1920''. Mit einem Vorwort vom Nicole Nix-Hauck und einem Beitrag von Nina Pirro. Ed. Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen aus Anlass der Schenkung und Ausstellung "Fritz Arnold: das grafische Werk 1917–1920", Juni/August 2010. Saarbrücken: M & G Medienagentur und Verlag, 2010 * ''Schenkung Wolfgang Kermer: Bestandskatalog''. d. Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen. Katalog: Wolfgang Kermer; Nicole Nix-HauckNeunkirchen: Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, 2011 * ''″Aus Feuer und Sand...″: zum Werk von Jörg F. Zimmermann''. Vortrag, gehalten anlässlich der Ausstellung ″Jörg F. Zimmermann: ′Aus Feuer und Sand...′″ in der Kreissparkass
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am 19. März 2014. Privatdruck, Kusel 2014 * ''... für Ulrich Klieber: Festvortrag zur Verleihung des Halleschen Kunstpreises 2014 (gehalten am 20. November 2014 in der Konzerthalle Ulrichskirche in Halle)''. Mit einer Vorbemerkung von Hans-Georg Sehrt.
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: Hallescher Kunstverein e. V., 2014 * ''Moderne Keramik aus Frankreich 1970–2000: Aus der Sammlung Kermer''; Ausstellung im Theodor-Zink-Museum, Wadgasserhof,
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, 2014 ; co-edited with Jens Stöcker, Marlene Jochem, France Kermer * ''Céramique française 1970–2000: Donation France et Wolfgang Kermer''.
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: Édition Musées de Sarreguemines, 2018 ; co-edited with France Kermer


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* (1972–1978) :″They provide information about events, exhibitions, competitions, grants etc. in connection with the Academy. They contain a directory of the lecturers and students of the respective grades, report on facilities, productions and tasks of the university and present individual works by lecturers and students.″ * (1975–2004) :″The series ′Contributions to the History of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart′ (started in 1975, edited by Wolfgang Kermer) examines topics related to the history of the Academy and its teachers.″ * ''Studienführer: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart,'' Sommersemester 1973 (first published in 1972 and until 1984/85 edited by Rector Wolfgang Kermer, changing graphic presentation) * Karin von Maur: ''Oskar Schlemmer und die Stuttgarter Avantgarde 1919''. Mit einem Vorwort des Herausgebers. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Institut für Buchgestaltung, 1975 (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 1) * ''″Neolithikum″: Zeitung der Bildhauerklasse Alfred Hrdlicka: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart Am Weißenhof 1.'' Ed.: Rektor der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Dr. Cantz′sche Druckerei, 1979 * ''Aspekte der Fotografie. Eine Ausstellung von Studenten der Klasse Professor Albrecht Ade. Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: Katharina Ahlers, Eberhard Bahret, Regina Diedenhofen, Birgit Fischötter, Marianne Gelbert, Andrea Krüger, Wolfgang Marzke, Thomas Meyer-Hermann, Richard Müller, Detlev Sack, Claude Shade, Helga Thamm, Christoph Valentien, Ingo Werner, Torsten Greif, Hans-Peter Kaiser, Brigitte Loeckle, Hans-Rüdiger Lutz''. Texts by Karl Steinorth and Bernd Rau. Ed.: Rektor der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Stuttgart
979 Year 979 ( CMLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * March 24 – Second Battle of Pankaleia: An Ibero-Byzantine expeditionary ...
* Johannes Zahlten: ''"Die Kunstanstalten zur Staats- und Nationalsache gemacht...": die Stuttgarter Kunstakademie in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts''. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1980 (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 2) * Horst Bachmayer / Klaus Lehmann / Otto Sudrow: ''Das Typische als Gestaltungsziel: der Lehrer und Produktgestalter Hans Warnecke''. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1980 (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 3) * Hans Klaiber: ''Bernhard Pankok: ein Lebensbild''. Mit einer Vorbemerkung von Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1981 (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 4) * ''Klasse Brodwolf: XIII (thirteen) Studenten der Bildhauerklasse Professor Jürgen Brodwolf, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart''. Texts by Wolfgang Kermer and Bernd Rau. Stuttgart: Dr. Cantzsche Druckerei, 1983 * ''Junge Kunst in alter Stadt: Ausstellung mit Symposion, Bildhauerklasse Brodwolf''. Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart / Museums-Arbeitskreis, Städtisches Museum Haus Löwenberg, Gengenbach, 18. Juni bis 22. Juli 1984. Ed. Rektor der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart (Exhibition catalog) * Johannes Zahlten: ''Urbanstraße 37/39: Kgl. Kunstschule / Akademie der bildenden Künste: die Geschichte eines Provisoriums''. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1986 (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 5) * Werner P. Heyd: ''Gottfried Graf und die "entartete Kunst" in Stuttgart''. Mit einer Vorbemerkung von Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1987 (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 6) * (1996–2006) :″In the workshop Series set up as a supplement to the ′Contributions to the History of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart' (1975–2004), texts by current or former academy teachers and articles about them were published.″ * Horst Wöhrle: ''Vom Wert des Bleis: der Bleisatz, seine Ära und Aura''. Mit einer Vorbemerkung von Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1996 (WerkstattReihe / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 1) * Horst Wöhrle: ''Konstrukt: oder: Der Gebrauch der elementaren Mittel''. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1998 (WerkstattReihe / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 5) * Wolfgang Heger: ''Montserrat oder auf der Suche nach der sichtbaren Welt: der Maler Rudolf Haegele''. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 2000 (WerkstattReihe / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 7) * Joachim Hämmerle: ''Paysages humains: ein Werkstattbericht''. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 2000 (WerkstattReihe / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 8) * Erwin Hirtenfelder: ''"Die Koligsche Kunst ist geistiger Bolschewismus": ein Bildersturm im "Dritten Reich": die Fresken Anton Koligs und seiner Stuttgarter Akademieklasse im Landhaus zu Klagenfurt''. Mit einem Vorwort von Wolfgang Kermer. Ostfildern-Ruit: Edition Cantz, 2001 (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 10) * Dieter Groß: ''"Ich sehe mich in allem anderen": Fragmentarische Aufzeichnungen und unsortierte Splitter''. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 2002 (WerkstattReihe / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 10) * Horst Wöhrle: ''"Die Stunde Null": Grafik an der Stuttgarter Akademie nach dem Ende des 2. Weltkrieges''. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 2005 (WerkstattReihe / ed. Wolfgang Kermer, 14)


Exhibitions


Solo exhibitions

* 1954 ''Wolfgang Kermer-Ausstellung'', Stadtbücherei,
Neunkirchen, Saarland Neunkirchen (; pfl, Neinkeije) is a town and a municipality in Saarland, Germany. It is the largest town in, and the seat of the Neunkirchen (German district), district of Neunkirchen. It is situated on the river Blies, approx. 20 km northea ...
* 1956 ''Wolfgang Kermer: Malerei und Grafik'', Buchhandlung Lorenz Raber, Neunkirchen * 1961 ''Wolfgang Kermer: Grafik'', Zimmergalerie Franck,
Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...
* 1961 ''Wolfgang Kermer: Grafik'', Graphisches Kabinett,
Saarbrücken Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is S ...
* 1961 ''Wolfgang Kermer: Fotografik'', Architekturfakultät der TH Stuttgart (with Edgar Ehses) * 1962 ''Wolfgang Kermer: Grafik'', Bücherdienst Eggert (Wendelin Niedlich),
Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
* 1964 ''Malerei, Grafik'', Galerie Elitzer,
Saarbrücken Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is S ...
(with Horst Linn) * 1983 ''Wolfgang Kermer: Instants fixés: Fotobilder 1980–1983'', Institut français Stuttgart * 2003 ''Wolfgang Kermer: Photographies'', Espace Valentin Pelzhof, Soing-Cubry-Charentenay * 2003/04 ''Wolfgang Kermer: Instants fixés (Polaroids)'', Médiathèque ''La Grenette'',
Ambérieu-en-Bugey Ambérieu-en-Bugey (; frp, Ambèriô) is a commune in the department of Ain, region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. It is the largest town in the arrondissement of Belley and the capital of the Canton of Ambérieu-en-Bugey which consists of ...
* 2006 ''Wolfgang Kermer: Instants fixés'', Salle des Ursulines,
Vesoul Vesoul () is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté located in eastern France. It is the most populated municipality of the department with inhabitants in 2014. The same year, the Communauté d'agglo ...
* 2008 ''Wolfgang Kermer: Photographies'', Médiathèque ''La Grenette'', Ambérieu-en-Bugey * 2008 ''Wolfgang Kermer: Photographies'', Centre Borvo,
Bourbonne-les-Bains Bourbonne-les-Bains () is a commune in the Haute-Marne department in north-eastern France in the region Grand Est.
* 2012 ''Fotoarbeiten von Wolfgang Kermer'', Galerie Elitzer, Saarbrücken * 2023 ''Wolfgang Kermer: Instants fixés'', Café français, Vesoul


Group exhibitions

* 1955 ''Die Jungen im Lande: Saarländischer Künstlernachwuchs stellt sich vor'', Museum der Stadt
Homburg (Saar) Homburg (; french: Hombourg, pfl, Humborch) is a town in Saarland, Germany and the administrative seat of the Saarpfalz district. With a population of 43,029 inhabitants (2022), it is the third largest town in the state. The city offers over 3 ...
* 1956 ''Die Jungen im Lande: Gemälde, Graphik, Plastiken, Keramik'', Museum der Stadt Homburg (Saar) * 1957 ''Große Kunstausstellung der Stadt Neunkirchen'',
Neunkirchen, Saarland Neunkirchen (; pfl, Neinkeije) is a town and a municipality in Saarland, Germany. It is the largest town in, and the seat of the Neunkirchen (German district), district of Neunkirchen. It is situated on the river Blies, approx. 20 km northea ...
* 1958 ''Der Pfalzpreis für Graphik 1958'', Pfälzische Landesgewerbeanstalt,
Kaiserslautern Kaiserslautern (; Palatinate German: ''Lautre'') is a city in southwest Germany, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfur ...
* 1960 ''Ausstellung ''Junge Künstler'': Karl-Peter Blau, Heidi Förster, Gottfried Gruner, Wolfgang Kermer, Gerd Neisser, Irmela Röck'',
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart The Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart was founded in 1827 and is one of the oldest art associations in Germany. The association, which today has around 3,000 members, is based in the Kunstgebäude Stuttgart and is dedicated to communicating ...
* 1961 ''neue gruppe saar'', Festsaal des Kultusministeriums, Saarbrücken * 1962 ''Neue Deutsche Graphik'', Arbeitskreis moderne Graphik,
Frankenthal (Pfalz) Frankenthal (Pfalz) ( pfl, Frongedahl) is a town in southwestern Germany, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. History Frankenthal was first mentioned in 772. In 1119 an Augustinian monastery was built here, the ruins of which — known, af ...
(travelling exhibition through 28 German cities) * 1962 ''Deutscher Kunstpreis der Jugend 1962: Ölgemälde, Aquarelle, Gouachen'', Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart * 1964 ''Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg: 10. Jahresausstellung: Malerei und Plastik'', Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart * 1964 ''Saarländischer Künstlerbund: Jahresausstellung 1964'', Saarbrücken * 1973 ''Hannes Neuner und seine Grundlehre: eine Weiterentwicklung des Bauhaus-Vorkurses'', Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin * 2005 ''Stuttgarter Begegnungen'', Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen * 2006 ''Stuttgarter Begegnungen II: Die Schenkung Wolfgang Kermer'', Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen * 2008 ''Salon de la photo 2008'', Chapelle de l'Hôtel de Ville, Vesoul * 2011 ''Stuttgarter Begegnungen III: Die Schenkung Wolfgang Kermer'', Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen * 2022 ''Skulptur und Plastik'', Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Stuttgart, Kleiner Schlossplatz


Curated exhibitions

* 1967 ''Plastiken von Studenten der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart'',
Böblingen Böblingen (; Swabian German, Swabian: ''Beblenga'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, seat of Böblingen (district), Böblingen District. Sindelfingen and Böblingen are Geographic contiguity, contiguous. History Böblingen was found ...
, Städtischer Feierraum; co-curated with Herbert Baumann, Rudolf Daudert and Rudolf Hoflehner * 1972 ''1. Verkaufsausstellung von studentischen Arbeiten'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Aula (Altbau) * 1973 ''2. Verkaufsausstellung von studentischen Arbeiten'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Aula (Altbau) * 1974 '' Sam Herman'', Galerie Günther Galetzki, Stuttgart * 1974 ''Glasbilder: Arbeiten der Glaswerkstätte'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Aula (Altbau); co-curated with Sigrid Glöggler * 1974 ''Symposion Leonberger Heide: Sommersemester '74: Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart''; co-curated with Herbert Baumann and Rudolf Hoflehner * 1975 ''Grußkarten zum Jahreswechsel von Studierenden der Klasse für Werbegraphik Professor Eugen Funk'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Ausstellungshalle (Neubau); co-curated with Eugen Funk * 1975 ''Willi Baumeister: Lithographien und Radierungen, gedruckt von Erich Mönch'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Ausstellungshalle (Neubau) * 1975 ''Venini – Murano: 65 Gläser der Sammlung Kermer'', Sonderausstellung
Frauenau Glass Museum The Frauenau Glass Museum (german: link=no, Glasmuseum Frauenau) in Frauenau in the Lower Bavarian county of Regen, previously a communal facility, has become a state-owned organisation since early 2014 called the State Museum of the History of G ...
* 1975 ''Arbeiten der Professoren der Fachgruppe ''Freie Kunst'' an der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart'',
Staatstheater Stuttgart The Staatstheater Stuttgart (Stuttgart State Theatre) is a theatre with three locations, Oper Stuttgart (Opera Stuttgart), Stuttgarter Ballett (Stuttgart Ballet), and Schauspiel Stuttgart (Stuttgart Drama Theatre), in Stuttgart, Germany. The s ...
, Opera house * 1975 ''Otto Baral: Plastiken, Zeichnungen, Holzschnitte und Lithographien'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Ausstellungshalle (Neubau), co-curated with Otto Baral * 1976 ''Studierende der Klasse Böhmer'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Ausstellungshalle (Neubau); co-curated with Gunter Böhmer * 1976 ''Glaskunst der 60er und 70er Jahre: 65 Objekte von 65 Künstlern'', Sonderausstellung
Frauenau Glass Museum The Frauenau Glass Museum (german: link=no, Glasmuseum Frauenau) in Frauenau in the Lower Bavarian county of Regen, previously a communal facility, has become a state-owned organisation since early 2014 called the State Museum of the History of G ...
, Dezember 1976 – November 1977 * 1977 ''Karl Rössing zum 80. Geburtstag: Ausstellung von ehemaligen Schülern: Robert Förch, Wolfgang Gäfgen, Dieter Groß, Christine Heuer, Heinrich Heuer, Friedrich Meckseper, Walter Rabe, Malte Sartorius, Walter Schöllhammer, Günter Schöllkopf, Hans Peter Willberg'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Ausstellungshalle (Neubau) * 1978 ''Druckgrafik australischer Kunststudenten'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Ausstellungshalle (Neubau); co-curated with the Print Council of Australia and Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart * 1978 ''Johannes Hewel'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Ausstellungshalle (Neubau); first ″debutant exposition″ * 1979 ''Hommage à Baumeister: Klaus Bendixen, Karl Bohrmann, Peter Brüning, Bruno Diemer, Peter Grau, Klaus Jürgen-Fischer, Emil Kiess, Eduard Micus, Herbert Schneider, Peter Schubert, Friedrich Seitz, Ludwig Wilding'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Ausstellungshalle (Neubau) * 1979 ''Willi Baumeister: 1945–1955'', Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart; co-curated with Peter Beye, Eugen Keuerleber, Tilman Osterwold * 1979 ''Kunstausbildung in Korea: Studienarbeiten College of Fine Arts Seoul National University'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Ausstellungshalle (Neubau); co-curated with the Goethe Institute Seoul * 1979 ''″Neolithikum″: Bildhauerklasse Alfred Hrdlicka'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Campus; co-curated with Alfred Hrdlicka and his students * 1981 ''Camille Virot – Itinéraire raku 1972–1980''; co-curated with Jacques Gontier, Institut français Stuttgart * 1981 ''Begegnung mit Walter Pichler'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Aula (Altbau); co-curated with Walter Pichler * 1981 ''Landeskunsthochschulwochen 1981'',
Baden-Baden Baden-Baden () is a spa town in the states of Germany, state of Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos (river), Oos, ten kilometres (six miles) east of the ...
, co-curator * 1981 ''Entwürfe und Bühnenbilder: Klasse Professor Jürgen Rose, Rüdiger Tamschick'', Galerie ″Kultur unterm Turm″, Stuttgart; co-curated with Jürgen Rose and Rüdiger Tamschick * 1981 ''10 Jahre Stuttgarter Glas'', Galerie ″Kultur unterm Turm″, Stuttgart; co-curated with Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen * 1982 ''Johannes Hewel: druckgraphische Arbeiten, Mappen und Bücher 1970–1981'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Ausstellungshalle (Neubau) * 1982 ''″Werkstatt″: Ausstellung der Werkstätten der Stuttgarter Akademie und ihrer Lehrer'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Ausstellungshalle (Neubau); co-curated with Horst Wöhrle * 1983 ''Ausstellung Klasse Brodwolf: plastische Arbeiten, Installationen, Foto-Dokumentationen, Zeichnungen'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Ausstellungshalle (Neubau); co-curated with Jürgen Brodwolf * 1984 ''Der junge Kokoschka'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Ausstellungshalle (Neubau); co-curated with
University of Applied Arts Vienna The University of Applied Arts Vienna (german: Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, or informally just ''Die Angewandte'') is an arts university and institution of higher education in Vienna, the capital of Austria. It has had university sta ...
* 1984 ''Brancusi Photographe – Photos aus dem Besitz des Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Ausstellungshalle (Neubau); co-curated with Institut français Stuttgart * 1984 ''Ausstellung Klassen für Freie Kunst, Plastik, Malerei, Graphik'', Bundesministerium für Bildung und Wissenschaft, Bonn * 1985 ''Premiere der Akademiesammlung anlässlich ihres zehnjährigen Bestehens'', Stuttgart, Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst Baden-Württemberg * 1987 ''Österreichische Künstler der Gegenwart: Arbeiten auf Papier; Sammlung Kermer, Stuttgart''. Galerie im Taxispalais,
Innsbruck Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol (state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the ...
; co-curated with Magdalena Hörmann * 1989 ''Willi Baumeister: Typographie und Reklamegestaltung'', State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Ausstellungshalle (Neubau) * 1990 ''Willi Baumeister: Typographie und Reklamegestaltung'',
Deutscher Werkbund The Deutscher Werkbund (English: "German Association of Craftsmen"; ) is a German association of artists, architects, designers and industrialists established in 1907. The Werkbund became an important element in the development of modern arch ...
, Frankfurt * 1993 '' Claude Morin, verrier de Dieulefit, Glasgestalter aus Frankreich'',
Frauenau Glass Museum The Frauenau Glass Museum (german: link=no, Glasmuseum Frauenau) in Frauenau in the Lower Bavarian county of Regen, previously a communal facility, has become a state-owned organisation since early 2014 called the State Museum of the History of G ...
, Frauenau; co-curated with Alfons Hannes and Claude Morin * 1996 ''Zwischen Buch-Kunst und Buch-Design: Buchgestalter der Akademie und ehemaligen Kunstgewerbeschule in Stuttgart'',
Württembergische Landesbibliothek The State Library of Württemberg (german: Württembergische Landesbibliothek or WLB) is a large library in Stuttgart, Germany, which traces its history back to the ducal public library of Württemberg founded in 1765. It holds c. 4 million vol ...
, Stuttgart (on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart after
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
) * 1997 ''Zwischen Buch-Kunst und Buch-Design: Buchgestalter der Akademie und ehemaligen Kunstgewerbeschule in Stuttgart'',
Klingspor Museum The Klingspor-Museum is a museum in Offenbach, Germany, specializing in the art of modern book production, typography and type. It includes a collection of fine art books from Karl Klingspor, one of the owners of Klingspor Type Foundry in Offe ...
,
Offenbach am Main Offenbach am Main () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Hesse, Germany, on the left bank of the river Main (river), Main. It borders Frankfurt and is part of the Frankfurt urban area and the larger Frankfurt Rhein-Main Regional Aut ...
(The same artists were represented as in the 1996 Stuttgart exhibition: Albrecht Ade, Albrecht Appelhans,
Willi Baumeister Willi Baumeister (22 January 1889 – 31 August 1955) was a German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics. Life Born ...
, Horst Bergmann, Gunter Böhmer, Christoph Brudi, Walter Brudi, Johann Vincenz Cissarz,
Heinz Edelmann Heinz Edelmann (20 June 1934 – 21 July 2009) was a Czech-German illustrator and designer. His art direction and character designs for the Beatles' 1968 animated film '' Yellow Submarine'' brought him additional recognition around the world. ...
, Eugen Funk, Paul Haustein, Günter Jacki, Michael Kimmerle, Manfred Kröplien, Hans Meid, Hannes Neuner,
Bernhard Pankok Bernhard Wilhelm Maria Pankok (16 May 1872, Münster — 5 April 1943, Baierbrunn) was a German painter, graphic artist, architect, and designer. His works are characterized by the transition between Art Nouveau and the International Style. His f ...
, Horst Pichl, Hans-Georg Pospischil, Karl Rössing, F. H. Ernst Schneidler, Peter Steiner, Kurt Weidemann, Horst Wöhrle) * 2005 ''Stuttgarter Begegnungen: die Schenkung Wolfgang Kermer'', Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen; co-curated with Nicole Nix-Hauck * 2010 ''Schenkung Wolfgang Kermer: ″Fritz Arnold: das grafische Werk 1917–1920″'', Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen; co-curated with Nicole Nix-Hauck * 2011/12 ''Stuttgarter Begegnungen III: die Schenkung Wolfgang Kermer'', Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen; co-curated with Nicole Nix-Hauck * 2014 ''Moderne Keramik aus Frankreich 1970–2000: aus der Sammlung Kermer'', Theodor-Zink-Museum,
Kaiserslautern Kaiserslautern (; Palatinate German: ''Lautre'') is a city in southwest Germany, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfur ...
; co-curated with Marlene Jochem, France Kermer and Jens Stöcker * 2014 ''″Aus Feuer und Sand...″ : Jörg F Zimmermann'', Kreissparkasse
Kusel Kusel (; written ''Cusel'' until 1865) is a town in the Kusel (district), Kusel Districts of Germany, district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Kusel-Altenglan ''Verbandsgemeinde'' and is also the district seat. The well-kno ...
, co-curated with the artist * 2018 ''Céramique française 1970–2000: Donation France et Wolfgang Kermer'',
Sarreguemines Sarreguemines (; German: ''Saargemünd'' , Lorraine Franconian: ''Saargemìnn'') is a commune in the Moselle department of the Grand Est administrative region in north-eastern France. It is the seat of an arrondissement and a canton. As of t ...
, Musées de Sarreguemines; co-curated with France Kermer


Literature (selected)

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Erwin Eisch Erwin Eisch (; 18 April 1927 – 25 January 2022) was a German artist who worked with glass. He was also a painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Eisch's work in glass, along with that of his friend and colleague Harvey Littleton, embodies the i ...
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