Isabel Wünsche

Isabel Wünsche (born 1965 in Dresden) is a German art historian and Professor of Art and Art History at Jacobs University Bremen.

Isabel Wünsche
Academic background
Alma materHedelberg University
ThesisDas Kunstkonzept der Organischen Kultur in der Kunst der russischen Avantgarde (1997)

Biography

Wünsche studied Art History, Classical and Christian Archeology at Humboldt University Berlin (1986–92), Moscow State University (1991–92), and Heidelberg University (1993–96).[1] From 1993 to 1996, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature and at the Institute of Modern Russian Culture of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.[2] In 1997, she completed her Ph.D. thesis on the Organic School of the Russian avant-garde and was awarded a PhD degree from Heidelberg University.[3]

From 1993 to 2001, she lived and worked in Los Angeles. In 1995–96, she was a Curatorial Fellow at the Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionism of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. As Curatorial Associate at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, she worked, from 1997 to 2000, on the Catalogue Raisonné of the Galka Scheyer Blue Four Collection. In 2000–2001, she curated the permanent exhibition of twentieth-century American Art at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. She also taught courses on modern art at the California Institute of Technology, Scripps College, Claremont, and the University of California, Los Angeles.[4]

In 2001, Wünsche was appointed Associate Professor of Art and Art History at International University Bremen (since 2007 Jacobs University); in 2011, she was promoted to Full Professor.[2]

Research groups and projects

Her research area is art and art theory of the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, particularly European modernism and the historic avant-garde movements, their reception beyond Europe, the role of artists’ networks and other forms of artistic exchange, the emergence and ideologization of abstract art, and interrelations between art, science and technology in modern and contemporary art.[5]

Among the research projects and research groups she has organized are:

  • The Russian Art & Culture Group]
  • “German-Finnish Artistic Relations and Cultural Exchange in the 20th Century,” project-based exchange with Finland, funded by the German Academic Exchange Board (DAAD), 2019–2021[6]
  • “Bauhaus Australia: Émigrés, Refuges, and the Modernist Transformation of Education in Art, Architecture, and Design, 1930–1970” (with Philip Goad, University of Melbourne; Harriet Enquist, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; Andrew McNamara, Queensland University of Technology; Ann Stephen, University of Sydney), funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC), 2016–2019
  • “Peripheral Expressionisms,” international research and publication project, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM), 2015–2017
  • “German-Portuguese Artistic Relations in the Twentieth Century,” project-based exchange with Portugal, funded by the German Academic Exchange Board (DAAD), 2014–2015
  • “Collaborative Artists’ Networks: Germany – Croatia,” project-based exchange with Croatia, funded by the German Academic Exchange Board (DAAD), 2014–2015
  • “The Reception of German Modernism and the Bauhaus in Australian Art, Architecture, and Art Education between 1920 and 1960,” project-based exchange with Australia, funded by the German Academic Exchange Board (DAAD), 2012–2013
  • “The Politics of Abstraction: Modernist Art and Visual Culture in the Globalized World,” funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG), 2011–12

Grants, fellowships and awards

In 1990–1991, Wünsche received grants from the Walter Kaminsky Stiftung and from Moscow State University (MGU); from 1993 to 1996 she was a recipient of a three-year dissertation grant by the Gottlieb Daimler- und Karl Benz-Stiftung. Between 1999 and 2009, she was awarded travel grants by the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), the Society of Literature and Science (SLS), and the German Research Foundation (DFG). Wünsche has had fellowships with The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California (2003–2004), the Nancy and Norton Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (2003–2004, 2007), the National Humanities Center, North Carolina (2007–2008),[7] the Institute for Advanced Study, Collegium Budapest (2008–2009), and New Europe College Institute for Advanced Study, Bukarest (2016). In 2021, she was selected as a scout by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for the Henriette Herz Scouting Program.[8]

Major publications

Books
  • Galka E. Scheyer & Die Blaue Vier: Briefwechsel 1924–1945 (deutsche und englische Ausgabe, Bern: Benteli Verlag, 2006).
  • Wünsche, Isabel (2008). Harmonie und Synthese die russische Moderne zwischen universellem Anspruch und nationaler kultureller Identität. Paderborn. ISBN 978-3-7705-4686-2. OCLC 609709481.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Kunst & Leben. Michail Matjuschin und die russische Avantgarde in St. Petersburg, Köln: Böhlau, 2012.
  • "Kurchanova on Wünsche, 'The Organic School of the Russian Avant-garde: Nature's Creative Principles'". HNet: Humanities and Social Sciences Online. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  • The Routledge companion to Expressionism in a transnational context. Isabel Wünsche. New York. 2019. ISBN 978-1-351-77799-5. OCLC 1049150425.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)

Edited volumes

Special editions of journals
  • Isabel Wünsche, Galka Scheyer und die Blaue Vier, in Sonderdruck der Berner Kunstmitteilungen, Bern: Kunstmuseum Bern, 1997.
  • Isabel Wünsche, Sebastian Borkhardt, Tanja Malycheva (eds.), “In Memoriam: Dmitry Vladimirovich Sarabyanov,” Experiment: A Journal of Russian Culture/Eksperiment: Zhurnal russkoi kultury, vol. 23 (2017)
  • Ludmila Piters-Hofmann, Isabel Wünsche (eds.), issue on “Artistic Communities and Educational Approaches in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Russia,” Russian History Russian History 46 (2019).

References
  1. "Biocentrism and Modernism". Routledge. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  2. "Directory: Wünsche". Constructor University - Inspiration is a Place. 15 June 2015. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  3. "Isabel Wünsche". MPAVILION. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  4. Mille, Charlotte de (2011-01-18). Music and Modernism, c. 1849-1950. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-2819-2.
  5. "Collecting Bauhaus: 3 questions to … Isabel Wünsche". Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  6. "Tutta Palin". www.utu.fi. Retrieved 2021-08-20.
  7. "Fellows of the Center, 1978-2021". 15 June 2020. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  8. "New scouts selected". Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. 17 June 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  9. Lodder, Christina (2011). "Review of Harmonie und Synthese: Die russische Moderne zwischen universellem Anspruch und nationaler kultureller Identität, Isabel Wünsche". Slavic Review. 70 (1): 210–211. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.70.1.0210. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 10.5612/slavicreview.70.1.0210. S2CID 164542722.
  10. Kämpfer, Frank (2010). "Review of Harmonie und Synthese. Die russische Moderne zwischen universellem Anspruch und nationaler kultureller Identität". Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. 58 (3): 471. ISSN 0021-4019. JSTOR 41052518.
  11. Milner, John; Wünsche, Isabel (2017). "Review of The Organic School of the Russian Avant-Garde: Nature's Creative Principles, WünscheIsabel". Slavic Review. 76 (2): 567–569. doi:10.1017/slr.2017.136. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 26565139. S2CID 164699478.
  12. Rusnock, K. Andrea (2016). "Review of The Organic School of the Russian Avant-Garde: Nature's Creative Principles. Science and the Arts since 1750". The Russian Review. 75 (4): 695–696. ISSN 0036-0341. JSTOR 43919649.
  13. Kämpfer, Frank (2010). "Review of Kursschwankungen. Russische Kultur im Wertesystem der europäischen Moderne". Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. 58 (3): 439. ISSN 0021-4019. JSTOR 41052493.
  14. Zimmermann, Tanja (2009). "Review of Kursschwankungen. Russische Kunst im Wertesystem der europäischen Moderne". Osteuropa. 59 (9): 181–183. ISSN 0030-6428. JSTOR 44935104.
  15. Milner, John; Kwapil, Eva-Viktoria (2009). "Review of Kursschwankungen: Russische Kunst im Wertesystem der europäischen Moderne, Isabel Wünsche". Slavic Review. 68 (2): 452–453. doi:10.2307/27698008. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 27698008. S2CID 163402028.
  16. "Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond". Melbourne University Publishing. 6 August 2019. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
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