Peter Michel Explained

Peter Michel (born 14 October 1938) is a German art scholar, publicist and exhibition organizer.[1] [2]

Life

Born in Freyburg (Unstrut), Michel comes from a craftsman family. After attending the, after the Abitur, he studied German studies and art education at the from 1956 to 1959. From 1959 to 1964 he was a teacher at the secondary school . Afterwards he worked in the district administration Annaberg and in the district administration Karl-Marx-Stadt of Free German Youth. From 1970 to 1974 followed an at the ; there he completed his doctorate on the topic "Interrelations between professional and non-professional art". In 1974 he became a member of the (VBK) and member of the Central Board of the VBK. From 1974 to 1987 he was the director of the journal (Organ of the Central Board of the VBK) published by .

Because of public criticism of the curriculum for the subject art education, Michel was regulated in 1976 by the . A year later, a controversy followed with politician about the contemporary nature of the term "Socialist Realism". From 1979 to 1991 he was a member of the International Association of Art Critics. From 1987 to 1989 he worked as secretary of the central committee of the (VBK). At the end of 1989 he resigned from the VBK and from the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED/PDS). Up to the dissolution of the publishing house structure he was for a short time artistic-technical director of the ; then unemployment followed. From 1991 until 2003 he worked as a freelancer for pb-Verlag Munich, exhibition organizer and freelance journalist. Michel had working stays in 19 European and non-European countries. Since 1990 he has focused his attention on a respectful treatment of art created in the German Democratic Republic. In 1995 he handed over a collection of texts for archiving and research to the Art Research Center in the Getty Center. In 1991 Michel became a founding member of the association (GBM) and member of the federal board of the GBM. He was speaker of the GBM's "Culture" working group and a founding member of the "Art from the GDR" circle of friends. From 2004 to 2008 and in 2012 he took over as editor-in-chief of the magazine ICARUS of the GBM, which was discontinued in the same year.

Publications and exhibitions

Own book publications

List of publications.[3]

Contributions in other book publications and catalogues

Articles in the German press

Articles in foreign newspapers and magazines

Articles in the newspaper Marxistische Blätter

Articles in the newspaper Icarus

Articles in the daily junge Welt

Exhibitions

Participation in juries

Literature

Awards and honours

Notes and References

  1. https://www.berlin.de/ba-marzahn-hellersdorf/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/2013/pressemitteilung.308040.php Pressemitteilung Bezirksamt Marzahn-Hellersdorf
  2. https://www.bernau-bei-berlin.de/de/buergerportal/aktuelles/stadtnachrichten/artikel-19_april_kunstraum-gespraech_mit_peter_michel.html 19 April: Kunstraum-Gespräch mit Peter Michel
  3. https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&reset=true&cqlMode=true&query=auRef%3D14400240X&selectedCategory=any Publications