Wolfgang Kermer

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Wolfgang Kermer
Born18 May 1935 (1935-05-18) (age 89)
NationalityGerman
Alma materHochschulinstitut für Kunst- und Werkerziehung, Staatliche Schule für Kunst und Handwerk Saarbrücken
State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
Saarland University
University of Stuttgart
University of Tübingen
Spouse France Kermer  [ fr ]
Awards Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Honorary Senator of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
Scientific career
Fields Art History, Art education; Abstract painting, drawing, printmaking and photography
Institutions State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
Thesis Studien zum Diptychon in der sakralen Malerei: von den Anfängen bis zur Mitte des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts: mit einem Katalog  (Tübingen 1966, ed. Düsseldorf 1967)

Wolfgang Kermer (born 18 May 1935 in Neunkirchen, Saarland) is a German art historian, artist, art educator, author, editor, curator of exhibitions, art collector and professor. From 1971 to 1984 he was repeatedly elected Rector of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and thus the first scientific and at the same time youngest teacher in this position in the history of the university. [1] Under his rectorate, the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart was reformed in 1975 [2] and 1978 [3] on the base of two new university laws of the State of Baden-Württemberg and thus, for the first time in its history, authorized to set up diplomas for all courses. [4] 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. [5]

Contents

Wolfgang Kermer′s focus is the history of Visual arts education, the art of Willi Baumeister and the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and its predecessor institutions. [6] He was the founder, publisher and editor of the publication series Akademie-Mitteilungen  [ de ] (1972–1978), Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart  [ de ] (1975–2004), WerkstattReihe  [ de ] (1996–2006) [7] and ″Die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart im Spiegel der Presse 1970/1971″ (2008). [8] On the occasion of his 75th birthday, the Stuttgarter Nachrichten called Wolfgang Kermer ″the memory of the Stuttgart Art Academy″. [9]

Biography

Life and education

Born as the son of the Moravian-born Austrian Kapellmeister 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 World War I, when Wolfgang Kermer was only one year old. The Viennese piano teacher Marie Kermer (1882–1957), who studied from 1897 to 1901 with Leopold Landskron and Julius Epstein at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, [10] was his aunt, the Viennese engineer Alois Kermer (1894–1967), who designed the first Austrian record-breaking glider after World War I in 1923 (located in the Vienna Technical Museum), was his uncle. Wolfgang Kermer's childhood memories include a long stay in 1938 with relatives in Stargard in Pomerania. At the end of World War II he lived in Montabaur, 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. For several years he was a pianist in the Krebsberggymnasium school orchestra under Josef Rein and, with a bassist and a drummer, formed a jazz trio, that performed publicly in Saarland until the mid-1950s. In 1954 his first solo exhibition with paintings and drawings took place in the municipal library of his hometown. [11] [12] After graduating from high school in 1956, he studied visual arts education at the Staatliche Schule für Kunst und Handwerk Saarbrücken and at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart; art history, philosophy, educational sciences, prehistory and cultural geography at the universities of Saarbrücken, Stuttgart and Tübingen.

The beginning of his studies was marked by three semesters in Saarbrücken and the encounter with the photographer Otto Steinert: From 1956 to 1957 he studied two semesters with the designer Peter Raacke and he completed a one-semester basic course with Oskar Holweck, [13] who further developed his teaching on the instructions of his teacher Boris Kleint, an Itten 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). [14]

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, an Albers and Kandinsky student at the Bauhaus, [15] [16] 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 École du Louvre. After passing the exams in ″Werktechnik″ in 1959, [17] 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 magna cum laude with the dissertation Studien zum Diptychon in der sakralen Malerei; von den Anfängen bis zur Mitte des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts. Mit einem Katalog. [18] From 1961 to 1962 he was at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart artistic and research assistant (Faculty of architecture, Chair of Professor Maximilian Debus  [ de ], a student of Johannes Itten). From 1963 to 1965 he worked as an artistic assistant for photography at the Art History Institute of the University of Tübingen. [19] At this time, after more than a decade of artistic work, that includes paintings, drawings, graphics, photographs related to Informalism, he stopped his exhibition activities to devote himself entirely to his scientific research. [20] He 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.

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, [21] with paintings in 1964 in the Galerie Elitzer Saarbrücken (with Horst Linn) [22] [23] and at the annual exhibitions of the Baden-Württemberg Artists′s Association [24] and the Saarland Artists′ Association. [25]

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 Saarbrücker Zeitung [26] and the Stuttgarter Zeitung, [27] he published a critical report on the state of the Stuttgart Academy during the protests of 1968 [28] and called for a reform of the training of art teachers [29] 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 [Bund Deutscher Kunsterzieher] Baden-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. [30] 1973, 1976 and 1980 [31] 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. [32] 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. [33] Kermer promoted international exchanges with artists and art educational institutions in Australia, Austria and South Korea. His special attention was on previously neglected public relations. He founded and edited the series of publications Akademie-Mitteilungen  [ de ] (1972–1978), Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart  [ de ] (1975–2004) and WerkstattReihe  [ de ] (1996–2006) and has also written articles and books on modern artists and art education. Internally, with his ″Notices from the Rector′s Office″ (″Mitteilungen des Rektoramts″), [34] Kermer created an organ to promote the flow of information between the university management and the various university groups. 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. [35] Main acquisitions included works by Willi Baumeister, Gunter Böhmer, Paul Uwe Dreyer, Heinz Edelmann, Marianne Eigenheer, Rudolf Hoflehner, Alfred Hrdlicka, Bernhard Pankok, Rudolf Schoofs, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Giuseppe Spagnulo, Micha Ullman. [36]

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. Two years later, he curated Herman′s first solo exhibition in Germany in Stuttgart. [37] As a connoisseur of modern glass design, Wolfgang Kermer, together with Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen  [ de ] 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. [38]

In the summer semester of 1974, Rector Wolfgang Kermer initiated a symposium for students of the Herbert Baumann and Rudolf Hoflehner Academy sculpture classes on the Leonberger Heide, the first event of this kind at an art university in the Federal Republic of Germany. [39] Herbert Baumann and the technical teacher for stone carving, Otto Baral, also took part. [40] Most of the resulting works remained accessible for years until they were removed from the city of Leonberg after they had already been sprayed with slogans for the RAF in autumn 1974 [41] and were irreparably damaged over time.

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. [42] [43] 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 Klingspor Museum in Offenbach am Main. Kermer's scholarly work has been devoted since the 1970s to the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and world-famous professors like Bernhard Pankok, Adolf Hölzel, Willi Baumeister, Gunter Böhmer  [ de ], Alfred Hrdlicka. [44]

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 Catalogue raisonné). The Design Magazine form called the exhibition an ″exciting documentation″. [45] Baumeister's lithographs printed from Erich Mönch at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart he exhibited in 1975, [46] 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. [47] Some of Baumeister's writings Kermer reedited in 1999 [48] and 2006. [49]

Guest events organized by Wolfgang Kermer in the 1980s with artists such as Roland Goeschl, Richard Hamilton, Oswald Oberhuber, Walter Pichler and Arnulf Rainer 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″, [50] 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. [51]

At the end of his work as rector, his professor colleagues thanked him by presenting them with dedicated artistic works, which were shown in an exhibition at the academy [52] and were donated by Wolfgang Kermer in 2005 to the municipal gallery of Neunkirchen. [53]

In 1987 Wolfgang Kermer discovered the forgotten artistic heritage of the Stuttgart Jewish painter Alice Haarburger  [ de ], who was murdered in the Holocaust. [54] 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 Reutlingen, the native town of Alice Haarburger. In the same year, 50 years after the Nazi action Degenerate Art, 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. [55]

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 [56] 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. [57]

Also active as art collector – after meeting Erwin Eisch in Frauenau, 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 [58] – he donated his private collections of international studio glass, modern French ceramics as well as contemporary paintings, graphics und sculptures to museums in Frauenau, [59] Neunkirchen [60] [61] and Sarreguemines. [62] On the occasion of his seventieth birthday in 2005, he gave his hometown Neunkirchen under the title ″Stuttgarter Begegnungen″, among others, works by Erwin Eisch, Alfred Hrdlicka, Markus Lüpertz, Chris Newman, Arnulf Rainer, Michael Sandle, Gustav Seitz, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Niklaus Troxler, Micha Ullman, 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 Sergio Asti, Erwin Eisch, Claire Falkenstein, Kaj Franck, Kyohei Fujita, Sam Herman, Harvey Littleton, Marvin Lipofsky, Benny Motzfeldt, Edvin Öhrström, Sybren Valkema, Paolo Venini, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Tapio Wirkkala, Ann Wolff, 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. [63]

In 2007 he acquired the artistic estate and personal documents of the forgotten graphic artist and painter Fritz Arnold  [ de ] in order to donate them to the Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen. [64] In 2010 he published the catalogue raisonné of the drawings.

Wolfgang Kermer is married to French artist France Kermer  [ fr ] and lives now in Kusel (Germany) and Cendrecourt (France, Region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) after living in Neunkirchen, Stuttgart, Renningen, Rutesheim and Schillersdorf (Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est 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. [65]

Honors

In 1984 Wolfgang Kermer was awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany [66] [67] [68] [69] and in 2006 he became Honorary Senator of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.

Published works (selected)

Author

Editor

″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.″ [86]
″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.″ [87]
″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.″ [91]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Curated exhibitions

Literature (selected)

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  32. Wolfgang Kermer: ″1968″ und Akademiereform: von den Studentenunruhen zur Neuorganisation der Stuttgarter Akademie in den siebziger Jahren. Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 1998 (= Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 9) ISBN   3-89322-446-7.- 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) ISBN   3-931485-749
  33. Wolfgang Kermer: Ein unkonventioneller Beitrag zur Nachwuchsförderung (1978). In: ″1968″ und Akademiereform: von den Studentenunruhen zur Neuorganisation der Stuttgarter Akademie in den siebziger Jahren. Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 1998 (= Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 9) ISBN   3-89322-446-7, pp. 71–72
  34. 1972–1984, many dated editions
  35. Wolfgang Kermer: 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) ISBN   3-931485-71-4
  36. 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 ISBN   3-931485-41-2
  37. Wolfgang Kermer: Sam Herman. Exh. cat. Stuttgart: Galerie Günther Galetzki, 1974
  38. See German Wikipedia Jörg F. Zimmermann
  39. Symposion Leonberger Heide: Sommersemester '74: Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1974, Text: Wolfgang Kermer (loose leaves in portfolio)
  40. see under section ″Author″
  41. Wolfgang Kermer: ″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  [ de ] / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 9) ISBN   3-89322-446-7, fig. 71, note p. 239
  42. Günther Petzold: Die Kunstakademie sucht mehr Kontakt. In: Stuttgarter Leben, 50. Jg., März 1975, Heft 3, pp. 20–21
  43. Wolfgang Kermer: ″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  [ de ] / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 9) ISBN   3-89322-446-7, fig. 74, pp. 239–240
  44. Nikolai B. Forstbauer: Für das Geschichtsgewissen der Stuttgarter Akademie: dem Kunsthistoriker Wolfgang Kermer zum 70. Geburtstag, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Nr. 112, 18. Mai 2005, p. 16
  45. Kunst. Und Design. Bemerkungen von Peter von Kornatzki aus Anlaß einer aufregenden Dokumentation ″Willi Baumeister: Typographie und Reklamegestaltung″. In: form, Zeitschrift für Gestaltung, Heft 129, I–1990, pp. 55–58
  46. Wolfgang Kermer: Willi Baumeister: Lithographien und Radierungen. Gedruckt von Erich Mönch. Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1975.
  47. His publications about Willi Baumeister even found resonance in Japanese specialist literature, see Mikio Suzuki (ed.): Reformation of Art Academy in the USA and Germany after or during World War II: German Exiled Directors or Professors and their cultural, Pedagogical Heritage for the Reformation. Kazama Shobo, 2014 ISBN   978-4-7599-2029-1, pp. 57–92 (in Japanese language)
  48. Wolfgang Kermer (ed.): 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)
  49. Wolfgang Kermer (ed.): Willi Baumeister: Cézanne. Mit einer Einführung des Herausgebers. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 2006 (= WerkstattReihe / ed. Wolfgang Kermer) ISBN   3-931485-79-X
  50. Wolfgang Kermer: Ansprache zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung ″Arbeiten von Lehrern der Staatlichen Kunstakademien Karlsruhe und Stuttgart″ im Rahmen der Landeskunsthochschulwochen am 5. Juni 1981 in der Staatlichen Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. In: Wolfgang Kermer: ″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) ISBN   3-89322-446-7, p. 80 (citation in German)
  51. Wolfgang Kermer: Stellung und Gliederung der Akademie heute (1984). In: Wolfgang Kermer: ″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) ISBN   3-89322-446-7, pp. 113–115
  52. Für Wolfgang Kermer, Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1984. Exh. cat., with loose text sheet (thanks from Wolfgang Kermer to the dedicators)
  53. Stuttgarter Begegnungen: die Schenkung Wolfgang Kermer. Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, 18. Mai – 24. Juni 2005. Ed. Neunkircher Kulturgesellschaft gGmbH, Nicole Nix-Hauck. Katalog: Wolfgang Kermer
  54. Wolfgang Kermer: Künstlerin zwischen den Kriegen: Alice Haarburger – eine vergessene Stuttgarter Malerin. In: Amtsblatt der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart, Nr. 13, 26. März 1987, p. 8
  55. 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  [ de ], ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 6)
  56. Wolfgang Kermer expose à la Grenette: les clichés de l'artiste: transpositions poétiques d'un monde quotidien et banal... In: Le Progrès de Lyon, 28 novembre 2003
  57. Eine vitalisierende Maßnahme: Ausstellung ″Stuttgarter Begegnungen, Teil II″. In: Neunkircher Stadtnachrichten, ed. Kreisstadt Neunkirchen, Oberbürgermeister Friedrich Decker, 12. März 2006, Nr. 12, p. 1
  58. Wolfgang Kermer: Entstehung und Zielsetzung der Sammlung. In: Alfons Hannes: Die Sammlung Wolfgang Kermer, Glasmuseum Frauenau: Glas des 20. Jahrhunderts: 50er bis 70er Jahre. (Bayerische Museen; 9) Schnell & Steiner, München, Zürich 1989 ISBN   3-7954-0753-2, pp. 10–12
  59. Alfons Hannes: Die Sammlung Wolfgang Kermer, Glasmuseum Frauenau: Glas des 20. Jahrhunderts; 50er bis 70er Jahre. (Bayerische Museen; 9) Schnell & Steiner, München, Zürich 1989 ISBN   3-7954-0753-2
  60. Großzügiges Geschenk an Neunkirchen: Professor Wolfgang Kermer bringt Arbeiten großer Künstler in die Stadt, in: VIP's: Das Magazin für den Landkreis Neunkirchen, Juni 2005, 14. Jahrgang, p. 39
  61. Schenkung Wolfgang Kermer: Bestandskatalog. Ed. Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen 2011 ISBN   978-3-941715-07-3
  62. Céramique française 1970–2000: Donation France et Wolfgang Kermer. Sarreguemines, Édition Musées de Sarreguemines, 2018 ISBN   978-2-91375-924-4
  63. Anne-Claire Meffre: France et Wolfgang Kermer: En voyage entre l'art et le feu, La Revue de la Céramique et le Feu, № 230, janvier-février 2020, pp. 60–63 ISSN   0294-202X
  64. Wolfgang Kermer: Ein Autodidakt aus dem Saargebiet: Der Neunkircher Fritz Arnold war Maler und Graphiker – Er starb 1921. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung, Nr. 297, 22./23. Dezember 2007, p. C5
  65. 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 ISBN   3-931485-41-2, p. 81, with color illustration
  66. Bundesverdienstkreuz für Professor Dr. Wolfgang Kermer, Pressemitteilung, Nr. L, 16/1984, 10. Juli 1984, ed. Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst Baden-Württemberg, Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsreferat
  67. stz: Verdienste um die Kunst. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, Nr. 158, 11. Juli 1984, p. 20
  68. Personalien: Auszeichnungen. In: Die Welt, Nr. 166, 18. Juli 1984, p. 6
  69. Bundesverdienstkreuz für Professor Dr. Wolfgang Kermer. In: Neunkircher Stadtanzeiger, Jahrgang 19, Nr. 29, 18. Juli 1984, p. 12
  70. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung, Nr. 177, 23./24. Mai 1964
  71. La Chronique des Arts, supplément à la Gazette des Beaux-Arts , no. 1208, septembre 1969, p. 17
  72. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. Nr. 275, 29. November 1967
  73. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, Nr. 140, 23. Juni 1970
  74. Wolfgang Kermer: Publikationsverzeichnis, Impression ESPAO-MdS / www.espao.fr, 2008, p. 6
  75. Ernst Peter Grimm: Ein unbequemer Rektor: Akademie-Chef Wolfgang Kermer legt Rechenschaftsbericht 1972 vor: Er will vom Kultusministerium endlich Taten sehen. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Nr. 37, 13. Februar 1973, p. 10
  76. Akademie-Mitteilungen  [ de ] 8: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: für die Zeit vom 1. Juni 1976 bis 31. Oktober 1977. Ed. Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, März 1978, pp. 36–38
  77. Wolfgang Kermer: Publikationsverzeichnis, Impression ESPAO-MdS / www.espao.fr, 2008, p. 9
  78. Published in: Wolfgang Kermer: ″1968″ und Akademiereform: von den Studentenunruhen zur Neuorganisation der Stuttgarter Akademie in den siebziger Jahren. Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz 1998 (= Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 9) ISBN   3-89322-446-7, p. 87
  79. Contains an overview of the history of the workshops as well as documentation on the meaning and purpose of workshop training at an art college, Wolfgang Kermer: Publikationsverzeichnis, Impression ESPAO-MdS / www.espao.fr, 2008, p. 10
  80. Wolfgang Kermer: Publikationsverzeichnis, Impression ESPAO-MdS / www.espao.fr, 2008, p. 10
  81. Magdalena Hörmann (Ed.): Galerie im Taxispalais Innsbruck 1964 – 1997. Verlagsanstalt Tyrolia, Innsbruck 1997 ISBN   3-7022-2119-0, pp. 130–131
  82. Nikolai B. Forstbauer: Wolfgang Kermer: Neues Buch über Willi Baumeister: Der schöpferische Winkel. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 21. August 1992
  83. Review by Detlef Siegfried in: H-Soz-u-Kult http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/id=2342
  84. 2nd revised edition, 2013, imprimerie et façonnage du salon, F-70180 Dampierre-sur-Salon
  85. (ps): Skulpturen aus Glas zu Meisterwerken geformt: Ausstellung in der Sparkasse In: Wochenblatt: Amtliches Bekanntmachungsorgan der Verbandsgemeinden Kusel, Altenglan, Glan-Münchweiler, 44. Jahrgang, 13. Woche, 27. März 2014, p. 33
  86. Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart (Ed.): Publikationen. Zusammenstellung und Redaktion: Gabriele Merkes. Druck und Herstellung: Jung & Brecht, Stuttgart 1997, p. 15 (Translation from German)
  87. Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart (Ed.): Publikationen. Zusammenstellung und Redaktion: Gabriele Merkes. Druck und Herstellung: Jung & Brecht, Stuttgart 1997, pp. 13–14 (Translation from German)
  88. imprint: Druck: deri Druck, 7 Stuttgart 80, Heßbrühlstraße 13
  89. Akademie-Mitteilungen  [ de ] 2: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: für die Zeit vom 1. April 1972 bis 30. September 1972. Ed. Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Oktober 1972, p. 14; Akademie-Mitteilungen 3: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: für die Zeit vom 1. Oktober 1972 bis 31. März 1973. Ed. Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, April 1973, pp. 11–12
  90. The 16 unpaginated pages of the newspaper edited by Academy rector Wolfgang Kermer with two art-political texts by Alfred Hrdlicka, numerous illustrations of examples of works and with the brief vitae and various statements of the participants (Reinhard Bombsch, Arno Hildebrandt, Dieter E. Klumpp, Susanne Knorr, Erhard Mika, Michael Plaetschke, Franz Raßl, Diane Roemer, Hans Daniel Sailer, Wolfgang Scherible, Bernd Stöcker, Andreas Theurer, Charlotte Traum, Konrad Winzer) were edited in an edition of 1000 copies to IX. Congress of the IAA/AIAP art and public 1979 in Stuttgart.
  91. From the German Wikipedia, translation
  92. Hans Staut: Wolfgang Kermer-Ausstellung im Lesesaal. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung, 7. Dezember 1954
  93. Hans Staut: Der junge Wolfgang Kermer stellt aus. In: Saarländische Volkszeitung, 8. Dezember 1954
  94. js.: Jungen malen und werken: Ausstellung von Arbeiten des Kunstunterrichts im Realgymnasium. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung, 22. März 1955
  95. The bookstore and art shop was located at Bahnhofstrasse 46.
  96. GR: Bilder und Bronzen: Ausstellungen bei Franck und Appel in Frankfurt. In: Frankfurter Rundschau, 16. März 1961
  97. Wilhelm Weber: Licht im Dunkel: zu Wolfgang Kermers Ausstellung im Graphischen Kabinett. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung, 31. August 1961
  98. hk [Hans Kinkel]: In den Galerien: Kunst in der Vitrine. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, Nr. 280, 5. Dezember 1961, p. 10. – Kleines Kulturtagebuch: Kermer stellt in Stuttgart aus. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung, Nr. 294, 21. Dezember 1961, p. 5
  99. hk [Hans Kinkel]: In den Galerien. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, 6. März 1962
  100. W. M.: Plastische Graphik: Wolfgang Kermer bei Eggert. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Nr. 57, 8. März 1962, p. 7
  101. Kermer, Linn - Ausstellung vom 4. - 24. September 1964, Exh. cat. Galerie Elitzer, Saarbrücken, 1964
  102. Invitation card, leaflet with illustration
  103. Wolfgang Kermer expose à Charentenay, L'Est Républicain , 11 juillet 2003
  104. Wolfgang Kermer expose à la Grenette : les clichés de l'artiste transpositions poétiques d'un monde quotidien et banal... Le Progrès, 28 novembre 2003
  105. X. F. : Karma Kermer : à travers ses ″Instants fixés″, un auteur-photographe allemand appuie un regard décalé et apuisé sur des choses anodines du quotidien, L'Est Républicain, 26 juin 2006
  106. Wolfgang Kermer: tout l'art de sublimer le quotidien: la rotonde du centre Borvo, à Bourbonne-les-Bains, déploie ce mois-ci un magnifique panorama photographique signé Wolfgang Kermer, Le Journal de la Haute-Marne, 3 novembre 2008
  107. Exhibition brochure
  108. Wolfgang Kermer expose au Café français, La Presse de Vesoul, jeudi 26 janvier 2023, p. 30
  109. Les photographies de W. Kermer au Café français, L'Est Républicain, 30 janvier 2023, p. 27
  110. Wolfgang Kermer expose ses photos au café français, L'Est Républicain, 23 avril 2023, p. 18
  111. Die Jungen im Lande: Saarländischer Künstlernachwuchs stellt sich vor. Museum der Stadt Homburg, 22. Januar bis 20. Februar 1955, Nr. 105–107 (Folder)
  112. Die Jungen im Lande: Gemälde, Graphik, Plastiken, Keramik. Museum der Stadt Homburg, 7. Juli bis 29. Juli 1956, Nr. 106–116 (Folder)
  113. Weihnachtsausstellung saarländischer Künstler: unter dem Protektorat des Deutschen Kulturbundes im Saarland, Exh. cat., cat. nos. 51, 52, 53
  114. Wolfgang Kermer: Publikationsverzeichnis, Impression ESPAO-MdS, 2008, p. 1
  115. Der Pfalzpreis für Graphik 1958. Ausst.-Kat. Pfälzische Landesgewerbeanstalt Kaiserslautern, 22. November bis 21. Dezember 1958
  116. Folded catalog: neue gruppe saar: ausstellung im festsaal des kultusministeriums saarbrücken, 25. Januar bis 7. Februar 1961, with a list of 29 exhibition participants, among them Heinz Mack and Otto Piene as guests.
  117. Christoph Wilhelmi: Künstlergruppen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz seit 1900: ein Handbuch. Stuttgart: Hauswedell, 1996, p. 259
  118. neue gruppe saar, Exh. cat. Ausstellung im Foyer des Tübinger Zimmertheaters anläßlich der Premiere von ″Antigone″ (Anouilh) vom 9. November bis 16. Dezember 1961 Bursagasse 16, ed. neue gruppe saar
  119. Exh. cat. neue gruppe saar, ed. neue gruppe saar, Saarbrücken (Herstellung: Saarbrücker Zeitung GmbH) [1962]
  120. Wilhelm Weber: Der Wille zum Ungewohnten: zur Ausstellung der ″Neuen Gruppe Saar″ im Kultusministerium, Saarbrücker Zeitung, Nr. 14, 17. Januar 1962, p. 5
  121. Deutscher Kunstpreis der Jugend 1962: Ölgemälde, Aquarelle, Gouachen, Exh. cat. Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, ed. Württ. Kunstverein Oktober 1962, cat. nos. 76, 77
  122. Neue deutsche Graphik: Kunstausstellung 1962-1963. Exh. cat. Arbeitskreis moderne Graphik, Frankenthal/Pfalz, 1962–1963, pp. 20–21
  123. Georg-W. Költzsch: Landschaften des Lichts: Gedanken zu einer Ausstellung der ″Neuen Gruppe Saar″ in Zweibrücken, Saarheimat, Jahrgang 7, Heft 3, März 1963, pp. 85–87
  124. Wilhelm Weber: Vorstöße in Neuland: Ausstellung der Neuen Gruppe Saar mit italienischen Gästen, Saarbrücker Zeitung, 15. November 1963, p. 5
  125. With illustrations of various samples of Kermer's work in the exhibition catalogue, however, as in all other cases, without proof of name.
  126. Wolfgang Kermer: Publikationsverzeichnis, Impression ESPAO-MdS, 2008, p. 4 (Biography)
  127. Skulptur und Plastik, Exh. cat. Galerie Schlichtenmaier, 1. April bis 14. Mai 2022, Stuttgart, Kleiner Schlossplatz (Text: Günter Baumann)
  128. Junge Bildhauer stellen im Böblinger Feierraum aus: eine Schau zeitgenössischen Schaffens, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 19. Juni 1967, p. 7
  129. Twenty years after the artist′s death, this was the first Willi Baumeister exhibition at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, where Baumeister′s pedagogical conception was opposed by a conservative section of the Academy professors.
  130. On the occasion of the opening of the newly founded Frauenau Glass Museum on 6 May 1975, the museum presented a special exhibition Venini – Murano with works from the Wolfgang Kermer Collection for the first time in Germany: Alfons Hannes, Wolfgang Kermer: Venini-Murano: 65 Gläser der Sammlung Kermer, Sonderausstellung Glasmuseum Frauenau, 6 May – 28 September 1975, ed. Gemeinde Frauenau, 1975, catalog brochure
  131. First exhibition of a technical teacher at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
  132. Alfons Hannes, Wolfgang Kermer:Glaskunst der 60er und 70er Jahre: 65 Objekte von 65 Künstlern, Sonderausstellung Glasmuseum Frauenau, Dezember 1976 – November 1977, ed. Gemeinde Frauenau, 1976, cat.
  133. Wolfgang Kermer: Druckgrafik australischer Kunststudenten 28. 4. bis 31. 5. 78. Exh. cat. Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1978
  134. Johannes Hewel, exh. cat., Hrsg.: Vereinigung von Freunden der Akademie der Bildenden Künste e. V. Stuttgart; Redaktion: Wolfgang Kermer, Dr. Cantz′sche Druckerei, Stuttgart 1978
  135. Exhib. cat. Willi Baumeister: 1945–1955, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Cantz, Stuttgart 1979
  136. Landeskunsthochschulwochen 1981, Mitteilungen über Kunst und Wissenschaft: das Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst Baden-Württemberg informiert, Nr. 2, 25. Mai 1981; Wolfgang Kermer [Statement über die Aufgaben und Funktionen der Kunsthochschulen], Landeskunsthochschulwochen 1981, Baden-Baden: Gesamtprogramm, ed. Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsreferat, Stuttgart 1981
  137. Wolfgang Kermer: Der junge Kokoschka: Ausstellung in der Stuttgarter Kunstakademie, Mitteilungen über Wissenschaft und Kunst: Das Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst Baden-Württemberg informiert, 4. Jahrgang, Nr. 2, Stuttgart, 22. Februar 1984, p. 11
  138. Karl Diemer: Von der Einsamkeit des Rektors: die Kunstsammlung der Kunstakademie hat im Mittnachtbau Premiere, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Nr. 31, 6. Februar 1985, p. 11
  139. Kunst. Und Design. Bemerkungen von Peter von Kornatzki aus Anlaß einer aufregenden Dokumentation: ″Willi Baumeister – Typographie und Reklamegestaltung″. In: form, Zeitschrift für Gestaltung, Heft 129, I–1990, pp. 55–58
  140. Wolfgang Kermer: Willi Baumeister, Typografie + Reklamegestaltung: Vortrag 11. Mai 1990. In: Frankurter Architektursommer ′90 (1990). Ed.: Magistrat der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Dezernat Bau, Hochbauamt. Frankfurt am Main: Magistrat der Stadt Frankfurt, 1992 (= Schriftenreihe des Hochbauamtes zu Bauaufgaben der Stadt Frankfurt am Main; 29), pp. 9–11
  141. France und Wolfgang Kermer: Claude Morin, verrier de Dieulefit, Glasgestalter aus Frankreich. Ed. Glasmuseum Frauenau. Stuttgart: Arnold, 1993 (Monograph, published on the occasion of the exhibition ″Claude Morin, verrier de Dieulefit, Glasgestalter aus Frankreich″, Glasmuseum Frauenau, 5 June to 1 August 1993
  142. Wolfgang Kermer: Publikationsverzeichnis, Impression ESPAO-MdS / www.espao.fr, 2008, p. 4
  143. Zwischen Buch-Kunst und Buch-Design: Buchgestalter der Akademie und ehemaligen Kunstgewerbeschule in Stuttgart, Klingspor Museum, Offenbach am Main, invitation card for the opening of the exhibition on 7 June 1997
  144. Cathrin Elss-Seringhaus: Willkommen daheim: Fritz Arnold-Ausstellung: Neunkirchen zeigt das grafische Werk eines Vergessenen. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung, 25. Juni 2010
  145. Marlene Jochem: Moderne Keramik aus Frankreich 1970 bis 2000: aus der Sammlung Kermer. In: Keramos, Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft der Keramikfreunde e. V. Düsseldorf, Heft 226, 2014/IV, pp. 63–72
  146. In: Neunkirchen – Eine Stadt voller Leben, Beilage der Saarbrücker Zeitung, 28. Juli 2006, p. 13