Schmied, Wieland#
b. Frankfurt am Main (Germany), Feb. 5, 1929, journalist, poet, art critic. Came to Vienna in 1939, studied law and art history. Until 1973 director of the art association Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, until 1975 head curator of the National Gallery of Berlin. 1978-1986 director of the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD), 1986-1994 professor of art history at the Akademie der bildenden Kuenste (Academy of Fine Arts ) in Munich, since 1995 president of the association Bayerische Akademie der Schoenen Kuenste (Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts). 1980-1999 president of the International Summer Academy in Salzburg. Author of poems and essays on art in the 19th and 20th century. Awarded the Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism in 1992.
Works#
Landkarte des Windes, 1957; Das Poetische in der Kunst, 1960; Seefahrerwind, 1963; Malerei nach 1945 in Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz, 1974; Schach mit M. Duchamp, 1980; Kunst, Kunstgeschichte, Kunstakademie, 1990; Beruehrungen, 1991; Ezra Pound, 1994; E. Hopper, 1995; Malerei in Oe. 1945-1995, exhibition catalogue, Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna 1996 (ed.); M. Weiler, 1998.