Background
Bätschmann, Oskar was born on September 15, 1943 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Son of Robert Oskar and Martha (Baldegger) Bätschmann.
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By Oskar Batschmann - The Artist in the Modern World: The Conflict Between Market and S (1998-04-14) Hardcover
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The Artist in the Modern World: The Conflict Between Market and Self-Expression
(When works of art began to be introduced at public exhibi...)
When works of art began to be introduced at public exhibits in London and Paris in the second half of the eighteenth century, a new type of artist emerged -- the "exhibition artist". This book investigates the history of the modern artist whose new connections with the exhibition of art in institutional settings profoundly changed the definition of art, the artist's view of himself, the problems of the artist, and the artist's social status. Oskar Batschmann explores the rise of the modern artist from the development of the first exhibition pictures by John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West to the innovations of the twentieth-century star-artists like Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol who themselves became exhibition objects.The artist's world changed when those who were involved with exhibitions began to take over the functions of critiquing and defining art from those who had previously commissioned art -- courts and the church. Batschmann shows how art exhibition pioneers undertook new artistic tasks: to assert themselves in the face of competition, to become the talk of the town, to attract the public, and to procure an income for themselves. These tasks introduced an array of new problems for artists, from questions about artistic freedom to the social duty of the artist, from the identification of artists as the avant-garde of society and art to the latent aggression of the public and art critics. In his examination of 250 years of art history, the author uncovers reciprocal relations between the production of art and its representation, between exhibitions and an aggressive cheering public, and between animosity toward the artist and admiration. The final chapter of the bookpresents a fascinating selection of largely unknown writings from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries dealing with the history and problems of exhibition artists.
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Nicolas Poussin: Dialectics of Painting
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In this highly original and innovative study of Nicolas Poussin, one of seventeenth-century Europe's greatest artists, Oskar Batschmann presents a series of connected studies that offer new ways of interpreting the work and ideas of this brilliant and complex figure. This superbly illustrated book is a polemical challenge in a field of art-historical research that has often lost its way in insoluble disputes and erudite details. "Like Poussin's paintings, this is a highly polished work. In prose of great elegance, Batschmann achieves an almost perfect balance between exposition and polemic."—Times Literary Supplement "This is a tough but rewarding book, focusing not so much on the context of Poussin's book – its extrinsic framework – but intently on the work itself, and the attitude of Poussin to his subject-matter, from history painting to the holy family, and what Batschmann calls 'tragic landscape'."—The Sunday Times
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Einfuhrung in die kunstgeschichtliche Hermeneutik: Die Auslegung von Bildern (Die Kunstwissenschaft) (German Edition)
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Einführung in die kunstgeschichtliche Hermeneutik. Die Auslegung von Bildern.
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Entfernung der Natur: Landschaftsmalerei, 1750-1920 (DuMont-Taschenbucher) (German Edition)
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Oskar Bätschmann
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Oskar Bätschmann, Swiss art history educator. Getty scholar, Getty Center for History of Art and Humanities, Santa Monica, California, 1990-1991; P. Mellon senior fellow The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington, 1995. Member Austrian Art Historian Association (honorary).
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, University Zürich, Switzerland, 1975. Habilitation, University Zürich, Switzerland, 1981.
Career
Lecturer University Zürich, 1979-1983. Professor art history University Freiburg, Germany, 1984-1987. Chairman department art history University Giessen, Germany, 1988-1990, University Bern, Switzerland, since 1991.
Director d'etudes École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1992. President Swiss Association Art Historians, 1980—1986, Swiss Academy, 1992—1996. President research committee Swiss Institute Art Research, since 1994.
Secretary Committee International d'Histoire l'Art, 1996. Member advisory board Max Planck Institutes, Rome and Florence, since 2000.
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book
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Nicolas Poussin: Dialectics of Painting
( In this highly original and innovative study of Nicolas...)
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Hans Holbein: Revised and Expanded Second Edition
( Hans Holbein the Younger was the leading artist of the N...)
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The Artist in the Modern World: The Conflict Between Market and Self-Expression
(When works of art began to be introduced at public exhibi...)
- By Oskar Batschmann - The Artist in the Modern World: The Conflict Between Market and S (1998-04-14) Hardcover
- FERDINAND HODLER, DIE ZEICHNUNGEN IM KUNSTMUSEUM BERN
- Einfuhrung in die kunstgeschichtliche Hermeneutik: Die Auslegung von Bildern (Die Kunstwissenschaft) (German Edition)
- The Artist in the Modern World: The Conflict Between Market and Self-Expression by Oskar Batschmann (1998-03-30)
- Hans Holbein
- Malerei der Neuzeit (Ars Helvetica VI)
- Einführung in die kunstgeschichtliche Hermeneutik. Die Auslegung von Bildern.
- Entfernung der Natur: Landschaftsmalerei, 1750-1920 (DuMont-Taschenbucher) (German Edition)
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Nicolas Poussin: Dialectics of Painting
Membership
Member Austrian Art Historian Association (honorary).
Connections
Married Marie Therese Bätschmann, November 11, 1988.
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Swiss
Education
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1975
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1981
Career
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1979 - 1983
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1984 - 1987
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1988 - 1990
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1991
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Getty scholar, Getty Center for History of Art and Humanities, Santa Monica, California, 1990-1991. P. Mellon senior fellow The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington, 1995.Getty scholar, Getty Center for History of Art and Humanities, Santa Monica, California, 1990-1991. P. Mellon senior fellow The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington, 1995.