Christian Weikop

Christian Weikop (born 1970) is a British Art Historian and Lecturer at University of Edinburgh.
Biography
Christian Weikop lectures in nineteenth and twentieth-century art, with a focus on German and Austrian visual culture. Christian is founder and director of the VARIE Research Forum for German Visual Culture, University of Edinburgh. He is a specialist in modern and contemporary German art. His research interests and activities are covering: German Romanticism / Expressionism / Arborealism / Brücke / Bauhaus / Dada / Neue Sachlichkeit / Neo-Expressionism / Avant-Garde Magazines / German Woodcut Culture / German and Austrian Secession Movements / Aesthetics and Cultural Politics / Cultural Identities / Cultural Exchange and Transnationality /Image of the Black / ARTIST ROOMS.
Some of his most recent publication projects include his editing of Bridging History: New Perspectives on Brücke Expressionism (2011). Twelve essays by internationally renowned experts in the field: Rose-Carol Long, Reinhold Heller, Timothy O. Benson, Monika Wagner, Shulamith Behr, Colin Rhodes, Tanja Pirsig, Aya Soika, Donald Kuspit, John-Paul Stonard, Christian Saehrendt. Sherwin Simmons wrote in Burlington Magazine „.. this anthology delves into fresh topics and approaches, pointing the way to further research. The book’s strength is also found in Weikop’s thoughtful introductions which effectively link the essays into a whole, while also introducing new concerns, particularly the way artists after the 1970s have alluded to the group and its art for new purposes.“ Christian is currently working on his first monograph, Representations of the Peasant in German Art and Culture: Faces of the Volk, to be published by Manchester University Press in 2014, supported by awards from DAAD and the AHRC. His published articles and catalogue essays on German art have appeared in various journals and exhibition catalogues, and he has worked closely with art institutions such as the Neue Galerie in New York, and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg.
Publications
Faces of the Folk: Representations of the Peasant in German Art and Culture. Contracted by Manchester University Press. To be published in 2014.
Edited and Co-Edited books:
Bridging History: New Perspectives on Brücke Expressionism (May 2011; ISBN 978-1-4094-1203-8).
Modernist Magazines: A Critical and Cultural History, Volume 3: Europe 1880-1939, Oxford University Press (2013).
Chapter contributions to edited books/catalogues (Selection):
'”The Savages of Germany”: A Reassessment of the Relationship between Brücke and Blauer Reiter and their Early British Reception’. To be published in a scholarly volume (Manchester University Press) on the Blaue Reiter Almanac, edited by Dorothy Rowe and Chris Short (2014).
Encounters and Interactions with the “Image of the Black”: The German and French Avant-Garde (1905-1918)’, and ‘Afrophilia and Afrophobia in Switzerland and Germany 1917-1937’ in The Image of the Black in Western Art, Vol. V: The Twentieth Century, David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr (eds), Harvard University Press, in collaboration with W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, (contracted, to be published in 2014).
'Introduction to German, Swiss, and Austrian Magazines' and Two Chapters: ‘Transitions: From Expressionism to Dada’; ‘Berlin Dada and the Carnivalesque’, in Modernist Magazines: A Critical and Cultural History, Volume 3: Europe 1880-1939, Peter Brooker, Sascha Bru, Andrew Thacker, and Christian Weikop (eds), Oxford University Press (2013).
Brücke and Canonical Association’, in Reinhold Heller (ed.), Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin, 1905-1913, exhibition catalogue, Hatje Cantz, 2009, pp. 102-127. This Neue Galerie exhibition was held in New York (February 26 - June 29, 2009).
‘Karl Schmidt-Rottluffs arborealer Expressionismus’ for the exhibition catalogue, Rosa Schapire und die Expressionisten, Hatje Cantz, 2009, pp. 186-215. This exhibition was held at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (August 28 - November 15, 2009).
Weblinks
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art/history-art/staff/academic-staff?person_id136&cw_xmlprofile.php

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