Rainer Crone

Rainer Crone is University Professor emeritus of Contemporary Art and History of Film at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and a specialist in the art of Andy Warhol.[1] He has previously taught at Yale University, the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, and New York University.[2]

Andy Warhol

He is known for writing the first catalogue raisonné of the artist which was published in July 1970. This was based on the research for his doctorate at University of Hamburg, and was funded by a two-year doctoral grant from the German government, without commercial backing or financial support from any individuals or galleries. Crone began working with Andy Warhol in 1968, and continued working with Warhol on numerous books and projects until the artist’s death in 1987.[2] Crone's first catalogue raisonné and his PhD thesis still only available in German are regarded as the first European scholarly response to the work of Andy Warhol.[3]

In January 1970 Warhol and Crone discussed which painting should be used for the cover of the raisonné of his work. The artist suggested a Red Self-Portrait, which had been recently acquired by Warhol's largest European dealer and Interview magazine co-owner Bruno Bischofberger and signed, dated and dedicated to "Bruno B." Warhol provided an Ektrachrome of this work which used for the cover of the 1970 raisonne and its 1972 revised edition, and 1976 edition which listed this Red Self Portrait as entry #169. The Andy Warhol Foundation has refused to authenticate this work as it was produced by someone else on Warhol's instructions. Warhol signed the work and authorized its inclusion in the first catalogue raisonné. Crone argues that it should be considered an authentic Warhol.[4]

In 1985 Crone, along with James Beck and Meyer Schapiro, was cofounder of the International Associates for Contemporary Art (I.A.C.A).[3] Other founding members of the I.A.C.A included Eli Broad. The artists committee of the I.A.C.A included Georg Baselitz, John Baldessari, Richard Hamilton (artist), Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Anish Kapoor, Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Mapplethorpe, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Julian Schnabel, Frank Stella and Richard Serra. The I.A.C.A was replaced by ICCARUS in 1992.[5]

More about I.A.C.A.

The International Associates for Contemporary Art - I.A.C.A. (1985 to 1991) was the first curatorial program, recognized globally, as part of a major educational institution, the Department of Art History and Archeology, with its own exhibition spaces, the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, at Columbia University in New York. I.A.C.A. was founded in 1985 by Rainer Crone - today University Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich - then Associate Professor of Art History, Chair of Contemporary Art, James Beck, then Professor and Chaiman of the Department of Art History and Archeology. Honorary founding member was late Meyer Schapiro, then University Professor Emeritus of Art History.

During these years, Rainer Crone integrated in his theoretically oriented seminars a direct contact and discourse with emerging and prominent personalities of the world in contemporary art of New York City and beyond. Crone supported with these initiatives his students’ approaches towards the contemporary art scene.

For his students Crone organized visits in many artists’ studios as Roy Lichtenstein, Donald Judd, Richard Serra, Claes Oldenburg, Richard Prince, Roni Horn, Philip Taaffe, Eric Fischl, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Peter Halley and many others as well as lectures by same artists for Columbia's academic and interested community in the lecture on Campus. Through I.A.C.A.’s program, Crone guided students through museums, biennales and artfairs, as well arranged visits to major private collections on the East and West coast.

One of its major significant result of Crone’s curatorial and pedagogic initiatives can be seen in the legendary thematic exhibition Similia/Dissimilia, conceived and organized by Crone in collaboration with his students (1986–87), presenting an early contemporary section (1960 to 1966) of leading formative artists as Donald Judd, Joseph Beuys, Alighiero Boetti, John Chamberlain, Eva Hesse, Robert Ryman, Jasper Johns, Yves Klein et al. with yet unexhibited examples of their early work, along with younger talents, who then became eventually recognized personalities as Francesco Clemente, Peter Halley, Roni Horn, Anish Kapoor, Imi Knoebel, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Philip Taaffe, Rosemarie Trockel, Georg Herold et al.

The theoretically inclined and very contemporary discourse this exhibition was trying to address and to respond to was inspired by the most recent developments in contemporary art of the early Eighties (like Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, Anish Kapoor, Robert Gober, Joseph Kosuth, Terry Winters, John Chamberlain et al.)

This international show was first hosted in the US - Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, Ileana Sonnabend Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery in New York - and subsequently in Europe at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany.

HONORAY FOUNDING MEMBER
Meyer Schapiro, University Professor Emeritus

FOUNDING MEMBERS
Richard Brown Baker
Flora M. Biddle
Nelson Blitz, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Eli Broad
Charles Cowles
Douglas S. Cramer
Mr. and Mrs. W. Dannheisser
Asher B. Edelman
Ronald Feldman
Frederick D. Hill
Caroll Janis
Linda Janovic
Raymond Learsy
Vera G. List
Ned S. Low
Lewis Manilow
Mrs. Barnett Newman
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Plehn
Cynthia Hazen Polsky
Mr. and Mrs. Milton S. Rosenthal
Dr. and Mrs. Donald Rubell
Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Schulhof
Miriam G. Wallach

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
James Beck, Chairman, Department of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University
Rainer Crone, Executive Director
Arthur C. Danto
Julian Hochberg
Joseph Kuhn
Andreas Huyssen
Barbara Novak

Bibliography

Academic books

Exhibition catalogues

References

  1. ↑ "Prof. Dr. Rainer Crone - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München". Retrieved 3 November 2012.
  2. 1 2 Crone, Rainer (25 February 2010). "What Andy Warhol Really Did". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
  3. 1 2 http://iccarusservices.tumblr.com/iaca
  4. ↑ Perl, Jed (2 February 2011). "Jed Perl On Koons' Balloon Dog, Warhol, Duchamp, And The Death Of Modern Art's Originality". The New Republic. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
  5. ↑ "ICCARUS website".
  6. ↑ WorldCat
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  10. ↑ judd Tulley:"Art and Auction", sept 1, 2009.
  11. ↑ Jason Kaufman: "The Art Newspaper", Sept 2009.
  12. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/dp/0500090769
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