Warringer, Wilhelm

V. Vorringer began his scientific career as a literary critic and philologist, but soon began to deal with historical and cultural problems. Among his teachers are Heinrich Rückert , Georg Simmel and Heinrich Wölflin . The most characteristic is the research methodology of the scientist in his dissertation “ Abstraction and feeling ” ( Abstraktion und Einfühlung ), which he defended in Berne in 1907. In 1908, she published a separate publication in Munich. In this work, the author divides the various trends in art as a whole as an abstraction, i.e. abstracted human reactions to a randomly changing world and its precarious, fragile place in it, and sensuality, which he understands as a kind of natural entity inherent in a person. The fundamental formula of the philosopher is his phrases: Aesthetic pleasure is objective (i.e., concretized) self - enjoyment and we enjoy ourselves in the forms of works of art . In his works, W. Warringer, together with his colleague Alois Riegl, creates the basis for understanding, in line with the European cultural tradition, such artistic phenomena as classical modernism and expressionism. Thus, according to art historian Bernhard Myers, W. Warringer, along with Henri Bergson (the work “Creative Development” of the latter), made a significant contribution to the ideological foundation of German expressionism.

After receiving a degree in defending a dissertation “Problems of Form in Gothic” in 1909 in Bern, W. Vorringer has been teaching as an assistant professor since 1915, and in 1925-1928 as a professor at the Institute of Art History at the University of Bonn. In 1928 he became a professor at the University of Koenigsberg. Since 1945 - professor at the University of Galle. In 1950, the scientist left the GDR and moved to West Germany.

He was married to the artist Marte Warringer.

• Works in 2 volumes (Schriften) . ed. Hannes Böhringer, Helga Grebing, Beate Söntgen. München 2004, 2 Bde. und 1 CD-ROM, ISBN 3-7705-3641-X
• Abstraktion und Einfühlung . Dissertation 1907; Piper, München 1908;
  • New Edition, ed. Helga Grebing. Mit einer Einl. von Claudia Öhlschläger bei Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn, München 2007, ISBN 978-3-7705-4434-9
• Form problems in Gothic (Formprobleme der Gotik) . München 1911
• Preface to the new edition: Abstraction and sensuality. Work on stylistic psychology (Vorwort zum Neudruck: Abstraktion und Einfühlung. Ein Beitrag zur Stilpsychologie) . München 1948
• Problems of contemporary art (Problematik der Gegenwartskunst) . München 1948
• Is Mona Lisa really smiling? (Lächelt die Mona Lisa wirklich?) , In: Thema. Zeitschrift für die Einheit der Kultur, 2/1949, S. 25-29
• Jean Fouquet and Piero della Francesca , in: Das Kunstwerk, 3/1949 (1), S. 24-30

• Wilhelm Worringer. Neue Beiträge deutscher Forschung. Wilhelm Worringer zum 60. Geburtstag . Hrsg. von Erich Fidder. Königsberg. Kanter. 1943. 233 S.
• Hannes Böhringer und Beate Söntgen (Hrsg.): Wilhelm Worringers Kunstgeschichte . München. 2002
• Heinrich Dilly: Wilhelm Worringers hallesche Publikationen , in: Wolfgang Schenkluhn (Hg.): 100 Jahre Kunstgeschichte an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Halle 2004 (= Hallesche Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte, 5/6), S. 163-180
• Helga Grebing: Die Worringers. Bildungsbürgerlichkeit als Lebenssinn. Wilhelm und Marta Worringer (1881–1965) . Parthas, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-936324-23-5
• Heinrich L. Nickel: Der Wiederbeginn nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Erinnerungen an Wilhelm Worringer und Hans Junecke , in: Wolfgang Schenkluhn (Hg.): 100 Jahre Kunstgeschichte an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Halle 2004 (= Hallesche Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte, 5/6), S. 181-190
• Claudia Öhlschläger: Abstraktionsdrang. Wilhelm Worringer und der Geist der Moderne. Paderborn 2005.
• Lipov Anatoly V. Vorringer Abstraction and “Feeling” in the World History of Art // Polygnosis. 2000. No. 4. P.125-135.
• Lipov Anatoly V. Vorringer. From the experience of studying the psychology of styles. // Oedipus. M. 2008.S. 94--101.