About Walter Smerling

Chairman

*1958. Studied Business Administration and Art History. Practical training in Television Broadcasting at SWF. Author, director and moderator of television films, with a focus on cultural reportage and artist portraits. As exhibition organizer and curator, responsible for numerous art and culture projects. Chairman of the Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V. (Foundation for Art and Culture) in Bonn, Director of the MKM Küppersmühle Museum of Modern Art in Duisburg, and Artistic Director of the Salzburg Foundation. Since 2010, Honorary Professor for Culture and Economy at the University of Witten/Herdecke. Official Advisor of the National Museum of China, Beijing. Since 2017, member of the curatorial committee of the German Friends of Yad Vashem. Awarded the Order of Merit of the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2020. In November 2021, he received the Medal of Honour of the Province of Salzburg, Austria.

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Column: Zaster

18.09.2020
Part 4: Joseph Beuys | click here

13.09.2020
Part 3: Cornelius Völker | click here

09.08.2020
Part 2: Andy Warhol | click here

30.07.2020
Part 1: Giotto | click here

TV projects: Artist Portraits, Features, Cultural Reportages i.a.

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Markus Lüpertz:
Markus Lüpertz malt das Ruhrgebiet

Dokumentarfilm, 2016-2017 (30 Min)

Markus Lüpertz:
Das Echo des Poseidon

Dokumentarfilm, 2016 (10 Min)

Anselm Kiefer:
Anselm Kiefer in Barjac
with english subtitle
2015 (45 Min)

Markus Lüpertz:
Arbeiten für die Ewigkeit. Markus Lüpertz, Maler und Bildhauer. Ein Porträt

WDR, arte 2007 (60 Min);
ARD, WDR 2007 (45 Min)

Bilderbuch Deutschland.
Bonn – von Politik zu Business

ARD, 2004 (45 Min)

Bilderbuch Deutschland.
Der Wachtberg – die Toskana der Voreifel

WDR, 2002 (45 Min)

Ealan Wingate:
Ealan der Dealer. Ein amerikanischer Kunsthändler, Sammler und Alltagsphilosoph

WDR, 2001 (45 Min)

Bilderbuch Deutschland.
Die Müritz

NDR, 1997 (45 Min)

Christoph Graf Douglas:
Leben, Lieben, Jagen. Der Graf und das Auktionshaus

WDR, 1996 (45 Min)

Bilder aus dem Roten Reich –
Avantgarde in China

WDR, 1995 (45 Min)

Ratlos
Interlektuelle zur Lage der Nation

WDR, 1993 (45 Min)

Hanne Darboven:
Mein Geheimnis ist, dass ich keins habe

WDR, 1991 (45 Min)

Herbert Achternbusch:
Das Schaf im Wolfspelz

WDR, 1990 (45 Min)

Anselm Kiefer:
60 Millionen Erbsen

WDR, 1990 (45 Min)

Kunst im Krankenhaus.
Können Bilder heilen?

WDR / HR / BR, 1990 (45 Min)

Joseph Beuys:
Beuys über Beuys

WDR, 1984, 2-teilig (je 60 Min)