Bazon Brock
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Brock in 2006
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Jürgen Johannes Hermann Brock 2 June 1936 Stolp |
| Education | Würzburg University |
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| Awards | Honorary doctorate from the ETH Zurich |
Bazon Brock (born Jürgen Johannes Hermann Brock, 2 June 1936) is a German art theorist and critic, multi-media generalist and artist. He is considered a member of Fluxus. He was a professor of aesthetics at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the University of Wuppertal.
Brock was born in Stolp, Pomerania, now in Poland. His father, a historian, was executed by the Soviets for collaborating with Hitler. The family fled to Denmark. After two years of internment, they settled in Itzehoe in 1947. Brock attended and graduated from the Kaiser-Karl-Gymnasium, a gymnasium with a focus on the humanities, Latin and Greek. The name Bazon is Greek for chatterer and was applied to him at school by his Latin teacher. From 1957 to 1964, he studied German studies, art history, philosophy and political science at the universities of Zurich, Hamburg and Frankfurt. He did not study art at a university. During this period, he published poems and "Aktionslehrstücke" (plays), using "Bazon" as his pen name. In 1957, he trained as a dramaturge at the theater of Darmstadt and in 1960, began working at the Lucerne Municipal Theatre.
Brock was a professor of "non-normative aesthetics" at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg from 1965 to 1976. From 1978, he was professor of the "theory of design" at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In 1981, he was appointed professor of "aesthetics and cultural educations" at the University of Wuppertal, where he became professor emeritus in 2001. In 2010, Brock was a Fellow at the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche in Weimar.
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