The Hidden Museum

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The Hidden Museum
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The Hidden Museum, exhibition space
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place Berlin , Charlottenburg , coordinates: 52 ° 30 '28.9 "  N , 13 ° 19' 7.3"  EWorld icon
Art
Documentation of the art of women
opening 1987
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The hidden museum Documentation of the art of women e. V.
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Marion Beckers
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The Verborgene Museum is a museum in Berlin that has been exhibiting works by artists from the fields of painting , photography , sculpture and architecture since 1987 . First and foremost, forgotten European artists who were born around the turn of the 19th to the 20th century and were the first to be admitted to public training institutions and who worked at academies and art schools are presented. It is the only museum in the world "that is exclusively dedicated to the works of forgotten women artists of the last century."

history

Beginnings

The Hidden Museum, Room 1

In 1987, on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Berlin, the two artists Evelyn Kuwertz and Gisela Breitling, in collaboration with the project sponsor Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, designed an exhibition on the art of forgotten female artists. It was titled The Hidden Museum . For this purpose, all of the depots in the West Berlin museums had been scoured for relevant works. But the group around Gisela Breitling wanted not just one, but many exhibitions, in their own museum. It was only by chance, according to the museum director Marion Beckers, that the group consisted of women: “We would have accepted men too, but back then it was still the time of women's groups. And men are not yet very interested in women's art . "

Immediately after the initial exhibition, the association Das Verborgene Museum e. V. founded. The group found suitable rooms in Berlin-Charlottenburg in the back courtyard of the building at Schlüterstrasse 70. However, what was decisive for the naming of the museum was not the hidden location, but the conceptual approach: the works shown here were previously "hidden" for visitors to the museums If they were to be found without being noticed and exhibited. The public presentation of such works is the concern of the Hidden Museum.

Further development

Since the first exhibition, the museum on Schlüterstrasse has presented around 100 female artists in its rooms, thus reminding them of their memories. Thanks to the museum's “pioneering work”, the works of art presented were and are often given their first appreciation in Germany after the Second World War.

The museum regards it as a special sense of achievement when it shows an artist for the first time and her works later find their way into large museums. Lotte Laserstein succeeded in doing this , who was rediscovered in Germany primarily through the exhibition in the Hidden Museum in 2003. In 2014, three pictures of her were on view in the Vienna – Berlin exhibition in the Berlinische Galerie .

Until the exhibition Photographs of a Journey through the Soviet Union 1932/33 1989 in the Hidden Museum, Lotte Jacobi's works had only been presented five times in German museums since 1937, never in a large Berlin house.

The museum also did some basic work in recognition of Marianne Breslauer : two years after her photographs were shown in the Photographs 1927–1937 exhibition , there was an exhibition on the Berlin photographer in the Neue Nationalgalerie .

financing

In 2010, the Senate provided infrastructure funds to secure and use the exhibition rooms in the amount of 55,000 euros as part of the Berlin artist program.

The Berlin cultural administration pays the rent for the museum rooms and half of the museum director's salary, the museum organizers have to reapply for the funds for the respective exhibitions (as of January 2014). The commitment of the many volunteers who work for the museum free of charge is an essential pillar of the museum's operations.

Exhibitions

Ilse Heller-Lazard: Maja Klauser , 1933

Overview

The Hidden Museum is the only institution in the world dedicated to the life's work of forgotten female artists from all areas of the visual arts, their rediscovery, research, presentation and publication. Most women belong to the generation born around the turn of the 19th to the 20th century who were the first to be admitted to public training institutions. One focus is on female photographers born around 1900.

The thematic ideas for exhibitions come about in different ways: Sometimes estate administrators approach the Hidden Museum, in other cases art historians get in touch . Attic finds from relatives of deceased artists have also led to exhibitions, for example in the case of Ilse Heller-Lazard in 2009 . There are now so many references to such attic finds that the museum cannot always keep up with them. For reasons of space, the museum usually has to limit itself to an overview of the variety of topics of the exhibited artist.

In the past, the museum focused on solo exhibitions. In 2013, however, the exhibition Artists in Dialogue showed the relationships between the works of various female artists from the 1920s. Since then, this type of exhibition has been another fixed item on the program of the Hidden Museum alongside the solo exhibitions.

From the museum's foundation to January 2014, around 90 exhibitions were shown. In 2016, in collaboration with the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, pictures by the photo mechanic and painter Alice Lex-Nerlinger (1893–1975) were shown. Among them were her well-known works Paragraph 218 from 1931 and Training from 1930.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Special exhibitions (selection)

  • 2017/2018: everyday life in the war and a thirst for adventure . War Photographers in Europe 1914-1945
  • 1996: 10 Years - The Hidden Museum - A Documentation.
  • 1992 to January 1993: Auction and exhibition with works by contemporary Berlin artists
  • 1988: Contemporary Berlin artists (auction)

Exhibition series

Project "Young Artists"

  • 2000: RESONANCE . Monika Bieber • Painting, Yeonok Choi • Ceramics, Cha-Soon Chung • Photography, Fumiko Matsuyama • Multimedia
  • 1998: GROUP EXHIBIT . Cooper Union School of Art, New York: Jee Young Sim, Alice Wu, Megan Sullivan, Mara Wasielewski, Kim Reinhardt, Nekisha Durrett, Jena Kim, Kym Greeley, Jessica Manco, Hai Si Hu, Nicole van Beek, Jane Hsu, Daria
  • 1997: bleuling . Roswitha von den Driesch, Ingeborg Lockemann, Elke Mohr, Dorothea Neitzert, Andrea Pichl, Inken Reinert
  • 1996: RANGEL and SOL . Veronika Otten and Susanne Schmiechen
  • 1995: collapse . Jutta Nase and Barbara Czernojahn
  • 1994: starting point-point of contact-point of view . Anna Heike Grüneke, Hanna Lentz and Katja-Valeska Peschke

Series: Participation in the European Month of Photography

  • 2014: Monique Jacot (1934) Reports and daydreams. Photographs, Polaroids, transfers, photograms. (In cooperation with the Swiss Photo Foundation , Winterthur)
  • 2013: Anita Neugebauer (1916–2012) and her gallery photo art basel. Portrait of the photographer, gallery owner and collector
  • 2011: Henriette Grindat (1923–1986). (In cooperation with the Swiss Photo Foundation, Winterthur)
  • 2008: Thea Sternheim (1883–1971) portrait photographs - illustrations of a diary
  • 2006: Ella Bergmann-Michel (1895–1971) photographs and films 1926–1933. (Transfer from Museum Folkwang , Essen)
  • 2004: Katharina Eleonore Behrend (1888–1973) photographs 1904–1928 travel / portrait / everyday life. (In collaboration with Stichting Nederlands Fotoarchief, Rotterdam.)

Series: "Women Artists in Dialog"

  • 2019: freedom of forms. Boldness of colors.
  • 2017: Three cups and a Japanese doll. The focus of the exhibition is on two works from the 1920s by Martel Schwichtenberg and Lou Loeber.
  • 2014: landscape and face. Painters and photographers. An imaginary dialogue between the artists: Gertrud Arndt, Ursula Arnold, Eva Besnyö, Dorothy Bohm, Anne Marie Bremermann, Marianne Breslauer, Grete Csaki-Copony , Elisabeth Gerhardt, Ruth Hallensleben , Ilse Heller-Lazard, Jacoba van Heemskerck , Lotte Jacobi, Minna Köhler -Roeber , Germaine Krull, Lotte Laserstein, Käthe Loewenthal, Else Lohmann, Elli Marcus, Frieda Riess , Gerda Rotermund, Lene Scheider-Kainer, Elisabeth von Schulz, Edma Stage, Cami Stone, Yva, Augusta von Zitzewitz.
  • 2013: paintings - photographs - sculptures. Works by Lou Albert-Lasard, Gertrud Arndt, Ursula Arnold, Charlotte Berend-Corinth , Eva Besnyö, Dorothy Bohm, Marianne Breslauer, Suse Byk , Grete Csaki-Copony, Natalija Sergejewna Gontscharowa , Ilse Heller-Lazard, Lotte Jacobi, Lotte Laserstein, Elfriede Lauckner-Thum, Verena Loewensberg , Käthe Loewenthal, Else Lohmann, Lidy von Lüttwitz, Katharina Malouf, Frieda Riess, Gerda Rotermund, Louise Stomps , Yva.

Cooperations

The museum repeatedly works with renowned institutions. For example, in 2011 the exhibition in the Berlinische Galerie zu Eva Besnyö was initiated by the Hidden Museum.

Some of the museum's exhibitions were also shown in other German cities, such as the 1997 Atelier Lotte Jacobi Berlin, New York. in Aachen and Regensburg.

In part, this type of collaboration also arose with institutions in other European countries, such as the 1994 exhibition on Helen Ernst with the Verzetsmuseum Amsterdam . In 1988 the Verborgene Museum presented the exhibition German Artists of the Twenties, which it had designed, as part of the Carta x Carta show in Narni (Italy). It showed works by Lieselotte Friedlaender , Luise Grimm , Lea Grundig , Lou Albert-Lasard , Jeanne Mammen , Hanna Nagel , Helene Neumann , Waldtraut Niepmann (1898–1996), Margarete Kubicka , Gerda Rotermund and Augusta von Zitzewitz .

The museum also took over individual exhibitions from other institutions, for example Lotte Errell : Reporter of the 1930s. from the Folkwang Museum in Essen.

The Hidden Museum has repeatedly managed to interest large collections in the exhibited artists and in this way to make their work accessible to a wider public. Following the opening of the Lotte Laserstein exhibition in 2003, a self-portrait of the artist was acquired from the collection of the Berlin City Museum .

Awards

  • 2018: Louise Schroeder Medal , awarded by the Berlin House of Representatives . The Board of Trustees justified its proposal by stating that “the worldwide unique commitment to the life's work and the life story of women artists who have been wrongly forgotten is in the best tradition of Louise Schroeder's work ”.
  • 1987: First winner of the Berlin Women's Prize . The jury's reasoning stated: "The Hidden Museum, founded in 1986 as a non-profit association, is the only international cultural institution that is programmatically and systematically looking for forgotten and persecuted artists - painters, photographers, architects, dancers, and sculptors."

Exhibition catalogs (selection)

  • Britta Kaiser-Schuster, Magdalena Droste, Rainer Hildebrandt: Lily Hildebrandt 1887–1974, paintings, reverse glass pictures, drawings, photographs. Ed .: Das Verborgene Museum e. V. Traum-und-Raum-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929346-05-2 .
  • Ute Eskildsen , Dorothee Wiethoff: Lotte Errell : Reporter from the 1930s. Museum Folkwang , Essen, September 28 to November 16, 1997; Das Verborgene Museum, Berlin, January 21 to March 15, 1998. Museum Folkwang Essem and Das Verborgene Museum Berlin, 1997.
  • Silke Schultz, Hildegard Reinhardt, Catharina Berents, MAF Räderscheidt, Gisela Breitling: Marta Hegemann . Art - a parable of life - the painter Marta Hegemann (1894–1970). Ed .: Das Verborgene Museum e. V. Traum-und-Raum-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-929346-06-0 .
  • Kerstin Dörhöfer and Christiane Droste, Hilde Weström, Gisela Breitling, Eva-Maria Amberger, Milka Bliznakov: the Berlin architect Hilde Weström . Buildings 1947–1981. Catalog for the exhibition in the Berlin Pavilion March 25 to April 30, 2000. Ed .: Das Verborgene Museum e. V. Berlin 2000.
  • Marion Beckers, Elisabeth Moortgat: The Hidden Museum. Yva - photographs. 1925-1938. Catalog for the exhibition in the Hidden Museum, Berlin (May 31 to July 22, 2001); Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen (August 4 to September 23, 2001); Photo museum in the Munich City Museum (November to December 2001). Ed .: Das Verborgene Museum e. V. Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-8030-3094-3 .
  • Anna-Carola Krauße: Lotte Laserstein. My only reality. An exhibition of the association Das Verborgene Museum in cooperation with the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin in the Museum Ephraim-Palais, Berlin, November 7, 2003 to February 1, 2004. Ed .: Das Verborgene Museum e. V. Philo Fine Arts Verlag, Dresden 2003, ISBN 3-364-00609-1 .
  • Daphne Mattner: Grethe Jürgens : from the sketchbooks 1919 to 1921. On the occasion of the exhibition January 20 to March 20, 2005. Ed .: Das Verborgene Museum e. V. Bönen Verlag Kettler, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-937390-45-6 .
  • City of Karlsruhe, Städtische Galerie (ed.), Sylvia Bieber and Ursula Merkel (editor): Hanna Nagel : Early works 1926–1933; May 12, 2007 - August 5, 2007, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe; August 16 to October 14, 2007, Das Verborgene Museum Berlin. Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe 2007, ISBN 3-923344-67-8 .
  • Marion Beckers, Elisabeth Moortgat, Thomas Ehrsam, Ottfried Dascher, Peter Sprengel, Karin Wieland: The Riess . Photographic studio and salon in Berlin, 1918–1932. Ed .: Das Verborgene Museum e. V. Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8030-3326-0 .
  • Marion Beckers, Elisabeth Moortgat: Eva Besnyö. 1910-2003; Photographer - Budapest, Berlin, Amsterdam. The Hidden Museum visits the Berlinische Galerie. Ed .: Das Verborgene Museum e. V. Munich, Hirmer 2011, ISBN 978-3-7774-4141-2 .
  • Duncan Forbes, Anton Holzer, Roberta McGrath: Edith Tudor-Hart , In the shadow of dictatorships. Ed .: Duncan Forbes. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 3-7757-3566-6 .
  • Dorothea Schuppert, Dorothea Schöne, Anke Paula Böttcher: Quo vadis, mater? Artists of the Berlin Lyceum Club 1905–1933. On the occasion of the exhibition from April 23 to July 26, 2015, Das Verborgene Museum, Berlin. Ed .: Internationaler Lyceum-Club e. V. Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049015-6 .
  • Alice Lex-Nerlinger 1893-1975. Photo mechanic and painter. Ed .: Das Verborgene Museum e. V. Edited by Rachel Epp Buller, afterword by Eckhart Gillen. Lukas Verlag for art and intellectual history, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86732-245-4 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Das Verborgene Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Annette Kuhn: Why the Hidden Museum in Berlin is unique. In: morgenpost.de. January 22, 2014, accessed February 6, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Monika Kaiser: Das Verborgene Museum 1987/88 in the Academy of Arts in West Berlin. In: Monika Kaiser: New appointments in the art space. Feminist art exhibitions and their spaces, 1972–1987. Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2408-3 , pp. 238-275, p. 239.
  3. ↑ Monika Kaiser: Das Verborgene Museum 1987/88 in the Academy of Arts in West Berlin. In: Monika Kaiser: New appointments in the art space. Feminist art exhibitions and their spaces, 1972–1987. Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2408-3 , pp. 238–275, p. 254, note 39.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Ingeborg Wiensowski: Exhibition of reportage photos : The focus is on the essentials. Max Frisch, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Salvador Dalí - the Swiss Monique Jacot became known in the fifties with her portrait photos for 'Elle' or 'Vogue'. Now a Berlin exhibition is also paying tribute to her reportage photos. spiegel.de, October 14, 2014, accessed on February 25, 2016.
  5. ↑ Mimi-Rosa Stave: Made to be seen. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 19, 2016 ; Retrieved May 19, 2016 .
  6. ↑ a b Anna Pataczek: Photographer Monique Jacot. Loving look. Finally in Berlin: The Hidden Museum celebrates the Swiss photographer Monique Jacot. tagesspiegel.de, February 10, 2014, accessed on February 25, 2016.
  7. ^ Petra Sorg: Das Verborgene Museum shows photographs by Lotte Jacobi. The camera was her ticket. www.berliner-zeitung.de, January 27, 1997, accessed on February 25, 2016.
  8. ↑ 200,000 euros for artists and women’s culture initiative in 2010. Press release from the Berlin cultural administration, at www.berlin.de, January 5, 2011, accessed on February 6, 2016.
  9. ↑ focus . Photography magazine. Special edition, Berlin 2009, ed. Edition Bührer, ISBN 978-3-86931-066-4 , pp. 19/20
  10. ↑ Christiane Meixner: Rediscovered: the painter Ilse Heller-Lazard , Der Tagesspiegel, January 9, 2010
  11. ↑ Women artists in dialogue. art-in-berlin.de, August 19, 2013, accessed on February 25, 2016.
  12. ^ Artist Alice Lex-Nerlinger. Art for snobs? No, for the people, Der Tagesspiegel, April 25, 2016
  13. ↑ Sigrid Hoff: TIMES - MAGAZINE. The Hidden Museum turns 30 and shows Alice Lex-Nerlinger 1893–1975. Photo mechanic and painter. (No longer available online.) In: kulturradio.de. May 15, 2016, archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on May 24, 2016 .
  14. ↑ The fateful paragraph in FAZ of June 8, 2016, p. 12
  15. ^ Rangel and Sol: Pictures by Veronika Otten and Susanne Schmiechen, in conversation with Hans-Joachim Neubauer. Exhibition September 2 to October 6, 1996. Published by Das Verborgene Museum e. V., Berlin 1996.
  16. ↑ The Hidden Museum: April 11, 2019 - August 11, 2019 - women artists in dialogue .
  17. ↑ Women artists in dialogue. In: arteffekt-berlin.de. Retrieved May 19, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Landscape and Face - This is the motto of Das Verborgenes Museum from April 3 to July 27, 2014, a dialogue-based visual exhibition. In: AVIVA-Berlin .de, March 28, 2014. Accessed March 8, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Networked by analogy: women artists in Berlin in the 1920s. ( Memento from February 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) vogue.de, August 22, 2013; Retrieved February 25, 2016.
  20. ↑ Anna Pataczek: "Beautiful from above". The Berlinische Galerie is rediscovering photographer Eva Besnyö. She came to Berlin in 1930 for two years, where she captured many everyday scenes with her Rolleiflex camera. The Hungarian Jewish woman later emigrated to Amsterdam. tagesspiegel.de, October 27, 2011, accessed on February 6, 2016.
  21. ^ Marion Beckers, Elisabeth Moortgat: Atelier Lotte Jacobi Berlin, New York. For the exhibition of the same name, Das Verborgene Museum, Berlin (23 January to 23 March 1997); Suermondt Ludwig Aachen, (April 5 to May 25, 1997); Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, (June 1 to July 13, 1997). Published by Das Verborgene Museum e. V., Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87584-634-6 .
  22. ↑ Hans Huebner, Gisela Breitling: Helen Ernst. 1904-1948; Berlin - Amsterdam - Ravensbrück; Stations of an anti-fascist artist; Das Verborgene Museum, July 14 to August 28, 1994, Verzetsmuseum Amsterdam, September 17 to November 27, 1994. Published by Das Verborgene Museum e. V. and Jacques Schwarz (Association for the Study of Social Movements), Traum-und-Raum-Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-929346-03-6 .
  23. ↑ Book: Waldtraut Niepmann. Paintings and drawings 1929–1932 . Published by Berlin, Frankfurt, 1985.
  24. ↑ Ute Eskildsen, Dorothee Wiethoff: Lotte Errell: Reporter of the 30s. Museum Folkwang, Essen, September 28 to November 16, 1997; Das Verborgene Museum, Berlin, January 21 to March 15, 1998. Museum Folkwang, Essen and Das Verborgene Museum, Berlin 1997.
  25. ^ Marion Beckers: The hidden museum. berlin.de, December 2010; accessed on February 26, 2016.
  26. ↑ a b Berlin House of Representatives - Louise Schroeder Medal 2018 goes to “Das Verborgene Museum”. In: parlament-berlin.de. Retrieved April 5, 2018 .
  27. ↑ Berlin Women's Prize 1987–2014 The Prize Winners. (PDF; 2.7 MB) p. 68.