Hannah Weitemeier

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Hannah Weitemeier (1977)

Hannah Weitemeier (born January 3, 1942 ; † September 4, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German exhibition curator and art historian .

Life

Weitemeier lived in Frankfurt am Main in the 1960s , worked, among other things, in a children's shop , occasionally attended SDS events and lectures by Adorno . Hannah Schum-Weitemeier was supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in 1967 with a postdoc research grant to László Moholy-Nagy . During a six-month scholarship in New York, Weitemeier met Andy Warhol and spent time in the Factory . Directed by Gerry Schum (in collaboration with Bernhard Höke and Hannah Weitemeier) the film Konsumkunst - Kunst Konsum was made as a commissioned production for WDR , which was broadcast on October 17, 1968. In 1969 she was one of three women involved in the so-called " breast attack " on Adorno.

Weitemeier worked as a curator in West Berlin in the 1980s and, as an art historian, published a book about Yves Klein in 1995 . She was particularly interested in the Düsseldorf artist group ZERO , which was influenced by the artistic practice of monochrome pictures by Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni and Lucio Fontana .

Personal

From 1968 to 1969 she was married to Gerry Schum. In 1972 she married Ronald Steckel . In 1974 and 1977 the children Sita and Jonas were born.

Exhibitions

Fonts

  • Avant-garde Eastern Europe 1910 to 1930 , Eberhard Roters , Hannah Weitemeier, Deutsche Ges. F. Fine arts, 1967
  • Light visions. An experiment by Moholy-Nagy , Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin; Edition: 1. (1972), ISBN 978-8-544145-69-2
  • Laszlo Moholy-Nagy , by Hannah Weitemeier, Hatje, 1974, ISBN 978-3-775700-95-5
  • Exhibition: François Morellet : January 15 to February 20, 1977, Hannah Steckel; Berlin - State Museums Prussian Cultural Heritage National Gallery, 1977
  • Jannis Psychopedis - drawings 1976–1978 , by Hannah Weitemeier-Steckel, 1978
  • Zero. Images of a European avant-garde 1958–1964 , texts (German) Ursula Perucchi-Petri / Hannah Weitemeier-Steckel / Eugen Gomringer , exhibition cat . Kunsthaus Zurich, 1979
  • Schwarz: October 16 - November 29, 1981. Verlag Frölich and Kaufmann, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-88725-035-4
  • Rotraut , new paintings : [exhibition] December 3rd, 1987-January 16th, 1988, Pascal de Sarthe Gallery, San Francisco (English)
  • Zero. Vision and movement; Works from the Lenz Schönberg Collection; Municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus Munich, 28.9. - November 6, 1988. , Munich, Städt. Gallery in the Lenbachhaus, 1988. (1988)
  • Günther Uecker ; Artists - Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art, an edition by Weltkunst and Bruckmann, 1988
  • Lenz Schönberg Collection. A European movement in the visual arts from 1958 until today. Hannah Weitemeier (Ed.), Stuttgart, Edition Cantz, 1989, ISBN 3-89322-152-2
  • Julije Knifer : Meander 1960-1990 , Dany Keller Galerie (1990), ISBN 978-3-923993-19-2
  • Kolekcja Lenza Schönberga , Galeria Zachęta , 1992 (Polish)
  • Yves Klein: body, color, immateriality. Taschen Verlag, 1995
  • Otto Piene | Retrospective 1952–1996 , texts: Hanhardt , Herzogenrath , Nam June Paik , H. Weitemeier and others, editors: Stephan von Wiese and Susanne Rennert, Verlag Wienand, Cologne, 1996, ISBN 978-3-87909-468-4
  • Stephanie Jünemann October 5 - November 2, 1997 , Kunstverein Museum Schloß Morsbroich eV, Leverkusen; [Georg Meistermann Scholarship]
  • Mack , Licht im Schwarz , Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf, 2001 with essays by Heinz Mack, Hannah Weitemeier and Bernd Finkeldey
  • Zero. The European vision - 1958 until today. Collection Lenz Schönberg, Silvia Höller, Hanna Weitemeier (curators), Innsbruck RLB-Arts, 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation on its activities in 1968, p. 70, accessed on March 7, 2019
  2. ↑ Pinakothek Beuys Was sind Multiples accessed on March 9, 2019
  3. ↑ Tanja Stelzer: The imposition of the meat. In: Der Tagesspiegel. December 7, 2003, accessed August 30, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Taschen Hannah Weitemeier accessed on March 5, 2019
  5. ^ IfA artist / architect Gerry Schum accessed on March 7, 2019
  6. ^ Café Deutschland, Jürgen Harten In conversation with the first art scene in Germany, accessed on March 6, 2019
  7. ↑ artfacts, the art from within, requested on March 5, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Weitemeier, Hannah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weitemeier-Steckel, Hannah; Schum-Weitemeier, Hannah; Vaĭtemaĭer, Khanny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German exhibition curator and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1942
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 2013
Place of death Berlin