Anna Keel

Anna Keel (born April 16, 1940 as Anna Diekmann in Chemnitz , † September 14, 2010 in Zurich ) was a German painter .

Live and act

After graduating from the secondary school of the daughter's school in Zurich, Anna Diekmann began training as a secretary and also drew. From 1960 she worked as a temporary worker in the Daniel Keel gallery in Zurich. She was a student of Albert Pfister and attended London's Hammersmith School of Art & Building. In 1962 she married the publisher Daniel Keel (1930–2011), with whom she had two sons, Philipp Keel and Jakob Keel. She exhibited her works in Zurich, Milan, Munich, the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris and the Folkwang Museum in Essen , among others . Her last exhibition took place in 2005 at the Jamileh Weber gallery in Zurich . The spectrum of her artistic work consisted mainly of portraits , but still lifes and interiors were also among the art objects she created.

For many years she was a confidante of Christiane Felscherinow , who became world famous as the drug addict Christiane F. and through the book Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo .

Anna Keel found her final resting place in the Fluntern cemetery in Zurich .

Solo exhibitions

• 1971 Läubli Gallery, Zurich
• 1976 Daniel Keel Gallery, Zurich
• 1983 Roswitha Haftmann Modern Art Gallery , Zurich
• 1987 Roswitha Haftmann Modern Art Gallery, Zurich
• 1988 Folkwang Museum, Essen
• 1991 Roswitha Haftmann Modern Art Gallery, Zurich
• 1994 Roswitha Haftmann Modern Art Gallery, Zurich
• 2005 Galerie Galerie Jamileh Weber

Group exhibitions

• 1979 Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
• 1983 Villa Stuck , Munich
• 1994 Roswitha Haftmann Modern Art Gallery, Zurich

Publications

• Anna Keel, pictures, drawings and watercolors . Zurich, Jamileh Weber Gallery, 2005. Foreword by Urs Widmer . Cologne, DuMont, 2005 ISBN 978-3-8321-7310-4
• Anna Keel, Still Life and Landscapes, Portraits and Interiors . Foreword by Jean Clair . Cologne, DuMont, 1998, ISBN 978-3-7701-4706-9
• Anna Keel. Pictures, drawings and sculptures . Texts by Anna von Ditfurth and Anna Keel. Cologne, DuMont, 1991, ISBN 3-7701-2645-9
• Anna Keel. Models . Text by Anna Keel. Cologne, DuMont, 1988, ISBN 3-7701-2343-3
• Anna Keel. Pictures and drawings . Texts by Wieland Schmied , Ian McEwan and Anna Keel. Cologne, DuMont, 1987, ISBN 3-7701-2098-1
• Anna Keel. Drawings . Zurich, Diogenes, 1983, ISBN 3-257-00321-8
• Anna Keel. Portrait drawings 1977-1979 . Zurich, Diogenes, 1979 (Diogenes Kunst Taschenbuch 12) ISBN 3-257-26012-1
• Anna Keel. Pictures and drawings . With a foreword by Federico Fellini . Zurich, Diogenes, 1976 ISBN 3-257-00471-0

Study and work grants

• 1972 study and work contribution from the Canton of Zurich
• 1979 Scholarship for visual arts from the city of Zurich with a studio in New York
• 1984 scholarship from the Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Web links

• Anna Keel in the metacatalog of the Swiss university libraries and the Swiss national library Swissbib
• Works by and about Anna Keel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Corinne Sotzek: Keel, Anna. In: Sikart
• Portrait of Anna Keel at Diogenes Verlag
• Daniel Keel, founder of Diogenes Verlag, died at the age of 80

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Muse of the publisher. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 18, 2010, accessed October 26, 2019 . 
2. ^ Christiane V. Felscherinow / Sonja Vukovic: Christiane F. - My second life . Deutscher Levante Verlag, Berlin 2013. P. 135 ff
3. ↑ Linus Schöpfer: Platzspitz instead of Diogenes. Review . In: Berner Zeitung , October 10, 2013, accessed on October 26, 2019.
4. ↑ David Lemm: What to do when nothing works . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , November 12, 2013, accessed on October 26, 2019.
5. ↑ Ludmila Vachtova . Roswitha Haftmann . P. 96
6. ↑ Ludmila Vachtova. Roswitha Haftmann . P. 104
7. ↑ Ludmila Vachtova. Roswitha Haftmann . P. 105
8. ↑ Ludmila Vachtova. Roswitha Haftmann . P. 106
9. ↑ Ludmila Vachtova. Roswitha Haftmann . P. 107