Annemarie Burckhardt

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Annemarie Burckhardt-Wackernagel (1930–2012) object artist, Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel
Grave of Annemarie and Lucius Burckhardt in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery

Annemarie Burckhardt , married Annemarie Burckhardt-Wackernagel (born March 3, 1930 in Basel ; † July 15, 2012 ) was a Swiss object artist .

life and work

Annemarie Wackernagel had been married to Lucius Burckhardt since 1955 and worked with him. In 1973 she moved to Kassel with her husband, who taught at the comprehensive university there. Together they developed promenadology in the 1980s , a cultural and aesthetic method that aims to make people aware of the conditions of environmental perception and to expand them.

With the wrong catalog for documenta IX, Annemarie Burckhardt produced a book object which caused a sensation in 1991.

After 1986, the year of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster and the Schweizerhalle chemical disaster , the Burckhardts and like-minded people founded the GAB (Green and Alternative Basel), which, together with the Basel Green Party and other organizations, had a few seats in the Basel Grand Council in 1987 conquered.

In 1996, Annemarie Burckhardt was elected as a green candidate for the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt, of which she was a member until 2001 and mainly spoke on issues of social planning and urban development.

In 1996 Annemarie Burckhardt and her husband definitely moved back to Basel, where the two of them had their main residence throughout their lives. Together with her husband, she has committed herself to making public space creative and democratic.

After the death of Lucius Burckhardt in 2003, Annemarie Burckhardt founded the Lucius and Annemarie Burckhardt Foundation in 2009 .

The couple was posthumously represented at documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens in 2017 .

literature

  • Ueli Mäder : Space and Power: The City Between Vision and Reality - Life and Work of Lucius and Annemarie Burckhardt. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-385-869591-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baseler Stadtbuch Annemarie Burckhardt , accessed on April 28, 2019.
  2. ↑ Deutschlandfunk From Criticism of Urbanism to Walk Science , accessed on April 28, 2019.
  3. ^ Documenta archiv Annemarie Burckhardt, A false catalog for documenta IX , accessed on April 28, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Burckhardt, Annemarie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burckhardt-Wackernagel, Annemarie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss object artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 2012