Bärbel Grässlin
Bärbel Grässlin (* 1954 in St. Georgen in the Black Forest ) is a German art dealer and gallery owner of contemporary art.
Live and act
Grässlin comes from an art-loving family. Her father Dieter was an engineer and manufacturer and, with his wife Anna, collected contemporary, especially informal art . Artists came and went with the parents, especially the sculptor Erich Hauser, who lived nearby . After graduating from high school, Bärbel Grässlin decided to become a gallery owner. After the early death of the father, the family continued the Grässlin collection, which had now been established, and expanded it considerably.
After an internship in the gallery of Hans-Jürgen Müller in Stuttgart, Bärbel Grässlin became secretary in the gallery of Max Hetzler . Both gallery owners were involved in the exhibition Europe 79 - Art of the 80s , which was also sponsored by the Grässlin family. In 1981 she also joined Hetzler financially and became a business partner. A first exhibition was dedicated to the artist Martin Kippenberger , with whom she remained lifelong. She also bought works from him privately and for her parents' collection. Through him she also met her partner, the jazz musician Rüdiger Carl . In 1985, Bärbel Grässlin set up his own gallery in Frankfurt am Main , a city that - in contrast to the translated Cologne, where Hetzler had moved in the meantime - was considered a white spot in the art landscape. Until 1991 she joined forces with her colleague Heinrich Ehrhardt to form the Graesslin-Ehrhardt Gallery .
The artists regularly shown and represented by the gallery include the "Hetzler Boys" Reinhard Mucha , Meuser , Hubert Kiecol , Martin Kippenberger and Günther Förg , since 1986 Imi Knoebel and since 1994 Tobias Rehberger . Since 2007 the gallery has been housed in a building designed by the architect Klaus Dreissigacker in Schäfergasse 46b in Frankfurt, which previously housed a glass wholesaler. Grässlin runs a gallery branch for young art nearby.
Bärbel Grässlin is represented with her gallery at the art fairs in Madrid, Basel, Miami Beach, Hong Kong, Cologne and Paris. Her sister Karola Kraus (née Grässlin) is director of the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig ( MUMOK ) in Vienna.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1987: Martin Kippenberger. The applause simply dies. Gallery Grässlin-Erhardt
Fonts
- (Ed.): Exhibition Günther Förg - Twelve lead pictures from 1989. Snoeck, Cologne 2013 ISBN 978-3-86442049-8 .
- (Eds.): Courant / Ika Huber. Modo, Freiburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86833-053-3 .
- (Ed.): Günther Förg, "Gazetta dello Sport". Snoeck, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-936859-43-0 .
literature
- Katja Gussmann: Ms. Grässlin's flair for art. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse from February 8, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Müller: Critique of the Provincial Criticism . In: Kunstforum International , Volume 36, 1979 (payment barrier)
- ^ Susanne Kippenberger: Martin Kippenberger on the 20th anniversary of his death - Art was his life . In: Der Tagesspiegel of March 7, 2017, p. 6
- ↑ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Bärbel Grässlin - Frankfurt gallery owner: “I wanted to show the old sacks” . In: Frankfurter Rundschau of April 26, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grässlin, Bärbel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gallery owner and art dealer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Georgen in the Black Forest |