Barbara Alms

Barbara Alms (born July 19, 1945 in Osterburg (Altmark) ) is a German philosopher , Germanist and art historian . She lives in Bremen and was head of the Delmenhorst Municipal Gallery from 1989 to 2010 . For her services to the cultural life in Delmenhorst and in the Oldenburger Land she received the culture award of the Oldenburg landscape on March 1st, 2008 .

Barbara Alms (2005)

Exhibitions

Barbara Alms organized exhibitions on classical modernism as well as contemporary art as part of the Delmenhorst Municipal Gallery . Exhibitions such as “ The Storm in Berlin in the Ten Years” (2000) had a nationwide response ; “ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner . Big City, Eros and Nature ”(2004) and“ Paris Glows ”(2007). She was particularly interested in new painting , to which she devoted a series of investigations: “Reality in Contemporary Painting” (2001), “UnHeimlich” (2003), “Beauty of Painting” (2005). The year 2006 was declared the “Year of Photography ” at the Delmenhorst Municipal Gallery , with exhibitions such as “ Man Ray to Sigmar Polke ” and the like. a.

Collections

Over the years she has built up three collections in the Delmenhorst Municipal Gallery :

• A collection on the work of the STURM artist Fritz Stuckenberg , his friends and international contemporaries (from Alexander Archipenko to Heinrich Campendonk , Umberto Boccioni , Walter Dexel , Lyonel Feininger , Otto Freundlich , Johannes Itten , Wassily Kandinsky , Paul Klee , Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner , August Macke , Franz Marc to Kurt Schwitters and others).
• a graphic collection on the French avant-garde (from Émile Bernard , Paul Cézanne to Maurice Denis , Robert Delaunay Raoul Dufy to Maurice Utrillo )
• a collection of contemporary drawings ( Bernhard Johannes Blume , Marcel van Eeden , Harald Falkenhagen , Lily Fischer , Marikke Heinz-Hoek , Thomas Huber , Karin Kneffel , Nanne Meyer , Hartmut Neumann , Heribert C. Ottersbach , Neo Rauch , Alexander Roob , Norbert Schwontkowski among others).

Fonts

• Blue scattered sand. Prose and poetry by Viennese authors ( Elfriede Jelinek , Friederike Mayröcker et al.), Collected and presented with short sketches, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 1987.
• Strangeness as an aesthetic principle. On the German-language novels by the Czech Libuše Moníková . In: Stint No. 6/1989, pp. 138–151.
• A never-ending love scene. To Friederike Mayröcker In: they listen. Journal for literature, art and criticism, 35th year, 1/1990, pp. 149–154.
• Circle and square. An envelope design by Peter Behrens for the Delmenhorster linoleum factory. In: Festschrift for Kurt Asche. Lilienthal 1990, pp. 8-11.
• The renaissance of high pressure in West Germany in the 1980s. In: Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen (Ed.): From Gabriele Münter to Georg Baselitz. The history of linocut. Bietigheim-Bissingen 1994, pp. 20-26.
• From the bourgeois villa to the Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst , Delmenhorst 1995.
• Pictures ... scores. Max Herrmann ... Hans-Joachim Hespos . Contributions, opinions and analyzes on new music. Saarbrücken 1998, pp. 18-21.
• Fritz Stuckenberg . Confidante of colors (exhibition catalog). Bremen 1998.
• Museums today. Municipal gallery Delmenhorst. Rainer Berthold Schossig in conversation with Barbara Alms. Radio Bremen, November 10, 2002, 55 min.
• DER STURM - Corporate Identity of an International Conglomerate. In: Galerie Art Focus (ed.): The storm. Herwarth Walden's "Storm" in Berlin. Zurich 2002, pp. 13–19
• Further exhibition catalogs (see Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst )

Web links

• 10 video clips: Answers to "questions about art"
• Literature by and about Barbara Alms in the catalog of the German National Library