Beatrix Sassen

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Beatrix Sassen (born April 17, 1945 in Vinsebeck ) is a German sculptor , set designer and painter . She has lived and worked in the Golzheim artists' settlement , Franz-Jürgens-Strasse 6 in Düsseldorf , since 2002 .

Life

Sassen was already interested in sculpture in his youth. She grew up fatherless in Düsseldorf with two sisters and her mother, who ran a tailoring shop. After secondary school she was admitted to the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1962, where Joseph Beuys was her most important teacher and she was one of his first generation of students. In 1965 she broke off her studies. She lived in a commune , got married and had three children. Under Erwin Heerich , she resumed studying at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1975 to 1978. In 1981 she started her exhibitions. Among other things, she created figurative figures, often statuettes of heads and torsos , whose forms are reserved and appear fragmentary. In 2014 she was honored by the association for the organization of art exhibitions in Düsseldorf for her imagery, which was “beyond all tendencies in the art scene”, with the artist's art prize.

Head argument

In the so-called head dispute in 2002/2003, she tried to enforce the authorship of a Beuys head sculpture. She submitted the following on the facts: During the summer semester of 1963, she had made a bust of a bacchante with half-length hair and a fruit wreath from apples and pears at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . She then removed the hair and the fruit wreath from the bust. In addition, she severed the head, creating a "male head". Beuys showed interest in this result. He intervened in its design by opening the plastic's mouth a little and pulling the corners of the mouth upwards slightly. In the end he would have taken the head and used it in the form of a plaster model and casts for his own work, especially in the tram stop and Palazzo shelves installations . In 1985 she made Norbert Tadeusz , a former classmate, aware of the head. She then visited an exhibit in the Abteiberg Museum in Mönchengladbach and recognized the head there. In 1992 she was asked about the history of the object by Armin Second , then director of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen .

In 2002/2003 she sued Eva Beuys, the widow and heir of the deceased artist, to explicitly mention her authorship or co-authorship in exhibitions, publications, statements and sales deals on the object. Both in the first instance at the Düsseldorf Regional Court and in the second instance at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court , she failed with this application because she could not prove what the head originally looked like. Thus, the relevant creative contribution of the applicant could not be clarified.

Works (selection)

Light in the head - my dark sister , 2000, aluminum sculpture, since 2002 at Meeraner Platz, Lörrach , photo 2012

Sculptures

  • together with Helmut Rhode : Marktbrunnen , fountain made of stepped, concentric stone circles, surrounded by a four-part system of benches, granite and basalt lava, Düsseldorf- Benrath , 1981
  • Couples , wooden sculpture, 1991
  • Siblings , outdoor sculpture, Museum Schloss Moyland , Bedburg-Hau, 1996
  • Torso , exterior sculpture, Coburg, 1998
  • Light in my head - my dark sister , aluminum sculpture , erected in 2000, 2002, Lörracher Skulpturenweg
  • Striding gate , outdoor sculpture, Volkardey Recreation Park , Ratingen, 2002
  • Earth / Foot , bronze, 2002
  • Head bust without title, wood and color, 2006

Stage sets

Painting and graphics

  • Hands , 1997, pencil and asphalt paint
  • Zeit , 2005, layers of color on paper

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards

literature

  • Petra Richter: With, beside, against. Joseph Beuys's pupils . Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 978-3-93380-707-6
  • Adolf Smitmans (Ed.) Body Signs: Geurt van Dijk, Hans Rath, Beatrix Sassen, Sam Szembek, Marianne Timander-Korth . Publications of the Städtische Galerie Albstadt, Volume 54, Albstadt 1988, ISBN 978-3-92364-423-0
  • Museum of Modern Art (Ed.): Werkstatt Kollerschlag presents Tony Cragg, Felix Droese, Anselm Glück, Erwin Heerich, Jene Highstein, Matt Mullican, David Rabinowitch, Klaus Rinke, Beatrix Sassen . Verlag Museum Moderner Kunst Wörlen, Passau 1992
  • Beatrix Sassen: sculptures . Exhibition catalog of the municipal gallery “Villa Aichele”, Lörrach 2002, ISBN 978-3-87909-785-2

Web links

Commons : Beatrix Sassen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ute Rasch: The unique street of artists . Article from August 23, 2010 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on December 30, 2015
  2. ^ Corinna Gertz, Annette Leyener, Kris Scholz (eds.), With texts by Stefanie Schäfers and Carl Friedrich Schröer: Künstler Tatorte. Franz-Juergens-Strasse artists' settlement . Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89466-271-4
  3. ↑ Petra Richter: With, beside, against. Joseph Beuys's pupils . Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf 2002, p. 92 ff.
  4. ↑ Bodies and Heads: Beatrix Sassen and Hede Bühl in Kornelimünster . Article from September 9, 2010 in the portal aachener-zeitung.de , accessed on December 30, 2015
  5. ^ Annette Bosetti: In the studio of Beuys student Beatrix Sassen . Article from March 7, 2014 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on December 30, 2015
  6. ^ Claudia Rauth: "Art Prize of the Artists" for Beatrix Sassen . Article on the kunstmarkt.com portal , accessed on December 30, 2015
  7. ↑ Irmgard Ruhs-Woitschützke: Award: Beatrix Sassen . In: rheinische ART , issue 1/2014, accessed on the portal rheinische-art.de on December 30, 2015
  8. ^ Head dispute: Alleged co-author of Beuys works failed . Article from October 21, 2003 in the portal ksta.de , accessed on December 30, 2015
  9. ↑ Beuys works of art occupy the Düsseldorf court . Article from June 24, 2003 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on December 30, 2015
  10. ↑ The head belongs to Beuys alone . Article from October 21, 2003 in the faz.net portal , accessed on December 30, 2015
  11. ^ Museum Kurhaus Kleve (ed.): Joseph Beuys. “Tram stop”: a monument to the future . Series of publications Museum Kurhaus, Volume 11, Kleve 2000, pp. 14, 47, 196
  12. ↑ Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Ed.): Insights. The 20th century in the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection, Düsseldorf . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2000, ISBN 978-3-92615-444-6 , p. 371
  13. ↑ Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court: co-authorship of a head sculpture , website in the telemedicus.info portal , accessed on December 30, 2015
  14. ↑ OLG Düsseldorf, judgment of October 21, 2003, Az. I-20 U 170/02 . Website in the database openjur.de , accessed on December 30, 2015
  15. ↑ Beatrix Sassen Marktbrunnen, 1981 , Cultural Office of the State Capital Düsseldorf  in the German Digital Library , accessed on December 30, 2015
  16. ↑ Premiere review, tanznetz.de
personal data
SURNAME Sassen, Beatrix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, set designer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Vinsebeck