Bertramstrasse picture wall

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Bertramstrasse picture wall in Hanover-Hainholz

The Bertramstrasse picture wall in Hanover is an installation of art in public space initiated by Siegfried Neuenhausen and presented in 1991 . In the dead end street in Bertramstrasse in the Hainholz district , internationally known artists installed their works along an industrial wall around 80 meters long and 6 meters high.

history

The Bertramstraße was laid out in 1892 and, according to a later address book of the city of Hanover, originally led from the Schulenburger Landstraße to the Siegmundstraße, which was laid out in the same year . The Siegmund road was, according to the Hannoversche history leaves in 1914 after the "co-owner of the adjacent Emery and machine factories, Siegmund Oppenheim" (born August 15, 1839 in Derneburg ; in † 26 October 1915 Berlin called) today VSM United Emery and machinery -Factories (VSM). The connecting Bertramstraße was named "after the [resident] entrepreneur of the street", "probably the Vollmeier Georg Friedrich Ludwig Bertram" (born July 16, 1860 in Bad Schmiedeberg ; † December 25, 1909 in Hanover), who according to one Later address book of the city of Hanover is also said to have been the builder of the street.

Memorial plaque for Wilhelm Großkopf and Wilhelm Heese , who were shot by the National Socialists at the Lister Tower in 1933
Page of the address book from Hanover from 1942 to Bertramstrasse

At the beginning of the Nazi era , Willi Großkopf , a trained lathe operator, was born in 1910 and lived in the former building at Bertramstrasse 7 . The then 23-year-old was involved as a member of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Germany , the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) and the Reich Banner Black-Red-Gold against the seizure of power by the National Socialists . "Ahead of the parliamentary elections March 5, 1933 an election rally should SPD (the Lister Tower ...) protect" and was there on 22 February 1933 a raid by a Sturmabteilung shot (SA) at the former restaurant at the Lister Tower from behind. To the murdered young man and his also killed comrade Wilhelm Heese recalls a plaque that later installations of today's picture wall Bertramstraße was preceded.

Also in 1933, the Nazis renamed the former entrepreneur Siegmund Oppenheim dedicated and connected to the Bertramstraße Siegmund street in Am Wall mountains (corresponding to the former place names around). Only after the end of the Second World War and after liberation from National Socialism did Siegmundstrasse honor the co-founder of the VSM again since 1945.

The August Schmidt grain distillery founded in 1878 in Bertramstrasse
Today the grain distillery is a studio and workshop, residence and gallery for numerous artists

On the occasion of the forthcoming 750th anniversary celebration of the city of Hanover, Wolfgang Schatz , at the time managing director of the Friends of Hanover and citizen contact person of the project group 750th anniversary celebrations , collected suggestions around 1990 for upgrading the Hanover cityscape. The requested project proposals included the "Bertramstrasse art wall", which was valued at 80,000 DM .

After the artist and then "Braunschweig Academy Professor" Siegfried Neuenhausen had previously acquired an abandoned schnapps factory in Hainholz, the August Schmidt grain distillery founded in 1878 and now a workshop for artists and galleries , Neuenhausen invited eleven artists , some of whom were internationally renowned, to redesign the industrial wall on Bertramstrasse, including Tony Cragg and Timm Ulrichs . Two of the invited artists, Ulla Lauer and Rüdiger Barhan , also lived and worked in the building complex of the opposite work yard, the grain distillery . For the design of the industrial wall belonging to the VSM Vereinigte Schmirgel- und Maschinen-Fabriken , each artist should design a parcel of the brick-lined industrial wall.

The installations were presented from September 1991. Richard Hamilton's weather-sensitive “media wall”, the “Scanachrom image” WARGAMES with a picture of the Kuwait-Iraq war was initially protected from damage at night with a lowered iron blind. It was later moved to the Sprengel Museum Hannover and replaced by a work by Thomas Virnich .

Views of the picture wall

literature

Web links

Commons : Bertramstraße (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Vach: A blatant violation of the rituals of public art. In: Siegfried Neuenhausen, Karl-Heinz Vach: Bertramstrasse picture wall… (see literature), p. 5f.
  2. ↑ a b c Helmut Zimmermann : Bertramstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 39
  3. ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann: Siegmundstrasse. In: The street names ... , p. 228
  4. ↑ Note: According to a more recent account, the birthplace of the entrepreneur Derenburg was different ; compare Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Vereinigte Schmirgel- und Maschinenfabrik AG. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 641
  5. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Vereinigte Schmirgel- und Maschinenfabrik AG. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 641
  6. ↑ a b c d Compare this documentation at Commons
  7. ↑ a b c Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Weblinks )
  8. ↑ a b c Klaus Mlynek : GROSSKOPF, Wilhelm. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 136; online through google books
  9. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Reichsbanner black-red-gold. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 519f.
  10. ^ NN : Hanover 1991 , with forewords by Herbert Schmalstieg and City Director Jobst Fiedler , State Capital Hanover, project group 750th anniversary celebration, 1990
  11. ↑ a b c d e Ludwig Zerull: Neuenhausens Wand (see in the literature section )
  12. ↑ Compare the map material offered at the top right above this article next to the "coordinates"
  13. ↑ a b c Hugo Thielen: Bertramstrasse picture wall (see literature)
  14. ^ Siegfried Neuenhausen, Karl-Heinz Vach: Bertramstrasse picture wall ... , p. 19
  15. ↑ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Bertramstraße (see literature)

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 52.5 "  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 48.7"  E