Brigitte Gedon

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Brigitte Gedon (born October 18, 1936 in Königsberg ) is a German art historian and biographer . From 1999 to 2006 she was President of the India Institute in Munich .

Gedon spent the first years of her childhood in East Prussia . In May 1944 the family fled from the chaos of war and first came to Kiefersfelden . After attending the girls' upper secondary school in Rosenheim , she began studying art history at Munich's Ludwig Maximilians University . In 1955 she met her future husband, the publisher Robert Gedon , whom she married in 1965. He had a lasting influence on her with his love for the art and culture of India . The couple traveled the country together several times.

Five years after her husband's death, she took over the management of the India Institute (founded in 1929) from Hans-Georg Wieck , which her husband oversaw from 1971 in his role as Indian Honorary Consul General in the cultural life of the Bavarian capital. In 1994, on the occasion of his 150th birthday, she published a monograph about the sculptor Lorenz Gedon , in which she pays tribute to the life's work of her husband's grandfather. In 1999 he wrote a biography about the painter Franz von Lenbach . In May 2006 she handed over the presidency of the India Institute to Herbert F. Kroll.

Awards

Works

  • Lorenz Gedon - the art of beauty. Munich, Nymphenburger, 1994
  • A Munich resident inspires Paris - Lorenz Gedon at the world exhibition 1878 radio play on Bavarian radio in 1998
  • The search for the mirror - Franz von Lenbach. Munich, Nymphenburger, 1999; Revised New edition DuMont, Cologne 2011, ISBN 3-8321-9410-X .