Brigitte Rieger-Jähner

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Brigitte Rieger-Jähner (* 1949 in Berlin ) is a German art historian , museum director, curator , curator and author .

Life

Childhood and youth

As the daughter of the art historian couple Brigitte Jähner and Horst Jähner , she grew up as an only child in Berlin-Köpenick . The family had lived in Dresden since 1964 , where the father worked as the director of the Verlag der Kunst and was an honorary professor for art history at the Dresden Art Academy . In her parents' house, Brigitte Jähner met artists, publishers and authors who published for Verlag der Kunst.

education

After graduating from high school, she worked as a volunteer at the Neue Meister gallery in Dresden from 1968 to 1970 . From 1970 to 1974 she studied art history and archeology at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where she passed the state examination and wrote her thesis on Anton von Werner as a painter and art politician . Since she was neither a member of the pioneer organization Ernst Thälmann nor the FDJ during her school days , even as a student she did not belong to any of these organizations and was also not ready to join the SED or a block party, activities in art museums in Berlin, Dresden or Leipzig were excluded. In 1975 she moved to Frankfurt (Oder) , where she worked as a research assistant at the gallery (renamed Museum Junge Kunst in 1994) Junge Kunst as a curator and curator.

She did her doctorate in 1982 at the Humboldt University Berlin on the subject of the painter and graphic artist Hans Jüchser . A contribution to Dresden art development in the 20th century . In 1983 she developed the oeuvre of Hans Jüchser, in which 2046 works by her could be documented. After her marriage in 1985 to the doctor Christian Rieger, Brigitte Rieger-Jähner completed her habilitation in 1990 at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald on the subject of aspects of contemporary painting until 1933. The German contribution to the eventful history of a controversial style category .

Employment

In 1990 she became director of the Galerie Junge Kunst in Frankfurt (Oder). She changed their structure in such a way that from now on the aesthetic quality, combined with moments of innovation and the positioning of the artists, were decisive for the purchases and donations. As a prerequisite for this, the artists only had to stay in East Germany for an indefinite period of time, ranging from a few months to decades or lasting. H. lived and worked on the territory of the former GDR . The permanent exhibition was abolished by it, but from 1975 4 to 8-week presentations on a wide variety of topics took place every year. Until 2006 she participated in these exhibitions when paintings, drawings and watercolors were shown. In addition to her work as director, she was also responsible as a curator for the areas of painting, drawings and watercolors. Furthermore, she worked as a curator, author and for public relations. In addition to personal and group exhibitions with works by artists from the old and new federal states, she curated works in extensive personal exhibitions by artists who wanted and had to leave the GDR, but were also indispensable for the collection from their point of view. But world art, whether in personal, group or thematic exhibitions, was shown.

In 1994 she became a lecturer in the cultural studies faculty at the European University Viadrina in the subject of art history, where she received an honorary professorship in 1998.

In 2001 she took over the management of the Viadrina City Museum, which was merged with the Museum of Young Art. The official name of the museums has since been: “ Municipal museums of young art and Viadrina ”. In the Viadrina Museum she curated two exhibitions on urban history and a film exhibition with a regional focus.

In 2014 she was adopted into retirement.

Curatorial activity

From 1975 to 2014 Brigitte Rieger-Jähner curated over 100 art exhibitions, including the first art presentation in the (new) Brandenburg State Parliament (2014) in Potsdam. She was involved in book publications, wrote numerous catalog texts, including four catalog books financed through sponsorship for the collection of the Museum Junge Kunst together with her deputy A. Hauer, as well as articles.

Independent publications (selection)

  • 10 young artists from Karl-Marx-Stadt. Paintings, graphics, plastic , Frankfurt (Oder) 1976
  • Hans Jüchser , series: painter and work, Magdeburg 1980
  • Masterpieces of German Romanticism, painting, from the possession of the Dresden State Art Collections, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister , Frankfurt (Oder) 1982
  • Wolfgang Mattheuer, graphic , Frankfurt (Oder) 1984
  • Walter Libuda, beds, painting, works on paper (Young Art Workshop No. 1) , Frankfurt (Oder) 1985
  • Nuria Quevedo, Berlin, graphics, drawings, watercolors, gouaches , Dresden 1985
  • Joan Miró, printmaking , Dresden 1987
  • Stefan Plenkers, Dresden, painting, drawings , Dresden 1988
  • Werner Knaupp, Ernhofen near Nuremberg, Kreuzweg II, (1978/88), sequence of images; Drawings, gouaches from the possession of the Heilbronn Municipal Museums , Heilbronner Museum Catalog No. 42, Städtische Galerie collector's documentation series “Cycles” (I), (Foreword: A. Pfeiffer), Reutlingen 1992, ( ISBN 3-921638-36-4 )
  • Between expressiveness and objectivity. 15 artists from the new federal states. Painting, sculpture, objects, installations, drawings, graphics , (co-author), Berlin 1993
  • AR Penck, painting, objects, ceramics, sculpture, graphics, drawings were created between 1963 and 1993 , Frankfurt (Oder) 1994
  • Wolfgang Smy, paintings, drawings, objects were created between 1981 and 1995 , Frankfurt (Oder) 1995
  • Gil Schlesinger, Munich, painting, graphics, drawings, collages, installation, created between 1973 and 1993 , Frankfurt (Oder) 1995
  • Wolfgang Leber, Figure and Space , (with M. Flügge), Berlin 1996 ( ISBN 3-929473-12-7 )
  • Alfred Kubin, The Other Side (1), drawings, prints from the Otto Mauer Collection , owned by the Dommuseum Vienna, (Forewords: Gerda and Gerhard Ederndorfer), Eisenhüttenstadt 1997
  • Anna Werkmeister, units / certificates. Painting, sculpture, video installations, C-Prints , Berlin 2006
  • The late Gothic Antichrist window, a biblical message in the interplay of glass, color and light , (co-author), Frankfurt (Oder) 2007
  • Moritz Götze, Die Legende vom Antichrist , Series: Maler und Werk, Halle 2009 ( ISBN 978-3939468-41-7 )
  • Klaus Killisch, a long strange trip , Berlin 2009
  • From the end of time. Dance of Death in the course of history , (Ed .: Domvikar Dr. Norbert Jung; Foreword: Dr. Norbert Jung), Münsterschwarzach 2011, pp. 7–15
  • Salvador Dalí, "Soft skulls and skull harp". Watercolors, hand drawings, prints on world literature (1930-1980) , (with RH Mayer), Frankfurt (Oder) 2014

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ruthe, Ingeborg, The man was pure medicine against GDR provincialism. On the death of the art book publisher Horst Jähner, in: Berliner Zeitung January 11, 2007
  2. ↑ Honorary professorship: Awarded on the basis of the University Teacher Appointment Ordinance (HBVO) of November 6, 1968 with effect from September 1, 1978 for art history at the Dresden University of Fine Arts
  3. ^ Rieger-Jähner, Brigitte, Anton von Werner as a painter and art politician, Berlin November 6, 1974 (thesis remained unpublished.)
  4. ^ Rieger-Jähner, Brigitte, The painter and graphic artist Hans Jüchser. A contribution to Dresden art development in the 20th century, Berlin 1982 (doctorate remained unpublished; the copy can be found in the university library of the HU-Berlin)
  5. ↑ Rieger-Jähner, Brigitte, Aspects of New Objective Painting until 1933. The German Contribution to the Checkered History of a Controversial Style Category, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald 1990, (habilitation remained unpublished)
  6. ↑ Note x www.museum-junge-kunst.de, The checkered history of the JUNGE KUNST Museum 1965-2014, Note 41, organizational chart (cf. website www.museum-junge-kunst.de)
  7. ↑ Werner Knaupp, Kreuzweg II (1978/88), sequence of images, drawings, gouaches, (November 3, 1992 - January 10, 1993) / Walter Stöhrer, painting, graphics, drawings, curated with Inge Zimmermann, Akademie der Künste Berlin (26 March-May 21, 2000) / Peter Bömmels, With all alone. Painting, graphics, plastic, glass, (November 6, 2011 - January 8, 2012)
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Mattheuer, graphic, (February 28th-April 8th, 1984) / Between expressivity and objectivity. 15 artists from the new federal states. Painting, sculpture, objects, installations, drawings, graphics, (January 28-21, 1993) / Klaus Killisch, a long strange trip. Painting, installations, (February 1 - April 12, 2009)
  9. ^ AR Penck, painting, objects, ceramics, sculpture, graphics, drawings from the period 1963-1993, (October 23, 1994 - January 15, 1995) / Gil Schlesinger, painting, drawing, collage, (November 5, 1995- January 12, 1996) / Hans-Hendrik Grimmling, SALTO VITALE, painting, drawings, objects, created between 1984-1996, (March 16-May 4, 1997) / Roger Loewig, drawings, graphics, created between 1962-1981, (March 29 - May 10, 1998) / Cornelia Schleime, FROM FACE TO FACE, painting, works on paper, (November 16, 2003 - February 8, 2004) / Helge Leiberg, painting, drawings, (August 14 - 2 October 2005) / Christine Prinz, Claus Hänsel, PARALLEL, installations, photographs, drawings, (October 15, 2006 - January 7, 2007) / Anna Werkmeister, Aggregate. Painting, sculpture, video installations, c-prints, (November 5, 2006 - January 7, 2007) / Peter Herrmann, DAS LEBEN EIN FEST? Painting, (May 25th-August 5th, 2007) / Lutz Friedel, MODELS, MODELS, COUNTERPETTERS. Pictures from 40 years, (April 6th-July 29th, 2008) / Hans Scheib, MAY IS COMING, graphics, sculptures, plastic, (May 16th-June 27th, 2010 / [In: www.museum-Junge- kunst.de, The checkered history of the JUNGE KUNST Museum, annual program + archive]
  10. ↑ Joan Miró, Druckgrafik, (April 23-21, 1987) / Alfred Kubin, The other side (1), drawings, prints, (November 1, 1997- January 31, 1998) / Salvador Dalí, “Soft skulls and Skull harp ". Watercolors, hand drawings, prints on world literature (1930-1980), owned by Richard H. Mayer, Bamberg, (July 29, 2014 - October 19, 2014)
  11. ↑ Masterpieces of German Romanticism, from the possession of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, (August 20, 1983 - April 17, 1984) / The late Gothic Antichrist window. A biblical message in the interplay of glass, color and light, (January 21-29, 2007) / Dance of Death. Pictures, objects by 33 artists from 500 years of art history, owned by Richard H. Mayer, Bamberg, (March 6, 2010 - May 15, 2010) / “Degenerate Art”. Attack on modernity. Masterpieces on paper from the estate of Bernhard A. Böhmer, from the holdings of the Rostock Cultural History Museum and sculptures from the Ernst Barlach Foundation in Güstrow, (October 27, 2013 - January 5, 2014)
  12. ↑ Rieger-Jähner, Brigitte, "The most governable people in the world, that is the Germans" (Hugo Preuss, 1919). Pictures of Germany in painting after 1945, inaugural lecture on June 16, 1998 at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), in: Universitätsschriften, Inaugural Lectures VII / Reden, Bad Liebenwerda 1999, pp. 25–44
  13. ↑ Rieger-Jähner, Brigitte, Lutz Friedel. Models After Models Counter Images, exhibition from January 18–13. December 2014, catalog, Berlin 2014
  14. ↑ East German art between yesterday and today. From the Museum Junge Kunst Frankfurt (Oder) collection, Freudenstadt 2000, ISBN 3-00-006766-3
  15. ^ Museum Junge Kunst Frankfurt (Oder), Dresden 2001 (without ISBN)
  16. ^ Museum of Young Art Frankfurt (Oder). Works on paper, exhibition catalog: Works on paper from the collection of the Museum Junge Kunst Frankfurt (Oder), duration of the exhibition 23 October - 13 March 2006, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-937602-39-9
  17. ^ Museum of Young Art Frankfurt (Oder). New acquisitions 2001-2012, catalog for the exhibition New acquisitions 2001-2012 by the Museum Junge Kunst Frankfurt (Oder), duration of the exhibition part I: January 19 - July 8, 2012, part 2: July 29, 2012 - February 30, 2013, Dresden 2012, ISBN 978-3-942422-76-5
personal data
SURNAME Rieger-Jähner, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin