Dietrich Mahlow

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Dietrich (Dieter) Paul Mahlow (born August 19, 1920 in Seehausen ; † June 11, 2013 in Darmstadt ) was a German exhibition maker , curator and director of various museums. At that time, in his interdisciplinary, thematic and international work, he was a pioneer and pioneer of what constitutes the profession of freelance exhibition curators, or “curators” in English today. His professional beginnings were in the 1950s to the 1970s as museum director of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Kunsthalle Nürnberg, after which he worked as a freelance exhibition maker, lecturer and project-related internationally in Europe and South America.

Life

Dietrich Mahlow studied philosophy, art history, psychology and business administration in Freiburg im Breisgau. and received his doctorate there in 1955 with the topic: The Art in Aesthetics. The art at GW Leibniz and in the Ästhetik AG Baumgartens

During his studies in Freiburg he got to know Franz Mon , with whom he had a very important and lifelong friendship and an exchange about art and exhibition projects. Franz Mon wrote an obituary about Mahlow in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

He lived and worked in Seeheim-Jugenheim . He died at the age of 92 in June 2013 in a Darmstadt hospital.

Curatorial work at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

In 1956 Dietrich Mahlow became the director of the State Art Gallery in Baden-Baden . Under his leadership (until 1967) the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden developed into a showcase for world cultures: in addition to monographic exhibitions and a. on Hans Arp or Jean Tinguely - exhibitions such as American Ceramics (1960), The Naive Image of the World (1961), Writing and Image (1962/63) in cooperation with Willem Sandberg of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, or Primitive Textile Fabrics from Egypt (1963 ). Mahlow had been on friendly terms with Margarete Lauter since 1962 and worked in an advisory capacity.

Society of Friends of Young Art Baden-Baden

In 1956, together with the journalist Leopold Zahn and the artist Klaus Jürgen-Fischer , he initiated the founding of the Society of Friends of Young Art eV in Baden-Baden; he took over the management. The two institutions worked closely with one another for two decades.

Curatorial work at the Kunsthalle Nürnberg

In 1967 Dietrich Mahlow became the founding director of the Kunsthalle Nürnberg . The establishment is connected with the decision of the city of Nuremberg to build up a collection of international contemporary art. Together with the then cultural advisor of the city, Hermann Glaser , he planned the construction of a museum, which u. a. the newly founded institute for modern art as well as the still to be built up collection of contemporary art should accommodate.

Concept "30 rooms for 30 artists"

The concept he developed, "30 rooms for 30 artists", was visionary, in which selected artists were to be presented in changing exhibitions in their own room. If possible, the artists should design their respective space themselves. The collection to be built up should also focus on a selection of artists whose work development should be documented. When it became apparent in 1971 that the new building would not be implemented for the time being, Mahlow ended his commitment to the Kunsthalle Nürnberg. The commission for the collection of today's Institute for Modern Art in Nuremberg is based on the concept of "30 rooms for 30 artists".

Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg

In 1967 Dietrich Mahlow founded the Institute for Modern Art in Nuremberg.

Freelance curatorial work

South America

From 1975 to 1978 Dietrich Mahlow was director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Caracas (Venezuela). Also in Venezuela, he was involved as a curator in the preparation of the Museo Soto of the Venezuelan visual artist Jesús Rafael Soto . For his work in Venezuela he received a medal from the Venezuelan President.

São Paulo Biennial

Dietrich Mahlow was a committee member of the São Paulo Biennale several times .

Lecture tours at Goethe Institutes

On behalf of the Institute for Foreign Relations e. V. (ifa) Dietrich Mahlow made several longer lecture tours throughout South and Central America in the 1960s and 1970s and gave lectures on modern art at Goethe Institutes and universities, even in times of possibly difficult political circumstances. In connection with these trips, he got to know many South American artists and organizers and curators of the art world who often led to lively exchanges and suggestions.

He curated around 250 exhibitions with catalogs and catalogs and was the author and publisher of over thirty artist monographs and television films (with Saarländischer Rundfunk and Südwestfunk) and others. a. with and about DADA , Richard Hülsenbeck , Yves Klein , Jean Tinguely , Tadeuz Kantor , Josef Albers or Chaos and Order .

Publications (selection)

  • Dietrich Mahlow, Arrigo Lora-Totino : Poesia concreta (indrizzi concreti, visuali e fonetici) . (Ed.) La Biennale di Venezia, 1969. Catalog book for the exhibition of the same name.
  • Dietrich Mahlow, Umbro Apollonio and Luciano Caramel: Ricerca et Progettazione . (Ed.), La Biennale di Venezia, 1970. Catalog book for the exhibition of the same name.
  • Dietrich Mahlow, Oskar Schlemmer, Wladimiro Dorigo : Mostra arte e scena: Mostra di studi teatrali di Oskar Schlemmer . Catalogo ufficiale. [Venezia. 19 September-10 October 1965. Sala delle Colonne di Ca'Giustinian]. Biennale di Venezia, 1965
  • Dietrich Mahlow: The naive picture of the world . (Ed.), Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, 1961
  • Dietrich Mahlow, Ingeborg Maurer, Waldemar Stoehr: Arte Colombiano. Colombian art from the early days to the present day . August 19 to September 30, 1962 ". State Art Gallery Baden-Baden, 1962
  • Dietrich Mahlow, translation: Jeanne Moll: writing and image . Typos Verlag, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 1963 (catalog book for the exhibition in Amsterdam and Baden-Baden)
  • Dietrich Mahlow, Josua Reichert: West-Eastern calligraphy: 10 sheets of European writers a. Japan. Calligraphers . Typos Publishing House, 1962
  • Jean Cassou, Dietrich Mahlow: Gustave Moreau . State Art Gallery, Baden-Baden, 1964
  • Dietrich Mahlow, Rolf-Gunter Dienst: Morris Louis: Exhibition in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden from May 10 to May 31, 1965 . State Art Gallery, Baden-Baden, 1965
  • Dietrich Mahlow, Miroslav Lamač, Jiří Kolář: Jiří Kolář: a monograph . Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg, 1968
  • Dietrich Mahlow, editor: Franz Mon, Heinz Neidel: Principle Collage , Institute for Modern Art, Nuremberg, Luchterhand, Neuwied 1968
  • Dietrich Mahlow, Thomas Lehner: From Collage to Assemblage, Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg, April 4 - May 12, 1968, Nuremberg, 1968
  • Dietrich Mahlow: How does art find its public? Exhibitions, collections, media . (Ed.), Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart, 1979
  • Dietrich Mahlow: 100 years of metal sculpture, bronze casting, construction, material language, perception . Metallgesellschaft AG, Frankfurt / Main, 1981 (two volumes)
  • Dietrich Mahlow: Playroom, space games, art exhibition for the 2nd Frankfurt Festival in the Alte Oper Frankfurt am Main, 28.8.-10.10. 1982, Volume 1, Frankfurt-Feste (2, 1982), New-Lit. Verlag-Ges., 1982
  • Dietrich Mahlow, Klaus Gallwitz: See and experience modern art . Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main, 1985
  • Dietrich Mahlow: For a word. Aspects of visual poetry and visual music . Edition Braus, Heidelberg, 1989
  • Franz Mon, Dietrich Mahlow: Knuckles of the Alphabet: 33 visual texts . University of Design, 1989
  • Dietrich Mahlow: Between Chaos and Order: Exhibition, Films, Discourse , Dreieich Art Days, 16.9. - 9.10.1994. Municipal Gallery (Dreieich), Dreieich Art Days 4, 1994

Films (incomplete)

  • JOSEF ALBERS: OPTICAL MONOGRAPHY, Germany, 1969, 40 min.
  • PEOPLE AND SPACE: THE EXAMPLE OF OSKAR SCHLEMMER, Germany 1966, 30 min.
  • Picture and dream. The example of Bernard Schultze, Germany, 1966, 12 min.
  • EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL GRAPHIC BIENNALE LJUBLJANA, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Germany, 1969
  • CHAO ORDER, TV essay, SWF, 1992/93, collaboration: Barbara Schober

Memberships

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich Mahlow: 100 years of metal sculpture, bronze casting, construction, material language, perception . Metallgesellschaft AG, Frankfurt / Main, 1981, Volume 1: Text volume, p. 132
  2. ↑ Topic: The Art in Aesthetics. The art at GW Leibniz and in the Ästhetik AG Baumgartens . Dissertation, Freiburg 1955
  3. ↑ Franz Mon: "Bilddenker: Dietrich Mahlow is dead". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 14, 2013.
  4. ^ Art lover and philosopher Dietrich Mahlow has died. ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Darmstädter Echo , June 12, 2013. Accessed June 13, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.echo-online.de
  5. ↑ New art gallery in Mannheim | Video | ARD media library. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Neues Museum Nürnberg ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg eV, accessed: January 23, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moderne-kunst.org
  7. ↑ Collection order ( Memento of the original dated November 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg eV, accessed: January 23, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moderne-kunst.org
personal data
SURNAME Mahlow, Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahlow, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German exhibition organizer, curator and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Seehausen (Altmark)
DATE OF DEATH 11th of June 2013
Place of death Darmstadt