Dorit Litt

Dorit Litt (born September 27, 1959 in Hoyerswerda ) is a German art historian .

Live and act

Dorit Litt graduated from the University of Leipzig with a degree in cultural and art studies in 1984 . In 1989 she received her doctorate in art history at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg on the subject of "The artistic work of the landscape painter Hans Richard von Volkmann (1860–1927)". After completing her research studies, she worked as a research assistant at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art in Halle in Halle (Saale) until 1994 . During this time she was entrusted with the establishment and publication of the university's own scientific journals "Die Burg". Since then, she has also dealt intensively with the visual arts of the 20th century, especially the post-war years, in Central Germany.

For family reasons, Dorit Litt moved to Bonn in 1994 , where she works as a freelance art historian. In cooperation with various museums, universities, foundations and art associations in Halle, Bonn, Karlsruhe , Dresden , Soest , Freiburg i. Br. , Merseburg and Erfurt , she has accompanied numerous exhibition and publication projects as curator , editor of catalogs and author.

From 2001 to 2014 she was a member of the Mitteldeutscher Kulturrat Foundation, Bonn. In 2013 and 2014 she published the magazine “Kultur Report” on behalf of the foundation. Dorit Litt is married to the university professor Thomas Litt, they have two daughters.

Publications (selection)

Exhibition projects with catalog

• 1998: Ostracized formalists. Art from Halle (Saale) 1945 to 1963. Representation of the state of Saxony-Anhalt in Bonn and in the art association “Talstraße” Halle (Saale), with Matthias Rataiczyk , ISBN 978-3-932962-03-5 .
• 1999: Wasja Götze or Moritz Götze . Rheinlandia, ISBN 3-931-509-76-1 .
• 2002: Hermann Bachmann - painting, Gisela Bachmann - sculpture. Art association "Talstraße", Halle (Saale), with Matthias Rataiczyk, ISBN 978-3-932962-10-3 .
• 2004: In the field of tension of modernity. Ten painters from Halle. Moritzburg Foundation, Art Museum of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale), with Katja Schneider , ISBN 3-86105-093-5 .
• 2005: Bernhard Heisig . Pictures from a collection. Art association "Talstraße" Halle (Saale), with Matthias Rataiczyk, ISBN 978-3932962-23-3 .
• 2007: A Halle cosmos in a standard format. Painting on Henning board Kunstverein "Talstraße" Halle (Saale), with Matthias Rataiczyk and Christin Müller-Wenzel, ISBN 978-3-932962-40-0 .
• 2007: Master class student from Pariser Platz. Painting and sculpture from Berlin in the 1950s. Manfred Böttcher , Harald Metzkes , Ernst Schröder, Werner Stötzer . Halle (Saale), with Matthias Rataiczyk and Christin Müller-Wenzel, ISBN 978-3-932962-37-0 .
• 2009: Siegward Sprat . Writing painting. Wilhelm Morgner House Museum, Soest . ISBN 978-3-00-028343-7 .
• 2010: Beach pictures. Myth Hallesche painting. Art forum hall. ISBN 978-3-00-030616-7 .
• 2011: Georg Paul (1901–1980). A loner in the field of tension of modernity. Merseburg Castle Museum of Cultural History . ISBN 978-3-00-033215-9 .
• 2012: Artistic self-assertion in the GDR using the example of painting in Halle in the post-war years. In: Farewell to Icarus. Imagery in the GDR - seen in a new way. Weimar New Museum. Ed. K.-S. Rehberg, Walter Holler, Paul Kaiser. König, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-86335-224-0 .
• 2017: Otto Möhwald , Kunsthalle Talstraße Halle (Saale), ISBN 978-3-932962-90-5 .
• 2017: Carola Andries. From Rhenish expressionism to abstraction. Published by Kunstverein Kreis Soest e. V., Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest. ISBN 978-3-9818730-1-6 .
• 2017: JUST PAINT! In memory of Brigitte Loeper, published by the Kunstverein Kreis Soest eV and the city of Soest, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, ISBN 978-3-981 8730-2-3 .

Catalog raisonnés

• 1996: with Angela Dolgner : Kurt Bunge . Catalog raisonné of the woodcuts 1948–1958. fly head, Halle (Saale), ISBN 3-930195-13-5 .
• 2001: Albert Ebert . The catalog raisonné of painting. In: Albert Ebert, painting. Edited by Helmut Brade . Faber & Faber (Germany), Leipzig, ISBN 3-932545-82-6 .

Editions, monographs

• 1994: Ulrich Knispel : The Ahrenshoop case. A documentation. Booklet accompanying the catalog of the Ulrich Knispel exhibition . Painting and graphics. State Gallery Moritzburg Halle and University of the Arts, Berlin. Halle and Berlin, ISBN 3-86105-091-9 .
• 1995: Erwin Hahs . The book of my soul, excerpts from the diaries 1945–1952. Selection with G. Graewe and G. Winter. Edition Burg Giebichenstein, Halle (Saale).
• 1996: The artistic work of the landscape painter Hans von Volkmann . Holos, Bonn ISBN 3-86097-183-2
• 2018: The painter Hermann Bachmann . 1922-1995. A German-German artist story. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale), ISBN 978-3-96311-047-4 .

Lectures (selection)

• Albert Ebert. The studio as a place of myth formation. Lecture at the 7th International Conference of the Art Working Group in the GDR, Phillips University Marburg, June 14th and 15th, 2019.
• Hermann Bachmann and his altarpiece in the Epiphany Church. Lecture in the Evangelical Church Congregation Epiphanien, Berlin-Charlottenburg, May 23, 2019.
• Colored graphics in Halle (Saale) between 1945 and 1960 and their international success. Lecture at the conference “Land of Graphics. Business cycle of a medium in the GDR ”, Alfred Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, January 14-16, 2016.

Web links

• Literature by and about Dorit Litt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dorit Litt: Introduction to the exhibition "Gertraud Möhwald - Matthias Rataiczyk" in the gallery of the Kunstverein Uelzen in the Theater an der Ilmenau on January 27, 2007
• Dorit Litt: Introduction to the exhibition “Herma Körding (1927–2010). A life with pens, brushes, paints and palettes "
• http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-29812
• http://www.galerie-henning.de/Geschichte.html
• Dorit Litt: Photo dossiers on "Am Strand" (1950) and "Legende (I)" (1952) by Herbert Kitzel, August 2012 , Bildatlas Kunst in der DDR
• Dorit Litt: Image dossiers on "Mann im Gerüst" (Aufbruch) (1948) and "Mohn vor der Reife" (1950/52) by Hermann Bachmann, October 2012 , Bildatlas Kunst in der DDR
• Dorit Litt: Image dossiers for "Controversy about Christ's Rock" (1956) by Erwin Hahs, October 2012 , Bildatlas Kunst in der DDR
• http://www.kunstverein-talstrasse.de/ Website of the art association "Talstrasse"

Individual evidence

• http://www.siebenhaar-verlag.de/index.php?page=info&id=75&s#