Dorothea of ​​Stetten

Dorothea von Stetten (born April 9, 1913 in Berlin ; † August 7, 2011 in Bonn ) was a German patron of the arts .

Life

Dorothea von Stetten, granddaughter of the dermatologist Edmund Lesser , born in Berlin in 1913, looked after various American houses in Germany for an American authority in the 1950s. She then promoted cultural dialogue as an exhibition director at the US embassy until 1975.

In Bonn she showed works by the action painting painters Jackson Pollock , Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning . Dorothea von Stetten also organized encounters with writers such as Thornton Wilder , designers such as Charles Eames or personalities such as MoMA director Alfred Barr . In 1963 she was one of the founders of the Bonner Kunstverein and was its first chairman from 1973 to 1981. She was also committed to the Bonn Art Museum , for example by founding the friends' association with her colleagues. When museum art was to be sold after the museum's financial crisis as a result of the “Time Turning Exhibition”, she resigned from the association in protest, but came back later. As of 2006, she made public that she had lost her eyesight. Nevertheless, she remained chairwoman of the board of trustees of her foundation until her death at the age of 98.

In 1983 she founded the Dorothea von Stetten Foundation , which from 1984 awards the Dorothea von Stetten Art Prize, named after her, to young artists every two years . The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros.

supporting documents

1. ↑ Obituary and obituary. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 10, 2011, page 32.
2. ↑ Thomas Kliemann: A long life for art. (No longer available online.) In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . August 9, 2011, archived from the original on August 2, 2012 ; accessed on October 27, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Thomas Kliemann: Dorothea von Stetten: "You have to deal with the new". In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . April 9, 2008, accessed October 27, 2017 .