Egbert Baqué

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Egbert Baqué (* 1952 in Saarbrücken ) is a German gallery owner , author and translator .

Life

Egbert Baqué grew up in Saarbrücken and later in Berlin , where he studied Sinology . He worked as a freelance author, translator and curator until the early 1990s and was responsible for museum exhibitions as a project manager within the framework of international cultural exchange.

In 1991 he founded his first gallery in Berlin . From 1997 to 2005 he worked as a correspondent for a Paris gallery and in this capacity prepared exhibitions with artists such as Georg Baselitz , Markus Lüpertz , Helmut Middendorf , Norbert Bisky and Markus Oehlen . He has been working as a translator since 2001 and has translated books and catalog articles a. a. on Pablo Picasso , Henri Matisse , Gustave Courbet , Matthias Grünewald , Velázquez , Yves Klein , Bettina Rheims , Mario Testino , Jannis Kounellis , John Chamberlain and Louise Bourgeois , but also on film topics such as Jean Renoir , Japanese and Indian cinema or the Film noir .

Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art Berlin

In autumn 2005 he founded his second gallery in Berlin, which mainly shows painting, drawing and photography. The gallery's artists are Abetz & Drescher, Wiebke Bartsch , Selket Chlupka, Winston Chmielinski, Claus Feldmann, Neal Fox, Giuseppe Gonella, Bettina van Haaren, Yago Hortal, Ivar Kaasik , LawickMüller, Volker Lehnert , Wolfgang Neumann , Tim Plamper, Fernando M. Romero, Joachim Seinfeld, Snapple and Franziska Strauss. Crossover projects that combine the visual arts with other art forms such as rock music , film or literature are among the focal points of the gallery program. In recent years, for example, exhibitions on Bob Dylan , David Bowie , Pussy Riot , Lou Reed and Aras Ören have been presented. The magazine KULTURforum called Egbert Baqué the "Rock´n´Roller among Berlin gallery owners".

Fonts

  • Strandbeest. Theo Jansen's dream machines by Lena Herzog, Theo Jansen, Lawrence Weschler. Translated from the English by Egbert Baqué. TASCHEN , Cologne 2014. ISBN 9783836548496
  • The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism. The book of symbols . Translated from the English by Egbert Baqué. TASCHEN, Cologne 2011. ISBN 9783836525725
  • Assholes always come from Tucker Max first. Translated from the English by Egbert Baqué. riva Verlag, Munich 2011.. ISBN 9783868831245
  • From the bottom to Christian Audigier's King of Fashion . Translated from the French by Egbert Baqué. riva Verlag, Munich 2010. ISBN 9783868830514
  • The Boy Who Bit Picasso by Antony Penrose. Translated from the English by Egbert Baqué. Knesebeck Verlag, Munich 2010. ISBN 9783868732603
  • Kate Moss by Mario Testino . German text version from English by Egbert Baqué. TASCHEN, Cologne 2010. ISBN 9783836525060
  • In the Secret Service. by Ronald Kessler. Translated from the English by Egbert Baqué. riva Verlag, Munich 2010. ISBN 9783868830583
  • Henri Matisse - Cut outs. Drawing with scissors by Gilles Néret / Xavier-Gilles Néret. Translated from the French by Egbert Baqué. TASCHEN, Cologne 2009. ISBN 9783822851968
  • Japanese Cinema by Stuart Galbraith IV. / Paul Duncan (ed.) Translated from the English by Egbert Baqué. TASCHEN, Cologne 2009. ISBN 9783822831571
  • Egbert Baqué (Editor): “China”. Hamburg, 1987. New Edition 2008. ISBN 9783922294962
  • The New Erotic Photography by Dian Hanson / Eric Kroll. German version of the text from English by Egbert Baqué, TASCHEN, Cologne 2007. ISBN 9783822849248
  • CINEMA NOW by Andrew Bailey. German text version from English by Egbert Baqué. TASCHEN, Cologne 2007. ISBN 9783822856369
  • Jean Renoir by Christopher Faulkner. Translated from the English by Egbert Baqué, TASCHEN, Cologne 2007. ISBN 9783822830949
  • Gustave Courbet by Fabrice Masanès. Translated from the French by Egbert Baqué. TASCHEN, Cologne 2006. ISBN 9783822856802
  • Egbert Baqué (Editor): “Paris”. Hamburg, 1988. ISBN 3892340463

Publications of the gallery

  • A Tribute to David Bowie. MAIN ROAD. The Berlin Years 1976 - 1978 . Berlin, 2013, ISBN 9783000420313
  • Franziska Strauss. I killed my dinner with karate . Berlin, 2013, ISBN 9783000422881
  • Tim Plamper • Kevin Kuhn • Nell May. Skill gives way to meat . Berlin, 2014, ISBN 9783000447037
  • Wolfgang Neumann. FLASHLIGHT BLACKOUT . Berlin, 2014, ISBN 9783981372892
  • Claus Feldmann. Works 2005 - 2014 . Berlin, 2014, ISBN 9783000462870
  • FC Delius, Peter Schneider, Jürgen Theobaldy: Ceci n'est pas une Festschrift - Aras Ören for their 75th birthday. With pictures by Wolfgang Neumann . Berlin, 2014, ISBN 9783000477515

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art
  2. ↑ CULTURE forum. The culture magazine, 3rd year | Issue 5 - Spring | Summer 2014, p. 31.
personal data
SURNAME Baqué, Egbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gallery owner, author, translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken