Elisabeth Jappe

Elisabeth Jappe (* 1934 ) is a German art critic and art scholar .

Life and accomplishments

Elisabeth Jappe was married to the art critic and artist Georg Jappe († 2007). In 1981 she founded the Moltkerei Werkstatt in Cologne as a place for performance art . In 1987, together with Klaus Staeck and others , she turned against the attempt by the collector Peter Ludwig to enhance Nazi art through presentation in museums.

Jappe has published several times on the subject of performance . In 1987 she curated the performance program of documenta 8 .

Publications

• Piet Hoenderdos, Elisabeth Jappe: The street - form of living together . Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna. German version of the Dutch exhibition catalog. Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven in collaboration with the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf [ed.]. Editing of the Dutch catalog by Piet Hoenderdo, translation by Elisabeth Jappe. Düsseldorf 1973: Municipal art gallery
• Jappe, Elisabeth (ed.): Art live: theater, performance, workshop . September 3-10, 1978 [Theater u. Orchesterboden, Packhaus im Schnoor]. Organized by the Senator for Science and Art Bremen. Artistic advice and organization: Elisabeth Jappe.
• Elisabeth Jappe, 235 Media (Ed.): Documenta 8 / Performance - Action - Ritual . Video in the media art archive of the imai foundation - inter media art institute (in the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf)
• Elisabeth Jappe, Christian Merscheid (editor): Moltkerei workshop: Projects 1981 - 1994. Ed .: Moltkerei workshop. Cologne 1994/95: Post. ISBN 3-923167-14-8
• Elisabeth Jappe: Performance - Ritual - Process. Handbook of Action Art in Europe . Munich 1993: Prestel. ISBN 3-7913-1300-2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ as a reminder wg. Breker exhibition in Schwerin. In: Action for more democracy. Klaus Staeck and Johano Strasser, accessed February 8, 2009 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.stiftung-imai.de/b_katalog/archiv?a_id=597. Retrieved November 20, 2017 .