Eske Nannen

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Eske Nannen in the Kunsthalle Emden ;
2015 portrayed by Joachim Giesel

Eske Nannen (born January 4, 1942 in Emden as Eske Nagel, divorced Ebert) is the managing director of the Kunsthalle Emden as well as the "Henri and Eske Nannen Foundation and Otto van de Loo donation".

Life

Eske Nannen is the daughter of a barrel manufacturer and trained as an industrial clerk in her father's factory. She then worked in the shipbuilding industry, business and tourism. After that she lived in Berlin for 10 years.

In 1982 she returned to her hometown Emden. Together with her future husband Henri Nannen , whom she had known from childhood through a close family friendship, she got involved in various art projects. In 1983 she founded the painting school as a board member of the Ludolf Backhuysen Society , which developed into the largest youth art school in Lower Saxony. The Henri Nannen Foundation was established in the same year . The foundation received Henri Nannen's important art collection, which mainly consisted of paintings and sculptures by German Expressionists . Eske Nannen has been managing director of the foundation from the start. The aim of the foundation was to set up a house that would house the pictures from Henri Nannen's art collection.

“We really only wanted to build a house in Henri's pictures. No more and no less. At the beginning everything was planned very small. "

- Eske Nannen

Today's Kunsthalle Emden was developed from this basic idea and was opened on October 3, 1986 by the then Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker . The foundation is responsible for the facility.

In 1990 she married Henri Nannen, whose third wife she became. She has a son, Bernd Ebert, from her first marriage.

In the mid-1990s, the Munich art collector Otto van de Loo offered the foundation the prospect of a donation of 200 pictures. For this donation, the Nannen couple planned an extension to the Kunsthalle Emden, which was to cost 6.5 million D-Marks. Henri Nannen died in October 1996. After his death, the foundation was renamed the Henri and Eske Nannen Foundation and the plans for the extension continued. In 1997 the donation was made by Otto van de Loos. As managing director of the foundation, Eske Nannen realized the planned extension despite some difficulties that increased the costs to 17 million D-Marks. On October 2, 2000, four years after the death of Henri Nannen, the expanded art gallery was officially opened by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and the supporting foundation received the addition and gift of Otto van de Loo .

In 2019, Nannen took over the patronage of the Leibniz-Ring-Hanover awarded by the Press Club Hanover , succeeding Sabine Schormann .

Honors

Eske Nannen's commitment was recognized in 1999 with the Friedlieb Ferdinand-Runge Prize for unconventional art mediation and in 2000 with the German Founder Prize of the Federal Association of German Foundations . In 2006 she received the State Medal of the State of Lower Saxony and in 2007 the Culture Prize of the East Frisian Landscape . In the same year she was awarded the honor coin of the city of Emden. On April 17th, 2008 she received the German Fundraising Prize 2008 . On her 70th birthday in January 2012, she received the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her services to art and culture .

Web links

Commons : Eske Nannen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kunsthalle Emden: Eske Nannen , accessed on February 3, 2012
  2. ↑ Ulrike Posche : Female takeover. How women take power in Germany , ISBN 3-593-37415-3 , page 122
  3. ↑ a b c Eske Nannen: The art legacy of the Nannen family  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 3, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.cicero.de  
  4. ^ Kunsthalle Emden: Otto van de Loo , accessed on February 4, 2012
  5. ↑ lok: Nannen is looking for a smithy for Leibniz Ring / 77-year-old is the new patron , in: [[Neue Presse (Hannover) |]] from February 28, 2019, p. 21
  6. ↑ 70th birthday: Cross of Merit for Eske Nannen , accessed on February 13, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Nannen, Eske
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German managing director of the Kunsthalle Emden and the "Foundation Henri and Eske Nannen"
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Emden