Eva Poll

Eva Poll (2009)

Eva Poll (born August 12, 1938 in Aachen ) is a German gallery owner and curator .

life and work

Eva Poll grew up in Aachen , where she completed an apprenticeship as a primary school teacher after graduating from the Aachen University of Education. From 1959 to 1963 she worked at an elementary school for boys in neighboring Stolberg . In 1963 she married Lothar C. Poll and moved to Berlin. There she taught as a teacher at a primary school in Berlin-Neukölln until her daughter Nana was born in 1966. In 1968 she and her husband founded the Poll gallery in Niebuhrstrasse in Charlottenburg , which was the result of their friendship with the artists of Großgörschen 35 .

Art and cultural policy engagement

Eva Poll (2012)

In 1969 Eva Poll was co-founder and from 1976 to 1982 chairwoman of the Berlin Art Dealers Interest Group (the predecessor of today's regional association), which organized the first contemporary art fairs in Berlin in the late 1960s, parallel to Cologne . She then worked for a number of years on the Senate's art advisory board and helped initiate the awarding of the Otto Nagel Prize , with an exhibition and a grant. She works u. a. on the board of the Daniel Chodowiecki Prize donated by Günter Grass , in the Poll Art Foundation , which she co-founded in 1986, and has set standards as a curator of numerous exhibitions in museums in Germany and other European countries as well as in Goethe Institutes worldwide. She is also on the board of the Morgenstern Foundation.

Awards

• 1993: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany as a "pioneer of realistic painting" (according to the former Senator for Culture Ulrich Roloff-Momin on the award of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic).
• 2008: Honorary presidency of the State Association of Berlin Galleries

Editing (selection)

• Berlin Suite - Ian Colverson / Denis Masi, text by Heinz Ohff . Berlin 1971.
• from 1976 to 1982: Berliner Kunstblatt. Information magazine about art in Berlin. Interest group of Berlin art dealers.
• Positions of Realism - 1967–1972–1987 . Texts by Günter Grass , Uwe M. Schneede and Bernhard Schulz . Berlin 1987, ISBN 978-3-931759-15-5 .
• Scene Moscow. Four painters - four positions . Berlin 1988, ISBN 978-3-931759-12-4 .
• Ralf Kerbach - "Blickfelder - Wegblicke", text by Reinhard Stangl. Berlin 1996.
• Securing evidence - between figuration and abstraction . Becky Sandstede, Hermann Kirchberger , Christel Poll . Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-931759-02-5 .
• Volker Stelzmann - test arrangements, monograph with texts by Eduard Beaucamp , Dieter Hoffmann and Maurizio Vanni. Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-925782-54-1 (German / English / Italian).

Memberships

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK), circles of friends of the German Theater , the Haus am Waldsee , the Berlinische Galerie .

literature

• Lots of crocodiles - 25 years of art in Berlin . Berlin 1993.
• Thea Herold: The poll position . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 25, 2009.
• Christiane Meixner, because they believe in artists. The Poll gallery has been around for almost 50 years and is now a generation project: a conversation about the situation in Berlin . In: Der Tagesspiegel , No. 22875, September 10, 2016, p. 29.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Veit Stiller: Political thinking remains - The Eva Poll gallery is an institution beyond Berlin . In: Die Welt , July 14, 2006.
2. ↑ Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Berlin gallery owner Eva Poll . In: Wochendienst, press office of the Senate Department for Cultural Affairs Berlin, May 14, 1993, No. 19/93, p. 9. Realism is not a thing of the past .  ( 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. In: Berliner Zeitung , May 7, 1993. Cross of Merit for Berlin gallery owner Eva Poll .  ( 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. (PDF) In: Berliner Morgenpost , May 4, 1993.    
3. ↑ poll-berlin.de  ( 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. (PDF)