Forum for artists' bequests
The Forum for Artists 'Legacies Hamburg , formerly the Forum for Artists' Legacies , is a non-profit association for the preservation of artistic legacies. The seat of the association is in the artist house Sootbörn in Hamburg-Niendorf . The association was renamed on September 24, 2013.
description
The association was founded in 2003 in order to preserve the estates of visual artists as a unit or to secure a representative section. In addition to proper storage, the focus is on the scientific processing and exhibition of the works in connection with current art.
Since many artists' estates are lost to posterity after the death of their creators, for example due to inadequate storage and / or a lack of expertise, Hamburg art historians, historians, artists, heirs of art and other interested parties founded the association.
At least two exhibitions from the association's holdings take place every year.
Since 2008, the forum for artists' bequests has been working with the DigiCULT culture database to form an extensive network with museums and other cultural institutions.
Recorded bequests and bequests
A selection of artists whose bequests and bequests have been taken over by the forum:
- Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann (July 17, 1883 - December 11, 1973)
- Tatiana Ahlers-Hestermann (March 28, 1919 - January 30, 2000)
- Hans-Günther Baass (March 22, 1909 - December 12, 1991)
- Alma del Banco (December 24, 1963 - March 8, 1943)
- Heidrun Borgwart (* 1934)
- Wlodek Bzowka (June 21, 1997 - December 26, 2007)
- Gerhard Dancker (1925-2006)
- Arie Goral (October 16, 1909 - April 23, 1996)
- Gerhard Hausmann (September 15, 1922 - June 23, 2015)
- Werner Homuth (1934-2008)
- Margrit Kahl (1942-2009)
- Christoph Krämer (February 24, 1948 - February 14, 2010)
- Klaus Kröger (December 25, 1920 - November 10, 2010)
- Jens Lausen (August 18, 1937 - June 13, 2017)
- Heinz Lilienthal (1927 - June 6, 2006)
- Rudolf Mahler (December 6, 1905 - June 3, 1995)
- Aliute Mečys (1943 - 2013)
- Werner Nöfer (* 1937)
- Alexandra Povòrina (February 26, 1885 - December 23, 1963)
- Gabriele Quasebarth (May 15, 1956-1986 )
- Franz Reckert (May 27, 1914 - January 13, 2004)
- Pavel Richtr (* 1942)
- Burkhardt Rokahr (born May 18, 1947)
- Heinrich Schilinzky (October 6, 1923 - September 21, 2009)
- Heinz Schrand (born August 23, 1926 - April 25, 2017)
- Gustav Berthold Schröter (July 21, 1901 - 1992)
- Hannes Schultze-Froitzheim (June 30, 1904 - October 10, 1995)
- Ingeborg Sello (January 24, 1916 - May 5, 1982)
- Gerdt Marian Siewert (March 25, 1920 - November 1, 1992)
- Irma Weiland (* 1908 - September 1, 2003)
- Marianne Weingärtner (March 15, 1917 - March 9, 1995)
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2006: Alexandra Povòrina (1885–1963): paintings, drawings and collages
- 2006: Else Weber (1893–1994)
- 2007: Gustav Berthold Schröter (1901–92): drawings, watercolors, paper reliefs. In the works dialogue with Roland Helmus, Klaus Kröger and Pavel Richtr.
- 2007: Hans-Günther Baass (1909–91): A Hamburg painter. In a factory dialogue with Linda McCue, Stefan Oppermann, Dennis Scholl and Dieter Vieg.
- 2011: Wlodek Bzowka (1979–2007) - digital impulses.
- 2011: Gerdt Marian Siewert (1920–92): From chronicler of the stage world to critic of the world stage.
- 2008: Ingeborg Sello (1916–82) studio visits - photographs. In a factory dialogue with Volker Lang and Rainer Müller-Tombrink.
- 2008: Irma Weiland (1908–2003): retrospective on the occasion of the artist's 100th birthday
- 2009: Heinz Lilienthal (1927–2006): Art in building in glass, stone, concrete and metal. In the work dialogue with objects by Volker Lang.
- 2010: An artist family from Hamburg: Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann • Alexandra Povòrina • Tatiana Ahlers-Hestermann.
- 2012: Hannes Schultze-Froitzheim (1904–95) - Paths to Abstraction. In dialogue with objects by Heinrich Eder.
- 2013: Jens Lausen - The Empty Room
- 2014: Anna Bardi (1938-2012): Beauty in the transitory. In dialogue with works by the Hamburg artist Gesa Lange (* 1972)
- 2018: Humor and Subversion: Franz Reckert, Heinrich Schilinzky, Gerdt M. Siewert, Horst Villwock.
- 2019: SpaceBody Movement - Dynamics as an artistic principle: Margrit Kahl , Elk Knaake, Peter F. Piening .
Publications
- Discovered and Preserved! 10 years forum for artist bequests with a cross section of the collection, exhibition catalog, Hamburg, 2013.
- Hannes Schultze-Froitzheim (1904-95) Paths to Abstraction, Hamburg, 2012.
- Discovered. Works from the Forum for Artists' Legacies, Hamburg, exhibition catalog of the Städtische Galerie Böblingen, Böblingen, 2012.
- Hans-Günther Baass (1909-1991). Retrospective , Hamburg, 2007.
- Else Weber . Retrospective , ed. from the Forum for Artists' Legacies and the Martha Pulvermacher Foundation, Hamburg, 2006.
- Exhibition premiere. The forum for bequests presents works by eleven artists , Hamburg, 2005 (out of print).
Media and web links (selection)
- Homepage of the association forum for artists' bequests
- Club goals . Online at www.kuenstlernachlaesse.de. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
- Prof. Dr. Markus Hilgert: artist discounts and bequests, MDR Kultur 17.07.19 / 6.48 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aOS4vK9V2c . Retrieved September 4, 2019.
- Press conference “Dealing with artists' bequests” of the Kulturstiftung der Länder on July 15, 2019 in Berlin, 01.08.19 h. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDFLR2NhB1Q&feature=youtu.be . Retrieved September 4, 2019.
- Johannes Fellmann / Jennifer Scheibel: Where art can stay: A conversation about how to deal with artist estates with Gora Jain, Silvia Köhler and Friederike Hauffe. + Focus on artist bequests: A future for remembering; in: Arsprototo, issue 1/2019, Kulturstiftung der Länder (ed.), pp. 60-64 + 65-71. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
- Jain, Gora (2018): Federal Association of Artists' Legacies (BKN). An amalgamation of inheritance-preserving institutions in Germany ; in: annoRAK. Messages from the Rhenish Archive for Artists' Legacies, Volume 6, D. Schütz (ed.), Bonn 2018, pp. 120-122 (German / English).
- Jain, Gora (2018): Perspectives for Artistic Legacies from Legacy Preservation Institutions ; in: It remains the art, BBK Munich and Obb. (Ed.), Munich 2018, pp. 20-25.
- New home for artist bequests , by Katja Engler, Welt am Sonntag (No. 31), August 4, 2013. Accessed September 4, 2019.
- Gora Jain, Hanns Ostermann: Professional Care of Artistic Legacies Broadcast on Deutschlandradio on October 30, 2012. Accessed on February 8, 2013.
- Carsten Probst: estate administrator of the art scene . Broadcast on Deutschlandfunk on November 18, 2012. Accessed on February 8, 2013.
- hst: waiting for the right moment. The forum for bequests from artists e. V. shows photographs by Ingeborg Sello . Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung , episode 16-08 of April 19, 2008. Online at suche.ostpreussenarchiv.de.