Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath

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The Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath was founded in 1947 in Frankfurt am Main , Kaiserstraße 5 . In 1949 the gallery moved from Kaiserstraße to new rooms on Börsenplatz . The founder Hanna Bekker vom Rath was a painter herself and had supported artist friends such as Alexej von Jawlensky , Emy Roeder , Ida Kerkovius , Ludwig Meidner , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Ernst Wilhelm Nay since the 1920s .

The early years

From the late 1930s to 1943 (at that time she lived in Berlin , Regensburger Strasse 34), Hanna Bekker vom Rath was committed to the hidden work and exhibition opportunities of artists who were persecuted by the National Socialists as "degenerate" . The gallery was primarily dedicated to Expressionist artists who had hardly any work opportunities or had to emigrate during the Nazi era. In addition to the gallery, she also opened her house in Hofheim am Taunus (the Blue House ) for encounters with artists and for small exhibitions and readings. This made the Frankfurt Art Cabinet and the Blue House in nearby Hofheim a central location for art education in Germany. The gallery owner also made a name for herself as an “ambassador of art” through numerous trips abroad. On these trips she tried to make modern German art, which had been completely decoupled from international developments for almost 12 years, also present abroad

Development until 1983

In addition to the expressionist artists who continued to be the focus of the gallery's exhibition activities, new ones were added, who expanded the gallery's spectrum. These included Shalom Sebba , Louise Stomps , Jannis Spyropoulos . Louise Stomps also commissioned a portrait sculpture by Hanna Bekker vom Rath.

In parallel to her work as a patron and art dealer, Hanna Bekker vom Rath also built up her own extensive art collection, which today is largely on permanent loan from the Museum Wiesbaden .

1983 until today

After the death of Hanna Bekker vom Rath in 1983, the Frankfurter Kunstkabinett moved to Braubachstrasse in Frankfurt in the 1990s and was continued there until 2015.

In 2016 the art gallery was revitalized under the name Galerie Hanna Bekker vom Rath and continues to operate at the Braubachstrasse location.

literature

  • Marian Stein-Steinfeld: Hanna Bekker vom Rath - agent for art and artists. Biography of the painter, patron, collector and broker , publisher of the Frankfurter Bürgerstiftung, patrons, donors, urban culture - Volume 16 , Frankfurt am Main, 2018, ISBN 978-3-934123-27-4
  • The painter Hanna Bekker 1893–1983. Exhibition from November 5 , 1993 to February 27 , 1994 , publisher: Magistrat der Stadt Hofheim am Taunus – Kulturamt / Stadtmuseum, 1994. Edited by M. Stein-Steinfeld, ISBN 3-933735-01-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition at the Museum Wiesbaden September 5, 2018 - February 3, 1919 [1]
  2. ↑ Short biography Hanna Bekker [2]
  3. ↑ Jürgen Petersen: The woman portrait (13): Hanna Bekker vom Rath . In: Zeit Online . May 16, 1957 ( zeit.de [accessed October 25, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Eva Scheid (ed.): Art limitless. The exhibition trips of Hanna Bekker vom Rath 1952 - 1967, exhibition from October 26 , 2008 - February 15 , 2009 , Stadtmuseum Hofheim / Stadtarchiv, 2008, edited by Marian Stein-Steinfeld, ISBN 978-3-933735-37-9
  5. ^ Siegfried Shalom Sebba 1897-1975. Paintings – drawings – printmaking. Exhibition from March 4th – March 27th , 1983 , publisher: Magistrat der Stadt Hofheim am Taunus / Stadtmuseum Hofheim, 1983. Text: Roswitha Schlecker.
  6. ↑ In 1967 an anniversary catalog 20 Years of the Frankfurter Kunstkabinett was published. Paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints and sculptures of the XX. Century with images of the sculpture by Louise Stomps
  7. ↑ Collection presentation of Classical Modernism, Museum Wiesbaden [3]
  8. ^ Collection of Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Museum Wiesbaden