GEDOK Lower Saxony Hanover

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GEDOK NiedersachsenHannover eV
legal form Nonprofit organization
founding 1927
Seat Hanover
main emphasis Promotion of applied and visual arts , literature , music and recitation by women
method Development and coordination of events
people Viktoria Krüger (1st Chair)

Susanne Sehn-Baumhakel (1st deputy)
Erika Ehlerding (2nd deputy)

Website gedok-niedersachsenhannover.de

GEDOK NiedersachsenHannover is the Lower Saxony regional group of the association originally founded in 1926 by Ida Dehmel in Hamburg as the Association of German and Austrian Artists' Associations of All Art Genres ( GEDOK ). While the association of the community of artists and art patrons, which is organized as a registered association , is "the largest and most traditional interdisciplinary organization of women artists in Germany" with around 2800 members, the GEDOK NiedersachsenHannover is today one of a total of 23 regional groups in the association. In addition to the gallery office in Lola-Fischel-Straße 20 - the former Sohnreystraße 20 - the headquarters of the office is at Stresemannallee 27 in the Hanover district of Südstadt .

history

The artists Karin Hess and Erika Klee in front of the entrance to the gallery office of GEDOK NiedersachsenHannover eV in Lola-Fischel-Straße during the Zinnober art folk run in 2012
The former chairwoman Heralde Schmitt-Ulms (center) and Susanne Reich (right) with Dietlind Preiss in 2014 in the cultural center pavilion at an event of the Friends of Hanover
Opening of the exhibition "Liberation" in the municipal gallery KUBUS in Hanover on April 12, 2015 on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Professor Marion Pusch at the lecture at the Festival of Philosophy in 2016

At the time of the Weimar Republic of the had in the fall of 1927 in the districts of educated middle of Hanover founded a local chapter of GEDOK with initially 150 artists, for example in the Advisory Kate Steinitz was sitting. “She advertised it heavily. that women artists organize ". GEDOK Hanover grew rapidly to 340 members.

One of the artists participating in the GEDOK Hanover exhibitions at the time was the painter and illustrator Grethe Jürgens , who was committed to the New Objectivity .

For the period of National Socialism and the Hanoverian artists Association of GEDOK been brought into line , for example, was Kate Steinitz 1935 "because it is a non- Aryan " from the Reich Chamber ruled and emigrated in the following year 1936 - also the year of the Summer Olympics in Berlin - with her husband Ernst Steinitz and their children in the USA . The number of members of the Hanoverian GEDOK group finally shrank to around 120 members during the Nazi era.

After the end of the Second World War , GEDOK Hanover was re-approved as an " honorary association" in 1946 with the approval of the British military government .

At times, GEDOK Hanover maintained the “GEDOK Gallery” at Odeonstrasse 2 in Hanover.

During the World's Fair Expo 2000 on "Man - Nature - Technology" involved in Hanover, the "GEDOK, Group Hannover" in "the Communities Association of artists- and artist friends" with the Project Prism , led by heralds Schmitt-Ulm on the KulturKaleidoskop series of events organized by the City of Hanover's Department of Culture .

At the beginning of the 21st century, GEDOK Hannover had around 180 members who were involved in the applied arts groups, as well as the visual arts, literature, music, recitation and art funding. Around a decade after GEDOK Lower Saxony was founded in 2002, it merged with the older GEDOK Hanover in 2012 to form GEDOK Lower Saxony-Hanover.

With the gallery office at Lola-Fischel-Straße 20 , around 200 m² are available in the city center of the Lower Saxony state capital, for example for exhibitions .

Other well-known members (selection)

Fonts (selection)

  • Margret Kreikenbohm (Red.): 60 years of GEDOK Hannover 1927–1987. Fine arts, applied arts, literature, music, art lovers , commemorative publication for the anniversary and accompanying publication for the memorial exhibition Grethe Juergens in the Historical Museum Hannover as well as for the exhibition with a retrospective by the sculptor Ellen-Bernkopf-Catzenstein in the GEDOK-Galerie Hannover, Hannover: GEDOK, 1987
  • Annegrit Maria Kirchner, Eva Schröter, Holle Voss (Red.): Rolf-Peter Jaeger (photos): instead of Hanover , illustrated cover to the exhibition of the Applied Art group from September 15 to October 4, 1991 in the GEDOK Galerine Odeonstraße 2, Hanover : GEDOK Hanover, 1991
  • Heralde Schmitt-Ulms (Red.): Licht und Schatten 1927 - 1990 , accompanying document for the traveling exhibition of the same name by the Applied Art group with guests from other GEDOK groups in Germany on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the GEDOK group in Hanover from September 14th to 12th. October 1997 in the GEDOK Gallery Hanover, from January 16 to 25, 1998 in the foyer of Wolfenbüttel Castle, from March 1 to 31, 1998 in the Großburgwedel Town Hall and from April 19 to May 3, 1998 in the GEDOK House in Stuttgart, Hanover: GEDOK Hanover, 1997
  • Karola Framberg, Heralde Schmitt-Ulms (Red.): Encounter. GEDOK '98. Annual exhibition of the applied and visual arts groups , accompanying document to the traveling exhibition from September 5 to October 4, 1998 in Hanover in the GEDOK gallery in Odeonstrasse 2 and the special date on September 12 and 13, 1998 for the art weekend "Zinnober" and from 27 May to July 4, 1998 in the Mönchskirche in Salzwedel, Hanover: GEDOK Hanover, 1998
  • Heralde Schmitt-Ulms (Red.): Kaleidoscope. A presentation of all GEDOK divisions on the subject of “Man - Nature - Technology” and the “Prisma” project in the EXPO year 2000 as part of the KulturKaleidoskop series of events organized by the City of Hanover for Culture , catalog for the event from August 16 to September 24, 2000 of the Association of the Communities of Künstlerinnen- und Künstlerfreunde eV, Group Hanover, GEDOK Gallery, Hanover: GEDOK, Group Hanover, 2000
  • Karola Framberg, Heralde Schmitt-Ulms (Red.): Book. A traveling exhibition for the 75th anniversary of GEDOK Hanover of the visual and applied arts groups with guests from GEDOK Lübeck. 1927–2000 , accompanying document for the anniversary events in the GEDOK gallery in Hanover from October 5 to 27, 2002, in the GEDOK studio building in Lübeck from November 16 to December 8, 2002, in the foyer of Wolfenbüttel Castle from October 13 to 30 March 2003, Hanover: GEDOK, Association of the Communities of Artists and Art Supporters eV, Group Hanover, 2002
  • Heralde Schmitt-Ulms (Red.) Et al. : ¡Spicy! - 80 years of GEDOK - Regional-Nord , organized by GEDOK Lower Saxony in cooperation with the regional association of the Jewish communities of Lower Saxony Kdö.R., accompanying document with short biographies and as an annotated catalog with illustrations for the traveling exhibition from July 14th to August 12th 2007 in New Town Hall Hanover under the title Artist Documentation from 80 Years of GEDOK in Lower Saxony and Hanover, exhibition duration: July 15 - August 5 and January 18 - February 15, 2008 at Wolfenbüttel Castle, Hanover: GEDOK Lower Saxony, 2007, ISBN 978 -3-9803581-2-5

literature

  • Ines Katenhusen : Art and Politics. Hanover's confrontations with modernity in the Weimar Republic , at the same time a dissertation at the University of Hanover under the title Understanding a time is perhaps best gained from her art , in the series Hanoverian Studies, series of publications by the Hanover City Archives , Volume 5, Hanover: Hahn , 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 , passim
  • Ines Katenhusen: "... and the need for spiritual stimulation ..." GEDOK artists and art lovers in Hanover in the twenties , in Karin Ehrich , Christiane Schröder (ed.): Nobles, workers and ... women's life in the city and Hanover region from the 17th to the 20th century (= materials on regional history , vol. 1), ed. on behalf of the Hanover region the municipal association Greater Hanover, Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 1999, ISBN 978-3-89534-292-9 and ISBN 3-89534-292-0 , pp. 211-237

Web links

Commons : GEDOK NiedersachsenHannover  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c o.V. : Contact on the site gedok-niedersachsenhannover.de [ undated ], last accessed on November 14, 2017
  2. ↑ a b o. V .: History on the page gedok-niedersachsenhannover.de [ undated ], last accessed on November 14, 2017
  3. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Sohnreystraße and Stresemannallee , in which: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 230, 238
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Ines Katenhusen : GEDOK. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 206.
  5. ↑ "She was a very emancipated woman" , Isabel Schulz , head of the Kurt Schwitters Archive at the Sprengel Museum Hannover in an interview with Gabi Stief, in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) of November 14, 2017, p. 19
  6. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : GEDOK Hannover , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (Ed.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 242 and so on.
  7. ↑ Gabi Stief: A song of praise for the beret / Käte Steinitz was the focus of the young art scene in Hanover in the twenties, before she had to flee to America in 1936. The grandchildren want to donate the estate to the Sprengel Museum. In: HAZ of November 14, 2017, p. 19
  8. ↑ Compare, for example, the inside title by Annegrit Maria Kirchner, Eva Schröter, Holle Voss (ed.): Rolf-Peter Jaeger (photos): instead of Hanover , illustrated cover to the exhibition of the group of applied arts from September 15 to October 4, 1991 in the GEDOK Gallery Odeonstrasse 2, Hanover: GEDOK Hanover, 1991
  9. ↑ Compare the information and cross-references in the catalog of the German National Library
  10. ↑ Hiltrud Schroeder (Ed.): Sophie and Co. Important women of Hanover. Biographical portraits . Hanover: Fackelträger-Verlag, 1991, p. 241
  11. ↑ Günter Meißner (Ed.): Saur General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples , vol. 56: Glandorf to Goepfart , KG Saur Verlag, Munich, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22796-7 , p. 75; Preview over google books