Gisela Vetter-Liebenow

Gisela Vetter-Liebenow (2nd from left) at the 17th reception of the Ev.-luth. Regional church of Hanover for artists and creators. To the right of her: Philipp Stoellger (Prof. for Systematic Theology, Rostock), Stephanie Springer (President of the Landeskirchenamt Hannover), and Wolfgang Ullrich (Prof. for Art History, Karlsruhe).

Gisela Vetter-Liebenow (* 1959 as Gisela Vetter ) is a German art historian and curator . She heads the Wilhelm Busch - German Museum for Caricature and the Art of Drawing in Hanover .

life and work

Gisela Vetter-Liebenow was born in 2011 with her art history dissertation on the subject of clothes make the man. Forms of dress language in the caricature doctorate at the University of Hamburg . In June 2012 she took over the management of the Museum Wilhelm Busch - German Museum for Caricature and the Art of Drawing .

Since 1993 she has also published the volumes accompanying 20 exhibitions that she has curated, including in 2000 for Big City Fever - 75 Years of 'The New Yorker' with around 120 cover drawings by the most famous satirical artists of the 20th century. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Wilhelm Busch Museum, she curated the exhibition Caricature and the Art of Drawing with 200 works by artists from the 17th century to the present day.

After the attack on Charlie Hebdo in January 2015, Gisela Vetter-Liebenow initiated a retrospective of the caricatures of the killed cartoonists on the Internet, in which, in addition to the Wilhelm Busch Museum, the caricature museums from Frankfurt am Main, Kassel and Basel are involved. Since July 3, 2015, the caricatures and texts of the French satirical magazine that have been translated into German have been available on the museen-fuer-satire.com platform . Each draftsman is presented in a biography. In addition, the satires are explained in a social and political context and reactions to the attack are processed. For Vetter-Liebenow, one of the tasks of museums is to arouse understanding for the draftsman.

Publications (selection)

As editor

• City fever. 75 years of ' The New Yorker ' , Hatje Cantz , Ostfildern 2000, ISBN 978-3-7757-0948-4
• Balsam und Poison , Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2000, ISBN 978-3-7757-0523-3
• Ronald Searle , Hirmer Verlag , Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-7774-6970-6
• Power games. Erich Sokol . Caricatures , Wilhelm-Busch-Gesellschaft 2004, ISBN 978-3-921752-45-6
• Napoleon - genius and despot. Ideal and Criticism in Art around 1800 , Wilhelm-Busch-Gesellschaft, 2006, ISBN 978-3-921752-48-7
• Chic and shrill. Fashion caricatures and fashion drawings from three centuries , Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7774-4325-6
• Friedrich Karl Waechter . Drawing art , Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7774-9095-3
• Caricature and the art of drawing , Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7774-5511-2
• Royal theater! British caricatures from the time of personal union and the present , published by Wilhelm Busch - German Museum for Caricatures and the Art of Drawing 2014, ISBN 978-3-95498-089-5

As an author

• Lichtenberg reloaded! A homage , Göttinger Verlag der Kunst 2015, ISBN 978-3-945869-00-0

Web links

Commons : Gisela Vetter-Liebenow  - Collection of images

• Literature by and about Gisela Vetter-Liebenow in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Uwe Janssen: A new director for Max and Moritz , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from May 31, 2012
2. ↑ Review note on Frankfurter Rundschau, September 30, 2000, perlentaucher.de
3. ^ Online exhibitions on "Charlie Hebdo." "Let us explain and comment on these caricatures". Gisela Vetter-Liebenow in conversation with Michael Koehler , Deutschlandfunk, January 16, 2015
4. ^ Online exhibition for "Charlie Hebdo" , Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 3, 2015
5. ↑ Online presentation of the French satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo" , website of the Wilhelm Busch Museum ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ Book reviews by Thyra Mecklenburg, Portal Art History, May 30, 2015