Hanna Grisebach

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Hanna Grisebach , b. Blumenthal, (born May 25, 1899 in Berlin , † October 13, 1988 in Heidelberg ) was a German art historian , gallery owner and writer .

Life

Hanna Blumenthal, daughter of an emancipated Jewish factory owner family , grew up in Berlin and studied art history at the Breslau Art Academy . In 1923 she received her doctorate from August Grisebach with a thesis on Dutch still life . In 1924 she married August Grisebach. The son Hans was born in 1926 and the daughter Manon in 1931 .

In 1930 the family moved to Heidelberg, where August Grisebach had been appointed to a professorship for art history. After the National Socialists came to power, Grisebach was constantly harassed because of the Jewish descent of his wife, who had already converted to Christianity in 1918, until he was forcibly semeritized in 1937 together with his friend Karl Jaspers, who was also " Jewish " . After a short stay in Timmendorfer Strand , the family settled in Potsdam , where they had contact with a pastor of the Confessing Church , in whose care they survived the war.

Gravesite of August and Hanna Grisebach in the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof in the forest department, WB department

From January 1945 to February 1946 Hanna Grisebach wrote her Potsdam diary , a small edition of which was printed in 1972. In 1974 it appeared in a larger edition, with the Colombian Memoirs attached, a report on her stay in Colombia in 1948, where her family had emigrated. In 2009 the Potsdam Diary was reissued with the support of her daughter.

In February 1946 August Grisebach was called back to the chair in Heidelberg. After his death in 1950, Hanna Grisebach opened the Graphisches Kabinett Dr. Grisebach , in which numerous painters and sculptors, some of whom were previously ostracized, were presented. As early as 1951, artists such as Willi Baumeister , HAP Grieshaber and Eberhard Schlotter exhibited at Hanna Grisebach, and in 1952 she was able to present Gerhard Marcks , Otto Dix , Ida Kerkovius and Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack , among others . Otto Piene was exhibited by Hanna Grisebach as early as 1959 .

The exhibitions were initiated by Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub , Will Grohmann , Jean Gebser , Gert Kalow and Eugène Ionesco , among others . Hanna Grisebach managed her gallery until 1973.

In 1981 Hanna Grisebach published a book about the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof .

Hanna Grisebach rests with her husband in the Heidelberg mountain cemetery in the so-called “forest department” (Dept. WB).

Honors

Fonts

  • Hanna Blumenthal: The Dutch still life. Dissertation. University of Wroclaw 1923. Wroclaw University Press.
  • Hanna Grisebach: Potsdam Diary. With an afterword by Hilde Domin . Schneider, Heidelberg 1974. 2nd edition: Ed. Kurt Baller. docupoint, Magdeburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86912-003-4 .
  • Hanna Grisebach: The Heidelberg Bergfriedhof. Graves and memorial stones. Photos by Peter Seng. 1981, ISBN 3-920431-12-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Grisebach, Hanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blumenthal, Hanna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, gallery owner and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1988
Place of death Heidelberg