Hannah Ryggen
Hannah Ryggen (born Jönsson, born March 21, 1894 in Malmö , † February 2, 1970 in Trondheim ) was a Swedish - Norwegian textile artist .
Career
Hannah Ryggen grew up in the province of Skåne in southern Sweden and worked as a teacher for a while. She also took private lessons from the painter Fredrik Krebs. In 1922, during a trip to Europe in Dresden, she met her future husband, the Norwegian landscape painter Hans Ryggen (1894–1956). In 1924 the couple moved to Ørland near the European North Sea and lived on a small farm, weaving and painting, on a self-sufficient basis .
Hannah Ryggen did the weaving while standing on a loom that her husband had built. Hand-spun and plant-dyed wool were her material, with which she implemented her ideas directly and without preliminary sketches. The motif on the front and back of the carpets is identical. The topics relate to specific events that Ryggen learned about from the newspaper or radio.
“I am a painter, not a weaver; a painter whose tool is not the brush but the loom. "
Ryggen works at the interface between traditional Scandinavian weaving techniques and their artistic role models Francisco de Goya , Pierre Bonnard and Paul Gauguin .
During the German occupation of Norway in World War II , up to 7,000 German soldiers were stationed in Ørland . During this fearful time, the pacifist , communist and feminist Ryggen hung her hand-woven tapestries, which critically reflected the power structure and the atrocities of the time, on a clothesline in front of her house.
Works (selection)
Drømmedød / Death of Dreams (1936)
A tapestry (225 × 275 cm) that not only brings charges against Goebbels and Hitler , but also against the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun , who supported the Nazis' conviction of the German journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Carl von Ossietzky .
Hitlerteppet / The Hitler Carpet (1936)
The Hitler carpet thematizes the atrocities of the Nazi regime and the entanglement of the church in National Socialism .
Jul Kvale (1956)
This work supports the Norwegian party activist Jul Kvale, who campaigned against Norway's accession to NATO .
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 1962: Moderna Museet , Stockholm.
- 1964: Biennale di Venezia , Venice.
- 2016: Hannah Ryggen: Weaving the World . Moderna Museet Malmo . Catalog.
- 2019: Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt am Main
Group exhibitions
- 2012 dOCUMENTA (13) , Kassel.
Awards (selection)
- 1959: Prince Eugene Medal , Sweden
- 1962: Statens kunstnerlønn , Norway
- 1965: Knight 1st class Saint Olav Order
literature
- Marta Kuzma, Hannah Ryggen: Hannah Ryggen . In: 100 notes - 100 thoughts . tape 67 . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-2916-1 (documenta 13).
Radio feature
- Marietta Schwarz: The textile artist Hannah Ryggen. Woven story (s). Deutschlandfunk, October 11, 2019, accessed on October 9, 2019 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hannah Ryggen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Hannah Ryggen in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Monumental, political, uncompromising: the extraordinary tapestries by Hannah Ryggen in the Schirn from autumn. In: Schirn Magazin on September 10, 2019, accessed on October 30, 2019.
- Bjørn Johansen: Hannah Ryggen - bildväverska on YouTube , March 28, 2017, accessed on December 22, 2018 (with film footage of the artist at work and an interview (Norwegian)).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b dOCUMENTA (13). The accompanying book / The Guidebook. Catalog 3/3 , 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-2954-3 , p. 116.
- ↑ a b c d Maria Lind : Art with a Purpose: Notes on Hannah Ryggen's Tapestries. In: Mousse Magazine. 2012, accessed December 21, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Stefanie Gommel: Hannah Ryggen. In: Art Lexicon. Hatje Cantz Verlag, June 8, 2012, accessed June 7, 2015 .
- ^ Clemens Bomsdorf: In the crosshairs of the shocking events . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 4, 2016, p. 12 ( online ).
- ↑ Hannah Ryggen in the norske leksikon store , accessed on July 7, 2015 (Norwegian).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ryggen, Hannah |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ryggen, Hannah Josefina Maria (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish-Norwegian textile artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1894 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Malmo |
DATE OF DEATH | 2nd February 1970 |
Place of death | Trondheim |