Hannah Ryggen

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Hans and Hannah Ryggen, second half of the 1930s

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. "

- Hannah Ryggen

Ryggen works at the interface between traditional Scandinavian weaving techniques and their artistic role models Francisco de Goya , Pierre Bonnard and Paul Gauguin .

Gravestone of the Ryggen couple

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

Group exhibitions

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

Web links

Commons : Hannah Ryggen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b dOCUMENTA (13). The accompanying book / The Guidebook. Catalog 3/3 , 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-2954-3 , p. 116.
  2. ↑ a b c d Maria Lind : Art with a Purpose: Notes on Hannah Ryggen's Tapestries. In: Mousse Magazine. 2012, accessed December 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Stefanie Gommel: Hannah Ryggen. In: Art Lexicon. Hatje Cantz Verlag, June 8, 2012, accessed June 7, 2015 .
  4. ^ Clemens Bomsdorf: In the crosshairs of the shocking events . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 4, 2016, p. 12 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Hannah Ryggen in the norske leksikon store , accessed on July 7, 2015 (Norwegian).
personal data
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