Hannah Weitemeier
Hannah Weitemeier (born January 3, 1942 ; † September 4, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German exhibition curator and art historian .
Life
Weitemeier lived in Frankfurt am Main in the 1960s , worked, among other things, in a children's shop , occasionally attended SDS events and lectures by Adorno . Hannah Schum-Weitemeier was supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in 1967 with a postdoc research grant to László Moholy-Nagy . During a six-month scholarship in New York, Weitemeier met Andy Warhol and spent time in the Factory . Directed by Gerry Schum (in collaboration with Bernhard Höke and Hannah Weitemeier) the film Konsumkunst - Kunst Konsum was made as a commissioned production for WDR , which was broadcast on October 17, 1968. In 1969 she was one of three women involved in the so-called " breast attack " on Adorno.
Weitemeier worked as a curator in West Berlin in the 1980s and, as an art historian, published a book about Yves Klein in 1995 . She was particularly interested in the Düsseldorf artist group ZERO , which was influenced by the artistic practice of monochrome pictures by Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni and Lucio Fontana .
Personal
From 1968 to 1969 she was married to Gerry Schum. In 1972 she married Ronald Steckel . In 1974 and 1977 the children Sita and Jonas were born.
Exhibitions
- 1981: Curator of the exhibition Schwarz , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf
- 1991: Curator of the exhibition Lenz Schönberg Collection , Weserburg Museum for Modern Art , Bremen
- 1991: Curator of the Lenz Schönberg Collection exhibition . ... asking for art from within ... in the Tyrolean State Museum , Innsbruck, together with Günther Dankl
Fonts
- Avant-garde Eastern Europe 1910 to 1930 , Eberhard Roters , Hannah Weitemeier, Deutsche Ges. F. Fine arts, 1967
- Light visions. An experiment by Moholy-Nagy , Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin; Edition: 1. (1972), ISBN 978-8-544145-69-2
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy , by Hannah Weitemeier, Hatje, 1974, ISBN 978-3-775700-95-5
- Exhibition: François Morellet : January 15 to February 20, 1977, Hannah Steckel; Berlin - State Museums Prussian Cultural Heritage National Gallery, 1977
- Jannis Psychopedis - drawings 1976–1978 , by Hannah Weitemeier-Steckel, 1978
- Zero. Images of a European avant-garde 1958–1964 , texts (German) Ursula Perucchi-Petri / Hannah Weitemeier-Steckel / Eugen Gomringer , exhibition cat . Kunsthaus Zurich, 1979
- Schwarz: October 16 - November 29, 1981. Verlag Frölich and Kaufmann, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-88725-035-4
- Rotraut , new paintings : [exhibition] December 3rd, 1987-January 16th, 1988, Pascal de Sarthe Gallery, San Francisco (English)
- Zero. Vision and movement; Works from the Lenz Schönberg Collection; Municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus Munich, 28.9. - November 6, 1988. , Munich, Städt. Gallery in the Lenbachhaus, 1988. (1988)
- Günther Uecker ; Artists - Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art, an edition by Weltkunst and Bruckmann, 1988
- Lenz Schönberg Collection. A European movement in the visual arts from 1958 until today. Hannah Weitemeier (Ed.), Stuttgart, Edition Cantz, 1989, ISBN 3-89322-152-2
- Julije Knifer : Meander 1960-1990 , Dany Keller Galerie (1990), ISBN 978-3-923993-19-2
- Kolekcja Lenza Schönberga , Galeria Zachęta , 1992 (Polish)
- Yves Klein: body, color, immateriality. Taschen Verlag, 1995
- Otto Piene | Retrospective 1952–1996 , texts: Hanhardt , Herzogenrath , Nam June Paik , H. Weitemeier and others, editors: Stephan von Wiese and Susanne Rennert, Verlag Wienand, Cologne, 1996, ISBN 978-3-87909-468-4
- Stephanie Jünemann October 5 - November 2, 1997 , Kunstverein Museum Schloß Morsbroich eV, Leverkusen; [Georg Meistermann Scholarship]
- Mack , Licht im Schwarz , Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf, 2001 with essays by Heinz Mack, Hannah Weitemeier and Bernd Finkeldey
- Zero. The European vision - 1958 until today. Collection Lenz Schönberg, Silvia Höller, Hanna Weitemeier (curators), Innsbruck RLB-Arts, 2003
Web links
- Excerpts from a studio talk between Hannah Weitemeier and the artist Stephanie Jünemann on July 19, 1997 in Berlin. (PDF file; 106 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Report of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation on its activities in 1968, p. 70, accessed on March 7, 2019
- ↑ Pinakothek Beuys Was sind Multiples accessed on March 9, 2019
- ↑ Tanja Stelzer: The imposition of the meat. In: Der Tagesspiegel. December 7, 2003, accessed August 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Taschen Hannah Weitemeier accessed on March 5, 2019
- ^ IfA artist / architect Gerry Schum accessed on March 7, 2019
- ^ Café Deutschland, Jürgen Harten In conversation with the first art scene in Germany, accessed on March 6, 2019
- ↑ artfacts, the art from within, requested on March 5, 2019
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Weitemeier, Hannah |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weitemeier-Steckel, Hannah; Schum-Weitemeier, Hannah; Vaĭtemaĭer, Khanny |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German exhibition curator and art historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1942 |
DATE OF DEATH | 4th September 2013 |
Place of death | Berlin |