Hanne Darboven

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Hanne Darboven (born April 29, 1941 in Munich ; † March 9, 2009 in Hamburg-Rönneburg ) was a German conceptual artist . She became known for her handwriting drawings, which are based on number operations, writing out digits as well as on rhythmic lines and strikeouts.

life and work

Hanne Darboven, daughter of Kirsten Darboven and Caesar Darboven, grew up in the south of Hamburg, in Rönneburg , as the middle of three daughters in a Hamburg merchant family. Her father was the owner of the Harburg coffee company JW Darboven (not to be confused with the coffee company JJ Darboven ).

Until 1962, Hanne Darboven attended the artistic upper school branch of the Waldörfer School in Hamburg-Volksdorf , the long way from the family estate on the southern side of the Elbe was covered with the help of a father's chauffeur. After studying from 1962 to 1965 at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg with Willem Grimm and Almir Mavignier , she went to New York for two years in 1966 and began to go her own way, initially in complete isolation from the New York art world. In the winter of 1966/67 she came into contact with Minimal Art artists such as Sol LeWitt and Carl Andre , with whom she became friends. During this time, the first serial construction-like drawings were made on graph paper with the inclusion of calendar data, "by making additions or forming cross-sums of the natural numbers 1 to 9", as well as "geometric and written set representations of periods based on the cross-sum of the days after self-selected" Indices' ".

In New York, Darboven developed systems of simple numerical sequences in columns of numbers and boxes according to apparently any calendar dates according to strictly predetermined structures (for example 3 5 7 5 3) with complex sequences of variations as part of a conceptual and minimal art. In 1967 she had her first solo exhibition at the Konrad Fischer Gallery in Düsseldorf . In 1969 she returned to Hamburg and began copying poems according to her own indices . In 1973 Darboven exhibited her works at Leo Castelli in New York.

From 1975 Darboven dealt with her main work, the writing time , in which she recorded the history she had experienced by means of numerical codes, word texts, diagrams and photographs, "in order to make sure of the largely unconscious flow of time with all its information and messages." In the work Friedrich II, Harburg In 1986 she used the motif of a postcard from 1910 four hundred times with a view of a square in Harburg , on which the Darbovens' parent company can also be seen. She copied the biography of Frederick II of Prussia on 19 pages . She needed four more sheets for the transition to today, seven for annual accounts and 365 for daily accounts. The calculations consist of calculating checksums so that at the end of the day each day has its own number, which makes each day an individual.

In 1980 she began to use a simple principle (number 0 = note d etc.) to convert her number systems into note sequences, which she had a professional musician arrange in the traditional way for various instruments.

The internationally renowned artist lived withdrawn and shy of the public in a converted farmhouse or manor house of her family in Hamburg-Rönneburg. She died there on March 9, 2009 at the age of 67 of lymph gland cancer, her grave is located on the extensive property of the "Am Burgberg" property in Hamburg-Rönneburg.

Hanne Darboven Foundation

In 2000, she founded the Hanne Darboven Foundation named after her in Hamburg, which aims to “preserve the extensive work of its founder as an internationally recognized artist and make it accessible to the public” and to support young artists. The chairman is Christoph H. Seibt . In July 2012, the Hanne Darboven Foundation acquired Hanne Darboven's former parental home from the City of Hamburg. The Hanne Darboven Foundation wants to use this house to scientifically record the artist's work and make it accessible to the general public. The official key handover took place on July 18, 2012. The foundation is now the new owner of the villa in Rönneburg. The Hanne Darboven Documentation Center in the Stiftungsvilla Am Burgberg was opened on February 25, 2017.

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Works in public collections (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary Die Welt March 14, 2009, last accessed on November 3, 2015
  2. ↑ Detailed biography of Hanne Darboven
  3. ↑ Jörn Merkert, Dieter Ronte, Walter Smerling (eds.): Collected spaces - collected dreams. Art from Germany from 1960 to 2000, pictures from the Grothe Collection in the Martin-Gropius-Bau . Dumont, Cologne 1999, p. 336
  4. ↑ a b Eckhart Gillen (Ed.): Deutschlandbilder. Art from a divided country. Dumont, Cologne 1997, p. 611
  5. ↑ Grave illustration on the DARE website , section artist portraits
  6. ↑ Board of Directors, Board of Trustees and Advisory Board. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
  7. ^ Hanne Darboven Foundation acquires parent company . In: FOCUS of July 18, 2012.
  8. ↑ Hanne Darboven - Packed Time , art-in.de, February 23, 2017
  9. ↑ Exhibition: Zeitgeschichten; September 11, 2015 to January 17, 2016 , accessed September 25, 2015
  10. ^ Exhibition: Hanne Darboven. Enlightenment; September 18, 2015 to February 14, 2016 , accessed November 3, 2015
  11. ↑ Honorary Professorship
  12. ↑ Hanne Darboven, One Century - Dedicated to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1971-1982 , 899 sheets, typewriter, ink, ballpoint pen, postcards, wooden frame, felt pen, Goethe bust (plaster cast after Christian Daniel Rauch), each 29.5 × 21 cm, inv . No. 1991/198
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personal data
SURNAME Darboven, Hanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 2009
Place of death Rönneburg