Hella Nebelung
Hella Nebelung (born June 11, 1912 in Beuthen , † June 16, 1985 in Düsseldorf ) was a German ballet dancer and gallery owner .
life and work
education
Hella Nebelung was born in 1912 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia. The family moved to Breslau , where they attended the Lyceum of the Von-Zavatzki School (later Dietrich-Eckart School) for ten years , and the ballet studio of the sisters Helga and Inge Swedlund there. Her greatest wish was to become a dancer. Her father, a lawyer and presiding judge at the regional court, insisted on learning a civil profession. So Hella Nebelung bowed to her parents' wishes and trained to be a gymnastics teacher.
At the age of 18, after completing her exams as a gymnastics teacher, she went to the Breslau Opera House as a dance trainee . In 1934 she followed the ensemble of the ballet master and choreographer Aurel von Milloss via Augsburg to Düsseldorf to the Düsseldorf Opera House . This was followed by a year of final dance polish in the ballet school of the "Teatro Reale" in Rome. She absolutely wanted to become a ballet master.
Back in Düsseldorf, in addition to her work as a dancer at the Düsseldorf Opera, Hella Nebelung had set up a small dance studio in her first apartment on Prinz-Georg-Straße . Students from the Düsseldorf Art Academy came there to study the rehearsing dancers. The studio became a meeting point for artists from the Rhenish art scene, such as Oskar Moll , Peter Janssen , Robert Pudlich and Oswald Petersen . She organized small exhibitions in her rooms, the first in 1940 under the title “Dancers”.
During the Second World War , Hella Nebelung was drafted to look after the troops as a solo dancer in France and Holland.
Hella Nebelung Gallery
After the end of the war, the painter Peter Janssen encouraged her to open a gallery. On December 22, 1945, Hella Nebelung opened the Hella Nebelung art dealership in the ruins of a patrician house that was still bombed by the war at Hofgartenstrasse 10 (entrance Logengasse) . The architect Helmut Hentrich and convicts from Ulmer Höh helped with the construction.
She was one of the first gallery owners to establish the art trade in post-war Germany. Under the title "Contemporary Art", Hella dedicated the first exhibition to befriended Rhenish painters from around the young Rhineland artist group . Werner Heuser , the academy director appointed shortly thereafter, opened it. The exhibition directory included names such as Theo Champion , Arthur Erdle , Bruno Goller , Werner Heuser, Hans Schröers , Heinz May , Kurt Neyers , Robert Pudlich , Helmut Weitz and Peter Janssen, who was involved in founding the Hella Nebelung gallery in 1945. From 1945 to 1948, Hella Nebelung's gallery was mainly financed by barter . You paid with alcohol, tea, cloth or oil. She showed “progressive painting”, as one of her exhibition posters announced in 1947. "At my second exhibition in January 1946, young people smeared my posters with the words 'degenerate art'", says the gallery owner. And in 1948 Der Spiegel wrote in an exhibition review: “Among Düsseldorf's culture enthusiasts there are only a few who go to Hella Nebelung's gallery and see abstract paintings. For the traditional art city of Düsseldorf, the abstract is something out of the ordinary. The people of Düsseldorf are more focused on fragrant landscapes. "
With the introduction of the currency reform and the Deutsche Mark, Hella Nebelung organized an exhibition “Small Pictures” in autumn 1948, at a “small” price, in order to keep up with the currency reform. In the first few years the gallery mainly represented artists from the New Rhenish Secession , such as Carl Barth , Oswald Petersen , Robert Pudlich and Max Peiffer Watenphul . Because of her close contact with the art critic Albert Schulze-Vellinghausen , Hella Nebelung increasingly exhibited abstract artists from 1947/48, such as Joseph Fassbender , Georg Meistermann , Otto Ritschl and Hann Trier . She expanded the circle of regional painters to include internationally known classical modern artists such as Fritz Winter , Willi Baumeister and Oskar Schlemmer as well as expressionist artists such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Erich Heckel , Alexej Jawlensky , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Christian Rohlfs and Otto Mueller . With Karl Hartung she also considered an artist of the younger generation.
Hella Nebelung organized many special events such as concerts, lectures on philosophy, psychoanalysis and art, poetry readings, lavish parties and changing matinees .
In 1949/50 names like Alexej von Jawlensky , Wassily Kandinsky , Ida Kerkovius , Georges Rouault , Georg Muche and Werner Heldt were read . Hella Nebelungs Gallery became one of the city's intellectual centers. Her guests included actors, poets, composers and artists such as Gustaf Gründgens , Jean Cocteau , Günter Lüders , Arnold Gehlen , Werner Egk and Wolf von Niebelschütz .
In 1955, when the old patrician house with the large terrace on the courtyard garden had to give way to Hochstrasse Centipede , Hella Nebelung and her gallery moved into the former guard house in Ratinger Tor . The gallery was on the ground floor and her apartment on the upper floor. For the opening exhibition in September 1955, it was the first to show the monochrome color panels by the Parisian avant-garde artist Yves Klein .
Her gallery continued to be the meeting point for social life in the city. Rhenish celebrities met at the vernissages. Her customers included the Cologne collector Josef Haubrich and Willem Sandberg , director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
From 1958 Hella Nebelung devoted herself to abstract tendencies in art, such as the Belgian group "art abstrait" or the informal artists Emil Schumacher , Hann Trier , Hans Hartung or Jaroslaw Serpan and the École de Paris . In September 1958, Hella Nebelung organized a large themed exhibition with small-format pictures. This included works by around 100 artists such as Julius Bissier , Marc Chagall , Winfred Gaul , Karl Hartung , Henri Matisse , Ernst Wilhelm Nay , Robert Pudlich, Marie Louise von Rogister , Anton Rooskens , Emil Schumacher, Heinz Trökes and Hans Werdehausen . Hella had collected the pictures over a longer period of time and also asked artists to leave them in smaller formats.
Working with the art dealer Denise René from Paris, who specializes in kinetics and op art , Hella Nebelung was the first Düsseldorf gallery to show kinetic art in 1963 . Were represented Jesús Rafael Soto and Julio Le Parc . In 1968, “Young German Artists” followed, including Johannes Brus , Dieter Oehm , Wilfrid Polke and Norbert Tadeusz . In 1970 Hella Nebelung represented "Realists" (New Realism) with Sam Francis , Giuseppe Santomaso , Lucio Fontana , Antoni Tàpies , Andy Warhol , Christian Megert and Robert Filliou .
From 1974 to 1984 Hella Nebelung took part in the IKM fair (International Art Market), today Art Cologne , alternately in Cologne and Düsseldorf. In the early 1980s she had a solo exhibition with the German sculptor Hede Bühl at Art Basel .
Hella Nebelung died of heart failure on June 16, 1985, between two festivities. After her death in 1986, the gallery was continued by Hete Hünermann (1939–2001), sister of Gabriele Henkel .
literature
- Daniela Wilmes, Competition for Modernism: On the history of the art trade in Cologne after 1945, page 150, 192
- Catalog Galerie Hella Nebelung, Düsseldorf Hofgartenstrasse 10, opening Christmas exhibition 1945.
- Catalog Galerie Hella Nebelung, contemporary graphics and plastic, 1947/48, pictures by Buschmann, Berke, Champion, Erdle, Fassbender, Goller, Hundt, Janssen, Kampf, Neyers, Petersen, Schroers, Sohl, Trier, Weitz and others, Düsseldorf, 1947
- Young German artists, exhibition Düsseldorf, Galerie Hella Nebelung until the end of October 1968
- Hermann Waldenburg, catalog of the gallery Hella Nebelung Düsseldorf from April to May 1980
- Friedrich Julia, Prinzing Andreas, This is how you started, without many words Exhibition and collection policy in the first years after the Second World War, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, November 10, 2014 - 240 pages (Google eBook)
- Wolfram Mauser, Carl Pietzcker, literature and psychoanalysis, memories as building blocks of a history of science, Königshausen & Neumann, ISBN 3-8260-3787-1
Exhibitions
- Selection of exhibitions at the Hella Nebelung Gallery from 1945 to 1974
- 1975: Art Cologne
- 1976: Art Cologne
- 1980: Art Cologne
- 1983: Art Basel
Web links
- In Hella Nebelungs floor, it's abstract . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1948 ( online ).
- The biggest competition at the time was not Mother Ey, but the former dancer Hella Nebelung with her gallery at Ratinger Tor.
- From dancer to gallery owner, On the death of the art dealer Hella Nebelung, Anna Klapheck (1899-1986), Düsseldorf art critic, professor of art history, Rheinische Post, June 20, 1985
- Art and lavish parties, 25 years of the Hella Nebelung Gallery, YVONNE FRIEDRICHS In: Rheinische Post. December 19, 1970
- DIE ZEIT Archive Year: 1946 Issue: 32 Page 2 Art in Hamburg, Berthold Glauerdt
- Galerie Hella Nebelung closed (accessed February 24, 2015)
- Brigitte Jacobs van Renswou: Portrait of the Hella Nebelung Gallery (1945–1985) , on ZADIK, Central Archive for German and International Art Market Research e. V., accessed April 6, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dietrich Eckart School in Breslau ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/DieMusik17jg2hj1925/DieMusik17jg2hj1925_djvu.txt
- ↑ http://www.janssenart.de/luke.htm
- ↑ http://wwwalt.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/frauenarchiv/friedrichs/galerie_nebelung.html
- ↑ http://www.kunstmarkt.com/pagesmag/kunst/_id33670-/news_detail.html?_q=%20
- ↑ Hete Hünermann (1939–2001) ( duesseldorf.de/gleichstellung/archiv/frauenwege )
- ↑ http://www.artcontent.de/zadik/Stock.aspx?b_id=239
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nebelung, Hella |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ballet dancer and gallery owner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bytom |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1985 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |