Henry van de Velde Society
| Henry van de Velde Society | |
|---|---|
| legal form | registered association |
| founding | May 4th 1959 |
| founder | Herta Hesse-Frielinghaus , Walter Gropius , Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , Alvar Aalto and others |
| Seat | Hagen , Westphalia |
| main emphasis | Preservation and safeguarding of the work of Henry van de Velde |
The Hagener Henry van de Velde Society eV (spelling: Henry van de Velde Society ) is a cultural association for the preservation of the memory of the Belgian artist Henry van de Velde . It has its own extensive collection of works by the artist.
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On May 4, 1959, Herta Hesse-Frielinghaus founded the Henry van de Velde-Gesellschaft with a group of architects including Walter Gropius , Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto . Herta Hesse-Frielinghaus (1910–1988) was, as director of the Osthaus Museum Hagen , also managing director of the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Bund eV / Hagener Kunstverein and the driving force behind the founding of the " West German Artists Association ". Hesse-Frielinghaus not only tried again and again to make new purchases for the so-called Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum under its management, but also dedicated itself to the commemoration and care of the work of Henry van de Velde even before the company was founded Contact with van de Velde, his family and also with his descendants and his friends. She researched Hagen's cultural history, for which she scientifically evaluated the archive documents of the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum for the first time, from which the Osthaus archive was created.
In memory of the European architect and craftsman who died in 1957, the association tries to safeguard his work. As a permanent loan to the Osthaus Museum Hagen, the company's extensive collection, consisting of the architect's furniture and decorative arts, is presented in the “ Hohenhof - Museum of Hagen Impulse”.
The Henry van de Velde Society is based in Hohenhof, the former home of the museum's founder, Karl Ernst Osthaus , which was architecturally designed and furnished by Henry van de Velde. The interior design of the historic old building of the Osthaus Museum in the Hagen Art Quarter , the original Folkwang Museum in Hagen, was also designed by the architect. It is thanks to the work of the association that, among other things, a large part of the Hohenhof's important pieces of equipment - furniture and handicrafts - were able to return to their original location. In 1999, at the instigation of the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, the Hohenhof was opened to the public as a museum as an anchor point on the Route of Industrial Culture.
Board
Board
- Martin Ernst Duthweiler, landscape architect, Munich
- Birgit Schulte, Deputy. Director of the Osthaus Museum Hagen
- Barbara Welzel, Professor of Art History (Chair) and Vice Rector Diversity Management at the Technical University of Dortmund
executive Director
- Rouven Lotz , Scientific Director of the Emil Schumacher Museum Hagen , also member of the board of the Henry van de Velde Society Saxony.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Elisabeth May, Hagener Heimatbund eV (Hrsg.): Herta Hesse-Frielinghaus - initiator of the "Osthaus-Renaissance". In: HagenBuch 2015. Impulses for city, home and art history. ardenkuverlag, Hagen 2015, ISBN 978-3-942184-41-0 , pp. 121-131.
- ^ Hesse-Frielinghaus, Hoff, Erben, Volprecht, Müller, Stressig, Buekschmitt: Karl Ernst Osthaus. Life and work. Aurel Bongers Verlag, Recklinghausen 1971, ISBN 3-7647-0223-0 .