Ingrid Pfeiffer

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Ingrid Pfeiffer , maiden name Ingrid Wiesenmayer (born May 8, 1966 in Weilburg ) is a German art historian , author and exhibition curator .

life and work

She was born as Ingrid Wiesenmayer in an art-friendly family. She was the daughter of the gallery owner and writer Astrid Connert-Wiesenmayer (1929–1986), her father died early.

Pfeiffer studied art history and media studies from 1987 to 1992 at the Philipps University in Marburg . In 1992 she submitted her master's thesis and began her dissertation with the support of the Gerda Henkel Foundation , Düsseldorf. 1997 she was in Marburg with Christa Lichtenstern with the subject Erich Buchholz . Doctorate in composition and construction 1917-1928 .

From 1996 to 2000 she was a research assistant at the Museum Wiesbaden . During this time she spent longer research stays in New York . In 2000 she applied to the prospective director Max Hollein in New York as a curator for the Kunsthalle Schirn in Frankfurt am Main. She was hired by him and began working at the Kunsthalle in January 2001, two weeks before her future boss.

She has published numerous publications, including on Eugène Atget, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Johannes Itten, Eva Hesse, Erich Buchholz.

Ingrid Pfeiffer is married and lives in Darmstadt.

Curated exhibitions in the Schirn

  • 2002: Shopping - 100 years of art and consumption
  • 2002: Matisse - the paper cuts
  • 2003: Thomas Hirschhorn - double garage
  • 2004: Julian Schnabel
  • 2004: Yves Klein retrospective
  • 2008: Impressionists. Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond 
  • 2013: Yoko Ono. Half-a-wind show. A retrospective
  • 2014: Esprit Montmartre. The bohemians in Paris around 1900
  • 2015/2016: Sturm women. Avant-garde artists in Berlin 1910–1932
  • 2017: Splendor and misery in the Weimar Republic. From Otto Dix to Jeanne Mammen
  • 2020: Fantastic women. Surreal worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Topic of the master's thesis: Ingrid Wiesenmayer: César Domela. Construction, material language and linaement. Investigations on the early Paris work 1933-1946
  2. ↑ Topic of the dissertation: Ingrid Wiesenmayer: Erich Buchholz. 1891-1972. Architectural designs, interior design and typography by a universal artist of the early twenties . Tübingen, Berlin 1996.
personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Ingrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiesenmayer, Ingrid (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, author and exhibition curator
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Weilburg