Ingrid Skiebe
Ingrid Skiebe (born 1942 in Schorndorf ) is a German art historian , freelance author , exhibition organizer and estate administrator of the artist Robert Rotar . She lives and works in Düsseldorf .
Life
After finishing school in 1959, Skiebe completed a short training course at the Breuninger fashion house in Stuttgart. From 1959 to 1961 she studied at the German Textile School in Nagold, specializing in fashion and advertising. Upon completion of the diploma with honors, she worked from 1962 to 1965 as a fashion journalist and copywriter in advertising agency in Düsseldorf Geutebrück. At the time, the advertising agency had the entire fashion budget for the “Diolen” brand from Glanzstoff AG in Wuppertal. As assistant to the co-owner Erika Böse, she managed the “Diolen” fashion shows that were held in Berlin, Munich and Düsseldorf. For the fashion shows, she also put together the corresponding accessories for the model dresses and wrote the fashion texts for them. She accompanied photo shoots for the fashion press and worked with internationally known fashion photographers (e.g. FC Gundlach , W. Scholten, Regina Relang etc.). In 1965 she married Holger Skiebe, manager of the leading American furniture design company Knoll International in Düsseldorf. He was also active in painting under the pseudonym Robert Rotar. At the same time she took on the press work for Rotar and made contacts with galleries, museums and collectors. Rotar made contacts with the Deutscher Werkbund NRW and leading architects.
From 1966 Skiebe sat in on the Düsseldorf gallery owner Hella Nebelung . Until her death in 1985, she worked on their stand at art fairs and was present during the preparations for the opening of the exhibition and with art collectors. At the same time she studied architecture for several semesters with Ernst Althoff and interior designer Ellen Birkelbach at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Her first institutional exhibition for Robert Rotar took place in 1965 at Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt. From 1967 she organized various television films in public programs and radio broadcasts on Rotar. Text contributions for art magazines, media releases and exhibitions were created.
From 1974 Skiebe worked as a freelance artist and exhibited her works of art in public. She created transparent wire objects, collages and frottages . Her first exhibition took place in 1978 in the Hella Nebelung Gallery in Düsseldorf, followed by numerous others, including in 1980 and 1981 in the " Great Düsseldorf Art Exhibition " in the Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf .
As a freelancer, she wrote art historical articles for art newspapers, art magazines and Deutsche Welle from 1978 .
After studying for four semesters at the University of Education in Neuss with a focus on art, she moved to the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University in Bonn in 1982 and studied art history alongside comparative religious studies , psychology , philosophy and political science . As a student, she received scholarships from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bonn and the Gerda Henkel Foundation in Düsseldorf . Skiebe received his doctorate in 1987 on the artist Thomas Ring with the dissertation Thomas Ring. A painter from the Sturm area , a monograph with a catalog raisonné .
At the same time she arranged exhibitions for other artists, gave opening speeches and wrote for these catalog articles. She gave various lectures such as at the University of Witten / Herdecke , Friedrich Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and seminars at adult education centers .
Skiebe worked on the borders between art, science, industry and politics. She was well networked with galleries, art collectors, art museums, politics or with business and industry. In addition to curating numerous Rotar solo exhibitions, she has edited various books on Robert Rotar. Since Rotar's death in 1999, Ingrid Skiebe has looked after his artistic estate, maintains contacts with galleries, museums, collectors, the press and the public, curates / arranges exhibitions and creates the basis for the Rotar catalog raisonné. In 2019 she founded the "ROTAR and Dr. Ingrid Skiebe Foundation ”.
Publications
- Thomas Ring. A painter from the circle of "Sturm Leben, Stilkritische Analyze und Werkverzeichnis" 2 vol., Herzberg 1988, dissertation from the University of Bonn, ISBN 3 88309 025-5 , 648 pages.
- Robert Rotar. Life and work 1926–1999. Basics of his pictures and thought pictures, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-86678-304-1 , 543 pages.
- Robert Rotar. Show conceal. Conceal. The transformation of transience and death in artistic work , Bielefeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-7356-0630-3 , 160 pages.
- About the work Diploma thesis of the training institute of the German textile retail trade, Nagold, 1961/1962, 48 pages, archive of the German textile retail trade, Nagold.
- The face as a transparent imprint , 1981, semester thesis Pädagogische Hochschule Neuss, 72 S. Archive University Art Library, Düsseldorf.
Web links
- Ingrid Skiebe's website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Skiebe, Ingrid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schorndorf |