Irene Below

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Irene Below (* 1942 ) is a German art historian .

Career

Below studied in Munich , Cologne and Berlin . From 1964 to 1967 she was DAAD -Stipendiatin for Florence and was established in 1971 with a dissertation on Leonardo da Vinci and Filippino Lippi doctorate . As early as 1972, Irene Below suggested at a congress of the Association of German Art Historians in Konstanz that the issue of women in art history should be considered, thus initiating a discussion on the feminist perspective in art history. From 1974 to 2004 Irene Below taught at the Oberstufen-Kolleg Bielefeld , since 2007 as a lecturer at the University of Bielefeld in the Department of Art and Music. This goes hand in hand with a freelance work as a curator and publicist . From 1995 to 1999 she went on research trips to South Africa. In 2000 she was a founding member of the Frauenkunstforum-owl e. V. and 1987–1994 spokeswoman for the section on women's studies in art studies in the Ulm Association - Association for Art and Cultural Studies . Since 1988 she has been the initiator of the women's forum in the Association of German Art Teachers .

Irene Below got involved in 1998 against the name Richard-Kaselowsky -Haus for the Kunsthalle Bielefeld , which is why the director at the time, Thomas Kellein, approached the school office, as he promised to support this "teacher who went wild" from there.

She was and is often engaged in social policy; In the 1980s, for example, she co-founded a self-managed day-care center with alternative pedagogy, and in 2017 of the self-help initiative "We age differently for us".

Below is married and has two sons. She lives in Werther near Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Focus of work

Her work focuses on settlement architecture of the 1920s, feminist art and cultural studies, artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, the periphery and center in art, the art world and science, as well as studies on the exile of artists and scientists.

Publications (selection)

  • The good times are over. The good times never existed. Political culture from below in a reform institution - Irene Below (author), Peter Fuchs (author), Frankfurt (Main), 1986 ISBN 3-88704-044-9
  • There was not only the Bauhaus: Irene Below (author) Bauhaus Dessau Foundation , 1994 ISBN 3-936796-20-3
  • Gisela Wölbing / Gertrud van Dyck: Historical museums: Writings of the historical museums of the city of Bielefeld 8. Irene Below, Jörg Boström, Jutta Hülsewieg-Johnen, Gottfried Jäger, Rosa Schumacher, Sybille Seiger. Westfalen Verlag, 1996 ISBN 3-88918-088-4
  • Irma Stern and Expressionism . Africa and Europe. Irene Below (author), Jutta Hülsewig-Johnen (author) Christof Kerber Verlag, 1998 ISBN 3-924639-73-6
  • Hidden treasures, Irma Stern, Irene Below: Society of Bibliophiles in Cape Town, 2000 ISBN 0-620-26727-5
  • The advantages of being an artist: Susanne Albrecht (author), Irene Below (author), Angela Kahre (author) Interdisciplinary Center for Women and Gender Studies (IFF), 2001 ISBN 3-932869-10-9
  • one and two: Irene Below (preface), Joachim Bünemann (preface), Stefanie Lux-Althoff (editor) Landesverband Lippe, 2001 ISBN 3-9807375-2-7
  • Christel Linkerhägner : Irene Below (editor), Christa Niestrath (editor), Tanja Kämmer (foreword), Christel Linkerhägner (photographer) frauenkunstforum-owl, 2004 ISBN 3-9809866-0-8
  • Feminist interventions: The exhibition "Everyday Women and Women's Movement 1890–1980" in the Frankfurt Historical Museum. In: Annegret Friedrich (Ed.): The freedom of others. Festschrift for Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff . Marburg 2004, pp. 67-81.
  • Cultural hierarchies in art (education)? In: Johannes Kirschenmann, Rainer Wenrich, Wolfgang Zacharias (eds.): Art-pedagogical generation talk. The future needs a past . Munich 2004, pp. 290-293.
  • Irene Below with Susanne Albrecht: "Marble, stone and other materials" - a successful cooperation and its requirements. Shortcut in: Soft Logics in Art Education, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, 2004
  • Irene Below with Beatrice von Bismarck : “Globalization / Hierarchization: Cultural Dominances in Art and Art History”, 2004, ISBN 978-3-89445-339-8
  • Globalization / hierarchization . Irene Below (author), Beatrice von Bismarck (author). Jonas Verlag, 2004 ISBN 3-89445-339-7
  • With Ayşe and Ariane in the hamam - contemporary art and intercultural learning in art education. In: World Art Education. Art mediation between western art concepts and global issues. Loccumer Protocols, Loccum 2005
  • Against the norm. Susanne Lüftner's artistic strategies. In: Susanne Lüftner. Werkschau 1978–2004, Dortmund 2005, pp. 2–11.
  • Irene Below with Melanie Blank: Helene Homilius (* 1910) - an almost forgotten artist from Hörste / Halle i. Westf. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch Kreis Gütersloh, Gütersloh 2005, pp. 169–173.
  • Susanne Lüftner : Werkschau 1973–2004 Silvia Liebig (designer), Michael Odenwaller (designer), Susanne Lüftner (illustrator), Evan von der Dunk (translator), Irene Below (author), Gabriele Oberreuter (author). Kunst-Praxis Soest, 2005 ISBN 3-00-017262-9
  • “That absurd lightness of innovation” Hanna Deinhard's criticism of science, art sociology and art education. In: Ursula Hudson – Wiedenmann, Beate Schmeichel – Falkenberg (ed.): Crossing borders. Women, Art and Exile, Würzburg 2005. pp. 151–179. And in: kunststoff magazine for art and science 3/2005
  • Between cultures. “Umgababa” - Irma Stern's first travel book. In: Theresa Georgen , Carola Muysers: stages of the self. On autobiography in the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries. Series Gestalt and Discourse, Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel 2006, pp. 221–244.
  • Lucy von Jacobi - journalist. Concept and editing: Rolf Aurich, Wolfgang Jacobsen, Irene Below, Ruth Oelze. Film & Schrift, Volume 9, edition text &kritik, Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3-86916-003-0
  • Irene Below: Disabled careers in times of upheaval: Benita Koch-Otte (1892–1976). In: Inge Hansen-Schaberg, Wolfgang Thöner and Adriane Feustel (eds.): Removed: Women of the Bauhaus during the Nazi era - persecution and exile. edition text + kritik, autumn 2012
  • Friedrich Meschede , Jutta Huelsewig-Johnen , with texts a. a. by Irene Below: "To open eyes: Art and textiles from the Bauhaus to today", 2013, ISBN 978-3-86678-919-7
  • Irene Below, Inge Hansen-Schaberg , Maria Kublitz-Kramer (Eds.): "The End of Exile ?: Letters from Women after 1945 (Women and Exile)", 2014, ISBN 978-3-86916-373-4
  • Irene Below, Burcu Dogramaci (Ed.): "Art and Society Between Cultures: The Art Historian Hanna Levy-Deinhard in Exile and Her Current Issues Today (Women and Exile)", 2016, ISBN 978-3-86916-491-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz: Irene Below: Florenz 1935-1938 ( Memento from November 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius : Feminist art history today: feedback and suggestions. In: Kritischeberichte 2, 1999, p. 26.
  3. ↑ quoted from Irene Below: "When art breaks out of its elitist white ghetto ... (Liz Crossley)" "An other 1995" in Trier (PDF file; 170 kB), accessed on March 14, 2013
  4. ↑ quoted from Ralph Findeisen: Unconscious Neocolonialismus artnet 2006 , accessed on March 14, 2013
  5. Jump up in Bielefeld - Left shift , Der Bielefelder
  6. ↑ Westfalen-Blatt, September 23, 2019 Aging differently , accessed on January 25, 2020
  7. ↑ quoted from Irene Below: Lucy von Jakobi Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz ( Memento from November 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 14, 2013
  8. ↑ Kerberverlag To Open Eyes , accessed on January 25, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Below, Irene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1942