Karina Türr

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Karina Türr (2012)

Karina Türr (also: Katja Marina Türr or Karina Türr-Menning ) (born July 28, 1942 in Wuppertal-Elberfeld ; † November 21, 2016 in Großburgwedel ) was a German art historian , author, editor , retired university professor and gallery owner .

Life

Years of learning and apprenticeship

Karina Türr received her doctorate in 1971 from the University of Cologne with a dissertation on a group of muses from Hadrian times. The so-called Thespiaden and completed his habilitation in 1977 at the Philosophical Faculty of the same university on the subject of the reception of antiquities in French sculpture of the 19th and early 20th centuries .

As a professor, Türr taught art history at the University of Duisburg , the University of Cologne and the University of Erlangen , while doing extensive research on the art forms of realism .

Sculpture Forum Isernhagen

In her retirement , the professor emeritus expanded her parents' home in Isernhagen into the Gallery Sculpture Forum Isernhagen . There she presented sculptures by the Berlin artist and professor couple Christa Biederbick and Karlheinz Biederbick , as well as younger artists.

In the park-like garden, visitors to the gallery will find works by the Hanoverian sculptor Ulrike Enders , wooden sculptures by Peter Nettesheim or works by Birgid Helmy .

Katarina Türr also presented works by Inge Therese Dietrich, Ludmilla Seefried-Matejkova, Eva Maria Lankes and Guido Messer to visitors to her gallery for the finissage under the title “The 68ers turned 70” .

The art historian and gallery owner Karina Türr had distributed a large-format invitation to Conversazione in Giardino - conversations in the garden , which took place in her gallery on the 17th of each month from 5:00 p.m. and offered lectures “and discussions about art and art history”. Türr died in 2016 at the age of 74.

Fonts

  • with Helge Bathelt: sculptures from 40 years / Guido Messer . Ed .: City of Herrenberg. Herrenberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-929419-55-9 .
  • Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" . In: Karl Möseneder, Dietrich Reimer (ed.): Controversy about images. From Byzantium to Duchamp . Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01169-6 , pp. 221-235 .
  • Color and Naturalism in 19th and 20th Century Sculpture . von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-1443-4 .
  • Op art. Style, ornament or experiment? (=  Gebrüder Mann studio series ). Mann, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-7861-1435-8 .
  • Counterfeiting of antique plastic since 1800 . Mann, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-7861-1163-4 .
  • with Wilhelm Johann Menning (Ed.): Writings. Fragments on the art theory of the early 20th century (=  Gebrüder Mann Studio series ). Mann, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-7861-1240-1 .
  • For the reception of antiquities in French sculpture of the 19th and early 20th centuries . Habilitation, Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne 1977. Mann, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-7861-1199-5 .
  • A group of muses from Hadrian times. The so-called thespiads . Dissertation, University of Cologne. Mann, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-7861-2139-7 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Karina Türr  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Compare the GND number of the German National Library
  2. ↑ Compare, for example, the entry in telefonbuch.de
  3. ↑ a b c d Michael Stoeber: Sculpture Forum Isernhagen / Realistic sculptures in the garden (see literature)
  4. ↑ Karina Türr: Invitation to the exhibition finissage ... on September 15, 2012 ... , photo leporello from the Sculpture Forum Isernhagen, 2012
  5. ↑ Karina Türr: Invitation / Conversazione in Giardino - Conversations in the garden , large-format postcard from the Sculpture Forum Isernhagen, [o. O., 2012?]
  6. ^ Frank Walter: Mistress of the sculptures died. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine. January 11, 2017, accessed March 30, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Türr, Karina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Türr, Katja M .; Türr, Katja Marina; Türr, Katarina; Karina Türr-Menning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, university professor, author and editor, gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal-Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 2016
Place of death Großburgwedel