Katrin Sello

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Katrin Sello (born December 8, 1941 in Berlin ; † January 20, 1992 in Hanover ) was a German art historian , art critic and director of the Kunstverein Hannover .

Life

Katrin Sello was born as the daughter of the photographer Ingeborg Sello and the art historian and critic Gottfried Sello , grew up in Hamburg and studied art history and German in Munich and Berlin . In Berlin she was one of the co-founders of the New Society for Fine Arts , began to work as an art critic and as an author for exhibition catalogs. In 1976 she succeeded Helmut R. Leppien as director of the Kunstverein Hannover (until 1989). During this time she was responsible for over 70 exhibitions, for example about Constant Permeke , Frida Kahlo , Tina Modotti , Maria Lassnig , Marianne von Werefkin and Miriam Cahn . The establishment of the "Villa Minimo" scholarship for up-and-coming artists and the subsequent autumn exhibitions of the award winners was also her initiative. She died after years of serious illness.

Katrin Sello is buried in the Engesohde city cemetery in Hanover (Department 15), the inscription on her tombstone reads: I am worried that if I will not be, it will be. KS

In 2003, the state capital of Hanover named a path in the Badenstedt district after Katrin Sello.

Exhibition catalogs (selection)

  • Baking pictures. Art that is not breadless . Kunstverein Hannover, December 1976-January 1977. Catalog design: Katrin Sello. Hanover 1977.
  • Afterimages. The benefits and disadvantages of citation for art . Kunstverein Hannover, June 10 to July 29, 1979. Catalog: Gerhard Ahrens and Katrin Sello. Hanover: Art Association 1979.
  • Art from the GDR, Halle district . Kunstverein Hannover, December 2, 1979 to February 3, 1980. Catalog: Helmut Brade and Katrin Sello. Hanover: Art Association 1979.
  • Painted Sartorius. Drawings and etchings . Kunstverein Hannover, April 26 to May 31, 1981. Catalog: Katrin Sello. Hanover: Art Association 1981.
  • Mirror images . Kunstverein Hannover, May 9 to June 30, 1982 […]. Katrin Sello [ed.]. Hannover (inter alia): Kunstverein 1982.
  • List of confiscated works and unpublished documents . Documentation as part of the exhibition "Forbidden, Persecuted - Art Dictatorship in the Third Reich", Kunstverein Hannover, June 5 to August 14, 1983. Editor: Katrin Sello. Hanover: Kunstverein 1983.
  • Twelve sculptors in Lower Saxony. Hans-Jürgen Breuste , Emil Cimiotti , Ulrike Enders, Yvonne Goulbier, Sabine Krasel, Gabriele Marwede, Christiane Möbus, Siegfried Neuenhausen, Rolf Nickel, Heinz-Günter Prager, Karl Schaper, Timm Ulrichs . Exhibition, December 7, 1985 - January 19, 1986. Editor: Katrin Sello. Hanover: Art Association 1985.

Poems

  • I wanted to be an antelope at night. Non-prose . Hamburg: Christians 1992. ISBN 3-7672-1167-X

Honors

  • The Katrin-Sello-Weg street, laid out in 2003 in the Hanoverian district of Badenstedt , has honored the journalist and Kunstverein director with her name.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Hanover's street names - changes since 2001. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Episode 57/58 (2003), pp. 277–286
personal data
SURNAME Sello, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, art critic and director of the Hannover Art Association
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1992
Place of death Hanover