Art Association Hanover

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Art Association Hanover
purpose Exhibition, promotion and communication of contemporary art
Chair: Ellen Lorenz
Manager: Kathleen Rahn
Establishment date: 1832
Number of members: 1,200 (as of 2019)
Seat : Hanover
Website: kunstverein-hannover.de
Headquarters of the Hannover Art Association in the Künstlerhaus Hannover , January 2006

The Kunstverein Hannover e. V. is an art association that has its headquarters in the Künstlerhaus in Hanover . The association organizes five to six exhibitions of contemporary art every year .

history

Signed membership card 1981 by Manfred Kohrs
“Members of the Board of Directors and the hanging commission” for the 71st exhibition (from left): sculptor Eduard Taeger , regional director Karl Hugo Müller , painter Ernst Jordan , gas director Leonhard Körting , painter Paul Koken , bookseller Theodor Schulze , painter Heinrich Müller-Wachenfeld , city director Heinrich Tramm , Painter Fritz Brauer , civil engineer and treasurer Friedrich Osann and the landscape painter Rudolf Hermanns ;
Photo print based on a group picture by Ernst August Fischer , 1903

On March 3, 1832, the "Art Association for the Kingdom of Hanover " was founded. The founders were Bernhard Hausmann , a Hanoverian citizen and court clerk of the Hanoverian viceroy, and Johann Hermann Detmold .

Hausmann founded the association among bourgeois art lovers "in the locale of the Hausmann painting gallery". The purpose was to "enliven and spread the sense of the fine arts that happily developed in our country". Hausmann had already made his own collection available to the aristocratic and bourgeois public in his private rooms in 1818.

Today the association has 1200 members.

Structure of the art association

As a registered association, the art association makes decisions in general meetings, through the board of directors and the advisory board. The general assembly elects the members of the board of directors and the advisory board and decides on the principles for the distribution of annual expenses and the contribution. The board of directors has the task of leading the work of the association and is advised by the advisory board. The advisory board consists of 15 people, at least five of whom should be visual artists. The advisory board advises the directors on artistic issues and is heard before important decisions by the board of directors. The election takes place for three years, whereby the statutes revised in 1973 stipulate that five members are elected every year with the special feature that re-election is possible, but a pause of one year is required after a term of office has expired.

Chairperson

Around 1868 Carl Rümpler was chairman of the art association. Martin Neuffer was chairman of the art association during his tenure as city director. He was followed by the Hanover City Councilor for Culture, Heinz Lauenroth, whose successor was Karl-Ernst Bungenstab not only in the role of City Councilor for Culture, but also as chairman of the art association (1975 to 1991). Ellen Lorenz has chaired the art association since 1991; she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2018.

Directors

According to the Articles of Association of the Kunstverein, the board of directors can appoint a director and other employees to "manage the business and organize the association's events".

Director Kathleen Rahn;
in August 2018 for the opening of the autumn exhibition of Lower Saxony artists with the award of the art prize of the Sparkasse Hannover

Prize of the art association

The "Prize of the Art Association" has been awarded every two years since 1983. Until 2009, the award winners were two artists from Lower Saxony and two from Bremen. They received two-year work grants with living and studio space in a studio house called "Villa Minimo" based on the Villa Massimo in Rome. The scholarship concludes with an exhibition on the premises of the Kunstverein and, if possible, a catalog. Since 2010, the Kunstverein's award has been split into three different grants with the same framework conditions. There is a scholarship, a young talent scholarship and a national young talent scholarship for artists.

Exhibitions

Group and solo exhibitions (selection)

Autumn exhibition

According to the statutes, the exhibition program should “take into account artists from Hanover and Lower Saxony”. As a rule, the Kunstverein Hannover organizes the autumn exhibition of Lower Saxon artists every two years .

Publications

  • Henning Rischbieter : The twenties in Hanover. Fine arts, literature, theater, dance, architecture, 1916 - 1933. From August 12 to September 30, 1962 , catalog for the exhibition, Hanover: Kunstverein eV, 1962
  • Stephan Berg (Ed.): 175 years of the Kunstverein Hannover , Hannover 2007: Kunstverein Hannover, ISBN 978-3-934421-14-1

literature

Web links

Commons : Kunstverein Hannover  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtlexikon Hannover ... (see literature) p. 124
  2. ↑ a b Ines Katenhusen: 1832-2007 . In: Kunstverein Hannover (Ed.): 175 Years of the Kunstverein Hannover , 2007, pp. 178–275
  3. ↑ a b Articles of Association of the Art Association , accessed on August 8, 2019
  4. ↑ Articles of Association , s. Section 16 sentence 4, accessed on August 8, 2019
  5. ↑ Compare the letter to the board of directors of the Kunstverein in Hanover, Carl Rümpler  from Franz Stegmann dated February 6, 1868 in the autograph collection of the University and State Library of Bonn according to the information provided by the Kalliope Association
  6. ^ Helmut Brade: Art from the GDR, Halle district. Kunstverein Hannover Kunstverein Hannover 1979. Retrieved on August 8, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Hannover City Archives: City Chronicle 1989 - 2003 , Part B: 1997–2003 (unpag. PDF). Database Karl Josef Cretans and Uta Ziegan, editing: Uta Ziegan, p 235
  8. ^ Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Ed.): Stadtlexikon Hannover. From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hannover 2009, p. 378, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 ( link to the digitized version , accessed on November 27, 2019)
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am o. V .: exhibitions 1832-2007 , in: Stephan Berg (Ed.): 175 years of the Kunstverein Hannover. 1832-2007 , Hannover: Kunstverein Hannover, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934421-14-1 , pp. 294-299
  10. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w o. V .: Review of the exhibitions from 2000 to 2019 on the page kunstverein-hannover.de [no date], most recently accessed on June 20, 2019
  11. ↑ Articles of Association , s. § 2 last sentence, accessed on August 8, 2019
  12. ^ Hugo Thielen : Hannoversche Kunstblätter. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 260

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 22 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 35.7"  E