Lena Vandrey

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Lena Vandrey (born April 23, 1941 in Breslau ; died November 8, 2018 in Bourg-Saint-Andéol ) was a feminist visual artist and author. From 1958 she lived in France . She is known for her imaginary portraits of women. Her works are assigned to Art brut .

life and work

After the Potsdam Conference in 1945, her parents left Breslau and moved to Hamburg, where Lena Vandrey grew up. As a child she began to paint, sculpt and write poetry. After graduating from business school, she moved to live with relatives in Paris when she was 17 . In 1967 she settled in Provence , where she restored an old country house for several years, where she lived and worked for decades and collected Provençal religious women's art. Lena Vandrey became involved in the feminist movement at an early age. a. friends with Monique Wittig , Hélène Cixous and Christine Delphy . Their house became a political meeting place.

Lena Vandrey described herself as a " feminist cultural worker ". With her art she wanted to give women a feeling for their own history. Recurring motifs in her drawings , figurative paintings and sculptures are amazons, angels, lesbian lovers and totemic female figures. Her works, for which she used raw materials such as earth and cloth, are, according to Michel Thévoz, of great expressiveness and create physical contact with the object depicted. Her first exhibition in 1974 in the Galerie Atelier Jacob in Paris, entitled Le Cycle des Amantes emputrescible ( Cycle of the incorruptible lovers ), showed a series of imaginary portraits of women; Inspired by Monique Wittig's novel Les Guérillères , they represent a fantasized world of Amazons . Works by Lena Vandrey can be found in the Collection de l'Art Brut Lausanne founded by Jean Dubuffet and the Museum Halle Saint Pierre in Paris. She published autobiographical and lyrical-expressive prose texts in German and French.

In 2002 she bought and renovated a city palace in Bourg-Saint-Andéol and set up the Musée Lena-Vandrey there with her partner, the literary scholar Mina Noubadji-Huttenlocher , which is also a hotel for women interested in art.

Publications (selection)

  • Paradigms of uncomfortable beauty. Design in words and pictures , with an introduction by Christa Reinig . Signs + Traces Frauenliteraturverlag, Bremen 1986
  • The Art of Enclosed , Essay Collection, ed. by Denny Hirschbach and Hanna Jacobs. Signs + Traces, Bremen 1989
  • The dream in: The art of existing , bankruptcy book 1/1991, pp. 109–121
  • Cooking picture book for the female art of living . Christel Göttert Verlag, Rüsselsheim 1998
  • Chapitres , on the occasion of the exhibition La beauté inconfortable , Edition Musée Halle Saint Pierre, Paris 2001

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1985: L'almanach des amazones: Lena Vandrey , Musée Hyacinthe-Rigaud, Perpignan
  • 1992: Fundus, Found, Invented . Provençal women's culture from the Lena Vandrey Collection, Hammoniale Festival of Women , Hamburg
  • 1999: Eigenblicke. 13 female photographers , exhibition hall Schulstrasse, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2000/2001: Lena Vandrey - Les boîtes de Pandore , solo exhibition, Collection de l'Art Brut Lausanne
  • 2001: La beauté inconfortable , participation, Musée Halle Saint Pierre , Paris
  • 2004: Auschwitz , picture cycle, solo exhibition, Musée d'Art Sacré du Gard, Pont-Saint-Esprit
  • 2016: Clin d'oeil… 40 ans (1976–2016), participation, La Fabuloserie - Musée d'art hors-les-normes, Dicy

literature

  • Mina Noubadji-Huttenlocher: Langages d'exil de Lena Vandrey (exile languages ​​of Lena Vandrey), dissertation , Université de Provence . Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines, Aix-en-Provence 1996

Documentaries

  • Heaven as Exile: A Sensitive Legacy from Lena Vandrey , film portrait by Hajo Schedlich, ZDF 1980 (58 min.)
  • Poets of our time ( Michael Smith , Lena Vandrey and Sarah Kirsch ), ZDF 1982
  • L'Ange Amazonia. Un portrait de Lena Vandrey , by Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki, Paris 1992 (92 min.)
  • Leçon de Choses , by Samuel Bester, Marseille 1995

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography on fembio.org, accessed November 15, 2018
  2. ^ Vandrey Lena (Annie Metz), in: Dictionnaire des féministes. France - XVIIIe-XXIe siècle , ed. by Sylvie Chaperon and Christine Bard, Presses Universitaires de France , Paris 2017, ISBN 978-2-13-078720-4 (partly available on Google Books )
  3. ↑ Vandrey, Léna. In: in Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2016. Oxford Index
  4. ^ "Les oeuvres de Lena Vandrey qui se trouvent au Musée d'art brut de Lausanne, acquises par Dubuffet, sont des effigies de femmes, des sortes de déesses, d'amazones, des personnages totémiques d'une grande force d'expression. Elles sont faites de matières très brutes. Ce n'est pas de la peinture illusionniste. Il ya une tension dramatique qui détruit le système de représentation pour créer un contact beaucoup plus charnel avec l'objet. » Quote from Michel Thévoz in the résumé of the film L'Ange Amazonien. Un portrait de Lena Vandrey
  5. ^ Marie-Jo Bonnet: Les Femmes artistes dans les avant-gardes , Éditions Odile Jacob, Paris 2006, ISBN 978-2-7381-1732-8 , p. 107
  6. ↑ Pascal Verbena: Neuve Invention , Collection de l'Art Brut Lausanne ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / artbrut.computedby.com
  7. ↑ Cadogan Guides Rhone-Alpes , p. 200 ( Google Books )
  8. ^ Catalogs d'expositions, Lena Vandrey: Chapitres , Edition Musée Halle Saint Pierre
  9. ↑ exhibition hall.info
  10. ↑ Paris Art
  11. ↑ Sudoc catalog
  12. ↑ Meta catalog ida
  13. ↑ Heure Exquise! Center international pour les arts vidéo , Paris
personal data
SURNAME Vandrey, Lena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German painter, sculptor and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 2018
Place of death Bourg-Saint-Andéol , France