Lucie Schauer

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Lucie Schauer (born August 5, 1926 in Karlsbad ; † December 27, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German German scholar , journalist and cultural manager who, as chairwoman of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, organized numerous exhibitions of national importance in Berlin between 1975 and 1994 .

Life

Schauer's father emigrated to Chile as a young businessman and returned wealthy after the First World War . The mother studied painting in Prague . In 1937 the family moved to Berlin. After the Abitur studied Lucie Schauer 1947 to 1950 art history and German literature at the Humboldt University and following the Free University of Berlin , where in 1959 her doctorate Dr. phil. with a dissertation on the subject of investigations into the structure of short stories and novels by Thomas Mann: Antithesis and synthesis as categories of the poetic experience of being .

From 1960 Schauer worked as a journalist for art and literary criticism for the young world . Soon afterwards she stopped work for political reasons and handed in her FDJ ID card. In 1962 she married Christian Wagner. From 1965 she worked as a freelance journalist, art critic and editor for the Berliner Tagesspiegel and DIE WELT , where she was department head of the features section until 1974. Schauer devoted himself above all to observing the cultural scene and the cultural policy of West Berlin . Between 1975 and 1994, with the support of Eberhard Roters, she was chairwoman of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and during this time she organized around 170 exhibitions by artists from a wide variety of fields such as Alexander Camaro , Raimund Girke , Bernhard Heiliger , Hans Hartung , Waldemar Grzimek , Peter Sorge , Wolfgang Petrick , Fritz Balthaus , Donatello Losito , Maina-Miriam Munsky , Kuno Gonschior , Brigitte and Martin Matschinsky-Denninghoff , Wolf Vostell and Olaf Metzel . In doing so, she made particular use of her relationships with cultural institutions such as the Staatliche Kunsthalle , Akademie der Künste , the Martin-Gropius-Bau , for which she organized a highly acclaimed exhibition with works by Eduardo Chillida in 1991 , and the Poll Art Foundation .

In 1993 Schauer was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon . In 1995 she received an honorary scholarship from the Berlin Senate , Villa Massimo in Rome. Lucie Schauer was a member of the Association of German Critics and the International Art Critics Association AICA .

In 1995 her previous representative, Alexander Tolnay, succeeded him as chairman of the New Berlin Art Association .

Other exhibitions (selection)

  • 1975: Ita Maximowna
  • 1978: Horst Hirsig: hand drawings and pictures 1976/77
  • 1982: Zeitgeist
  • 1985: Albrecht Demitz
  • 1987: Sculpture Boulevard
  • 1989: machine people
  • 1992: Klaus H. Hartmann, Transformation Relay: Sculptures, Objects, 1990 - 1991
  • 1992: Polish avant-garde: 1930-1990
  • 1994: Armando: pictures, sculptures, drawings
  • 1994: Thomas Florschuetz, Plexus

Publications

  • Investigations into the structure of short stories and novels by Thomas Mann: Antithesis and synthesis as categories of the poetic experience of being , Freie Universität Berlin, dissertation 1959
  • Forms of art transmission from panel paintings to happenings: the media of the visual arts , 1977
  • End and turn: Art landscape Berlin from 1945 to today , ed. by Lindinger + Schmid Verlag GdbR, Regensburg 1999, ISBN 3-929970-39-2
  • Erich F. Reuter: Monograph and catalog raisonné , co-editor, 2005, ISBN 3-935965-02-8

Web links

Bibliography

  • Art mediator. On the death of Lucie Schauer , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 29, 2011, p. 32
  • Networker of art. Lucie Schauer is dead , in: Berliner Zeitung , January 4, 2012, p. 24
  • Former Kunstverein director Lucie Schauer has died , in: Der Tagesspiegel , January 5, 2012, p. 23
  • Husband Christian Wagner's obituary on the death of Lucie Schauer, in: Der Tagesspiegel, January 5, 2012, p. 24

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b See: Advertisement on the death of Lucie Schauer by Christian Wagner, in: Der Tagesspiegel , January 5, 2012, p. 24
  2. ↑ See: Lucie Schauer: End and Turn. Art landscape Berlin from 1945 to today, ed. by Lindinger + Schmid Verlag GdbR, Regensburg 1999
  3. ↑ See: Lucie Schauer: End and Turn. Art landscape Berlin from 1945 to today, ed. by Lindinger + Schmid Verlag GdbR, Regensburg 1999
personal data
SURNAME Shiver, Lucie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist, journalist, author and exhibition curator
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlsbad
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 2011
Place of death Berlin