Margarete Lauter

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Margarete Lauter (1967)

Margarete Lauter (born September 9, 1925 in Büchenbronn ; † October 2, 2004 in Mannheim ) was a German art dealer and gallery owner . In 1963 she opened the first gallery for international contemporary art in Mannheim after the Second World War and mainly presented works by German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean and US artists.

Life

Margarete Vetter grew up as the daughter of a farming family with four siblings. Her mother encouraged her very early on with cultural activities. At the end of the Second World War, she met the young architect Harro Lauter (October 17, 1919 - October 5, 1996), whom she married in 1948. After the family had lived in the parents' house of their stepfather in Hoffenheim / Sinsheim for three years, her husband was appointed architect and later head of the building construction office in Mannheim in 1952 and they moved to Mannheim that year. In 1963, Margarete Lauter opened the first international gallery for contemporary art in Mannheim after the Second World War in collaboration with the Mannheim and Paris based artist Rudi Baerwind and the Paul Facchetti Paris gallery. The couple had three children. The youngest son, Rolf Lauter , grew into his mother's gallery work as early as the 1960s and later became the museum director.

Gallery Louder

Cultural awakening of women in the 1960s

Margarete Lauter found the social situation of women in Germany in the 1950s to be extremely unsatisfactory and from 1960 onwards she looked for a job in culture. In her husband she had an understanding and competent advisor and in 1962 they both came together in dialogue with the artist Rudi Baerwind, who works in Mannheim and Paris, the gallery owner Paul Facchetti from Paris, the Baden-Baden museum director Dietrich Mahlow , the director of the Mannheim art gallery Heinz Fuchs and the then Lord Mayor of Mannheim, Hans Reschke, decided to open a gallery for young contemporary art under the name Margarete Lauter. After her committed pioneering work did not result in a single sale in the first few years, she changed her name to Galerie Lauter, moved to larger rooms and decided to participate in one of the art fairs that were just beginning. The Lauter gallery was one of the galleries that co-founded and supported Art Basel in 1970. In addition to Denise René and Annely Juda , Margarete Lauter was one of the few gallery owners who - compared to an overwhelming number of male representatives - participated in the first Art Basel.

Margarete Lauter Gallery

The first rooms in the gallery were from 1963 to 1967 in the square L 15, 7-9 near the main train station. In those years her official name was Galerie Margarete Lauter. She opened her first exhibition on November 21, 1963 with the artists Ger Lataster , Ung-No Lee , Georges Noël , Rudi Baerwind , Zoltan Kemeny as well as objects of traditional African art . This first and many subsequent projects took place in close collaboration with the Paul Facchetti Gallery, Paris.

In other exhibitions, Lauter showed works by: Uwe Lausen (1964–1965), Zoran Antonio Mušič (1965), Natalia Dumitresco (1965, 1971), Magic in everyday life / Magie du banal (1965), Rudi Baerwind and Georges Noël (1965) Pierre Clerc (1965–1966) as well as art and cult objects from Africa in cooperation with Hans Himmelträger (1965–1966, 1968), Alexandre Istrati (1966), Erwin Bechtold (1965), Karl Fred Dahmen (1966), Luciano Lattanzi and Werner Write (1966).

Gallery Louder

In 1967 Lauter moved the gallery into larger rooms in B 4, 10a, where up to 6 exhibitions of international contemporary art (1967–1990) took place under the new name Galerie Lauter. Here she showed exhibitions by: Jaroslav Serpan (1967, 1978), Amadeo Gabino (1967, 1970, 1982), Erwin Bechtold (1968, 1973, 1979, 1984, 1989), Shusaku Arakawa (1968, 1986), Louise Nevelson (1968 ), Otto Herbert Hajek (1968, 1977, 1989), Bernd Berner (1969), Gianfranco Baruchello (1969), Karl Fred Dahmen (1969, 1972) Otmar Alt (1969, 1981), Manuel Rivera (1970), Karl Prantl ( 1970), Rolf-Gunter Dienst (1970), Dieter Krieg (1970, 1988), Wilhelm Loth (1970), Manolo Millares (1971), Jürgen Reipka - Rinaldo Paluzzi (1971), KRH Sonderborg (1972), Rolf Kissel (1972 , 1976, 1979), Günther Uecker , Louis Tomasello , "Yvaral" Jean-Pierre Vasarely (1973), Hermann Goepfert (1974), Erwin Heerich (1974), Otto Piene (1975, 1992), Werner Schreib (1974, 1988) Alexandre Istrati (1974/75), Adolf Luther (1975, 1989), Pierre Alechinsky (1976), HA Schult (1976), Gustav Seitz (1976, 1989), Miguel Berrocal (1976), Antoni Tàpies (1977), Robert Motherwell (1977), Joan Miró (1978), Antonio Saura (1979, 1986), Ge orges Mathieu (1980), Georges Noël (1980, 1984), Erich Hauser (1980), Heinz Mack (1981, 1985), Hans Hartung (1981), Victor Vasarely (1981/82, 1989), Roberto Matta (1983), George Rickey (1983), Georges Noël (1984), Antonio Saura (1985-86), Rafael Mahdavi (1987), Karel Appel (1987), Ger Lataster (1987/88), Werner Schreib (1988), Adolf Luther (1989 ), Victor Vasarely (1989), Yaacov Agam (1989/90).

From 1990 to 1996 Lauter moved into new rooms at Friedrichsplatz 14, right next to the Kunsthalle Mannheim and the Mannheim monument, the water tower . Some exhibitions were realized with: Mimmo Rotella & Jacques de la Villeglé (1990), CoBrA : Pierre Alechinsky , Karel Appel , Corneille , Asger Jorn , Anton Rooskens (1990), Rafael Mahdavi (1991), Gianni Colombo (1991), Heinz Mack (1992), Erwin Bechtold (1992), Hermann Goepfert (1992), Otto Piene (1992), Herbert Hamak (1993, 1996), Emilio Vedova (1993), Carlos Cruz-Diez (1993), Heiner Blum (1994), Alison van Pelt and Gabriele Muschel (1995), Franz Erhard Walther (1995).

From 1996 - after the death of her husband - she withdrew to private rooms for four years and concentrated on smaller exhibitions and art advice. Finally, in 2000, she opened a gallery space at Friedrichsplatz 15 to show works by artists from the last 30 years of their gallery activity. After 40 years of successful work, Lauter closed her gallery in the spring of 2003, in which she was able to sell numerous works to museums and build up some new private collections.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lauter, Margarete (ZGS_Vweise) Online research of the Mannheim City Archives. accessed on February 13, 2020
  2. ↑ Abendschau from November 22nd, 1963, swr.de: The Margarete Lauter gallery was opened in Mannheim in the presence of the well-known Parisian art dealer Paul Facchetti. SWR, accessed on February 13, 2020
  3. ^ Before Margarete Lauter, Rudolf Probst was an important art dealer in Mannheim who dealt with works of classical modernism in Germany before and during the Nazi era. Shortly after the end of the war, he opened his first gallery for modern classical art in Mannheim, after working as an art dealer in Dresden in the Emil Richter art business (1918–1923) and managing the “Neue Kunst Fides” gallery from 1923 to 1933. The gallery in which he had exhibited works by Emil Nolde, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann and Oskar Kokoschka, was closed by the National Socialists in 1933. Shortly afterwards, Probst acquired the Kunsthaus Tannenbaum in Mannheim from Herbert Tannenbaum (1892–1958), but came into conflict with the National Socialists here too. After an exhibition of the works of Emil Nolde in the summer of 1937, Probst had to give up the presentation and public sale of the works that the Nazis called “degenerate art”. The Kunsthaus was destroyed in 1943 by air raids on Mannheim. From 1946 to 1958 Probst ran his gallery, first in Otto-Beck-Straße and from 1949 in Mannheim Castle. After the war, Probst showed many artists of classical modernism and he succeeded in conveying important works to German museums. Karl Ludwig Hofmann, Christmut Präger: Rudolf Probst 1890–1968, gallery owner. Nimbus, Wädenswil 2015, ISBN 978-3-907142-88-2
  4. ↑ Paul Facchetti remained a close cooperation partner for years, as did Rodolphe Stadler, Galerie Stadler Paris, Daniel Gervis, Paris, Juana Mordo, Madrid and Roberto Peccolo, Livorno
  5. ^ German history of the women's movement by Ingrid Strobl , accessed on February 18, 2020
  6. ^ The law on equal rights for men and women in Germany did not come into force until July 1, 1958. ( Equal Rights Act )
  7. ↑ In 1967 Art Cologne , Germany's first art market took place in Cologne, and in 1970 Art Basel , which was attacked by the German galleries as a counter-fair, opened its doors for the first time
  8. ^ 1st ART Basel international art fair “The galleries represented” Swiss sample fair, June 12-16, 1970 www.ghidelli.net, accessed on February 14, 2020
  9. ^ "ART Basel - Development and Success Factors of an Art Fair" Master's thesis by Corina Rombach at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, p.116. accessed on February 15, 2020
  10. ↑ The floor plan of Mannheim city center is based on the Roman model in a grid within the shape of a horseshoe, which refers to the Mannheim Baroque Palace. The squares start with A 1 and end with U 16. Elector Friedrich IV established this order in 1606 and it has been preserved to this day. The kind of order can only be compared with the somewhat later founding of Manhattan.
  11. ↑ Galerie Margarete Lauter worldcat.org. accessed on February 13, 2020
  12. ↑ The numerous smaller and larger presentations with African art and cult objects in the gallery since 1963 have taken place in close cooperation with Hans Himmelträger , who also made the loans available.
  13. ↑ Abendschau from November 22nd, 1963, swr.de: The Margarete Lauter gallery was opened in Mannheim in the presence of the well-known Parisian art dealer Paul Facchetti. SWR. accessed on February 13, 2020
  14. ↑ Werner Schreib exhibitions page. Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
  15. ^ Gallery Lauter worldcat.org. accessed on February 13, 2020
  16. ^ In cooperation with Die Galerie, Frankfurt am Main DIE Galerie - Künstler. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Louder, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art dealer and gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Büchenbronn
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 2004
Place of death Mannheim