Margrit Kahl

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Margrit Kahl (born January 16, 1942 in Hamburg ; † January 6, 2009 there ) was a German conceptual and process artist .

Life

From 1968 to 1975 Margrit Kahl studied at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg . Her teachers were Gustav Seitz for sculpture and Franz Erhard Walther . A DAAD scholarship enabled her to work and study in Warsaw from 1973 to 1974 .

In 1975 Kahl founded the artist initiative Galerie auf Ort together with professional colleagues. In 1982 she received a working grant from the Hamburg cultural authority. In the 1970s and 1980s she participated in numerous exhibitions. A number of solo exhibitions, mainly in Hamburg, but also in Poland and Sweden, were also dedicated to her.

Floor plan of the Bornplatz synagogue

In the mid-1980s she worked on behalf of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg on the design of the square on which the Bornplatz synagogue , which was destroyed by the Nazis , stood. It is located in the Hamburg district of Eimsbüttel between Grindelhof and Joseph-Carlebach-Platz . The so-called synagogue monument was inaugurated on November 9, 1988 , on the 50th anniversary of the destruction of the synagogue.

Margrit Kahl died on January 6, 2009 in Hamburg. Your estate was taken over by the Forum for Artists' Estates .

Exhibitions

  • Repassage University Gallery, "Meta-physical Processes", Warsaw (1974)
  • Producer Gallery Hamburg, "Physical Processes" (1975)
  • On-site gallery, "Ortung", Hamburg (1976)
  • Art Association in Hamburg, "Hamburg Art Weeks '78" (1978)
  • Galerie St. Petri, "Time Drawings", Lund / Sweden (1978)
  • Kunsthaus Hamburg, "Gustav Seitz and his students" (1979)
  • Hamburger Kunsthalle , "Luther and the Consequences for Art" (1982)
  • Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven , "Artists from Hamburg" (1984)
  • State Archives of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , "Discovered and Preserved!. 10 Years Forum for Artists' Legacies with a Cross Section of the Collection" (2013)

literature

  • Daniela Schulz: Margrit Kahl (1942–2009) . In: Exhibition catalog Discovered and Preserved !. 10 years forum for artists' bequests with a cross-section of the collection . Lüdenscheid 2013, ISBN 978-3-942831-86-4 , pp. 54–57
  • On-site gallery (publisher / conception, design and editing: Tibor Szemenyey-Nagy ): “Chronik”, chronological documentation of the seven-year activities and exhibitions of the on-site gallery in Hamburg 1975–82 . Hamburg 1984, pp. 28-33, pp. 68-73, pp. 146-153, pp. 268-273, short biography at the end of the chronicle.
  • Lichtwark Society (ed.): Gustav Seitz and his students . In: Hamburg artist monographs on the art of the 20th century , Volume 12. Hamburg 1979, ISBN 3-7672-0661-7 , p. 45, Fig. 110f.
  • Harald Schmid : The November pogroms and the culture of remembrance - the “Synagogue Monument” by Margrit Kahl . In: Hamburg Key Documents on German-Jewish History , January 24, 2019, doi: 10.23691 / jgo: article-116.de.v1

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personal data
SURNAME Bald, Margrit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concept and process artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 2009
Place of death Hamburg