Marianne and Hansfried Defet

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Marianne (born February 19, 1926 - June 24, 2008 ) and Hans-Friedrich Defet (* September 20, 1926 - October 27, 2016 in Nuremberg , known as Hansfried) were Nuremberg entrepreneurs, gallery owners , art collectors and art patrons - couple.

Life and activity

Hansfried Defet came from a family of brush makers and took over the company, which was founded in 1890 and has been family-owned since 1930. Today's da Vinci artist and cosmetic brush factory Defet GmbH emerged from him. In the entrance area of ​​the factory building, he and his wife, who studied painting, exhibited young artists since 1965. From this the operation of an important gallery for contemporary art developed .

In 1971, the year of Dürer , they took part in the Nuremberg campaign for contemporary sculpture in public space Symposion Urbanum , in which 29 artists from all over the world created works in public space. The Defet couple were involved in founding Art Cologne and from 1981 to 1985 they donated the Defet Prize of the German Association of Artists, endowed with 10,000 marks . In 1971 they opened the gallery in specially designed rooms in the company building. From 1983 the gallery moved to a new building in the garden of their private house, which had been used for the exhibition of sculptures for years .

In 1999, 2000 and 2004 they donated large parts of their contemporary art collection to the newly founded New Museum in Nuremberg . The sculptures are freely accessible in a sculpture garden on the city ​​wall . The Defets wanted to use the move of the brush production to a new location and their advanced age in 2005 to withdraw from the gallery work. The former factory building was converted into a studio and gallery house in 2006, in which 17 artists can find workplaces. They also donated a new prize for young artists. In February 2007, however, they reopened the gallery in the new studio building.

The couple was accepted as honorary members of the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg . Marianne Defet died on June 24, 2008. On his 90th birthday in September 2016, Hansfried Defet donated a further 50 works from his collection to the New Museum in Nuremberg; a few weeks later he died on October 27th.

The artists represented by Galerie Defet included: Hiromi Akiyama , Peter Angermann , Horst Antes , Reiner Bergmann , Jürgen Bordanowicz , Johannes Brus , Nicola Carrino , Thomas Eller , Christian Faul , Johannes Geccelli , Rupprecht Geiger , Gotthard Graubner , Edgar Gutbub , Gisela Kleinlein , Bernd Klötzer , Werner Knaupp , Herbert Koller , Nikolaus Lang , Alf Lechner , Johan Lorbeer , Karl Prantl , Christiane Möbus , Josua Reichert , Hans Peter Reuter , Alf Schuler , Anne Sterzbach , Timm Ulrichs and Lambert Maria Wintersberger .

Fonts

  • Marianne Defet, Hansfried Defet: Tatjana Doll / Tim Trantenroth . Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2007. ISBN 978-3-939738-70-1

Winner of the Defet Prize

literature

  • Thomas Heyden, Birgit Suk (ed.): Defet - a donation . Exhibition catalog Neues Museum in Nürnberg, foreword by Lucius Grisebach, texts by Lucius Grisebach, Irma Schlagheck, Thomas Heyden. Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2002. ISBN 3-933096-89-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nuremberg Chamber of Commerce and Industry: da Vinci, artists' brushes all over the world . In: Economy in Middle Franconia, edition 8/2006
  2. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Hansfried Defet - The patron distributes the gifts on the 90th ( memento from November 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), September 20, 2016
  3. ↑ The history of the gallery is based on Galerie Defet - Review 1965–2008
  4. ^ Nürnberger Zeitung: When art outraged all of Nuremberg: From annoyance to street furniture - 40 years after the "Symposion Urbanum" , May 18, 2011
  5. ↑ Deutscher Künstlerbund: Artists' Funding ( Memento of the original of May 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  6. ↑ Heyden, Suk 2002
  7. ↑ Artnet.de: News, February 7, 2006
  8. ↑ Nuremberg Chamber of Commerce and Industry: Atelier and gallery house Defet, room for modern art . In: Economy in Middle Franconia, edition 11/2006
  9. ↑ FAZ , July 5, 2008, No. 155, page 39
  10. ^ New Museum Nuremberg: Room by Room - Donation by Marianne and Hansfried Defet , September 20, 2016
  11. ^ City of Nuremberg - Press and Information Office: Mourning for Hansfried Defet , News from the City Hall, No. 1093, October 31, 2016