Mercedes Vostell

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Mercedes Vostell (2013)

Mercedes Vostell (born July 22, 1933 as Mercedes Guardado Olivenza in Ceclavín, Province of Cáceres , Extremadura , Spain ) is a Spanish author and since 1998 artistic director of the Museo Vostell Malpartida . Mercedes Vostell is the widow of the German painter, sculptor and happening artist Wolf Vostell .

Life

In 1958, Mercedes Guardado met the German artist Wolf Vostell in Guadalupe . He was an unknown painter at the time and she was a young teacher who had just started teaching. In 1959 they married in Cáceres and then moved to Cologne . She had their first son, David Vostell , in 1960 and their second son, Rafael, in 1965. In 1971 the family moved to Berlin .

In 1976 Mercedes and Wolf Vostell founded the Museo Vostell Malpartida in Malpartida de Cáceres . Wolf Vostell died in 1998. Together with her two sons and her grandson, she manages his legacy as the artistic museum director. As an author, she dealt with his life and work.

Publications

  • Mercedes Guardado: El enigma Vostell . Edición Siberia Extremeña, Malpartida de Cáceres 1982, ISBN 84-86147-01-X .
  • Mercedes Guardado: Mi vida con Vostell. Un artista de vanguardia . Editorial La Fábrica, Madrid 2011, ISBN 978-84-92841-91-2 .
  • Mercedes Vostell: Vostell - for a lifetime . Siebenhaar Verlag, Berlín 2012, ISBN 978-3-936962-88-8 . (German translation)
  • Mercedes Guardado: La historia del Museo Vostell Malpartida . LB Publicación (Ed.): David Vostell , The Wolf Vostell Estate 2018, ISBN 978-84-949836-2-7 .

Filmography

  • In 1979 Mercedes Vostell had a small role with her husband in Ulrike Ottinger's Portrait of a Drinker .
  • In 2000 she played herself in Spotkanie: Fluxus and in 2015 in Malpartida Fluxus Village .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contacto , museovostell.gobex.es
  2. ↑ Mercedes Vostell: Vostell - for a lifetime. Siebenhaar Verlag, Berlín, 2012, ISBN 978-3-936962-88-8 .
  3. ↑ Viva Fluxus. My life with Wolf Vostell , radio play in Deutschlandfunk Kultur on April 10, 2015
  4. ^ Horst Schäfer, Walter Schobert: Fischer Film Almanach, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1995, p. 47 [1]
  5. ↑ Wolf Vostell: de-collagen; Smudges, layer images, lead images, object images, 1955-79. Exhibition Art Association Braunschweig 31 Aug-26. Oct. 1980, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 1980, p. 138 [2]
  6. ↑ Wolf Vostell's biography (excerpt) , vostell.de/the-wolf-vostell-estate
  7. ↑ María del Mar Lozano Bartolozzi: Wolf Vostell: (1932–1998), Editorial NEREA, 2000, p. 55 [3]
  8. ^ The Wolf Vostell Estate. Retrieved June 14, 2020 .
  9. ↑ The table of contents by Vostell - A lifetime corresponds to that of the Spanish book Mi vida con Vostell. Un artista de vanguardia, 6/7 .
  10. ↑ of No Return , ulrikeottinger.com
  11. ↑ Mercedes Vostell on imdb.com
personal data
SURNAME Vostell, Mercedes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guardado Olivenza, Mercedes (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish author and artistic museum director
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Ceclavín, Province of Caceres, Extremadura, Spain