Nana from Hugo

Nana von Hugo , née Maria-Renate Renner (born April 24, 1936 in Munich , † April 30, 2001 in Berlin ) was a German designer and interior designer .

Life

Nana von Hugo was the daughter of the journalist Renatus Renner and Charlotte Seifert . In 1961 she married the journalist Karl-Edzard von Hugo (born October 12, 1930 in Berlin), son of the publisher Hans-Werner von Hugo (1901–1945) and the Wanda Countess von Polier (1910–1995) in Berlin . The marriage was divorced in 1990 without children, after which she was married to the Berlin artist Jakob Mattner .

She studied textile design at the Berlin University of the Arts , first worked as a designer and, since 1974, as an architect and interior designer. In Frankfurt am Main she also ran an antiques shop that specialized in English antiques from around 1800. She died of protracted cancer at the age of 65, but worked until the day before her death.

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As a self-taught architect, Nana von Hugo u. a. worked for Bundesbank President Karl Otto Pöhl , banker Friedrich von Metzler , Federal Minister of the Interior Otto Schily and the American Academy in Berlin , but mostly occupied with the expansion of private houses, which she planned down to the smallest detail of furniture and fittings. A constant recurring feature in her work was the unconventional use of neon light, some of which she designed as sculptural objects, such as in the PX restaurant in Frankfurt . It combined modern architecture with reminiscences of classicism in a peculiarly elegant way .

In 1992 she received the German Film Prize for setting up the film Buster's Bedroom by Rebecca Horn based on the script by Martin Mosebach with Donald Sutherland , Geraldine Chaplin and Martin Wuttke .

literature

• Peter Cook : Nana von Hugo, Ristorante PX a Francoforte sul Meno , in: Domus 678, Milan 1986
• Nana von Hugo: Neon inside ... Warm and cold , in: Domus 650, Milan 1984
• Genealogical handbook of the nobility , noble houses B volume XXI, page 194, volume 108 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1995, ISSN  0435-2408