Peter Hagenah (gallery owner)

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Lisa and Peter Hagenah at an exhibition opening in 1998 in the Stadtscheune Otterndorf

Peter Hagenah (born April 8, 1927 in Hamburg ; † January 25, 2017 in Bremerhaven ) was a German gallery owner who shaped artistic ceramics and made it known in Germany.

Life

Hagenah was born in Hamburg in 1927 as the son of the Elbe shipper Peter Hagenah and his wife Helene. After the family moved to Bremerhaven and trained there as an industrial clerk, he worked for the Bremen art dealer HW Brokmeyer from 1946 to 1948. Hagenah opened his own gallery in 1949 in an underground bunker in the Bremer Wallanlagen am Theaterberg - the art crypt . There he initially exhibited graphics, watercolors and oil paintings, but soon switched to art ceramics because the damp rooms were not conducive to the pictures.

In the post-war period after the Second World War in Germany there were few references for ceramic art. Hagenah was a multiplier and mediator, especially for northern Germany, and - alongside the duo Lotte Reimers and Jakob Wilhelm Hinder - is one of the first names that were important for Germany and who shaped and made artistic ceramics known.

After the art crypt was closed, Hagenah was a consultant and mediator in vocational rehabilitation in Otterndorf from 1966 to 1990 . From 1967 to 1983 responsible for the ceramic exhibitions in the Dr. Fritz Vehring in Syke (father of the ceramist Prof. Fritz Vehring ). As an organizer of ceramic exhibitions in the town hall and town barn of Otterndorf, Hagenah worked from 1975 to 2007.

Hagenah had been married to Lisa Gerken since 1954 and had three children.

Exhibitions

Between 1949 and 1962, over 60 ceramists exhibited in the art crypt , including

  • 1950 Auguste Papendieck - Over 100 unique items from the ceramist's estate
  • 1953 Hohlt workshop about 130 pieces (After Munich: New Collection , Hetjens Museum (Düsseldorf), Mühlheim City Museum)

In the gallery Vehring , Syke and in Otterndorf

  • 1968 London group for the first time in Germany
  • 1971 Walter Popp and the Kassel School (name-forming) 21 pupils
  • 1979 Syke: 7 ceramists from France (Jean Biagini, Remy Bonhert, Robert Deblander, Uwe Krause, Claude Champy, Pierre Bayle, Hildegund Schlichenmaier)
  • 1980 Otterndorf: "Three master ceramists": Elisabeth Hugentobler, Philippe Lambercy, Daniel de Montmollin
  • 1981 Syke: Otto Lindig and his students (10 students)
  • 1982 ceramist from Bornholm , 7 ceramists from Denmark
  • 1983 Five ceramists from Provence
  • 1990 40 years of ceramic exhibitions (53 German ceramists)
  • 1992 Variety of ceramics - 10 workshops from the new federal states
  • 1997 First collector's exhibition in the town hall - unique ceramic items from German and other European workshops
  • 2000 Group 83 - 20 German members of the Académie Internationale de la Céramique, Geneva
  • 2007 Farewell exhibition in Otterndorf

There was another anniversary exhibition in 2000 in Böttcherstrasse in Bremen : From the Bremen Art Crypt to the present day - Peter Hagenah's 50th anniversary - ceramic vessels by Jan Bontjes van Beek , Alrechte and Görge Hohlt (Hohlt workshop), Otto Meier , Auguste Papendieck and Elisabeth Pluquet-Ulrich.

Fonts

  • with Arne Hagenah (ed.): From the art crypt Bremen to today . Books on Demand GmbH, 2006, ISBN 3-89811-975-0 .

Honors

On October 24, 1996, Peter Hagenah received the Medal of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany “for exceptional artistic commitment in the service of ceramics”.

literature

  • German ceramics 1900–2000 - history and positions of the century , German-Japanese exhibition catalog p. 33 u. 42; Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo 2000.
  • Walter H. Lokau: The man from the very beginning resigns . To the gallery owner and exhibition organizer Peter Hagenah on his 80th birthday. In: New Ceramics . No. 5/07 . Verlag Neue Keramik, 2007, ISSN  0933-2367 , p. 32-34 .
  • Gabi Dewald: I wanted to educate people about quality . An interview with Peter Hagenah. In: KeramikMagazin . No. 5/2000 . Ritterbach Verlag GmbH, 2000, ISSN  0172-6102 , p. 42-45 .
  • Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
  • Walter H. Lokau: The failed institutionalization. A critical assessment of the reception of contemporary ceramics in Germany after 1945 . Dissertation at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg 2008. 2008, p. 143–154 ( Freiburg document server , short version and full text ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See literature: Lokau, p. 143.
  2. ↑ www.kunst-krypta.de - List of the exhibited ceramists
  3. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Hagenah, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2017
Place of death Bremerhaven