Rudolf Kicken

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Rudolf Kicken (born July 14, 1947 in Aachen , † June 17, 2014 in Berlin ) was a German photo artist .

Career

Kicken was born as the son of the entrepreneurial couple Ferdinand and Marianne Kicken. From 1971 to 1973 he studied economics in Bonn and Vienna and attended the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester (New York) in the 1973/74 academic year. This was followed by an internship at the Light Gallery in New York. In 1974, together with Wilhelm Schürmann , he opened the “Lichttropfen” gallery in Aachen (1976–78 Galerie Schürmann & Kicken). From 1979 he ran the "Galerie Rudolf Kicken" alone in Cologne, between 1987 and 1990 with Michael Pauseback as "Galerie Kicken-Pauseback". From autumn 2000 he ran the "Kicken Berlin" gallery together with his wife Annette in Berlin. Annette Kicken has been running the gallery alone since 2014.

With numerous exhibitions from all areas of photography, Kicken advanced to become one of the leading gallery owners in the international photo art trade and did pioneering work for the reception of the medium in Germany. This includes placing the estate of the German photographer Umbo (Otto Umbehr, 1902–1980) in the collections of the Berlinische Galerie, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and the Sprengel Museum Hannover 2016.

After his death, Rudolf Kicken was recognized as a mediator and pioneer in Germany and internationally:

“Kicken has long been considered the most important German gallery owner for photography. He enjoys an international reputation and the list of artists he has traded is as long as it is impressive. (...) Kicking was also a guarantee for informative catalogs and methodically structured books about the young epochs of photography that set scientific standards. "

Gallery program

From January 1974 until today, Rudolf and Annette Kicken have realized more than 200 exhibitions on photography from the 19th to the 21st century. The exhibition focuses on:

Kicken Collection in the Städel Museum Frankfurt am Main

In the summer of 2013, Rudolf and Annette Kicken handed over their collection of photographs to the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main. This includes works of New Objectivity, Bauhaus photography and “subjective photography”. Another bundle includes works by Leopold Ahrendts, Gertrud Arndt, Hugo Erfurth, Rudolf Koppitz, Heinrich Kühn, Man Ray, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Franz Roh, Werner Rohde, August Sander and Otto Steinert. In the exhibition “Lichtbilder” (July 9 - October 5, 2014) at the Städel Museum, the photographs and works from the Wiegand Collection were made available to the public for the first time on a large scale. What is important about the presentation of the Städel Museum is the equal representation of all media in the arts: painting, graphics, photography, video and sculpture.

Honors

literature

  • Annette and Rudolf Kicken, Simone Förster (eds.): Points of View. Masterpieces of Photography and Their Stories. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86521-214-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gallery owner Rudolf Kicken has died
  2. ^ Stefan Koldehoff: Photographs and Passion (The Grand Seigneur) . In: Art. The art magazine . No. 12 . Gruner + Jahr GmbH, Hamburg 2009, p. 54-55 .
  3. ↑ Ulrike Andres, Runa König, Dr. Helga Huskamp: Press kit Otto Maximilian Umbehr called UMBO (1902–1980) estate purchased as a closed bundle. (PDF) Berlinische Galerie, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, May 2016, accessed on October 4, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Wilfried Wiegang: The picture magician . In: FAZ . June 19, 2014, p. 13 .
  5. ^ Christophe Lunn et al .: Tribute to Rudolf Kicken. In: LOeil de la Photographie / The Eye of Photography. July 3, 2014, accessed October 4, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Christiane Meixner: The photo pioneer. In: Der Tagesspiegel. June 20, 2014, accessed October 4, 2016 .
  7. ^ Stefan Koldehoff: Picture treasure for the Städel. Interview with Rudolf Kicken. In: Deutschlandfunk. June 28, 2013, accessed October 4, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Axel Braun: Behind the scenes: Städel receives over 110 photographs from the Kicken collection. In: Städel Blog. Städel Museum, June 27, 2013, accessed October 4, 2016 .
  9. ^ Kerstin Stremmel: Photo art in the Frankfurt Städel: Museum pictures. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. September 19, 2014, accessed October 4, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Kick it, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photo gallery
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH 17th June 2014
Place of death Berlin