Sigrid Metken
Sigrid Metken (born September 4, 1928 in Munich ; † December 23, 2016 in Gröbenzell ) was a German ethnologist , folklorist , exhibition curator and art journalist.
Live and act
Metken was born as Sigrid Mayer. From 1949 to 1955 she studied German , history and folklore at the University of Munich and received her doctorate in 1957 under Hans Heinrich Borcherdt on the subject of passion play tradition in the Allgäu .
As a collector, she was mainly concerned with popular French prints and graphics (Imagerie populaire), such as postcards , devotional pictures and memorial prints , and published catalogs, books and essays and curated exhibitions.
She lived with her husband, the art historian and travel writer Günter Metken , in Paris since 1955 and reported for numerous newspapers, magazines and radio stations and wrote articles for specialist German literature. In 1975 the couple was commissioned by the Menil Foundation in Houston, Texas, together with Werner Spies , to compile a multi-volume catalog raisonné by Max Ernst .
During a joint stay in Libya in 2000 , her husband died in Tripoli as a result of a car accident.
Sigrid Metken lived and worked in Paris until her husband's death, then in Gröbenzell near Munich, where she died in December 2016 at the age of 88.
Fonts
ethnology
- Saint Nicholas in Arts and Folk Art. Lange, Duisburg 1966.
- 19th century French picture sheets. Sigrid Metken Collection, Paris; State Art Gallery Baden-Baden and Society of Friends of Young Art e. V., April 14 - May 28, 1972. Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden 1972. (Catalog).
- Cut paper. A history of cutting out in Europe from 1500 to today. Callwey, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7667-0425-7 .
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The last trip. Dying, death and mourning customs in Upper Bavaria. (Exhibition in the Munich City Museum from July 4 to September 9, 1984). Edited by Sigrid Metken. Hugendubel , Munich 1984, ISBN 3-88034-247-4 .
- In it: Sigrid Metken: Ceremonies of death: death rites and funeral crowds in Munich and Upper Bavaria. Hugendubel, Munich 1984, pp. 72-95.
- The fight for the pants. Gender quarrel and power in the house, the story of a symbol. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main, New York. Ed. de la Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme , Paris 1996, ISBN 3-593-35481-0 , ISBN 2-7351-0700-0 .
Art history
- with Jacques Le Goff : Fischer World History, Volume 11: The High Middle Ages . Fischer paperback, Frankfurt am Main, 1965
- Chronicle of Schlettstadt. Last 4th edition Schnell and Steiner, Munich, Zurich 1975.
Web links
- Literature by and about Sigrid Metken in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Sigrid Metken in the German Digital Library
- Search for Sigrid Metken in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary . Süddeutsche Zeitung (December 30, 2016).
- ↑ Topic: The passion play tradition in the Allgäu , dissertation of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Munich, 1958
- ↑ Short biography in: Dieter Harmening, Erich Wimmer, Wolfgang Brückner: Volkskultur, Geschichte, Region: Festschrift for Wolfgang Brückner on his 60th birthday , Königshausen & Neumann, 1992, ISBN 3-88479-709-3 , p. 276
- ↑ Gottfried Knapp: On the trail of the arts . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 77 from 1./2. April 2000, p. 17.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Metken, Sigrid |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mayer, Sigrid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ethnologist, art historian and art journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 2016 |
| Place of death | Groebenzell |