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Stella Baum (born June 10, 1921 in Porz as Stella Hipp-Frede ; † November 27, 2006 in Wuppertal ) was a German author, art collector and honorary citizen of the university - later renamed the Bergische Universität Wuppertal .

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Together with her husband Gustav Adolf Baum (1914-2004), whom she married on September 16, 1944 in Elberfeld, she has been collecting contemporary art since the late 1950s and has acquired works by Wolf Vostell , Gerhard Richter , Konrad Fischer , Klaus Rinke and Joseph Beuys , with whom Stella Baum has had a very personal contact since his exhibition of drawings in the Von der Heydt Museum in 1953. Beuys was driving the collector couple in 1953 personally by Kranenburg , where in the stable of the house of the brothers Hans and Franz Joseph van der Grinten 's first solo exhibition of the sculptor, the so-called stall exhibition took place. Beuys also granted Stella Baum an interview in which he spoke about his attitude towards death and the rites of death. The city of Wuppertal advanced to one of the most important art centers after the Second World War thanks to the Baum couple.

After the establishment of the comprehensive university in Wuppertal in 1972, Gustav Adolf and Stella Baum were made the first honorary citizens of this university on November 24, 1976. In the early years, the couple had made an outstanding contribution to the development of Wuppertal into a university city, because they offered the founding rectorate and university members a forum in their private home to establish contacts between influential public figures in the city and the state. Gustav Adolf Baum and his wife remained closely connected to the university throughout their lives.

In addition, Stella Baum published several books on art and contemporary issues and on death. In 2010, the Society of Friends of the Bergische Universität (GFBU) awarded the Stella Baum Art Prize, named after it , for the first time , so that art students can present their works to the public. The prize is endowed with 2500 euros.

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  1. ^ A b Gustav Grote: Johann Peter Baum and Juliane Bockmühl - Your ancestors and descendants , Wuppertal-Elberfeld, 1950, p. 61.
  2. ↑ Von der Heydt-Museum shows contemporary art from private collections in Wuppertal : Frank Becker and Andreas Rehnolt in Musenblätter.de, accessed on January 5, 2010.
  3. ↑ Antje Birthälmer: The radicalism of collecting. Artistic positions in the collection of Gustav Adolf and Stella Baum . In: Gerhard Finckh (Vorw.): »Private«. Contemporary Wuppertal collectors in the Von der Heydt Museum . Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 2009, p. 109
  4. ↑ Welt online: Isn't it a pleasure to watch? , dated March 29, 2009.
  5. ^ Bergische Universität Wuppertal: University honorary citizen Gustav Adolf Baum turned 90 on November 4, 2004.
  6. ↑ Bergische Universität Wuppertal: The university mourns its honorary citizen Gustav Adolf Baum , from November 15, 2004.
  7. ^ “ Our first honorary citizen ” in: Wuppertaler Unimagazin. No. 34 - winter semester 2006/2007
  8. ↑ Stella-Baum-Kunstförderpreis 2010 , accessed on December 16, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Tree, Stella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne-Porz
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 2006
Place of death Wuppertal