John Neumeier Foundation
| John Neumeier Foundation | |
|---|---|
| Legal form: | Private law foundation with no legal capacity |
| Purpose: | Safeguard the collections and the life work of John Neumeier for the city of Hamburg as a whole and make them accessible to the public |
| Chair: | |
| Consist: | since February 23, 2006 |
| Founder: | John Neumeier |
| Seat: | Hamburg |
| Website: | www.johnneumeier.org |
The John Neumeier Foundation is a non-profit, dependent foundation under private law based in Hamburg .
organization
The foundation was established in 2006 by John Neumeier as an unincorporated foundation under private law . The foundation's trustee is Elke Weber-Braun. The foundation board consists of John Neumeier and Elke Weber-Braun. The curator and director of the collections is Hans-Michael Schäfer.
tasks and goals
The purpose of the foundation is to bring together the collections on dance and ballet and the life's work of John Neumeier, to preserve them and to secure them for the city of Hamburg.
The dance and ballet collection that Neumeier has compiled over decades is internationally known in professional circles and represents a combination of art collection, library and archive with a diverse selection of objects. The collection is unique not only in terms of ballet, but also in terms of art history . The task and goal of the John Neumeier Foundation is "to bring together the history of dance and ballet through words and images, documents and objects, and to present it in an artist's house with the catalog raisonné John Neumeier."
The foundation currently operates a scientific institute with a library that is available to the public to a limited extent. The collections are taken over and scientifically processed, looked after, documented, cataloged and exploited. In addition, further funds are raised in order to convert the foundation into a legal foundation under private law . The expansion into a ballet museum to make the collection available to the public and an expansion of the activities of the scientific institute are planned.
Collection focus
The focus of the collections is on the dancer-choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky and the Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilew . The language of forms and colors of the Ballets Russes and Nijinsky’s own choreographies are illustrated by numerous works of different types.
The foundation has the world's largest collection of Nijinsky's own drawings . These are of particular importance for the collections, as they allow access to Nijinsky’s work as a visual artist . "The world of colors, the rhythm and the vocabulary of forms form work cycles which, in addition to Nijinsky's choreographic work, take on their independence as pictorial works of graphic abstraction - and thus renew the perspective on this unique artist."
The collections
Library
The library comprises a systematically structured collection of around 11,500 titles and, in addition to classic book materials, includes individual copies such as illustrated or rare editions and dedicatory copies.
Art collection
The art collection contains around 11,000 objects and includes various types of works of art such as oil paintings, prints, sculptures, bronze busts, porcelain figures or terracotta plaques, as well as a collection of different photographic materials, for example Carte de Visite, Carte Cabinet, paper prints or photo postcards.
archive
The archive includes a collection of documents spanning various epochs and documentation on various dance personalities with different materials such as autographs, correspondence, life documents, work pieces as well as secondary documents such as text and image materials, costumes, accessories and varia.
Catalog raisonné
The catalog raisonné includes the working materials of John Neumeier for his currently more than 140 ballets. It serves to document the works in their conception, creation and development as well as numerous original stage and costume designs. In addition to various printed works, the inventory includes in particular audiovisual media to document the performances of John Neumeier's works. The catalog raisonné also includes the documents of John Neumeier's private life.
activities
Participation in exhibitions
The foundation participates in numerous international exhibitions with works from the collections .
- 2000: Nijinsky - Legend och modernist, dansaren som förändrade världen / Nijinsky - Legend and modernist, the dancer who changed the world , Dansmuseet, Stockholm
- 2000: Nijinsky - dance legend and visionary , Museum for Art and Industry Hamburg
- 2000: Nijinsky, 1889-1950 , Musée d'Orsay , Paris
- 2008: Traces du Sacré , Musée d'Orsay , Paris
- 2008: Traces of the Spiritual , House of Art , Munich
- 2009: swans and firebirds. The Ballets Russes 1909-1929 , Deutsches Theatermuseum , Munich
- 2009: swans and firebirds. The Ballets Russes 1909-1929 , Austrian Theater Museum , Vienna
- 2009: Dance of Colors - Nijinsky's Eye and Abstraction , Hamburger Kunsthalle
- 2009: Moving Worlds , Hapag-Lloyd Europe
- 2009: La danza de los colores. En torno a Nijinsky y la abstracción Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid
- 2010: Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-1929 , Victoria and Albert Museum , London
- 2010: On Line: Drawing through the Twentieth Century , Museum of Modern Art , New York
- 2011: Wunder , Deichtorhallen , Hamburg
- 2011: Wunder , Kunsthalle Krems
- 2012: Danser sa vie , Center Pompidou , Paris
- 2013: Vaslav Nijinsky and John Neumeier , State Museum of Theater and Music, St. Petersburg
- 2013: Inventing Abstraction , Museum of Modern Art , New York
- 2014: Silver Age - Russian Art in Vienna around 1900 , Österreichische Galerie Belvedere , Vienna
- 2015: Jürgen Rose. Nothing is as full of life as the Theater, Deutsches Theatermuseum and Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts , Munich
Publications
As a co-editor, the foundation is involved in publications on the life and work of John Neumeier. These include the work In Movement by John Neumeier , published in 2008, on his more than thirty years of work in Hamburg, and the biography John Neumeier - Pictures of a Life by Horst Koegler , published in 2010 .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint . Website of the John Neumeier Foundation. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
- ↑ Foundation search ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the Federal Association of German Foundations. Search query "Foundation John Neumeier", accessed July 8, 2011.
- ↑ a b See The Foundation . Website of the John Neumeier Foundation. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
- ↑ Cf. Monika Fabry: John Neumeier's commitment to Hamburg . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , February 25, 2006. Accessed July 8, 2011.
- ↑ The Foundation . Website of the John Neumeier Foundation. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
- ↑ a b c d Cf. The Collections . Website of the John Neumeier Foundation. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
- ↑ The collections . Website of the John Neumeier Foundation. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
- ↑ See the catalog raisonné . Website of the John Neumeier Foundation. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
- ↑ See exhibitions . Website of the John Neumeier Foundation. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
- ↑ John Neumeier: On the move . Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89910-403-5
- ↑ Horst Koegler: John Neumeier - Pictures of a Life . 1st edition. Edel, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-941378-72-8
