Tomma Wember (artist)

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Tomma Wember (2002)

Tomma Wember (born February 24, 1919 in Hamburg ; † July 5, 2008 in Krefeld ; maiden name Tomma Marie Marta Hinrichs ) was a German artist .

Live and act

After studying interior design , Tomma Wember began to deal with literature and language. In the late 1950s she met Daniel Spoerri , who was enthusiastic about her language experiments and encouraged her to continue working. Out of consideration for her husband Paul Wember , the then director of the Kunstmuseen Krefeld , Tomma Wember held back in public and did not exhibit her art, but was artistically active for decades and created "an idiosyncratic, poetic work".

The Wember couple were friends with artists such as Yves Klein , Joseph Beuys and Franz Erhard Walther . Tomma Wember's own works were discovered late by the curator Katerina Vatsella and exhibited for the first time in 2002 in the Kunsthalle Bremen under the title Three words only or four .

Tomma Wember's work consists largely of "instructions for action in the style of Dadaist simultaneous poetry, which are implemented in an interactive group reading". It "moves between concrete poetry , Fluxus , performance and literature" and includes around 70 works: poems on playing cards, scores on strips for simultaneous readings by several participants, instructions for action in folders or as rolls for one or more people, small notebooks, newspapers, books for two or four people. Some of her works are designed for outdoor situations, for example a walk for two on the wall .

Between 1955 and 1966, Tomma and her husband Paul lived with their seven children, including Bernward Wember and Tomma Wember , on the upper floor of the Haus Lange Museum. Tomma Wember worked together with her husband on the exhibitions for the Krefeld museums. That is why Bernward Wember calls his parents the "museum director couple". In 2013 he and Gisela Fiedler-Bender made the considerable share of Tomma Wember in the directorship of Paul Wember public for the first time.

Tomma Wember died in Krefeld at the age of 89.

Solo exhibition

  • 2002: Only three words or four , retrospective, Kunsthalle Bremen

Exhibition participation

literature

  • Katerina Vatsella : Edition MAT. The emergence of an art form. Daniel Spoerri, Karl Gerstner and the multiple. Hauschild, Bremen 1998, ISBN 3-931785-61-0 , pp. 29–31.
  • Wulf Herzogenrath , Andreas Kreul , Uwe Goldstein, Katerina Vatsella (curator): Tomma Wember. 3 words only or four. Catalog. Hauschild, Bremen 2002, ISBN 3-89757-159-5 .
  • Andreas Kreul: “Mhm; CAROLL's syzygies ”. On Tomma Wembers shorthand poetry. In: Andreas Kreul: Air flow. Essays on Art. Salon, Cologne 2004, ISBN 978-3-89770-232-5 , pp. 112-123.
  • Bernward Wember: Paul and Tomma Wember. The museum directors couple. In: Sylvia Martin, Sabine Röder (eds.): Paul Wember and the hyperactive museum. Verlag für modern art, Nuremberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86984-421-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Henning Bleyl: The game inventor. In: taz , June 26, 2002.
  2. ↑ Tomma Wember. 3 words only or four . Kunsthalle Bremen June 26 - August 11, 2002. Website by Katerina Vatsella ( Memento from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Katerina Vatsella in the exhibition catalog
  4. ↑ Sand books, Gone with the Wind. In: Die Welt , July 8, 2002.
  5. ↑ Gisela Fiedler-Bender: Paul Wember on his 100th birthday. In: Paul Wember. 100th birthday memories. Ed. Kunst und Krefeld e. V. Krefeld 2013.
  6. ↑ Christoph Elles: How Wember Krefeld made great , Westdeutsche Zeitung February 22, 2013
  7. ^ Note deceased: Tomma Wember (Krefeld artist, 89 years old). In: Kunstforum international , Volume 193, 2008, p. 23, accessed on June 22, 2013.
  8. ↑ Tomma Wember. 3 words only or four . June 26th to August 11th, 2002, Kunsthalle Bremen
  9. ↑ Faites vos jeux! on kunstaspekte.de
personal data
SURNAME Wember, Tomma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hinrichs, Tomma; Hinrichs, Tomma Marie Marta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 2008
Place of death Krefeld