Das Kunsthaus Dahlem
Im Sommer 2015 eröffnete das Kunsthaus Dahlem. Das unmittelbar am Grunewald in direkter Nachbarschaft des Brücke Museums gelegene historische Gebäude widmet sich der Kunst der deutschen Nachkriegsmoderne in Ost und West. Träger ist die 2013 gegründete Atelierhaus Dahlem gGmbH, eine Tochtergesellschaft der Bernhard-Heiliger-Stiftung. Unterstützt wird das Kunsthaus durch eine institutionelle Förderung der Senatskanzlei für Kulturelle Angelegenheiten des Landes Berlin.
Ein wesentlicher Schwerpunkt des Ausstellungshauses liegt auf der Präsentation plastischer Kunst, ergänzt durch Malerei, grafische Arbeiten sowie Fotografie. Dabei stehen insbesondere die Jahre 1945 bis 1961 im Fokus, in der die Kapitulation und Besatzung, der schwelende Ost-West-Konflikt, die Berliner Blockade und ihre Überwindung durch die Luftbrücke der Westalliierten sowie die Gründung zweier deutscher Staaten bis zum Mauerbau zentrale historische Momente waren.
Kunsthistorisch ist diese Zeit anfangs geprägt von stilistischer Vielfalt und dem Bemühen um die Rehabilitierung der in der NS-Zeit verfemten Moderne. Mit der Verschärfung des Ost-West-Konfliktes wird diese Vielfalt deutlich eingeschränkt und die Kunst zunehmend politisch vereinnahmt. Im Westen wird die „Abstraktion als Weltkunst“ (West) offiziell propagiert, während in Ostdeutschland ein „Sozialistischen Realismus“ (Ost) als Staatskunst gefordert wird. Unabhängig von diesen ideologisierten Auseinandersetzungen in der Kunst entwickeln sich aber auch eine Vielzahl von individuellen, inoffiziellen Stilrichtungen und künstlerischen Positionen.
Kunsthaus Dahlem
Kunsthaus Dahlem is an exhibition venue for postwar German modernism (East and West) supported by funds from the Berlin Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs. It is administered and operated by Atelierhaus Dahlem, a non-profit subsidiary of the Bernhard Heiliger Foundation founded in 2013.
Located at the edge of the Grunewald, the building was open as an exhibition venue in summer 2015 after a renovation and dismantling in accordance with historic preservation standards. There will also be a permanent exhibition on the building’s eventful history, free-of-charge to visitors.
One essential area of concentration of the exhibition venue is the presentation of sculpture, supplemented by painting, prints and drawings, and photography. It focuses in particular on the years from 1945 to 1961, when the Berlin Wall was built, in which the capitulation and occupation, the smoldering East-West conflict, the blockade of Berlin and its overcoming by the airlift of the Western allies, and the founding of two German states were central historical moments. Art historically, these decades were characterized by ideologically superimposed, officially supported and funded art movements: “abstraction as world art” (West) and “Socialist Realism” (East). Independently of these two, however, a number of unofficial stylistic directions and artistic positions that led to a complexity of German postwar modernism that is often overlooked.
Bemerkungen
Born in Safed, (1888–1953) arrived in Berlin in 1911. He took the city by storm and became an active member of the Berlin avant-garde artistic community. Throughout the 1920’s he exhibited in top galleries all over Germany and was a well known portrait sculptor and printmaker. Persecuted by the German N**i regime, he was forgotten and only recently discovered. In her presentation, Dorothea Schöne from Kunsthaus Dahlem in Berlin (Germany) introduces this multi-faceted, unjustly forgotten artist and his traumatic experience of flight and exile from N**i-Germany.
Watch the recording of yesterday's presentation:
https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/abbo/
: FREE Zoom lecture: "Jussuf Prince of Thebes –
Re-constructing the life and work of a forgotten talent from Safed"
Featuring book author and exhibition curator Dorothea Schöne at Kunsthaus Dahlem Berlin (Germany)
REGISTRATION LINK:
https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/abbo/.
Dorothea Schöne is a Berlin-based art historian and curator, currently heading Kunsthaus Dahlem as director and CEO. After receiving her Masters degree in Art History and Political Science at the University of Leipzig/ Germany in 2006, she was awarded a Fulbright Grant to pursue pre-doctoral research at the University of California, Riverside. From 2006-2009-10 she worked as a curatorial assistant at the LA County Museum of Art (LACMA). Schöne has been awarded grants by the German Academic Exchange Program, the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. and in 2021 she received the Hans-and Lea-Grundig award for her art historical achievements.
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Well-known gallery owners of his time, including Paul Cassirer, Alfred Flechtheim, Ferdinand Moeller and Israel Ber Neumann, valued Abbo's work, which was also purchased by the Berlin National Gallery. Jussuf Abbo was so firmly integrated into the Berlin art scene that Else Lasker-Schüler dedicated a poem to him.
FREE Zoom lecture : "Jussuf Prince of Thebes –
Re-constructing the life and work of a forgotten talent from Safed"
Featuring Dorothea Schöne at Kunsthaus Dahlem Berlin (Germany)
REGISTRATION LINK:
https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/abbo/.
IMAGE: Jussuf Abbo, Head of a Black Man, ca. 1939, plaster, painted, H: 28 cm, Estate of Jussuf Abbo, Brighton/UK, photo: Gunter Lepkowski
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This is the first comprehensive publication about the who exhibited throughout the 1920’s in top galleries throughout Germany and was a well known portrait sculptor and printmaker and an active member of the Berlin avant-garde artistic community.
FREE Zoom lecture on March 2: "Jussuf Prince of Thebes –
Re-constructing the life and work of a forgotten talent from Safed"
Featuring book author and exhibition curator Dorothea Schöne at Kunsthaus Dahlem Berlin (Germany)
REGISTRATION LINK:
https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/abbo/.
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FREE Zoom lecture on March 2: "Jussuf Prince of Thebes –
Re-constructing the life and work of a forgotten talent from Safed"
Featuring Dorothea Schöne at Kunsthaus Dahlem Berlin (Germany)
REGISTRATION LINK:
https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/abbo/.
In her presentation, Dorothea Schöne introduces this multi-faceted, unjustly forgotten artist and his traumatic experience of flight and exile from N**i-Germany. For her work about the artist, she received the 2021 Hans and Lea Grundig Prize.
IMAGE: Jussuf Abbo, Head of a Black Man, ca. 1939,
plaster, painted, H: 28 cm, Estate of Jussuf Abbo,
Brighton/UK, photo: Gunter Lepkowski
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As a person, Abbo was flamboyant and charismatic. Many of his wealthy and powerful patrons, clients and friends were Jewish. He was known for his bohemian and eccentric lifestyle, an exotic artist from the Orient, apparently living for sometime in a Bedouin tent in his large Berlin studio. He was part of the group of friends of the Expressionist poet and playwright, Else Lasker-Schüler, whom he portrayed on several occasions and who in turn wrote a poem about him.
With the N**i takeover, Abbo was repeatedly branded - he was stateless after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, exposed by his Jewish ancestry to N**i racial fanaticism and his girlfriend Ruth Schulz was illegitimately pregnant by him. In a dramatic way, the pair fled to England in 1935, where Abbo could not continue his career.
Jussuf Abbo died in his London exile in 1953.
FREE Zoom lecture on March 2: "Jussuf Prince of Thebes –
Re-constructing the life and work of a forgotten talent from Safed"
Featuring Dorothea Schöne at Kunsthaus Dahlem Berlin (Germany)
REGISTRATION LINK:
https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/abbo/.
Jussuf Abbo, Untitled (Ursula Nordmann, sleeping), undated, coloured chalk drawing, 37 x 44 cm, Estate of Jussuf Abbo, Brighton/UK, photo: Mark Heathcote
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In the late nineteenth century, the sculptor Joseph M. Abbo (1888–1953) – who later renamed himself Jussuf Abbo – was born in Safed, in the province of Beirut of the Ottoman Empire. As a young man, he began working as a labourer on the restoration site being led by an architect, Hoffmann, on behalf of the German government. Abbo was noticed and was rapidly promoted to the drawing-office and to stone-carving. He was offered a scholarship at the Berlin School of Art. Jussuf Abbo arrived in Germany in 1911 and began studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin in 1913. By 1919 he had a master studio in the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts. Throughout the 1920’s he exhibited in top galleries throughout Germany and was a well known portrait sculptor and printmaker and an active member of the Berlin avant-garde artistic community. Much of his work, being partially abstract with an emphasis on psychological state and emotion, could be considered “Expressionist”.
FREE Zoom lecture on March 2: "Jussuf Prince of Thebes – Re-constructing the life and work of a forgotten talent from Safed". Featuring Dorothea Schöne at Kunsthaus Dahlem Berlin (Germany)
REGISTRATION LINK:
https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/abbo/.
IMAGE: Jussuf Abbo, Mask from the Norwegian Sea, ca. 1922, plaster (l.) and bronze (r.), 40 x 20 cm, Estate of Jussuf Abbo, Brighton/UK, photo: Mark Heathcote.
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We're sharing some impressions from the two-day MOI Museums of Impact pilot workshops that took place last week at the Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin and Kunsthaus Dahlem. The Berlin based art museums got to tests a new self-evaluation framework to assess and develop their organisations' social impact. The final version of the tool will be available for free at the end of 2022.
Ya en nuestras manos el catálogo de la exposición “El Prisionero Político Desconocido” realizado por el museo :Kunsthaus Dahlem en Alemania.
Works of faith,hope and love,www.faopal.hu
Vielen Dank 🙌 rbb Fernsehen für den Tipp eines Kunstausflug zwischen den Jahren nach Dahlem und insbesondere ins Brücke-Museum🎄🥂❄️! 👉Hier der Link für einen kleinen Einblick in unsere aktuellen Ausstellungen mit der Direktorin des Museums Lisa Marei Schmidt und der Kuratorin Paz Guevara:
https://www.rbb-online.de/abendschau/videos/20211225_1930/Whose-Expression-Bruecke-Museum-kolonialer-Kontext-Kunsthaus-Dahlem-bastian-gallery.html
Die Künstler der Brücke lebten und arbeiteten in einer Zeit, in der das Deutsche Kaiserreich eine der größten Kolonialmächte Europas war. Die Ausstellung Whose Expression? Die Künstler der Brücke im kolonialen Kontext befragt ihre Werke vor diesem historischen Hintergrund. 🎨
Das Brücke-Museum beherbergt den Nachlass des Künstlers Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Hierzu zählen mehr als hundert Kunstwerke aus über 20 Regionen der Welt, unter anderem Papua-Neuguinea, Kamerun, Kongo und Mexiko. Die Ausstellung Transition Exhibition im benachtbarten Kunsthaus Dahlem kontextualisiert diesen Teil der Sammlung Schmidt-Rottluffs erstmals aus einer kritischen Perspektive. 🔍
👉Bitte beachtet unsere Feiertagsöffnungszeiten: Am 31. Dezember haben wir geschlossen. Am 1. Januar haben wir von 13.00 - 17.00 Uhr für Euch geöffnet. Ansonsten besucht uns gerne zu den regulären Öffnungszeiten.
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Thank you 🙌 for recommending Dahlem and especially the Brücke-Museum for an art excursion between the years 🎄🥂❄️! 👉Link in bio – for a little insight into our current exhibitions with the director Lisa Marei Schmidt and the curator Paz Guevara:
https://www.rbb-online.de/abendschau/videos/20211225_1930/Whose-Expression-Bruecke-Museum-kolonialer-Kontext-Kunsthaus-Dahlem-bastian-gallery.html
The Brücke artists lived and worked during a period when Imperial Germany was one of the largest colonial powers in Europe. The exhibition *Whose Expression? The Brücke Artists and Colonialism* examines their works against this historical background. 🎨
The Brücke-Museum houses the collection of the estate of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Part of it is a body of works from over 20 regions in the world – among them New Guinea, Congo, Mexico. The *Transition Exhibition* at the neighbouring Kunsthaus Dahlem contextualises this part of Schmidt-Rottluff’s collection from a critical perspective for the first time. 🔍
👉Please note our holiday opening hours: We are closed on 31 December. On 1 January we are open for you from 1 pm – 5 pm. Otherwise, feel free to visit us during regular opening hours.
