Kestner Gesellschaft (Kestner Society) is an art institution in Hanover , Germany, founded in 1916 to promote the arts. Its founders included the painter Wilhelm von Debschitz (1871–1948). The association blossomed under the management of Alexander Dorner [ de ] and Justus Bier [ de ] , pioneering modern art.
35-655: After World War II, Alfred Hentzen [ de ] took over the management in 1947, followed by Fritz Schmalenbach [ de ] . In 1997 the Kestner Gesellschaft moved into new premises at Goseriede 11, the former site of the Goseriede Aquatic Center. The new gallery is next to the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , Hanover's newspaper. The institution hit the headlines in 2005 when it exhibited
70-472: A photorealist style. Doig instead uses the photographs simply for reference. In a 2008 interview, Doig referred to his use of photographs and postcards as painting "by proxy" and noted that his paintings "made no attempt to reflect setting". Shortly after Doig's graduation from the Chelsea College of Arts , he was awarded the prestigious Whitechapel Artist Prize culminating in a solo exhibition at
105-452: A Toronto snowfall, which was guaranteed for $ 25 million and sold for $ 28.8 million to a telephone bidder, an auction record for the artist. In 2016, a former Canadian corrections officer began a $ 5 million lawsuit against Doig over a picture he claimed was by Doig despite the artist's denial it was his work. A Chicago court ruled in Doig's favour later that year, finding that the painting
140-545: A close-meshed and invisible network of electrical connections in the floors, walls and ceilings. The lateral galleries in the Halls II and III can be closed off to create smaller exhibition spaces. The total of twelve entrances into the Claussen Hall may be used to create different orientations of projects and viewers. In planning for the building renovations, care was also taken to create the necessary infrastructure for
175-538: A mud house created by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra featuring a room with mud floor reminiscent of Hanover's Maschsee , an artificial lake. From 2015 to 2019, institution’s first female director was Christina Végh . The current director is Adam Budak, who took on the position in November 2020. In 1916, with World War I raging, the Kestner Gesellschaft was founded by citizens of Hanover, among them Hermann Bahlsen , August Madsack and Fritz Beindorff . Their goal
210-520: A tunnel, a familiar landmark for Toronto residents since an anonymous artist painted a rainbow over it, at the northbound Don Valley Parkway , in 1972. The rainbow has been repainted more than 40 times over two decades, despite authorities’ attempts to remove it. His 1997 painting Canoe-Lake was inspired by the 1980 slasher film Friday the 13th . In 2003, Doig started a weekly film club called StudioFilmClub in his studio together with Trinidadian artist Che Lovelace . Doig not only selects and screens
245-551: Is a Scottish painter. He has settled in Trinidad since 2002. In 2007, his painting White Canoe sold at Sotheby's for $ 11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist. In February 2013, his painting The Architect's Home in the Ravine sold for $ 12 million at a London auction. Art critic Jonathan Jones said about him: "Amid all the nonsense, impostors, rhetorical bullshit and sheer trash that pass for art in
280-796: Is collectively curated on a five-year-cycle by the three institutions Kestner Gesellschaft, Kunstverein Hannover and Sprengel Museum Hannover , took place. Under the heading "Produktion. Made in Germany Three", the exhibition focused on the conditions of producing art in Germany. As participating institutions, the Schauspiel Hannover , the Festival Theaterformen , and the KunstFestSpiele are contributing
315-648: Is the first contemporary artist to show at the Courtauld since its redevelopment and his display of painterly skills was widely admired by critics. In 1993, Doig won the first prize at the John Moores exhibition with his painting Blotter . This brought public recognition, cemented in 1994, when he was nominated for the Turner Prize . From 1995 to 2000, he was a trustee of the Tate Gallery . He
350-796: The Fine Arts Academy in Düsseldorf , Germany. Many of Doig's paintings are landscapes with a number harking back to the snowy scenes of his childhood in Canada. He draws inspiration for his figurative work from photographs, newspaper clippings, movie scenes, record album covers and the work of earlier artists like Edvard Munch . His landscapes are layered formally and conceptually, and draw on assorted historical artists, including Munch, H. C. Westermann , Friedrich , Monet and Klimt . While his works are frequently based on found photographs (and sometimes on his own) they are not painted in
385-731: The Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1991. Included in the Whitechapel exhibition were major works including Swamped (1990), Iron Hill (1991), and The Architect's Home in the Ravine (1991). The Architect's Home in the Ravine (1991) shows Eberhard Zeidler 's modernist central Toronto home in the Rosedale ravine. Doig created a series of paintings of Le Corbusier 's modernist communal living apartments known as l'Unité d’Habitation located at Briey-en-Forêt , in France. In
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455-724: The 21st century, Doig is a jewel of genuine imagination, sincere work and humble creativity." Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh , Scotland. In 1962, he moved with his family to Trinidad, where his father worked with a shipping and trading company, and then in 1966 to Canada. After boarding school in Scotland and working on a gas rig he moved to London to study at the Wimbledon School of Art in 1979–1980, Saint Martin's School of Art from 1980 to 1983, and Chelsea School of Art , in 1989–1990, where he received an MA . In 1989,
490-633: The 56th Venice Biennale. Recently his work was included in the group exhibition Cooperations at Fondation Beyeler (2017). From 6 September to 16 November 2019, Michael Werner Gallery hosted an exhibition of new paintings by Doig. In February 2023 a four-month exhibition of new and recent works by Peter Doig opened at London’s Courtauld Gallery comprising 12 paintings and 20 works on paper. Most of these paintings were completed since his return from Trinidad in 2021, including Alpinist , Canal , Bather , Music Shop , House of Music (Soca Boat) , Self-Portrait (Fernandes Compound) and Alice at Boscoe’s . He
525-560: The Kestner Gesellschaft for its use. An international architectural competition was launched in 1992 in search of an innovative design for the space with the support of the Norddeutsche Landesbank . Chaired by Prof. Peter P. Schweger , the jury awarded the first prize to the Hanoverian architects Kai-Michael Koch, Anne Panse and Christian Hühn. In collaboration with the curators of the Kestner Gesellschaft, their design
560-1108: The Kestner Gesellschaft in limited editions. 52°22′39″N 9°43′54″E / 52.37750°N 9.73167°E / 52.37750; 9.73167 Alfred Hentzen Look for Alfred Hentzen on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Alfred Hentzen in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use
595-559: The Kestner Gesellschaft was closed under pressure from Hitler's Nazism . The director at the time, Justus Bier , a Jew, presented artists Erich Heckel , Gerhard Marcks , Christian Rohlfs and August Macke – artists who were featured in the notorious Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich only one year later. Soon after the war, the new Kestner Gesellschaft was opened in the Warmbüchenstraße in 1948 by Hanoverians with service to
630-569: The artist held a part-time job as a dresser at the English National Opera with his friend Haydn Cottam. Doig was invited to return to Trinidad in 2000, to take up an artist's residency with his friend and fellow painter Chris Ofili . In 2002, Doig moved back to the island, where he set up a studio at the Caribbean Contemporary Arts Centre near Port of Spain . He also became a professor at
665-467: The careful transport and handling of artworks to and within the halls, with direct access to the exhibition spaces via loading dock. Due to ceiling-high gates on the ground- and upper-floors along with a large elevator, pieces arrive safely and easily into the exhibition halls. Since 2003, Kestnereditions are being released related to every exhibition. The works, which include graphic art, photography and other art forms, are offered exclusively for members of
700-448: The early 1990s, Doig was involved with a group of architects and artists who operated from the building. The modern urban structures are partially revealed and hidden by the forest that surrounds them. As Doig explains: "When you walk through an urban environment, you take the strangeness of the architecture for granted." Created in the late 1990s, a series of paintings – including works such as Country-Rock (Wing Mirror) (1999) – depict
735-793: The films; he also paints the poster advertising the week's film. He told an interviewer that he finds this ongoing project liberating because it is "much more immediate" than his usual work. In 2005, he was one of the artists exhibited in part 1 of The Triumph of Painting at the Saatchi Gallery in London. Doig has had major solo exhibitions at Tate Britain (2008), touring to Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Dallas Museum of Art (2005), Pinakothek der Moderne , Munich (2004), Bonnefanten Museum , Maastricht (2003), and Whitechapel Art Gallery , London (1998). Doig's first major exhibition in his home country
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#1732775347609770-402: The first character; please check alternative capitalizations and consider adding a redirect here to the correct title. If the page has been deleted, check the deletion log , and see Why was the page I created deleted? Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hentzen " Peter Doig Peter Doig ( / ˈ d ɔɪ ɡ / DOYG ; born 17 April 1959)
805-540: The first time. In 1997, the Prime Minister of Lower Saxony , Gerhard Schröder , inaugurated the new facilities of the Kestner Gesellschaft at Goseriede 11. Simultaneously, the Munich Abendzeitung declared the remodelled exhibition facility "Germany’s most beautiful exhibition house." The remodelling of the former Goseriede Aquatic Center into an up-to-date exhibition house not only incorporates
840-486: The high technical demands of modern exhibition operations but also preserves and showcases the Jugendstil features of this historic landmark. With its five halls on two levels, the house has at its command more than 1,500 square meters of exhibition surface. From 1902 to 1905 the Hanoverian chief city architectural commissioner, Carl Wolff, oversaw the construction of the Goseriede Aquatic Center. The middle section of
875-555: The public bathing facility was destroyed in 1943 during the Second World War, and later rebuilt from 1947 to 1953. After the reopening, the pool remained in use until 1982. In the same year, the city placed the beautiful Jugendstil façade under protection as a monument. In 1990 the Madsack publishing company purchased the building, offering the sections of the former women's pool area, entrance hall and all adjoining rooms to
910-451: The public in mind, among them Hermann Bahlsen, Wilhelm Stichweh , Bernhard Sprengel and Günther Beindorff , the director of the company Pelikan . In the 1990s, this building could no longer meet the high technical demands of modern exhibition operations, and the Kestner Gesellschaft looked for a new location. The former Goseriede Aquatic Center in the centre was chosen, and a team of internationally selected architects designed and oversaw
945-409: The sale made Doig go from being "a hero to other painters to a poster child of the excesses of the market". In 2009, Night Playground (1997–98), a densely painted landscape painting being sold by Joel Mallin, a New York collector, went for $ 5 million at a Christie's auction in London, well above its high estimate of $ 3 million. Also at Christie's London, The Architect’s Home in the Ravine (1991)
980-641: The transformation into a modern exhibition house. The list of artists whose works have been exhibited during the 75-year history – excluding the years of closure – reads like a "Who's Who" in the history of 20th- and 21st-century art, among them Paul Klee (1920), Wassily Kandinsky (1923), El Lissitzky (1923) and Kurt Schwitters (1924), both friends of the Kestner Gesellschaft, Joan Miró (1952, 1956, 1989), Jean Dubuffet (1960), Marcel Duchamp and Horst Janssen (1965), Pablo Picasso (1973, 1993), Wolf Vostell (1977), Andy Warhol (1981 as his first retrospective in Germany, 2001) Jean-Michel Basquiat (1986 as
1015-420: The youngest at age 25, 1989), Georg Baselitz (1987), Joseph Beuys (1975, 1990), Richard Prince (1991), Rebecca Horn (1978, 1991, 1997), Antoni Tàpies (1962, 1998), Jonathan Meese (2002), Thomas Ruff (2003), Peter Doig (2004), Rochelle Feinstein, (2016/17), James Richards, (2016/17) and Annette Kelm (2017). In 2017, the third edition of the collection Made in Germany [ de ] , which
1050-586: Was auctioned at £7.66 million in early 2013. Later in 2013, César Reyes, a psychiatrist who lives in Puerto Rico and is one of the artist's biggest collectors, sold Jetty , a 1994 canvas of a lone figure on a dock at sunset, for $ 11.3 million. His painting Gasthof zur Muldentalsperre was sold at Christie's in 2014 for $ 17,038,276. This price was surpassed by Swamped , also sold at Christie's in 2015 for $ 25,950,000 and in 2021 for $ 39,000,000. Phillips auctioned Peter Doig's 1991 canvas, Rosedale , depicting
1085-533: Was developed further into an elegant and dynamic amalgamation of modern architectural elements. The prize of the Association of German Architects of the State of Lower Saxony was awarded to the building in 1998. Each of the five halls at Kestner Gesellschaft has its own unique dimensions and atmosphere. Able to accommodate diverse exhibition concepts, the spaces can be transformed with high-tech equipment including
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1120-1034: Was entitled No Foreign Lands , taking place in the Scottish National Gallery , in Edinburgh , from 3 August to 3 November 2013. It was critically acclaimed and showed works created in the previous ten years, mostly during his residence in Trinidad. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts , in collaboration with the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art , presented his own exhibition, the first major held in North America, from 25 January to 4 May 2014. A retrospective opened at Fondation Beyeler , Basel, in 2014, which travelled in 2015 to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek , Denmark. Also in 2015, an exhibition of recent works opened at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice , Italy, coinciding with
1155-552: Was honoured with amfAR 's Award of Excellence for Artistic Contributions to the Fight Against AIDS in 2009. He was also named the 2017 Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon. In 2007, a painting of Doig's entitled White Canoe sold at Sotheby's for $ 11.3 million, then an auction record for a work by a living European artist. Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles said in an interview that
1190-619: Was the work of a similarly named man, Peter Doige. In 2023, Doig was awarded $ 2.5 million in sanctions against the painting's owner, the art gallery representing the owner, and their lawyer. Doig is represented at many international museum collections, with famous paintings including The House that Jacques Built (1992) at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art ; Boiler House (1994), at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ; and Ski Jacket (1994), at Tate Modern , London. He
1225-463: Was to bring internationally renowned and innovative artists and their current works to Hanover. The first exhibition representing the starting point for this concept in 1916 consisted of Max Liebermann's new work. The first director, Paul Küppers , stated at the time that the aim was to present artworks which "do not simply function as a relaxing amusement but instead have a stimulating and – if necessary – provocative and scandalizing effect". In 1936,
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