Peter Iden (born September 11, 1934) is a German theater critic and art critic.
Peter Iden (born September 11, 1934) is a German theater critic and art critic.
Iden was born in Meseritz, now Międzyrzecz, Poland. His family fled the Red Army to the British-occupied area and settled in Lauenburg on the Elbe. There, Iden grew up and attended the humanist branch of the Johanneum high school in Lüneburg. From 1955, he spent two years in California. After moving to Frankfurt am Main and graduating from the Helmholtz School in Frankfurt in 1958, Iden studied philosophy, history and theater at Goethe University in Frankfurt. He studied with Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer. Afterwards he continued his studies at the University of Vienna. There Iden was friends with artists Arnulf Rainer and Markus Prachensky.
Since 1961, Iden has written journalistic articles, notably for the Frankfurter Rundschau. At the same time, Iden met the director of the theater Erwin Piscator in Frankfurt, became his assistant and traveled with him for two years through Germany. Inspired by Piscator, he organized "Experimenta" with the theater editor Karlheinz Braun from 1966 to 1971 at the Theater am Turm, which was one of the first international festivals of experimental theater in Germany. In 1972 Iden was a member of the Documenta 5 organizing committee, with director Harald Szeemann, and the same year he became a member of the German PEN club. In 1980, he became a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main.
From 1978 to 1987, he was the founding director of the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt. In 1981, after long negotiations with the heirs of Darmstadt entrepreneur Karl Ströher, he was able to acquire 87 works of American pop and minimal art, as well as high-quality German and European works of art between the 1950s and the 1970s for the museum under construction. [1] Iden expands until 1987 the collection including important works of German and European art. [2] From 1988, Jean-Christophe Ammann [3] takes over the management of the museum and opens the new building of the Viennese architect Hans Hollein [4] in June 1991.
From 1982 Iden was professor of theater and art theory at the University of Music and the Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main and head of the theater department. He became known as a cultural journalist as an art and theater critic for the Frankfurter Rundschau, for which he has written over 3000 contributions over the years. He was editor-in-chief and from 1993 to 2000 head of the arts section (editorial code "P.I.") at the Frankfurter Rundschau.
In June 2004, Peter Iden conducted an interview with Jutta Lampe Sharing the event of the metamorphosis for the review of the Strasbourg National Theater L'Outrescène.
In 2009, Iden was the spokesperson for the curators who curated the much-loved “Sixty Years. Sixty works - Art of the Federal Republic of Germany "in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.
Iden is the author and editor of numerous writings on contemporary theater and contemporary art. [5]
In 1995 he received the Goethe-Plakette des Landes Hessen [6] and in 2006 the Goetheplakette der Stadt Frankfurt am Main. [7]
Carl Andre is an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures. His sculptures range from large public artworks [such as Stone Field Sculpture, 1977 in Hartford, Connecticut and Lament for the Children, 1976 in Long Island City, New York], to large interior works exhibited on the floor [such as 144 Magnesium Square, 1969], to small intimate works [such as Satier: Zinc on Steel, 1989 and 7 Alnico Pole, 2011].
Neo Rauch is a German artist whose paintings mine the intersection of his personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work reflects the influence of socialist realism, and owes a debt to Surrealists Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, although Rauch hesitates to align himself with surrealism. He studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, and he lives in Markkleeberg near Leipzig, Germany and works as the principal artist of the New Leipzig School. The artist is represented by Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin and David Zwirner, New York.
The Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt is an award for achievement "worthy of honour in memory of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" made by the city of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was usually an annual award until 1955, and thereafter has been triennial. Many recipients are authors, but persons working in several other creative and scientific fields have been honoured. The prize money is €50,000.
Hans Hollein was an Austrian architect and designer and key figure of postmodern architecture. Some of his most notable works are the Haas House and the Albertina extension in the inner city of Vienna.
Museumsufer is the name of a landscape of museums in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany, lined up on both banks of the river Main or in close vicinity. The centre is the historic art museum Städel. The other museums were added, partly by transforming historic villas, partly by building new museums, in the 1980s by cultural politician Hilmar Hoffmann.
Manfred Stumpf is a German draftsman, Conceptual artist, and Digital artist. He started to study 1976 with Thomas Bayrle at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, since 1978 with Hans Haake at the Cooper Union in New York, and since 1979 with Bazon Brock at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. He currently resides in Romrod in the Vogelsbergkreis and Frankfurt, Germany.
The Museum für Moderne Kunst, or short MMK, in Frankfurt, was founded in 1981 and opened to the public June 6, 1991. The museum was designed by the Viennese architect Hans Hollein. Because of its triangular shape, it is popularly called "piece of cake", Claes Oldenburg artistically has expressed in a work.
Hilmar Hoffmann was a German stage and film director, cultural politician and academic lecturer. He founded the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. He was for decades an influential city councillor in Frankfurt, where he initiated the Museumsufer of 15 museums, including the Jewish Museum Frankfurt. He was the president of the Goethe-Institut and taught at universities such as Bochum and Tel Aviv. He wrote the book Kultur für alle, which was a motto of his life and work.
Peter Angermann is a German painter based in Nuremberg.
Goethe-Plakette is the highest award by the Hessian Ministry for Science and the Arts of the federal state of Hesse, Germany, named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It has been awarded since 1949 at irregular intervals. The award is given to individuals who have contributed to arts and culture in a special way and have been influential in the cultural development of the state of Hesse.
F. W. Bernstein was a German poet, cartoonist, satirist, and academic. He worked for the satirical biweekly pardon. After teaching at schools, he was professor of caricature and comics at the Berlin Academy of the Arts from 1984 to 1999. He was one of the founding members of the Neue Frankfurter Schule, which published the satirical magazine Titanic.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Max Hollein is an Austrian art historian and the current Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. He served as Director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco from July 2016, until April 2018, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Hollein would become its 10th director while reporting to Daniel H. Weiss, the president of the Met.
Piero Dorazio was an Italian painter. His work was related to color field painting, lyrical abstraction and other forms of abstract art.
Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt is an award conferred by Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany and named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The plaque was originally designed by sculptor Harold Winter. The plaque is awarded at irregular intervals to important poets, writers, artists, scientists and other personalities of the cultural life.
Rolf Dieter Lauter is a German art historian, curator and art advisor.
Franz Karl Delavilla was an Austrian-German graphic artist, illustrator, designer and art professor.
Abisag Tüllmann was a German photographer.
Sandra Mann is a German artist and photographer. In her cross-genre work, she deals conceptually with the relationship between people, with nature, the environment, the animal world and gender issues. Her work is characterized by research into the fundamentals of photography and visual language. In 2021, she was awarded the Goethe plaque from the city of Frankfurt am Main.
Jean-Christophe Ammann was a Swiss art historian and curator.
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