Hanne Darboven

Darboven ( born April 29, 1941 in Munich, † March 9, 2009 in Hamburg) was a German conceptual artist. She became famous through their writing drawings that are based on number operations, out of numbers, and rhythmic lines and deletions.

Life and work

Darboven, daughter of Caesar and Kirsten Darboven Darboven, grew up in the south of Hamburg, in Rönneburg, as the mean of three daughters in a Hamburg merchant family. Her father was the owner of the Harburg coffee JW Darboven (not to be confused with the coffee company Darboven ).

After her studies from 1962 to 1965 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg at Willem Grimm and Almir Mavignier she was commissioned in 1966 for two years to New York and began initially in complete isolation from the New York art world, their own paths. In the winter of 1966/67, they came into contact with artists of Minimal Art as Sol LeWitt and Carl Andre, with whom she became friends. During this time the first serial construction -like drawings on graph paper with the involvement of calendar data, " by carrying out additions or forms cross sums of the natural numbers 1 to 9. " And " geometric and advertised set representations of time periods due to the cross sum of the days of self-selected, indices. '"

In New York Darboven developed as part of a conceptual and minimal art systems simple number sequences in columns of figures and boxes by the seemingly arbitrary calendar data in accordance with strictly predefined structures (eg, 3 5 7 5 3 ) with complex variation consequences. In the " Galerie Konrad Fischer" in Dusseldorf in 1967 she had her first solo exhibition. In 1969 she returned to Hamburg and started by own indices with the copying of poems. In 1973 Darboven their works at Leo Castelli in New York.

From 1975 to Darboven dealt with her major work, the writing time in which they experienced history by number codes, word text, diagrams and photographs Declaration, " to make sure the largely unconscious flow of time, with all its information and news." In the work Friedrich II, Harburg 1986, she used four hundred times the motif of a postcard from 1910 with the view of a place in Harburg, on which also the headquarters of the Darboven is seen. On 19 leaves of which she wrote from the biography of Frederick II of Prussia. Four additional sheets necessary for a transition to the Now, seven years for bills and 365 days for bills. The accounts comprise the further calculations of checksums, so that at the end of each day has its own number, is the every day to the individual.

In 1980 she began her number systems on a simple principle ( number 0 = note d, etc.) to put into sequences of notes that let them arrange from a professional musician in the traditional manner for various instruments.

The internationally renowned artist lived a secluded and reclusive in a converted farmhouse or manor house her family in Hamburg- Rönneburg. She is there died of lymphatic cancer on March 9, 2009 at the age of 67 years.

Darboven Foundation

In 2000, she founded the Foundation named after her Darboven in Hamburg, the " preserve the extensive work of its benefactor as an internationally recognized artist and make available to the public " and to support young artists. The chairman is her cousin Albert Darboven. The Darboven Foundation has purchased the former home of Hanne Darboven of the city of Hamburg in July 2012. The Darboven Foundation wants to use this house to to capture the work of the artist scientifically and make them available to the public. The official key handover took place on 18 July 2012. This is now the new owner of Villa Foundation in Rönneburg. Until final completion but will still take about five years.

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards (selection)

Public collections (selection)

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
  • ARCO Foundation Collection, Madrid
  • Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
  • Dia: Beacon, Beacon / NY
  • Dia: Chelsea, New York
  • Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
  • Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld
  • Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen
  • MADRE, Naples
  • Abbey Museum Mountain, Mönchengladbach
  • Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main
  • Küppersmühle Museum, Duisburg
  • National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
  • Federal Art Collection, Bonn
  • Schaulager, Basel
  • Städel Museum, Frankfurt
  • Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Art ( SMAK ) in Ghent
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