Margarete Lauter

Margarete Lauter (née Vetter) (9 September 1925 in Büchenbronn/Pforzheim; 2 October 2004 in Mannheim) was a German art dealer[1] with the first Art Gallery for international contemporary art established in 1963 in Mannheim (Germany) after the Second World War 1945 mainly presenting works by German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Romanian, Belgian, Hungarian, Israeli, Slovenian, Austrian and US artists.[2]

Margarete Lauter (1967)

Life

Margarete Vetter grew up as the daughter of a farming family with 4 siblings. Her mother promoted her early on with cultural activities. In the late years of the Second World War she met the young architect Harro Lauter (October 17, 1919 - October 5, 1996), whom she married in 1948. After spending 3 years in her father-in-law's parental home in Hoffenheim / Sinsheim (Germany), her husband was appointed architect in 1952 to the Mannheim Building Authority. In 1963, in collaboration with the Mannheim and Paris based artist Rudi Baerwind and the Galerie Paul Facchetti Paris,[3] she opened the first gallery for international contemporary art after the Second World War in Mannheim.[4] The couple had three children. The youngest son, Rolf Lauter, grew up in his mother's gallery in the 1960s, became assistant curator and curator at the gallery and has been appointed later as museum director.

Galerie Lauter

Galerie Margarete Lauter 1963-1967

The first gallery space was located in Mannheim, Bismarckstrasse L 15, 7-9 near the main train station 1963-1967.[5] Galerie Margarete Lauter[6] opened on November 21, 1963 with an exhibition that took place in close collaboration with the Galerie Paul Facchetti, Paris[7] presenting works of the artists Ger Lataster, Ung-No Lee, Georges Noël, Rudi Baerwind, Zoltan Kemeny and objects of traditional African art.[8][9] In other exhibitions Lauter has shown works by: Uwe Lausen (1964-1965),[10] Magie du banal[11] (1965),[12] Zoran Antonio Mušič (1965), Natalia Dumitresco (1965, 1971), Rudi Baerwind and Georges Noël (1965),[13] Pierre Clerc (1965-1966)[14] together with art and cult objects from Africa (1965-1966, 1968),[15] Syn: Bernd Berner, Rolf Gunter Dienst, Klaus Jürgen-Fischer, Eduard Micus, Marc Vaux (1966),[16] Alexandre Istrati (1966, 1975), Karl Fred Dahmen (1966, 1969, 1972)[17] Luciano Lattanzi and Werner Schreib (1966, 1974, 1988),[18] Georg Meistermann (1967),[19] Jaroslav Serpan (1967).[20]

Galerie Lauter

In 1967 the gallery moved to a larger space in square B 4, 10a, where up to 6 exhibitions under the new name Galerie Lauter[21] took place every year with international contemporary art (1967-1990). Here she realised amongst others exhibitions by: Jaroslav Serpan (1967, 1978),[22] Amadeo Gabino (1967, 1970, 1982, 1990),[23] Erwin Bechtold (1965, 1968, 1973, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1992),[24] Shusaku Arakawa (1968, 1986), Louise Nevelson (1968 ), Otto Herbert Hajek (1968, 1977, 1989),[25] Gianfranco Baruchello (1969),[26] Otmar Alt (1969, 1981),[27] Manuel Rivera (1970), Karl Prantl (1970), Rolf-Gunter Dienst (1970), Dieter Krieg ( 1970, 1988), Wilhelm Loth (1970), Manolo Millares (1971), Reipka - Paluzzi (1971), KRH Sonderborg (1972), Rolf Kissel (1972, 1976, 1979), Günther Uecker, Louis Tomasello, Jean-Pierre Yvaral (1973), Herrmann Goepfert (1974, 1992), Erwin Heerich (1974), Otto Piene (1975 , 1992), Alexandre Istrati (1974/75), Adolf Luther (1975, 1989), Pierre Alechinsky (1976), HA Schult (1976), Gustav Seitz (1976, 1989), Miguel Berrocal (1976), Antoni Tàpies (1977 ), Robert Motherwell (1977), Joan Miró (1978), Antonio Saura (1979), Georges Mathieu (1980), Georges Noël (1980, 1984), Erich Hauser (1980), Heinz Mack (1981, 1985, 1992 ), Hans Hartung (1981), Victor Vasarely (1981/82), Roberto Matta (1983), George Rickey (1983), Antonio Saura (1985-86), Rafael Mahdavi (1987), Karel Appel (1987), Ger Lataster (1987/88), Werner Schreib (1988), Adolf Luther (1989), Victor Vasarely (1989), COBRA (1990), Yaacov Agam (1989/90).

From 1990 to 1996 Lauter changed for new tall spaces at Friedrichsplatz 14, right next to the Kunsthalle Mannheim and Mannheim's landmark, the water tower. From 1996 she retired to private rooms for 4 years after her husband passed away, focusing on smaller exhibitions and art consulting. Finally in 2000 she reopened a gallery space at Friedrichsplatz 15 to conduct art trading in a reduced form. Lauter ended her gallery activities in spring 2003, after 40 years of successful work, in which she was able to build up numerous new private collections.

  • Literature from and about Galerie Margarete Lauter
  • Literature from and about Galerie Lauter
  • Basic information on Margarete Lauter at city archive of Mannheim

Footnotes
  1. "Lauter, Margarete". Online queries with scopeQuery™. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  2. "Neue Kunstgalerie in Mannheim | Video | ARD Mediathek". www.ardmediathek.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  3. Paul Facchetti was a collaborator and friend for many years and a supporter of the Lauter gallery, just like Rodolphe Stadler and Daniel Gervis from Paris, Juana Mordó from Madrid, Roberto Peccolo, Livorno, Denise René / Hans Mayer, Paris / Düsseldorf and Peter Femfert - Die Galerie, Frankfurt.
  4. Earlier than Lauter Rudolf Probst was an important art dealer in Mannheim, who dealt with works of classical modernism in Germany before and during the Nazi era. He opened his first gallery for classical Modern Art in Mannheim in August 1945, right after the end of the war, after working as an art dealer in Dresden in the Emil Richter art store (1918-1923) and managing the gallery "Neue Kunst Fides" from 1923-1933. His gallery, in which he had shown works by Emil Nolde, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann and Oskar Kokoschka, was closed by the National Socialists in 1933. Probst acquired the Kunsthaus Tannenbaum from Herbert Tannenbaum (1892–1958) a short time later in Mannheim, but also came into conflict with the National Socialists here immediately. After an exhibition of Emil Nolde's works in the summer of 1937, Probst had to forego the presentation and public sale of art accused to show "degenerated art". The Kunsthaus was destroyed in air raids on Mannheim in 1943. From 1945 to 1958 Probst operated his gallery first in Otto-Beck-Straße and from 1949 in Mannheimer Schloss. Probst offered numerous artists of classical modernism after the war and succeeded in conveying important works to German museums. (Karl Ludwig Hofmann, Christmut Präger: Rudolf Probst 1890–1968, Galerist. Nimbus, Wädenswil 2015, ISBN 978-3-907142-88-2.)
  5. Today's city plan of Mannheim is based on a horseshoe-shaped grid of squares referring to Mannheim Castle, starting with A 1 and ending with U 16. The planning of this network goes back to Elector Frederick IV of the Palatinate from 1606 and has been preserved until today, This unique structure can only be compared to the later founding of Manhattan.
  6. "Galerie Margarete Lauter [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-15.
  7. Literature by and about Paul Facchetti
  8. "Neue Kunstgalerie in Mannheim | Video | ARD Mediathek". www.ardmediathek.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  9. The guests are welcomed at the opening of the exhibition by the mayor of the city of Mannheim and friend of Margarete Lauter, Hans Reschke. Dietrich Mahlow, director of the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, made an introduction to the exhibition. Paul Facchetti from Paris in conversation with the artist Rudi Baerwind. Heinz Fuchs, director of the Kunsthalle Mannheim, a friend of the Lauter family for a long time, chats with the artists.
  10. Uwe Lausen: Das Lamm (in German). Mannheim: Galerie Margarete Lauter. 1964. OCLC 950173345.
  11. Galerie Margarete Lauter. "Magie du banal". www.worldcat.org (in French). Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  12. The exhibition Magie im Alltag / Magie du banal: with works by Royston Adzak, François Arnal, Eduardo Arroyo, Victor Brauner, René Bro, Aristide Caillaud, Dado, François Dufrêne, Yolande Fièvre, Peter Foldes, Klaus Geissler, Domenico Gnoli, Habbah, Horst Egon Kalinowski, Peter Klasen, Harry Kramer, Michel Lablais, Maurice Lemaître, Pavlos (Pavlos Dionyssopoulos), Jean-Claude Quilici, Bernard Rancillac, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Antonio Recalcati, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Peter Saul, Bernard Schultze, Ursula Schultze-Bluhm, Harold Stevenson, Jacques de la Villeglé has been realised in collaboration with Rudi Baerwind, Claude Rivière, Wolfgang Sauré and Gerald Gassiot-Talabot as well as with the support of the galleries Iris Clert, Galerie Breteau, Alexandre Iolas, Galerie «J», Claude Levin, André Schoeller and Galerie Stadler all from Paris. It was a demonstration of young international contemporary art in Germany long before the first Art Fair took place in Germany and Switzerland and many of the artists shown here exhibited only later in Documenta Kassel and Biennale di Venezia.
  13. Galerie Margarete Lauter. "Rudi Baerwind - Georges Noël". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  14. Galerie Margarete Lauter. "Pierre Clerc". www.worldcat.org (in German). Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  15. Galerie Margarete Lauter. "Kult- und Kunstgegenstände aus Afrika". www.worldcat.org (in German). Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  16. Galerie Margarete Lauter. "Syn". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  17. Galerie Margarete Lauter. "Karl-Fred Dahmen". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  18. Galerie Margarete Lauter. "Luciano Lattanzi & Werner Schreib". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  19. Galerie Margarete Lauter. "Georg Meistermann". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  20. Galerie Lauter. "Serpan". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  21. "Galerie Lauter [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-15.
  22. Galerie Lauter. "Serpan". www.worldcat.org (in German). Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  23. Galerie Lauter. "Amadeo Gabino". www.worldcat.org (in German). Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  24. Galerie Lauter. "Erwin Bechtold". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  25. Galerie Lauter. "Otto Herbert Hajek". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  26. Galerie Lauter. "Gianfranco Baruchello". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  27. Galerie Lauter. "Otmar Alt". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
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