KörperGeometrie

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (1898-1962), an artist associated with many contemporary greats, and Ilse Leda (1906-1981), a dancer, dance teacher and choreographer, met at a time when the international avant-garde of constructive, non-representational abstraction and thus of new approaches to photography, film and dance was arriving in Hanover. Both were deeply impressed by the grand utopia of a world improved by clarity of design and beauty. They adopted these principles for themselves - also as an expression of their ideas and work - through the times of upheaval, their emigration to Amsterdam, and their arrival at a very personal art of formal reduction and brilliant colours, lightness and enduring humanity. Sensitive texts and impressive contemporary photographs reveal the couples respectful coexistence: on an equal footing, supporting and inspiring each other. Dancing images and artistic dance - in conjunction with clear aesthetics in both art and life. - Publication to mark Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewarts 125th birthday New evaluation and recognition of dancer, dance teacher, and choreographer Ilse Leda The lives of two artists in photos from the 1920s/1930s taken by Lázló MoholyNagy (including the discovery and fresh attribution of three previously anonymous photos), Hugo Erfurth, Lore Feininger, Albert RengerPatzsch. Kurt Schwitters, Käte Steinitz, Paul Citroen, Theo van Doesburg etc. Exhibition: Museum Wiesbaden, September 2025 to February 2026