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Established at the end of 2003 and named after the German painter
and sculptor Louis Christian Hess (Bolzano 24.12.1895 - Schwaz
26.11.1944), the
aim of the
Christian Hess Association is to foster and
carry out initiatives and projects in support of the European Ideal
and of peace, freedom of expression and human rights, which were
always the inspiring forces of the Artist’s work. |
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In order to
spread the
ideas and works of
this protagonist of German art between the wars, who
was uprooted from his country by Nazism, went into
exile in Sicily in the 1930s, and died at 48 years
of age during an air raid over Innsbruck, the
Association promotes:
exchanges of
information with institutions, academies, museums,
art galleries, art historians, critics and art
magazines, auction houses,
art collectors, and the
world of art in general, with a view to putting
together the largest and broadest archive of
information on the artist’s output, with a view
to furthering knowledge of his work among the
public;
initiatives
for search for and recover documents and other
examples of his work: for biographical
purposes, for the archive and for supplement the
catalogue of his works – many of which have been lost, including
those he never signed to avoid
being traced by the Nazis;
study and
research projects, competitions, academic theses,
exhibitions, the publication of multimedia works and
various other events aimed at restoring the
stature of
the Artist
- currently in
danger of being forgotten -
as one of the great exponents of 20th
century art;
raising the awareness of
European cultural institutions, Unesco and,
above all, of the Federal Republic of Germany, to
bring the Art of Christian Hess –
now more than
60 years since the
end of the war – out of the obscurity in which the
Nazis would have wanted him to languish. |
