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Marianne Gast

Marianne Gast[a] (10 December 1910 – 1958) was a German photographer. She specialised in photographing architecture and works of art.[1] For many years she was the primary photographer of works by the German-born artist Mathias Goeritz, her husband from 1942 to 1958.[2] The majority of her archive is now held by the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico; other documents are held by the Lafuente Archive.[3] In 2018 the first solo exhibition of Gast's work was displayed at the Centro de Documentación de la Imagen in Santander, Spain.[4]

Gast was born in Schierke, Germany, and educated in England and France.[5] During this period she began to practice photography.[6] In 1942 she met the German-born painter and sculptor Mathias Goeritz in Tangier, when both were working at the Deutsche Akademie.[7][5] They married the same year,[7] and settled in Spain after the Second World War, living first in Granada, then Madrid.[8][9] In 1948, the couple moved to Santillana del Mar because Gast had been commissioned to take photographs for a planned book on the town.[10]

In 1949, Gast and Goeritz moved to Mexico, as Goeritz had been invited to teach at the new school of architecture in Guadalajara.[11] In 1951, Gast became the head of the new José Maria Zepeda Estrada gallery in Guadalajara.[12]

Gast and Goeritz separated; in 1958 she visited Easter Island without him to photograph the moai there. Later that year she returned to Germany, divorced Goeritz, and died of a brain tumour.[2] At the end of her life she married her second husband, Carl von Campe.[13]

References

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  1. ^ Also known by her married names Marianne Goeritz and Marianne von Campe, and the pseudonyms Matiana and Marianne Lukin.
  1. ^ "Marianne Gast (1910–1958) in the Lafuente Archive". Archivo Lafuente. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  2. ^ a b Josten, Jennifer. Mathias Goeritz. p. 18.
  3. ^ Garrido, Fermina; Sánchez Llorens, Mara (2022). "Los archivos de Lina Bo Bardi, Marianne Gast y Ray Eames. Silencios corales y registros polinómicos". CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios: 105. doi:10.15847/cct.25774. hdl:10071/26380.
  4. ^ "El CDIS abre sus puertas a la obra de Marianne Gast a través de los fondos del Archivo Lafuente". Santander City Council. 17 May 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  5. ^ a b Núñez-Ruiz, Ana Patricia (2017). Mathias Goeritz: Minister of Change in Mexican Modern Art, 1949-1968 (PhD thesis). Austin: University of Texas. p. 174.
  6. ^ "Marianne Gast: O La Realidad Interna". Marianne Gast (1910-1958) en el Archivo Lafuente. 2018. p. 18.
  7. ^ a b Josten, Jennifer. Mathias Goeritz. p. 29.
  8. ^ Josten, Jennifer. Mathias Goeritz. p. 3.
  9. ^ Zuñiga, Olivia. Mathias Goeritz. pp. 18–20.
  10. ^ "Marianne Gast: O La Realidad Interna". Marianne Gast (1910-1958) en el Archivo Lafuente. 2018. pp. 21–23.
  11. ^ "Marianne Gast: O La Realidad Interna". Marianne Gast (1910-1958) en el Archivo Lafuente. 2018. pp. 31–32.
  12. ^ "Marianne Gast: O La Realidad Interna". Marianne Gast (1910-1958) en el Archivo Lafuente. 2018. p. 35.
  13. ^ Sánchez Llorens, Mara (2019). "Paraísos encontrados en México por Alice Rahon, Marianne Gast y Leonora Carrington: territorios femeninos y espacios creativos móviles". HipoTesis. 7: 56.