BodyGeometry. Ilse Leda and Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

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. 

Museum Wiesbaden
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2
65185 Wiesbaden

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More on the book KörperGeometrie can be found here.