Hanna Bekker

1893

Born September 7th in Frankfurt/Main, Germany

1915–17

Disciple of Ida Kerkovius und Adolf Hoelzel at the art-academy Stuttgart.

Purchases works of Ida Kerkovius

1919

Meets the music-critic and author Paul Bekker.

1920

Marriage with Paul Bekker.

Purchase of the later “Blue House” in Kapellenstrasse in Hofheim

1921

Daughter Barbara

1923

Son Kilian (1923–1943)

1925

Meets Ludwig and Else Meidner and Oskar Kokoschka.

Conversion of the house in Hofheim, it gets painted yellow and blue

1926

Paul Bekker is assigned director of the state-theater Kassel.

Meeting Alexej Jawlensky in Wiesbaden.

1927

Daughter Maximiliane.

Paul Bekker appointed generaldirector of the “Preussische Staatstheater” Wiesbaden

1928

She returns to Hofheim and separates from Paul Bekker.

1929

Founding of the "Gesellschaft der Freunde der Kunst Alexej von Jawlenskys" supporting him by fixed monthly income

1930

Divorces Paul Bekker.

Trip to Moscow

1930/31

Meets Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff and Emy Roeder.

They share a lifelong friendship

1932

Trip to Paris.

First sojourn of Schmidt-Rottluff in her house in Hofheim,
followed by continous visits (until 1943)

1933/34

9 months-sojourn in Greece

1934

Starting to privately arbitrate between ostracized artists and their collectors in Hofheim

1935

Driving to Italy with Ottilie W. Roederstein und

Dr. Elisabeth Winterhalter.

Returning via Switzerland with stay at Paul Klee’s in Bern

1936

Emy Roeder visits her in Hofheim

1937

Visiting Emy Roeder exiled in Florence.

Visit at the World-Expo in Paris with O.W. Roederstein

1937 and 1939

Summer-sojourn in Riga und travelling Latvia with Ida Kerkovius

1939

Ernst Wilhelm Nay visits her in Hofheim.

Schmidt-Rottluff spends his 55th birthday in Hofheim

1940–43

Secret exhibitions of "degenerate" artists in her studio in Berlin,
Regensburger Strasse 34

1943

She visits Käthe Kollwitz

1945

Hanna Bekker vom Rath arranges that Nay can rent the Roederstein--Studio in Hofheim, he lives and works there until 1951.

Friendship with the Photographer Marta Hoepffner,

settling in Hofheim

1946

Visiting Ida Kerkovius und Willi Baumeister in Stuttgart.

Participation at the exhibition „Neue Deutsche Kunst“ in Constance

1947

Opening of the Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath.

Schmidt-Rottluff returns to Hofheim every spring (until 1972)

1949

Removal of the Kunstkabinett to Boersenplatz

1950

Visit of the Venice-Biennale with Virginia Fontaine

1951

Trip to Paris, visiting Ossip Zadkine

1952

Exhibition-trip to North and South America

1955

Arranges a home for Ludwig Meidner in Hofheim-Marxheim,

where he lives and works until 1963

1955/56

“World-Exhibition-Trip” to North and South America,
South Afrika, India, South America

1957

Awarded the “Goethe-Medaille des Landes Hessen“

1957/58

Exhibition-trip to North America and Mexico

1959

Exhibition-trip to Spain

1961

Exhibition-trip to Egypt.

Sojourn in Israel. Friendship with Shalom S. Sebba.

Trip to Norway, visiting bei Rolf Nesch

1962

Trip to the United States with exhibition in Toledo, Ohio

1962/63

Exhibition-trip to Greece and Lebanon

1963

Awarded the “Ehrenplakette der Stadt Frankfurt”.

Sebba spends the coming summers in Hofheim

1964

Awarded the “Bundesverdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland”

1966/67

Trip to Paris, New York, Sao Paulo and Johannesburg

1967

Exhibition-trip to Moroc

1968

Building a house for Sebba in her garden

1972

Trip to Winnipeg, Canada

1978

Exhibition of her works in the Cityhall of Hofheim

1983

Dies August 8th in Bad Nauheim.

Hanna Bekker

vom Rath (1893-1983)

Hanna Bekker vom Rath