Marianne Gast
Marianne Gast (10 December 1910 – 1958) was a German photographer. She specialised in photographing architecture and works of art. 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.
Marianne Gast
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- 1910.
- Died
- Marianne Gast died in 1958. · Cologne.
- Nationality
- Germany.
- Occupation
- photographer.
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Marianne Gast (10 December 1910 – 1958) was a German photographer. She specialised in photographing architecture and works of art. 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.
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In 2018 the first solo exhibition of Gast's work was displayed at the Centro de Documentación de la Imagen in Santander, Spain. During this period she began to practice photography. In 1942 she met the German-born painter and sculptor Mathias Goeritz in Tangier, when both were working at the Deutsche Akademie. They married the same year, and settled in Spain after the Second World War, living first in Granada, then Madrid. In 1948, the couple moved to Santillana del Mar because Gast had been commissioned to take photographs for a planned book on the town. In 1949, Gast and Goeritz moved to Mexico, as Goeritz had been invited to teach at the new school of architecture in Guadalajara. In 1951, Gast became the head of the new José Maria Zepeda Estrada gallery in Guadalajara. In Mexico, Goeritz designed the contemporary art gallery El Eco, which was photographed extensively by Gast. Gast and Goeritz separated; in 1958 she visited Easter Island without him to photograph the moai there. At the end of her life she married her second husband, Carl von Campe. After her death, Goeritz wrote an article for Arquitectura/México, the magazine for which he had edited the visual arts section for many years, commemorating her.
Marianne Gast (1910–1958) was a German photographer.
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1910
Marianne Gast was born on 10 December 1910.
1958
Marianne Gast died on 27 October 1958.
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Marianne Gast died in Cologne.
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- 1.Marianne Gast (1910–1958) in the Lafuente Archive. Archivo Lafuente.
- 2.Garrido, Fermina. Los archivos de Lina Bo Bardi, Marianne Gast y Ray Eames. Silencios corales y registros polinómicos. CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios. 105. 2022. 10.15847/cct.25774.
- 3.Santander City Council. El CDIS abre sus puertas a la obra de Marianne Gast a través de los fondos del Archivo Lafuente. 17 May 2018.
- 4.Núñez-Ruiz, Ana Patricia. Mathias Goeritz: Minister of Change in Mexican Modern Art, 1949-1968. University of Texas. 174. 2017.
- 5.Marianne Gast (1910-1958) en el Archivo Lafuente. 18. 2018.
- 6.Josten, Jennifer. Mathias Goeritz. 29.
- 7.Josten, Jennifer. Mathias Goeritz. 3.
- 8.Zuñiga, Olivia. Mathias Goeritz. 18–20.
- 9.Marianne Gast (1910-1958) en el Archivo Lafuente. 21–23. 2018.
- 10.Marianne Gast (1910-1958) en el Archivo Lafuente. 31–32. 2018.
- 11.Marianne Gast (1910-1958) en el Archivo Lafuente. 35. 2018.
- 12.Núñez-Ruiz, Ana Patricia. Mathias Goeritz: Minister of Change in Mexican Modern Art, 1949-1968. University of Texas. 58–63. 2017.
- 13.Josten, Jennifer. Mathias Goeritz. 18.
- 14.Sánchez Llorens, Mara. Paraísos encontrados en México por Alice Rahon, Marianne Gast y Leonora Carrington: territorios femeninos y espacios creativos móviles. HipoTesis. 7. 56. 2019.
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