HANNA BEKKER
1893
born Johanna vom Rath on September 7
1905 - 1911
Visits Maria Steinhausen-Paquet (1881-1955) in her studio at the Städel. First painting and drawing exercises
around 1914
Pupil of Ottilie W. Roederstein in Hofheim
1915-1917
Pupil of Ida Kerkovius and Adolf Hölzel in Stuttgart
1918
Speech for the emancipation of women at an SPD event in the Paulskirche. Meeting with the music writer and critic Paul Bekker
1920
Marriage to Paul Bekker. Purchase of the house in Kapellenstraße in Hofheim
1926
Moves to Kassel, where Paul Bekker becomes director of the Staatstheater. Hanna Bekker applies to the Kassel Academy but is rejected.
1927/28
Moves to Wiesbaden, where Paul Bekker becomes General Director of the Prussian State Theater. Return to Hofheim and separation from Paul Bekker
1929
Participation in group exhibition at the Landesmuseum Wiesbaden
1930
Participates in an exhibition at the Kunstsalon Schames, Frankfurt. 1930/31
1932
Exhibition of his own works in the art dealer Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin
1933
Participates in an exhibition at the Landesmuseum Wiesbaden. Paul Bekker emigrates to the USA via Switzerland and France (he dies there in 1937)
1934
Start of her activity as a private art dealer by brokering works by ostracized artists in the Blue House
1940-1943
Secret exhibitions of artists ostracized as "degenerate" in Hanna Bekker's Berlin studio apartment
1946
Participation in the exhibition "New German Art" during the Art Week of the City of Constance
1947
Opening of the Frankfurt Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath
1952
North and South America tour with exhibitions of German artists
1955/56
Exhibition "world tour": North and South America, South Africa, India, South America
1957
Award of the Goethe Medal of the State of Hesse
1962
Participation in the exhibition of Hofheim's visual artists
1962/63
Exhibition tour Greece and Lebanon
1963
Awarded the City of Frankfurt's badge of honor; exhibition of her own paintings in the Blue House to celebrate her 70th birthday
1978
Exhibition of her own pictures in the town hall of Hofheim on the occasion of her 85th birthday
1983
Dies on August 8 in Bad Nauheim