Harald Falckenberg
1943 – 2023
We mourn our dear friend, collector and patron of the arts, Harald Falckenberg
Pictured here with Robert Wilson
Claude Ruiz-Picasso
1947 – 2023
Son of Françoise Gilot (1921 - 2023) and Pablo Picasso, brother of Paloma Picasso
Photo: Claude Picasso with U. Jaïna Schlemmer and C. Raman Schlemmer, at the Oskar Schlemmer retrospective exhibition at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 1996
Wolfgang Meyer-Rässler
1950 – 2023
Interior designer
Called Melo, friend since schooldays at Waldorfschule in Stuttgart, Germany
Peter Weibel
1944 – 2023
Media artist and curator
Director of ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany from 1999 until his death on 1 March 2023
Photo: Peter Weibel with choreographer William Forsythe, ZKM Karlsruhe, 3 February 2023. Photo C. Raman Schlemmer
Brenda Richardson
1942 – 2022
Deputy director for art and curator of modern painting and sculpture at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USACurator of epoch-making exhibitions including the black paintings by Frank Stella, and the Baltimore-based filmmaker John Waters. With the support and contribution of U. Jaïna Schlemmer and C. Raman Schlemmer, Brenda Richardson curated the first retrospective exhibition of the work of Oskar Schlemmer in the US in 1985, together with Arnold Lehman, director of the museum. The exhibition travelled to The Walker Institute, the Diego Museum of Art, the IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1986. Brenda became friends with Tut Schlemmer, U. Jaïna Schlemmer and C. Raman Schlemmer
Dagny Corcoran Janss
1945 - 2022
1978 Dagny and James Corcoran invited C. Raman Schlemmer to work for the Joseph Cornell exhibition, at their James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, California. The exhibition was curated by Walter Hopps. Dagny and Jim introduced Raman to Lucina Childs, Robert Wilson, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed and Nancy Kienholz, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, David Hockney, Joan and Joe Quinn, Nick Wilder. They organized a party for Raman at Santa Monica Palisades, with guests Robert Rauschenberg, Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, Billy Al Bengston.
In 1977 Dagny Corcoran founded Art Catalogues in Los Angeles, offering an international range of books and catalogues produced for and about museum and gallery exhibitions.
Photo: Dagny Corcoran and C. Raman Schlemmer 1978
Christiene Pierburg
1944 – 2021
Philanthropist and supporter of the arts
Born and died in Badenweiler, Christiene lived the past decades in the house of the poet René Schickele, which she acquired with her husband Jürgen Pierburg and renovated and creatively redesigned.
Christine Pierburg regularly attended the Salzburg Festival – also in company of C. Raman Schlemmer.
In the last years of his life, she became a confidant friend of Herbert von Karajan and travelled with the Berliner Philharmoniker internationally.
Photo: Christine Pierburg with C. Raman Schlemmer on her birthday at the opening of the exhibition Monet, 20th anniversary of Fondation Beyeler, 30 March 2017
Hagen Lieberknecht
1940 – 2020
Author and curator
Friends with contemporary artists, especially Sigmar Polke.
His conversations with Joseph Beuys were published in 1972 in:
- Joseph Beuys. Zeichnungen 1947- 1959 Gespräch zwischen Joseph Beuys und Hagen Lieberknecht
- Sigmar Polke; Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam & Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn 1983/1984
- Sigmar Polke et les esprits supérieurs, 2015
Martand Singh
1947 –2017
Martand Singh, called by his friends Mapu, charismatic cultural figure from India; connoisseur of Indian textiles and crafts; Member of the Governing Council of the Calico Museum of Textiles, Ahmedabad; Founding Secretary of the Indian Trust for Arts and Cultural Heritage (INTACH); Chairman of INTACH UK Trust; Trustee of the Mehrangarh Fort Museum Trust, Jodhpur, and Advisor, Restoration of the Chowmohallah Palace, Hyderabad. Idea initiator of pioneering textile exhibitions and publications, and heritage-conservation initiatives. As a producer-curator, Mapu "represented a unique phase in the post-colonial phase of nation-building, seeding the emergence of contemporary aesthetics in Indian design and fashion. Its impact was global, while being firmly rooted in local contexts and vocabularies." Visionary landmark exhibitions on Indian textiles,"Vishwakarma", in India and internationally, "Costumes of Royal India" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1985-86); Festival of India exhibitions in the 1980s in London, Paris, Moscow, and Tokyo, Hamburg and Stuttgart; "Khadi: The Fabric of Freedom" in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata (2002) and Tokyo (2018).
1986 Mapu was awarded the Padmabhushan, one of the highest civilian awards by the Government of India. Martand Singh was of royal descent.
There is an infinite number of whites...
White of the jasmine flower,
White of the sea foam,
White of the August moon,
White of the conch shell,
White of the clouds that have been emptied of rain.
― Martand Singh