Kestnergesellschaft
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Kestnergesellschaft - is an art gallery in Hanover, Germany.
The Kestnergesellschaft, sometimes referred to as the Kestner society, was founded in 1916 with the goal of stimulating the art life of the city Hanover. To the founders also the painter Wilhelm von Debschitz belonged (1871-1948). The association had its bloom under the management of Alexander Dorner and Justus Bier. After its new foundation, after the second world war in 1947, Alfred Hentzen took over the management, then Fritz Schmalenbach. 1997 referred the Kestnergesellschaft a new building in the Goseriede 11, in which in former times the Goseriedebad used to be. It lies in direct proximity to the offices of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hanover's local newspaper. For attention 2005 the project house in the mud of the Spanish artist Santiago Sierra provided, with which an accessible area with mud should remind of the building of the Maschsee. The gallery's current director is Veit Goerner.
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