Irmelin Lebeer-Hossmann
Irmelin Lebeer-Hossmann (née Hossmann, 1934, Breslau, today Wrocław, Poland - 2025 Brussels, Belgium), also known as Irmeline Lebeer, was a German journalist and publisher who specialised in contemporary art.
Irmelin studied law in Göttingen, Freiburg, and Paris, and received her doctorate in international public law from the Sorbonne. After completing her studies, Irmelin Hossmann began working as a journalist and translator. She developed a particular interest in postcolonialism and African art and literature. In 1959, she met Belgian journalist Paul Lebeer, who published articles on African art and criticism of Western civilization in the magazines Réalités and Jeune Afrique. She began working with Paul on various projects and published articles in the magazine Afrique. In 1964, she married him and took the double name Lebeer-Hossmann. The couple moved to Brussels in 1968, where they founded Édition Lebeer Hossmann Brussels Hamburg together with Herbert Hossmann in 1969/1972, which specialized in the then-new media of artist books, artist records, and multiples. Irmelin is best known for her interviews with artists from the 1960s to the 1980s. She was a member of the editorial board of the French art magazine Chroniques de l’art vivant for five years. (Source)
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