Albert Rudolf Ibach

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Albert Rudolf Ibach (right) with parents and siblings (around 1890)

Albert Rudolf Ibach , also Rudolf Ibach the Younger (* August 25, 1873 , † August 7, 1940 in Wuppertal ), was a piano maker , entrepreneur and art collector from Wuppertal .

Albert Rudolf Ibach took over the Rud piano factory . Ibach's son in 1905 from his mother Hulda, who took over the management of the company in 1892 after the death of her father Peter Adolph Rudolph Ibach . Under his leadership, the company was able to assert itself on the market despite the sharp decline in the industry due to the invention of the radio and gramophone and the associated decrease in domestic music .

Ibach was also chairman of the Barmer Kunstverein and an avid art collector of contemporary art, especially the works of Paul Klee . After his death, his collection came into the possession of his daughter Etta, who with her husband Otto Stangl founded the “Moderne Galerie Stangl” in Munich after the Second World War, one of the most important galleries of the avant-garde in Germany after the war. Works from this collection are now hanging in various museums, including some in the Rudolf-Ibach-Paul-Klee room in the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal, which was inaugurated in March 1992 , namely 12 Klee watercolors as a gift to the Art and Museum Association and 19 as permanent loans.

literature

  • Michael Rauch: The Paul Klee Collection by Rudolf Ibach, in: Franz Marc Museum. The collection, ed. by the Franz Marc Museumsgesellschaft by Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy, collection catalog Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See 2019, pp. 214–221
  • Werner J. Schweiger: From collecting in the provinces. Rudolf Ibach 1873–1940.- in: Junge, Henrike (ed.): Avant-garde and audience: On the reception of avant-garde art in Germany 1905–1933, Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar & Vienna 1992, pp. 165–172
  • Werner J. Schweiger: Rudolf Ibach - patron, patron and collector of modernism 1873–1940 , private publication 1994, available from www.ibach.de

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personal data
SURNAME Ibach, Albert Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German piano maker, entrepreneur and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1873
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1940
Place of death Wuppertal