Central archive of the international art trade

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The Central Archive of the International Art Trade ( ZADIK ), today (2019) Central Archive for German and International Art Market Research eV - Research Archive at the University of Cologne, is a Cologne- based institution for the preservation, indexing and research of the archives of important galleries, art dealers and art critics , Curators, collectors and professional photographers.

History and sponsorship

Due to the lack of an archive specializing in this subject, the various working documents of the art trade were destroyed, forgotten, scattered or at best sold abroad for decades. Since “there was a risk that further holdings could be lost through ignorance because there was no place of preservation for them”, the Federal Association of German Galleries (BVDG) decided at its meeting on November 14, 1991 to establish a central archive, the on May 25, 1992. The founding fathers were Gerhard F. Reinz , who organized start-up funding from the federal government as part of the Bonn-Berlin Compensation , Rudolf Zwirner and Hein Stünke from the Der Spiegel gallery , who also contributed the first foundations. The archive has the legal form of a registered non-profit association.

The BVDG cannot finance the ZADIK alone. The first cooperation partners were the city of Bonn and the art and exhibition hall of the Federal Republic of Germany , making Bonn the first seat of ZADIK. Rudolf Zwirner was appointed by the board as the first head of ZADIK. In 2001, the Bonn financing of the ZADIK through the compensation agreement under the Berlin / Bonn Act expired . As a cooperation partner, the SK Stiftung Kultur of Sparkasse KölnBonn has provided by far the largest part of the ZADIK's funding since 2001 . The city of Cologne is also involved in the ongoing financing.

ZADIK has been based in Cologne since 2001, and since 2007 in the house of the SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne's Mediapark . Individual projects have been and are funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media , the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Rhineland Regional Association , the NRW Art Foundation , the cultural work of VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, Art Cologne / Koelnmesse and private galleries. Through a cooperation agreement with the University of Cologne from December 2014, the ZADIK became an affiliated institute of the university with the name Research Archive at the University of Cologne . Part of this collaboration is the master’s degree in art history and the art market , which is headed by junior professor Nadine Oberste-Hetbleck.

The scientific director of ZADIK, Günter Herzog, received the Art Cologne Prize in 2017.

tasks

The ZADIK collects and preserves the archives of important galleries and art dealers, especially their business and artist correspondence, as well as all materials that provide information about the gallery operation, its exhibition and public relations work and its work with the artists. In addition, ZADIK also collects personal papers and bequests from art critics, collectors and specialist photographers. The aim of the work of ZADIK is also to “document and research the formative and formative influences of the art trade on international art development and its complex role in the field of art education. In this way, the ZADIK wants to contribute to integrating the history of the art trade into general art history. ”The collected holdings should not only be opened up, but also researched and made available to others for research - more and more online.

Stocks

The ZADIK inventory number A 1 relates to the archive of the Der Spiegel gallery as a gift from Hein Stünke. This, a "gallery owner from the first hour after the Second World War", represented u. a. Max Ernst was one of the organizers of the Kassel documenta and co-founder of the "mother" of all fairs for modern art, Art Cologne . The numerous other important holdings include, for example, the archives of the Thannhauser Galleries or the Parnass Gallery ( Rolf Jahresling ) as well as the curators Kasper König and Klaus Honnef .

In addition to the now 95 gallery archives and so far 21 archives of curators and art critics, the ZADIK also collects the archives of art collectors (so far 8) and the archives of photographers active in the art scene (so far 11) and also archives of art associations (previously 13), such as the European art dealers association or the international art critics association AICA, Section Germany, or the 'private art initiative', which was important in art policy in the 1970s and 80s.

The collection repertoire, which is continuously updated on the ZADIK website, now includes more than 140 holdings, some of which can already be researched online.

activity

In addition to the archives' typical activity of preserving and indexing the holdings and making them accessible for research, here for example for provenance research , the ZADIK has been actively present in public from the outset through exhibitions and publications. a. since 1994 by publishing the magazine sediment . So far, 49 articles from the central archive of the international art trade have reported in the art market section of the FAZ .

meaning

To this day, the ZADIK is the world's only specialist scientific archive on the history of the art trade. So far there is only one related institution which, if not mainly, collects gallery archives in a comparable concentration and in a similar systematic manner, namely the 'Archives of American Art', founded in 1954 in the 'Smithsonian Institution' in Washington, DC with its' Collection of Gallery Records'. In addition to the archives of artists, collectors, critics, curators and others active in the art system, only the archives of American galleries are collected there. The Getty Institute in Los Angeles , founded in 1980, currently has 16 archives of galleries and art dealers in its 'Special Collections' with a total of 265 holdings.

literature

  • Günter Herzog: The central archive of the international art trade e. V. (ZADIK) , in: zeitblicke 2 (2003), No. 1 [8. May 2003].
  • Helga Behn: Sincerely, Max. Artist mail from the ZADIK's holdings. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2010. ISBN 978-3-86984-137-3
  • Günter Herzog: First experiences with the formulation of a documentation profile from the central archive of the international art trade ZADIK, Cologne . Literature Archive NRW, download January 11, 2015.
  • ZADIK (Ed.): Sediment. Announcements on the history of the art trade. Bonn (from 2001 Cologne) 1994ff.
  • Central archive of the international art trade ZADIK (ed.), With a foreword by Gerald Böse, Daniel Hug and Heinz Schnock and an introduction by Rudolf Zwirner (German / English): ART COLOGNE 1967-2016. The first of all art fairs , Walther König bookstore, Cologne 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard F. Reinz: Foreword. In: sediment. Communications on the history of the art trade , No. 1, Bonn 1994, pp. 9-10, here p. 9.
  2. ^ A b Günter Herzog: The central archive of the international art trade in Cologne and its collection profile using the example of the gallery Der Spiegel , Archive and Economy · 43rd volume · 2010 · Issue 2, page 61 [1]
  3. ^ Günter Herzog: The central archive of the international art trade e. V. ZADIK , archivist, 69th volume, issue 02 May 2016, page 114, [2]
  4. ↑ Michael Kohler: Memory of the great years. Heinz Holtmann leaves the Cologne central archive of the art trade. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from 22./23. June 2013.
  5. ↑ Monopol Magazin für Kunst und Leben from January 31, 2017 Award: Zentralarchiv -leiter receives Art Cologne Prize , by Diana Kral , accessed on February 6, 2017
  6. ↑ ZADIK homepage, accessed on January 11, 2015
  7. ↑ Günter Herzog: First experiences with the formulation of a documentation profile from the central archive of the international art trade ZADIK , in: Literatur-Archiv-NRW online, download January 11, 2015
  8. ↑ NN: One lucky bag after the other. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from June 2, 2004, download January 11, 2015
  9. ↑ Personal details : Kasper König hands over valuable private archive , in: Die Welt online , September 7, 2012, accessed on September 11, 2012 .
  10. ↑ sk: ZADIK. Kilometers of files on art. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from September 30, 2013.
  11. ↑ Günter Herzog: First experiences with the formulation of a documentation profile from the central archive of the international art trade ZADIK , in: Literatur-Archiv-NRW online, download January 11, 2015
  12. ↑ Inventory overview
  13. ↑ Collection of Gallery Records, download January 11, 2015
  14. ↑ Günter Herzog: First experiences with the formulation of a documentation profile from the central archive of the international art trade ZADIK , in: Literatur-Archiv-NRW online, download January 11, 2015