Adolf Paulus

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Adolf Karl Ernst Rudolf Paulus (born April 13, 1851 in Bühlhof near Schömberg (Calw district) , † September 3, 1924 in Munich ) was a German art dealer.

Life

Adolf Paulus was the son of the forester Karl Adolf Paulus (1808–1877) and his wife Julie Ottilie Friederike Schönlin (1817–1902). During his father's hunting trips he met Prince Luitpold of Bavaria , who later became Prince Regent, with whom he befriended. In school he learned foreign languages ​​well and came to a trading company in Munich, where he worked as a salesman.

At the age of just 20, he became secretary or managing director of the Munich Artists' Cooperative in 1871, and in this role he was responsible for organizing the annual art exhibitions in the Glaspalast . He contributed 5% to the turnover of all works of art sold at the exhibitions. In early February 1892 he was dismissed from the board. Artists who had already been disappointed by the management of the association founded the “Association of Munich's Visual Artists” ( Munich Secession ). Paul became managing director of the Secession.

In Munich his influence in the artistic field was considerable, he was the art advisor to Prince Regent Luitpold and held the title of court counselor .

In 1882 in Munich he married Anna Margaretha Neupert (1862–1921), the adopted daughter of the Hamburg Senator Carl Richard Watty (1822–1897). Her son was the art historian and art dealer Richard Paulus (1883–1929).

Around 1900 he became a co-owner of the Eduard Schulte art salon in Berlin and relocated there.

Publications

  • Twenty years of the Munich Secession 1893–1913. I. The historical development . In: Die Kunst 14, 1913, pp. 326–333 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • Family book of the Paulus family (chronicle and tables of descendants) . Pforzheim 1931, p. 221.
  • Markus Harzenetter: To the Munich Secession. Genesis, causes and objectives of this intentionally new Munich artists' association (= Miscellanea Bavarica Monacensia 158). Uni-Druck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-87821-281-X , pp. 134-150.
  • Maria Makela: The Munich Secession. Art and artists in turn-of-the-century Munich . Princeton University Press, Princeton 1990, ISBN 0-691-03982-8 , pp. 19-20.

Remarks

  1. ^ Fred Watty: The Hamburg Watty family . 5th edition 2008, No. 46 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Eduard Schulte Art Salon: The first thing he did was turn on the light .
personal data
SURNAME Paulus, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paulus, Adolf Karl Ernst Rudolf Paulus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Bühlhof near Schömberg (Calw district)
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1924
Place of death Munich