August Klipstein

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August Maria Klipstein (* 1885 ; † 1951 ) was a Swiss art historian and art dealer .

Live and act

Klipstein studied art history; In 1911 he went on a study trip with Le Corbusier . He wrote his dissertation (1916) on the persistence of the Gothic view of art and Gothic relapses in the development of the Renaissance of the Italian Quattrocento .

With Richard Gutekunst, the son of the graphic dealer HG Gutekunst in Stuttgart, he founded the Gutekunst und Klipstein company in Bern in 1919 , which specialized in modern graphics . Hildebrand Gurlitt was one of his customers . In a secret campaign in 1939, Klipstein and Hildebrand Gurlitt brought several paintings by Wassili Kandinsky to the United States, which had been confiscated by the National Socialists as " degenerate art ".

When Eberhard W. Kornfeld joined the company, it was called Kornfeld und Klipstein ; After Klipstein's death in 1951, Eberhard W. Kornfeld took over the company, which from then on operated as Galerie Kornfeld .

Klipstein compiled a directory of Käthe Kollwitz's graphic works for the years 1890 to 1912 using Johannes Sievers' catalog of works published in 1913.

Fonts

  • Albert Müller, Raoul Nicolas, August Klipstein (eds.): The beautiful old Switzerland. The art of the Swiss small masters. Albert Müller Verlag, Zurich / Leipzig 1926.
  • Fritz Pauli . Etchings. Introduction and text by Paul Schaffner. Eugen Rentsch, Erlenbach-Zurich, 1926.
  • Karl Simon, August Klipstein (ed.): Wilhelm Altheim . His life and work by Karl Simon. With a catalog of his graphic works by August Klipstein. Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main 1927.
  • Käthe Kollwitz: Directory of the graphic work. Galerie St. Etienne, New York 1955; (English edition: The Graphic Work of Käthe Kollwitz: Complete Illustrated Catalog . New York: Galerie St. Etienne, 1955.)

literature

  • Christian M. Nebehay: Dr. August Klipstein in memory. In: Stultifera navis: Bulletin of the Swiss Bibliophile Society , Vol. 8, 1955, Issue 3–4, pp. 139–141. doi: 10.5169 / seals-387682
  • Marc Fehlmann: Eberhard W. Kornfeld and the art trade in Bern. In: Bernische Zeitschrift für Geschichte , BEZG, 03/11. Digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry in the Dictionary of Art Historians ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dictionaryofarthistorians.org
  2. ↑ Ivan Zaknic: Klip and Corb on the road . Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-85881-817-1 .
  3. ↑ Gesa Jeuthe: Art values in change: The price development of the German modern German in the national and international art market 1925 to 1955. 2011.
  4. ↑ Ira Mazzoni: Ride on the Tiger. Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 15, 2016, p. 14.
  5. ↑ Oliver Meyer: The winding path of Kandinsky's "Three Sounds". Berner Zeitung , June 27, 2015, accessed on March 16, 2016.
  6. ^ History of the Kornfeld Gallery
personal data
SURNAME Klipstein, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klipstein, August Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH 1885
DATE OF DEATH 1951