Barbara Göpel

Barbara Göpel , b. Barbara Malwine Auguste Sperling (born February 24, 1922 in Arnsberg ; † September 26, 2017 in Munich ) was a German art historian . In 1950 she married the art historian Erhard Göpel . Together they worked on the catalog of Max Beckmann's paintings . After her husband's death in 1966, she completed the catalog of the paintings in 1976 with the help of the Max Beckmann Society , which she co-founded in 1951. In her will, she bequeathed a collection of works by Max Beckmann to the Staatliche Museen Berlin , including the works Self-Portrait in a Bar (1942) and Portrait of Erhard Göpel (1944) as well as 46 drawings and 52 prints.

Life

Barbara was born to the Sperlings as the only child. Her father Hans was a lawyer and came from Berlin. Her mother Auguste Elisabeth also came from Berlin. In 1934 the Sperling family returned to Berlin. In 1944, her home was destroyed by a bomb, while Barbara was working as a typist in the Palais Beauharnais at the German embassy in Paris . There she met her future husband Erhard Göpel in autumn 1943. After the war she worked in the secretariat of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . The couple Göpel moved to Munich and Barbara wrote short exhibition reviews and auction reports in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung under her maiden name .

Works

• Life and opinions of the painter Hans Purrmann , Limes Verl., Wiesbaden 1961
• Max Beckmann, together with Erhard Göpel, Kornfeld , Bern

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Berlin inherits collection of Nazi art thieves in Süddeutsche Zeitung from February 21, 2018
2. ^ Obituary notice , Süddeutsche Zeitung , accessed on February 21, 2018
3. ↑ Eugen Blume : Barbara and Erhard Göpel - A life for and with Max Beckmann. Grisebach, May 29, 2018, accessed on January 9, 2019 . 

Web links

• Beckmann Collection in Berlin: Estate of an art thief