Bernd Lasch

Bernd Lasch (born August 26, 1901 in Düsseldorf , † September 24, 1979 in Gelsenkirchen-Buer ) was a German art historian and museum director.

Life

Bernd Lasch was the son of a landscape painter .

Lasch studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn among others, Paul Clemen , which he in 1924 with a thesis on the landscape painter Andreas Achenbach Dr. phil. received his doctorate.

He then worked as curator at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf under Karl Koetschau and Hermann Cohen , under whose direction he helped to prepare the exhibition for the 1925 Rhineland Millennium Celebration. During this time he established an acquaintance and later friendship with the gallery owners Alfred Flechtheim and Alex Vömel . He also had a lifelong friendship with Felix Klee; his father Paul Klee lived in the Lasch house, Mozartstrasse, in 1932/33. 4 in Düsseldorf.

In 1932 Lasch lost his job as a curator due to economically-related austerity measures by the city of Düsseldorf. A lively journalistic activity followed, u. a. for the art magazines The Burlington Magazine, Cicero, Pantheon, Weltkunst; numerous reviews and other mostly local reports for the daily press. Lasch completed his military service on the Western Front (Belgium, Northern France).

In 1946 he accepted a call to the art history seminar at the Philipps University of Marburg under Richard Hamann and at the same time worked for “ Photo Marburg ”. In 1950, Lasch was initially appointed "Städtischer Kunstwart" in Gelsenkirchen, and in 1958 "Museum Director". His life's work was building up the Gelsenkirchen City Art Collection . By 1966 he acquired 784 works of painting, graphics and sculpture, from French post- and German im- and expressionism, as well as surrealism and the like for these. a., up to Pop-Art. The collection covers the period from 1870 to 1966. The “Städtische Kunstsammlung Gelsenkirchen” was opened on February 10, 1957 in what was then the “Villa Pöppinghaus” in Gelsenkirchen's Buer district and in 1984 found a new home on the same property next door.

literature

• Wolfgang Rinke: Municipal Art Collection Gelsenkirchen 1950-1966: The era of the founder and first museum director Dr. Bernd Lasch . In: Contributions to the history of the city. Vol. XII. Hgn. from the Association for Local and Local History Gelsenkirchen-Buer. Recklinghausen [Bongers] 1985, pp. 259-356.