Boris Kegel-Konietzko
Boris Kegel Konietzko (* 8. February 1925 in Hamburg as Boris Konietzko ) is a German art dealer with a focus on African art .
Life
Boris Konietzko was born the son of the explorer and art dealer Julius Konietzko and his wife Lore, who later became Lore Kegel . He spent his childhood in Hamburg and during his parents' expeditions with his grandparents in Düsseldorf. As a result of his father's relationship with the Vienna-born artist Carl Otto Czeschka , he became his godson, as did his brother Wolf.
After graduating from Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium , Konietzko was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in Poland in 1943, and then served in the intelligence service. He was deployed at the front in the Great Bend of the Vistula, after returning home due to injuries, later with the anti-tank troops on the western front. In March 1945 he was captured by the Americans. He was taken to a French prisoner-of-war camp in Quimper / Brittany, where he worked as an interpreter and secretary in the infirmary because of his language skills. After his release in June 1946, he first had to repeat his Abitur, which had meanwhile been declared invalid by the Allies, in order to then begin studying biology, chemistry, physics and fisheries science; Graduated as a qualified biologist in 1952. Research assignments followed, initially for the Royal Natural Science Museum in Brussels to study fauna and flora in the tributaries of the Scheldt (Belgium) and the Semliki River in the Congo, Africa. The latter in 1954 on behalf of the Institut des Parcs Nationaux de Belgique.
From 1955 he went on research trips to the Congo, during which, in addition to conducting language and music studies, he acquired ethnological objects for the art dealership "Lore Kegel - Exotic Art", founded in 1935 by his newly married mother. From 1956 to 1958 he took over the management of the zoological garden in Brazzaville in the French colony of Equatorial Africa.
In 1957, Kegel-Konietzko became a partner in the maternal company, which from then on bore the name "Kegel und Konietzko - Exotic Art".
In 1958 and 1959 two extended study and shopping trips followed with his mother through Central and West Africa.
In 1960 his stepfather Georg-Arthur Kegel adopted him .
Boris Kegel-Konietzko has been the sole owner of the company "Boris Kegel-Konietzko Ethnographica" since 1964.
In addition to selling in the local gallery, Kegel-Konietzko has since been supplying museums, collectors and dealers in Western Europe with mainly African tribal art . Until 2000 he and his wife Ingeborg Kegel-Konietzko exhibited at the trade fairs of the German Art Dealers Association.
Today Boris Kegel-Konietzko's sales activities focus on auctions, his business premises and the Internet.
Boris Kegel-Konietzko is the father of Sascha Konietzko, the founder and frontman of the industrial rock band KMFDM .
Commitment to the Hamburg sculptor Friedrich Wield
His mother Lore Kegel was the sole heir of the sculptor and graphic artist Friedrich Wield (1880–1940). After his death she had taken remaining work into custody and stored it in a safe place. Boris Kegel-Konietzko has been managing the Wield estate since her death in 1980.
It was a particular concern of Boris Kegel-Konietzko that the monument to Heinrich Hertz "Ätherwelle", created between 1931 and 1933, should be cast in bronze by Friedrich Wield and erected on the grounds of the Hamburger Funkhaus. The ready-to-cast plaster model, which has been stored in the basement of the Kunsthalle since 1933, was first restored by Manfred Sihle-Wissel and cast in the Schmäke art foundry in Düsseldorf in 1988 . It was finally set up in 1994 in the oak park on the banks of the Alster and stayed there until 2016. Boris Kegel-Konietzko was able to convince Henrik Hertz and the NDR as well as the cultural authority that this was not the right place. On September 30, 2016, the memorial was moved to the place on the site of today's NDR broadcasting house, which was already favored in the 1930s.
Publications
- Embroidered raffia plushes from the Congo - a disappearing textile art , in "Textilkunst" issue 2, June 1980, M + H Schaper Verlag, Hanover
- Songs of Central and West Africa , Songs of the World Volume 1, Christian Wegner Verlag, Hamburg 1960
- Recherches sur les Fossés lateraux de l'Elbe soumis à l'influance des marées , diploma thesis 1952, Memoires de l'Inst. Roy. of the Sc. Nat. de Belgique, Series 2 Fasc 5, 1954
- with Eugène Leloup: Recherches biologiques sur les eaux du Bas-Escaut , Memoires de l'Inst. Royal des Sc. Nat. de Belgique numero 132.
- Note sur les Oligochète de Belgique 1. Eaux saumatres du Bas-Escaut , Bull. Inst. Roy Sc. Nat.de Belgique XXIX, 1953
- Sur la Présense en Belgique de l'Hirudinée Trocheta subviridis Durtochet 1817 , Bull. Inst. Roy. Sc. nat. de Belgique .T XXVIII, 66, 1952
- Radio program Chants et danses d'Afrique , series on Radio AEF, Brazzaville 1956–1957
- Africa sings , series on NDR + WDR. 1959, parts of the programs were broadcast by Deutsche Welle in 1959
- Record Makadanganga , songs and dances from the Congo and West Africa, CLP 75 483, Christophorus-Verlag, Freiburg / Br. 1964
- Record Twenda na Jesu , chants from the Christian missions in Africa, CLP 75 466, Christophorus-Verlag, Freiburg / Br. 1964
- Tonbildschau Kaleidoskope de l'Afrique noire , Donaueschinger Musiktage for contemporary music, slides, original music, native art, 1963. The sound recordings were taken over by SW-Funk.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maike Bruhns: Der neue Rump , 2013 Hamburg
- ↑ http://www.ndr.de/der_ndr/unternehmen/geschichte/Die-Aetherwelle-Erinnerung-an-den-Physiker-Heinrich-Hertz,aetherwelle100.html
- ↑ http://www.hamburg.de/sehenswuerdheiten/3441440/aetherwelle/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kegel-Konietzko, Boris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art dealer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |