Christian Lenz

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Christian Guido Lenz (born May 11, 1938 in Heidenau (Saxony) near Dresden ) is a German art historian .

biography

Born in Saxony, Lenz moved to the Federal Republic in 1955. In 1958 he graduated from high school and then went to the Navy , where after military exercises he became Korvettenkapitän d. R. was.

In 1960 Lenz began studying art history, classical archeology and German at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and the University of Munich . In 1968 he was with the dissertation Veronese image architecture at Erich Hubala doctorate . He then completed a two-year traineeship with Günter Busch at the Kunsthalle Bremen . In 1970 he married the art historian Angelika Triebig. Their son was born in 1979 and their daughter in 1981.

Between 1970 and 1980 he was a consultant for European painting 1550–1780 at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main . From 1978 he was chairman of the staff council for two years. From 1980 until his retirement in 2003 he worked for the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen . First he was a consultant for German baroque painting at the Alte Pinakothek and for public relations, later for art of the 19th century at the Neue Pinakothek and for the Schack-Galerie . At times he was also a speaker for the Olaf Gulbransson Museum in Tegernsee and for the Franz Marc Museum in Kochel . From 1983 he also became a consultant for the library and the Max Beckmann archive.

In 1987 he completed his habilitation at the University of Würzburg with the thesis “Max Beckmann. The Frankfurt Years ". In 1991 he received his habilitation at the University of Munich and since 1995 has been an adjunct professor for Middle and Modern Art History. Since 1994 he has been the editor of the Max Beckmann Archive. In 1996 he founded the “Freundeskreis Max Beckmann Archiv e. V. "(since 2005" Max Beckmann Gesellschaft eV "). From 2008 to 2019 he was chairman of the Max Beckmann Society . He resigned from the Max Beckmann Society on February 12, 2019.

Publications (selection)

  • Veronese pictorial architecture . Bremen 1969 (= dissertation, Munich 1968)
  • Adam Elsheimer: The paintings in the Städel . Frankfurt a. M. 1977 (2nd, expanded edition 1989)
  • Table leg. Goethe in the Campagna di Roma . Frankfurt a. M. 1979
  • Claude Lorrain in Goethe's judgment . In: In the light of Claude Lorrain. Landscape painting from three centuries . Cat. Exhib. House of Art. Munich 1983, pp. 49-53
  • Rembrandt's examination of Rubens : "The Blinding of Samson". In: Intuition and Presentation, Erich Hubala on March 24, 1985 . Munich 1985, pp. 137-158
  • On the art of Marées . In: In: Hans von Marées. Cat. Exhib . New Pinakothek gallery. Munich 1987/1988, pp. 9-24
  • The Marées frescoes in Naples . In: Hans von Marées. Cat . Exhib. New Pinakothek gallery. Munich 1987/1988, pp. 9-24
  • Heribert Friedland: The watercolor painter . In: Friedland - Aquarelle. Cat. Exhib. New Pinakothek gallery. Munich 1988, pp. 18-23
  • The New Pinakothek Munich . Museums of the world. Munich / London 1989 (German, English, French, Japanese, Italian)
  • Art and art perception in Leipzig during the Enlightenment . In: Wolfenbütteler Studies for Enlightenment 17 , 1990, pp. 141–153
  • A modern artist determines his historical place: the copies of van Gogh . In: Problems of Copy from Antiquity to the 19th Century. Munich 1992, pp. 63-78
  • La destination du tableau et son architecture . In: Les Noces de Cana de Véronèse. Cat. Exhib. Musee du Louvre. Paris 1992, pp. 210-234
  • Wilhelm Leibl. The painter . In: Wilhelm Leibl on the occasion of his 150th birthday . Cat. Exhib. New Pinakothek gallery. Munich 1994 (= cat. Exhibition Cologne 1994), pp. 49-90
  • Wilhelm Leibl. The draftsman . In: In: Wilhelm Leibl on the occasion of his 150th birthday . Cat. Exhib. New Pinakothek gallery. Munich 1994 (= cat. Exhibition Cologne 1994), pp. 108-113
  • "Heartfelt contempt for daytime fashion". Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack on his 100th birthday . In: Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack: Art collector, writer and traveler . Cat. Exhib. Schack gallery. Munich 1994, pp. 9-12
  • Schack as the client . In: Schack. Cat. Exhib . Schack gallery. Munich 1994, pp. 45-62
  • Alfred Hrdlicka as a draftsman . In: Alfred Hrdlicka. Cat. Exhib . Olaf Gulbransson Museum. Tegernsee 1994, pp. 9-16
  • "So felice, e giudizioso imitatore": Giambattista Tiepolo as an imitator of Paolo Veronese . In: Heaven on Earth - Tiepolo in Würzburg , Bd. 2. Ed. PO Krückmann. Munich / New York 1996, pp. 63-69
  • "... the best just good enough ...". Hugo von Tschudi's acquisitions for the Alte and Neue Pinakothek . In: Manet to Van Gogh: Hugo von Tschudi and the struggle for modernity. Cat. Exhib. Old National Gallery. Berlin 1996: (= cat. Exhibition Munich 1996), pp. 408-412
  • Memory of Julius Meier-Graefe. "The Böcklin Case and the Doctrine of Units" , 1905, as well as catalog texts. In: Arnold Böcklin 1827-1901. Cat. Exhib . Basel / Paris / Munich 2001/2002, pp. 119–129, 154–155
  • Paul Klee: "Föhn in the Marc'schen Garten". In: Christine E. Stauffer (Ed.): Festschrift for Eberhard W. Kornfeld on his 80th birthday . Bern 2003, pp. 329-340
  • The New Pinakothek 1870-2003 . In: Herbert W. Rott, Joachim Kaak (ed.): The 19th century: the New Pinakothek . Munich / Cologne 2003
  • The art of Hans Purrmann . In: Hans Purrmann. The paintings . Munich 2004
  • "This is the time!" To Friedland's watercolors . In: Friedland . Heidelberg 2005
  • Michelangelo's sculpture “Vittoria”. Thoughts on the meaning of the work and on the question of mannerism . In: Docta Manus. Studies on Italian sculpture for Joachim Poeschke . Ed.
  • Hans Purrmann, the watercolor painter . In: Hans Purrmann. Watercolors and gouaches. Catalog raisonné . Edited by Christian Lenz, edited by Felix Billeter. Ostfildern 2008
  • Writings on Max Beckmann (selection)
    • Max Beckmann and Italy . Frankfurt a. M. 1976
    • Max Beckmann's drawings for Faust . In: Cat. Bonn - Bad Godesberg, Science Center 1982: Goethe in the art of the 20th century. World literature and imagery. Exhibition for the 150th birthday of JW von Goethe, pp. 82–114
    • Max Beckmann as a graphic artist . In: Cat. Esslingen, Gallery of the City of Esslingen a. N. - Villa Merkel 1984: Max Beckmann graphic for 100 birthday. Esslingen 1984, pp. 9–15 cat. Munich, State Gallery of Modern Art 1994: Max ** Beckmann. Letters to Reinhard Piper . Text by Christian Lenz. Edited by the Kulturstiftung der Länder, Hypo-Kulturstiftung. Munich 1994 (= Patrimonia 95)
    • Max Beckmann and the Old Masters . "A very nice line of friends". Edited by Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen. Heidelberg 2000 (published on the occasion of the exhibition "Max Beckmann as guest in the Alte Pinakothek", 2000/2002)
    • "Objectivity of the inner faces". Max Beckmann's self-portraits from 1900 to 1924 . In: Max Beckmann. Self-portraits. Drawing and printmaking. With contributions by Christian Lenz and Thomas Döring. Heidelberg 2000, pp. 9-42
    • "Beautiful and terrible like life". The art of Max Beckmann 1937 to 1947 . In: Cat. Munich , Pinakothek der Moderne 2007:
    • Max Beckmann. Exile in Amsterdam . Ed. Pinakothek der Moderne. Ostfildern 2007, pp. 33-105
    • Max Beckmann Archive. Acquisitions 1985-2008. Munich 2008 (= issues of the Max Beckmann Archive 10)
    • Max Beckmann Archive. Acquisitions 2008-2010. Munich 2010 (= issues of the Max Beckmann Archive 11/12)

Exhibition catalogs (chronological)

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: watercolors, drawings and selected prints from own property. Cat. Exhib. Städelsches Kunstinstitut. Frankfurt a. M. 1974
  • Alfred Hrdlicka. Sculptures, drawings, lithographs. With Ellen Spickernagel . Cat. Exhib. Städelsches Kunstinstitut and Städtische Galerie. Frankfurt a. M. 1976
  • Johann and Januarius Zick. Cat. Exhib. Bavarian State Painting Collections. Munich 1983 (= cat.exhibition Koblenz 1983)
  • Max Liebermann - "Munich Beer Garden". Cat. Exhib. New Pinakothek gallery. Munich 1986 (= studio exhibition 9)
  • "Ma grande et noble amie ...". Rodin and Helene von Nostitz. With a contribution by JA Schmoll called Eisenwerth. Cat. Exhib. New Pinakothek gallery. Munich 1999
  • “Readiness to take risks”. Lilly von Schnitzler 1889-1981. Collector and patron. Edited by Brigitte Salmen and Christian Lenz. Cat. Exhib. Murnau Castle Museum 2011

Editing

  • Intuition and representation, Erich Hubala on March 24, 1985. With Frank Büttner. Munich 1985
  • Problems of copying from antiquity to the 19th century. Munich 1992
  • Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack: art collector, man of letters and traveler. Cat. Exhib. Schack gallery. Munich 1994
  • Wilhelm Leibl on the occasion of his 150th birthday. With G. Czymmek. Cat. Exhib. New Pinakothek gallery. Munich 1994 (= cat. Exhibition Cologne 1994)
  • Venice in early photographs by Domenico Bresolin . “Pittore Fotografo”: Siegert Collection. With text by Dorothea Ritter. Cat. Exhib. Schack gallery. Munich 1996/97
  • Florence and Tuscany. Photographs 1840-1900: Siegert Collection. With text by Dorothea Ritter. Cat. Exhib. Schack gallery. Munich et al. 1997
  • Hans Purrmann. The paintings. Catalog raisonné. Edited by Felix Billeter. Munich 2004
  • Hans Purrmann. Watercolors and gouaches. Catalog raisonné. Edited by Felix Billeter. Ostfildern 2008 (in press)
  • Martin Gosebruch. Articles and lectures. Berlin 2010
  • Issues of the Max Beckmann Archive 1994 ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Lenz, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lenz, Christian Guido (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidenau (Saxony)