Christoph Heilmann

Christoph Heilmann (born January 22, 1936 in Heidelberg ) is a German art historian whose research and activities focus on Roman baroque architecture and urbanism as well as English painting of the 18th and 19th centuries, painting of the German Romanticism, painting of the school of Barbizon, the art of the German Romans and the history of the collection of the Neue Pinakothek and the Schack Collection .

Life

After graduating from high school at the humanistic Karl Theodor Gymnasium in Heidelberg and completing a bank apprenticeship, Heilmann studied art history, classical archeology and Italian literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg and at the Free University of Berlin. For research on his dissertation on the Villa Borghese , he spent a three-year research stay at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome. After receiving his doctorate in 1967 with Hans Kauffmann in Berlin, a one-year fellowship at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London followed, before Heilmann completed an internship at the Bavarian State Painting Collections , the State Graphic Collection and the Bavarian National Museum in Munich from 1968 to 1970 .

As a scholarship holder of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation , Heilmann then worked on the inventory catalogs of the Neue Pinakothek. In 1975 he became a curator at the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, where he was significantly involved in the planning and hanging concept for the new building of the new Alexander von Brancas Pinakothek, which was destroyed in the war . His area of ​​responsibility was painting and sculpture in the 19th century, especially the first half of the century. As a house assistant, he was also responsible for the general affairs of the Neue Pinakothek. Until his retirement in 2000 he was responsible for a large number of exhibitions on German and European painting of the 19th century, which were often created in international cooperation with partners in Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and Italy, among others.

In 2003 he founded the Christoph Heilmann Foundation , based in Munich, whose purpose is the promotion of art and culture, in particular research into romantic and early realistic landscape painting in Germany and France.

Heilmann bequeathed his collection of landscape paintings from the 19th century to the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus . In 2019 the pictures came back to the Lenbachhaus after a two-year tour through Germany. Heilmann's collection provides a representative overview of the landscape painting by the artists Camille Corot , Théodore Rousseau , Charles-Francois Daubigny and Antoine-Louis Barye, who all worked in the forest village of Barbizon .

Publications (selection)

Essays

• Acqua Paola and the Urban Planning of Paul V. Borghese, in: The Burlington Magazine 112, 1970, pp. 656-662
• The history of the origins of Villa Borghese in Rome, in: Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst, 3. F., 24, 1973, pp. 97–158
• East End. A painting from Turner's late period for Munich, in: Pantheon 34, 1976, pp. 221–230
• On Arnold Böcklin's artistic individuality, in: Cat. Exh. A. Böcklin 1827-1901. Exhibition on the occasion of the 150th birthday, Darmstadt 1977, pp. 34–41
• To Gainsborough's portrait of “Mrs. Thomas Hibbert ”, in: Pantheon 36, 1978, pp. 222-230
• On the tradition of Rome as an art center and its effects on Munich landscape painting around 1800, in: Cat. Münchner Landschaftsmalerei 1800-1850, Munich 1979, pp. 12–20
• On Franco-Belgian history painting and its demarcation from the Munich School, in: Cat. Die Münchner Schule 1850-1914, Munich 1979, pp. 36–47
• Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria and the Nazarenes Movement, in: Cat. The Nazarenes in Rome. A German Romantic Association of Artists, Munich 1981, pp. 58–61
• The collection of contemporary painting by King Ludwig I in the context of his cultural policy, in: Festgabe for the opening of the Neue Pinakothek in Munich on March 28, 1981. History, architecture, collection, Munich 1981, pp. 9–27
• Munich's early contact with English landscape painting, in: “Are Brits here?” Relations between British and Continental Art 1680-1880, Munich 1981, pp. 147–160
• On Ludwig's art policy and the understanding of art of his time, in: “Him who builds temples of prayer.” Ludwig I. and the Alte Pinakothek, Munich 1986, pp. 16–40
• Ludwig I's Munich as a Center of Artistic Renewal, in: Cat. The Romantic Spirit in German Art 1790-1990, London 1994, pp. 42–51
• Wilhelm Truebner. Early years in Munich, in: Cat. Exh. Wilhelm Trübner 1851-1919, Munich 1995, pp. 11-19
• Tradition and departure. Thoughts on Arnold Böcklin's “ Villa by the Sea ”, in: Cat. Arnold Böcklin. A retrospective, Heidelberg 2001, pp. 33–46

Museum catalogs (collaboration and contributions)

• Schack-Galerie, 2 vols., Munich 1969 (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen. Painting catalogs, vol. II)
• New Pinakothek gallery. Explanations of the exhibited works, Munich 1981 (5th edition 1989)
• Schack Gallery Munich. A guide through the collection of German painting from the late Romantic period. Munich 1983 (2nd edition 1988)
• Late Romanticism and Realism, Munich 1984 (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen. Painting catalogs, Vol. V)
• German painting of the 19th century. Regensburg State Gallery, Regensburg 1986
• Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and Symbolists. Foreign artists, Munich 1990 (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen. Painting catalogs, Vol. VII)
• Late Classicism and Romanticism, Munich 2003 (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen. Painting catalogs, vol. V)

Exhibition catalogs ([co-] editing and contributions)

• Caspar David Friedrich. Ten paintings. Exhibition on the occasion of a new acquisition by the Ernst von Siemens Art Fund for the Neue Pinakothek, Munich 1984 (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen. Artists and Works, Vol. 6)
• German romantics. Pictorial themes from 1800 to 1850, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich 1985
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Exhibition on the occasion of a new acquisition of the Neue Pinakothek, Munich, supported by the Ernst von Siemens Art Fund 1985 (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen. Artists and Works, Vol. 10) *
• “Italy lies in ourselves” The Art of the German-Romans, Bavarian State Painting Collections and House of Art, Munich 1987
• I "German-Roman". Il mito dell 'Italia negli artisti tedeschi 1850-1900, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna Rome, Milan 1988
• Johan Christian Dahl 1788-1857. A painter friend of Caspar David Friedrichs, Neue Pinakothek, Munich 1988
• The Hague School in Munich. Masterpieces of 19th century Dutch painting from the Hague Gemeentemuseum and the Bavarian State Painting Collections, Neue Pinakothek, Munich 1989
• Johann Georg von Dillis 1759-1841. Landscape and Human Image, Neue Pinakothek, Munich 1991
• Count Raczyński Collection. Late Romantic painting from the National Museum Poznań, Neue Pinakothek, Munich 1992
• Victorian painting. From Turner to Whistler, Neue Pinakothek, Munich 1993
• Corot, Courbet and the Barbizon Painters. “Les amis de la nature”, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen and Haus der Kunst, Munich 1996
• Landscape as a story. Carl Rottmann 1797-1850. Court painter to King Ludwig I, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich 1998
• Barbizon. Painting of nature - nature of painting. International colloquium on behalf of the Bavarian State Painting Collections, the Doerner Institute and the Central Institute for Art History, Munich 1999
• Nature as art. Landscape painting around Courbet and Feuerbach. From a private collection in Heidelberg, Kurpfälzisches Museum, Heidelberg 2007
• Nature as art. Early 19th century landscape painting in Germany and France from the collection of the Christoph Heilmann Foundation in the Lenbachhaus Munich, Heidelberg 2013

literature

• Bavarian State Painting Collections. Annual report 1999-2000. Munich 2002, p. 138.

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Heilmann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maecenata Foundation Guide 2005
2. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: With bright colors. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .