Clemens Jöckle

Clemens Jöckle (born April 15, 1950 in Wasserlos ; † June 2, 2014 in Bad Dürkheim ) was a German art historian . From 2001 to 2012 he was director of the Städtische Galerie Speyer . In July 2012, he was appointed by the Mainz Ministry of Culture to prepare the planned large Wittelsbach exhibition at Villa Ludwigshöhe Castle from the beginning of 2013 . This did not happen because of a severe stroke in autumn 2012, as a result of which he died on June 2, 2014.

Jöckle wrote several art books and wrote an encyclopedia of saints. He wrote numerous monographs and brochures about artists and buildings as well as exhibition catalogs. He edited the Palatinate artists for the general artist lexicon .

Jöckle endeavored to advertise art and artists and to contribute to the understanding of art. When opening exhibitions in and around Speyer, he appeared as a speaker at museums, art associations and galleries. He was a member of the board of trustees of the Speyer Cultural Foundation and chairman of the Palatinate Artists Working Group (apk) .

Head of the Speyer Municipal Gallery

In 2001 Clemens Jöckle was appointed head of the Städtische Galerie Speyer with sole responsibility . After a long political discussion, the gallery was created in a building complex belonging to the city of Speyer, which is located next to the old town hall, which is used as a theater for children and young people and an alternative cinema. Both buildings, located behind the old town hall, together with the Zimmer Theater Speyer and the Winkeldruckerey, also located there, formed the so-called Kulturhof Speyer. The municipal gallery was operated with professional opening times, while many municipal galleries only open daily and then by the hour, and achieved maximum closing times of one week between exhibitions. Jöckle did not want a gallery with a bar, the focus should not be on the encounter with the wine glass, but with art. Between the opening on July 23, 2001 and 2012, almost a hundred exhibitions took place in the gallery, including paintings by painters like Marc Chagall , Henri Matisse and Antonio Saura as well as great Palatinate painters such as Hans Purrmann , Anselm Feuerbach and Max Slevogt . After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Jöckle organized the young Leipzig School's first western exhibition . The gallery's basic program consisted of a large number of themed exhibitions, best-of exhibitions by young artists, anniversary exhibitions and, time and again, the presentation of otherwise inaccessible private collections.

Grave of Clemens Jöckle in the Speyer cemetery

Clemens Jöckle's grave is in the Speyer cemetery. The designation FamOT on the grave slab means that Clemens Jöckle was a Familiare (lay member) of the Teutonic Order (Ordo Teutonicus).

Fonts

• Friedrich Jossé - Pictures from the life of a small town. District group Speyer of the Historical Society of the Palatinate 1978
• Small chronicle of the art association: From the Palatinate art association to the art association Speyer . Speyer 1980.
• Pilgrimage sites in the Diocese of Speyer. 1983, ISBN 3795404991
• The painter Friedrich Jossé . Life and work. Fast u. Steiner, Munich [a. a.] 1987
• with Ambrosius Schneider, Werner Seeling and Peter Roth: Otterberg. Church, denominations, history. Evangelischer Presseverlag Pfalz, 1993
• Werner Holz (1948–1991). The ship of life or the art of raising a curtain. In: Ludwigshafen <Landkreis>: Heimatjahrbuch. Volume 10, 1994, pp. 83-86
• The great lexicon of saints. K. Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1995, ISBN 3860704389
• with Josef Matheis: Markus Klammer (1963–1993). Life and work. Josef Fink Verlag, Lindenberg 1996, ISBN 3931820149
• The ship of fools on the precipice. On Werner Holz's imagery. "Labyrinthine worlds of images" / [Kunstverein Bad Dürkheim]. Bad Dürkheim 1998.
• Memento Mori. European cemeteries. GLB Parkland, 1998, ISBN 3880599394 , translated into Czech by Jana Zoubková
• 100 buildings in Frankfurt am Main. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3795411661
• Pilgrimage sites. A hundred wonders of Europe. K. Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1999, ISBN 3860704370
• "Draw with color". Heinrich von Zügel (1850–1941). Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2001, ISBN 3-933784-63-8 (also translated into Czech by Josef Matějů and into Dutch by Maarten Lekkerkerken).
• with Christopher Kerstjens von Fink: With color and line. Elisabeth Mack-Usselmann. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2002, ISBN 3898700852
• with Heinz Setzer: Adolf Doerner (1892–1964). Life and work. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2003, ISBN 3898701379
• with Christopher Kerstjens: architectural styles of world architecture. The standard work of architecture from antiquity to the present. 2006, there are translations of the previous editions of this book (first edition 2001), for example by Eszter Krisztina Aczél into Hungarian or Dutch
• with Georg Denzler: The Vatican. History - art - meaning. Primus Verlag, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 978-3-89678-573-2
• Saint Laurence. Deacon and martyr. Sadifa-Media, Kehl / Rhein 2008, ISBN 978-3-88786-365-4
• Saint George. Legend, worship and representations. The noble, shining star from Cappadocia. Sadifa-Media, Kehl / Rhein 2008, ISBN 978-3-88786-185-8
• The painter Georg Krajewski - life and work. Publishing house Giloi & Ultes, Winnweiler 2010, ISBN 9783933778130
• with photos by Thomas Klenner, Horst Poggel: Dreifaltigkeitskirche Speyer. 5th edition, Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-4919-3
• among employees by Josef Staab : Kiedrich in the Rheingau. 13th edition, Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-6036-5
• with photos by Renate J. Deckers-Matzko: St. Joseph, Speyer. 2nd edition, Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-6514-8
• Memento mori. famous cemeteries of Europe. Nebel-Verlag, Utting 2011, ISBN 978-3-86862-010-8

Individual evidence

1. ^ Report: "Clemens Jöckle" in the online edition of the newspaper "Die Rheinpfalz" from July 15, 2012, page culture; Retrieved on July 15, 2012 ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ pek: Mourning for Jöckle. Obituary: On the death of the Speyer art historian . in Die Rheinpfalz from June 7, 2014, page culture; kai_hp08_kulto1; and Peter Kreutzenberger: A champion for pure culture. Mourning for art historian Clemens Jöckle . in Die Rheinpfalz from June 7, 2014, page Culture Regional, spe_hp18_lk-kult.01
3. ↑ kya: "I gave my milk." Clemens Jöckle is leaving the Städtische Galerie as artistic director at the end of the year - worries about Speyer's future as a city of culture remain. In: Die Rheinpfalz from July 14, 2012, 03_LSPE

Web links

to person

• Literature by and about Clemens Jöckle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Clemens Jöckle  in the German Digital Library
• Example for the explanation of a statue by Clemens Jöckle: The Speyer Jakobspilger. A bronze statue by Martin Mayer
• Clemens Jöckle presents the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Pfälzer Künstler (apk), the technique of etching and six artists who work with etchings by means of the opening speech for the exhibition Masters of Etching Techniques at the Kulturkreis Sulzfeld. (PDF; 72 kB)

Video

• short interview sequence with Clemens Jöckle on the fringes of the Forum Kaiserdom on March 15, 2012 about his lecture on the redesign plans of the National Socialists for the Speyer Kaiserdom from approx. 48 sec; Contribution by OK Speyer; Short report by Wolfgang Schuch; accessed on YouTube on June 10, 2014

to Kulturhof

• Kulturhof Flachsgasse on the side of the city of Speyer