Club home of the German BP

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The club house of the Deutsche BP was from 1952 to 1982 an exhibition and cultural center in Hamburg-Harvestehude . The private sponsor was BP Petrol and Petroleum GmbH , later Deutsche BP AG .

history

The clubhouse was founded by Hans Ornstein , born in Vienna in 1882 , who served as a colonel in the British Army during World War II . After the war he became Official Representative of the BP Group and in 1950 Managing Director of the newly founded BP Petrol and Petroleum GmbH in Hamburg. At the instigation of the art-loving Ornstein, a house was to be set up in Hamburg, which should be available to all BP employees in their free time for cultural events and to pursue their hobbies. The young sculptor Jörn Pfab (1925–1986) commissioned by Ornstein found a suitable building at Abteistraße 13 in Hamburg, which was opened in 1952 as the club house of the Deutsche BP . The building is a listed building .

The clubhouse should "bring about meetings of the employees outside the company through external and non-professional catalysts - games, sociability, entertainment, hobbyhorse education [in order to] establish deeper than just collegial connections between people."

The clubhouse's program and offerings included discussion evenings, lectures, language courses and exhibitions of paintings, drawings and sculptures, as well as music and literature circles. Pfab taught drawing and modeling in a studio in the attic .

Art in the clubhouse

Pfab was also commissioned to organize the exhibitions. In the beginning he showed works by young Hamburg artists of his generation. Later Berliners, southern Germans and artists from Switzerland were guests. In the first 10 years, 50 exhibitions were shown that representatively reflected the content-related and formal debates in German post-war art. At accompanying events, the positions of abstract, representational and constructive art were discussed with museum directors and art historians. The clubhouse exhibitions were also open to the Hamburg public, and the press reported regularly.

In 1968 the art historian and journalist Karl Graak took over the exhibition program of the clubhouse and also showed didactic and themed exhibitions. From 1975 the art historian and art collector Carl Vogel , who has been President of the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HfbK) since 1976 , oversaw the conception of the exhibition and the catalogs that are now published regularly. Subsequently, he mainly showed graphic works of the European avant-garde, but also presented traditional positions with Alfred Kubin and Gerhard Marcks . In 1979 he gave a look back at the graphic arts of the German Informel .

Exhibitions

Catalogs

  • Fren Förster (ed.), Gottfried Sello (text): modern art in the clubheim , for the 10th anniversary, Deutsche BP - Clubheim, Hamburg 1962
  • Eberhard Freitag, Carl Vogel: Sigmar Polke: Complete graphic sheets , Deutsche BP - Clubheim, Hamburg 1975
  • Horst Janssen : self-portraits. Fifty for the fiftieth birthday from the Carl Vogel collection . German BP Club Home, Hamburg 1979.
  • Bettina Reichert-Facilides: Alfred Kubin ( 1877-1959 ), drawings and graphics , Deutsche BP - Clubheim, Hamburg 1981

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ornstein on the website of the German BP (with photo)
  2. ^ German Society for Mineral Oil Science (Ed.) Petroleum and Coal, Volume 10, Industrieverlag von Hernhaussen, 1957, p. 726
  3. ↑ Silke Wenk: On the social function of art: historical analysis and empirical investigation in companies of the Federal Republic , Pahl-Rugenstein, 1982. P. 120
  4. ↑ Gottfried Sello in: Moderne Kunst im Clubheim , For the 10th anniversary, 1962, p. 50 ff

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 53.5 "  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 34.2"  E