Detlef Gosselck

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Detlef Gosselck (born July 13, 1940 in Mecklenburg ; † November 14, 2013 near Trebbin ) was a German art teacher , painter , gallery owner , author and art forger .

Life

Detlef Gosselck was born in 1940. After graduating from school, he studied art and also worked as a freelance painter. Detlef Gosselck wanted to become a teacher . In the 1950s he studied at the Institute for Teacher Education . With an agitprop group he moved across the country to advertise in the villages for the LPG accession. When he saw how peasants opposed to joining the cooperative were being dealt with, he had doubts about the party . In 1961 he moved from the GDR to West Berlin , where he studied at the Berlin University of Education from 1961 to 1964 . In his work as an art teacher, he was also director of studies at the European Academy in Berlin . After his retirement, Gosselck was the owner of the Art.Dego gallery in Berlin-Schöneberg . He also worked regularly as an auctioneer at art auctions, which occasionally included pictures by the painter Lou Albert-Lasard, who died in 1969 and who lived and worked in Berlin in the first half of the 20th century . In November 2013 it became known that Gosselck had made over 100 pictures by this painter himself in the years from 2003, provided them with a copied estate stamp and channeled them onto the international art market. The criminal police suspect damage of around 100,000 euros.

death

According to press reports, the 73-year-old Gosselck went to a forest near Trebbin after a full confession, which he made to the Berlin Criminal Police on November 14th, where he was found dead on November 17th, 2013.

Publications

  • Lou Albert-Lasard: “The Portfolio”. Drawings and sketches from everyday life in a French internment camp. Edited by Detlef Gosselck and Hans-Günter Goldbeck-Löwe. Ed. Goldbeck-Löwe, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937556-35-2 .
  • Edition Goldbeck - Löwe Nov.2000 Texts: “I'm with her downstairs” for the exhibition by Harald Wolff in the Schöneberger Atelier Bildfang (Edition Goldbeck - Löwe Private Drucke)

literature

  • An obituary for the death of Detlef Gosselck by David Ensikat, a son of Peter Ensikat : Art crime in Berlin - beloved forger in Der Tagesspiegel from April 1, 2014 [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who bought the Berlin art forger's pictures? In: Der Tagesspiegel. 20th November 2013.
  2. ↑ Part 2 ( Memento from January 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Damals in der DDR.
  3. ↑ Where world history manifests itself: a competition, 71 designs for painting a house wall at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. Berlin: House at Checkpoint Charlie 1981. p. 21
  4. ↑ Germany 2020 ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2012 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. (PDF; 100 kB) In: Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten November / December 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sfu.ac.at
  5. ↑ Evangelical Church in Berlin auctions off works of art. In: Der Tagesspiegel. October 13, 2013.
  6. ↑ Art forger found dead. In: FAZ. 20th November 2013.
  7. ↑ New scandal in Berlin: alleged art forger found dead. In: Spiegel Online. 20th November 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Gosselck, Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art teacher, painter, gallery owner, author and art forger
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Mecklenburg
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2013
Place of death at Trebbin