Detmar Westhoff

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Detmar Jobst Wilhelm Westhoff (born February 28, 1966 in Bonn ) is a German art historian, curator and founder of Westhoff Fine Arts - Exhibition Services.

Career

Detmar Westhoff was born as the son of the art historian Hildegard Westhoff-Krummacher, who worked at the LWL Museum for Art and Culture in Münster. While studying art history at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, he met the lecturer and former director of the Guggenheim Foundation Thomas M. Messer in a seminar , under whose guest curatorship at the Schirn Kunsthalle he took up his work after completing his studies. He was already focusing on modern art as well as the areas of art sponsorship and corporate identity. As an advisor to the management, he accompanied the Rudolf-August Oetker-Stiftung in its founding phase from 2000 to 2002 in the areas of monument preservation and museum art purchases. From 2001 to 2006 he built up the fundraising department in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (K20 / K21) and developed, for example, the KPMG art evening and the cooperation between Georg Baselitz and the Handelsblatt publishing group . Finally, Westhoff founded his exhibition agency for art exhibitions “Westhoff Fine Arts - Exhibition Services” in 2006 and has since worked as an exhibition maker and freelance curator in Europe and Asia. Westhoff also regularly takes on teaching assignments on the subject of cultural finance at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and the Ruhr University in Bochum and initiates cooperation between students of art history and the professional world.

Westhoff Fine Arts - Exhibition Services

Since 2006, Westhoff has initiated, co-curated and coordinated exhibitions with a focus on modern art. There are also exhibitions in the fields of photography, fashion, fashion photography and old masters. Due to the good contacts in Asia and Europe, the field of activity of Westhoff Fine Arts includes not only the classic tasks of a curator but also the mediation of art exhibitions and art collections between Europe and Asia. This led to collaborations with collections such as the Städel in Frankfurt, the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, the Kunsthaus Zürich and with artists such as Andreas Gursky and Thomas Ruff .

Exhibitions (selection)

Initiated and co-curated exhibitions

  • Japan's love of impressionism - from Monet to Renoir , Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany , Bonn, October 8, 2015 - February 21, 2016
  • The Savages of Germany. The Bridge and Der Blaue Reiter Expressionists , Kumu Art Museum Tallinn , September 22, 2018 - January 14, 2018
  • Die Wilden - Expressionism by the artists von Brücke and the Blaue Reiter , Museum de Fundatie , Zwolle, April 30, 2016 - September 18, 2016
  • Expressionismus-Expressionismi - Berlin-Munich 1905 - 1915 - Der Blaue Reiter vs. Bridge , Pinacothèque de Paris, Paris, October 13, 2011 - March 11, 2012 (member of the Board of Trustees)

Initiated and coordinated exhibitions

  • Gustav Klimt - Vienna and Japan 1900 , Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum , April 23, 2019 - July 10, 2019
  • Hello, My Name is Paul Smith , Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Design Museum , Seoul, June 06, 2019 -25. August 2019
  • Karl Lagerfeld - Visions of Fashion , Shanghai and Seoul 2020
  • Alberto Giacometti. Collection Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght , National Art Center Tokyo , June 13th 2017 - September 4th 2017
  • Thomas Ruff , National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo , August 30, 2016 - November 13, 2016
  • Karl Lagerfeld - A visual Journey , Pinacothèque de Paris, Paris, October 16, 2015 - March 20, 2016
  • Léonard de Vinci, Il Genio , drawings from the Codex Atlanticus, Pinacothèque de Paris, Paris, October 29, 2015 - January 31, 2016
  • Masterpieces from the Kunsthaus Zürich , National Art Center Tokyo, September 25, 2014 - December 15, 2014
  • Andreas Gursky , National Art Center Tokyo, July 03, 2013 - September 16, 2013
  • Vermeer Geographer - the Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish painting at the Städel Museum , Bunkamura Museum, Tokyo 2011
  • Painting Light - The hidden Techniques of the Impressionists , Wallraf Richartz Museum , Cologne, Aomori Museum of Art, Japan, July 09, 2011 - October 10, 2011

Voluntary work, memberships and initiatives

Westhoff was a board member of the Deutsche Burgenvereinigung eV and chairman of the Rhineland regional group in the Deutsche Burgenvereinigung eV from 2006 to 2019 , and is now its deputy chairman and vice-president of the 701 eV association, which is dedicated to promoting experimental young artists. In 2009 he founded the Anna Maria Luisa de 'Medici Association with the Marketing Club Düsseldorf, which uses the Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici needle to honor companies and institutions that are particularly committed to promoting art and culture, and he is its chairman was from 2009 to 2012. He is a member of the International Museum Council ICOM and the German Museum Association .

Fonts (selection)

  • Theobald Rheinhold von Oer's trip to Italy. 1837–1839, 2 vol., Univ., Mag.Arb., Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  • The divine inherent in nature, in: "DU - Das Kunstmagazin" (2012)
  • Why the Japanese love impressionism, in: Exh. Cat. Japan's love of impressionism. From Monet to Renoir, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn 2015, pp. 234–241.
  • Waarom duitsers van expressionisme houden en waarom nederlanders dat ook zouden moeten doen, in: Exhibition cat. Wilden - Expressionisme van 'Brücke' en 'Der Blaue Reiter', Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle 2016, pp. 148–152.
  • Why Germans Love Expressionism (2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Detmar Westhoff: “Cultural sponsoring: From art to finance art. A look back at the exhibition Between Art and Life: From Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art in the Frankfurt Schirn Kunsthalle ", lecture in the series " Views. Professional fields for art historians ” at JLU Giessen, July 5th, 2000.
  2. ^ Christiane Hoffmans: Calls for Help from Museums , in: Welt am Sonntag, August 11, 2002
  3. ↑ See a. Detmar Westhoff in an interview about cultural sponsoring (March 8, 2006): Detmar Westhoff about cultural sponsoring: You have to be able to do without
  4. ↑ in the winter semester 2015/15 “The future of museum financing - From art to finance art” at the HHU Düsseldorf.
  5. ↑ Board , on dbv-rheinland.de
  6. ↑ cf. a. Holger Dumke: More money for monuments - castle owners praise the NRW government , in: Westfälische Rundschau, April 13, 2018:
  7. ↑ Board of Directors We stand for Initiative 701 eV
  8. ↑ The Rings of the Medici , on anna-maria-de-medici.de, accessed on May 22, 2019
  9. ^ The needle of the Medici , on anna-maria-de-medici.de, accessed on May 22, 2019
  10. ↑ "The basis for the great success of our award is the continuous and effective networking of business and art in the region." Detmar Westhoff as Chairman of the Board of Anna Maria Luisa de 'Medici eV in his welcoming address to the 2011 award ceremony .
  11. ↑ ETH - e-periodica. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Why the Germans love expressionism. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Westhoff, Detmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Westhoff, Detmar Jobst Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and curator
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn