Dieter Frowein-Lyasso

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Dieter Frowein-Lyasso (born July 6, 1945 in Lüdenscheid ; † October 17, 2013 in Cologne ) was a German entrepreneur , art collector , artist and patron .

Since 1983 he was the owner of the artist's shop "Tutti Paletti" in the south of Cologne . As part of this management, Frowein-Lyasso had the opportunity to get to know numerous artists and art students from the Cologne Werkschulen (FH Kunst und Design) and their work. Frowein-Lyasso sponsored many of these artists by purchasing early works from them. Many of these students later became well-known artists, and Frowein-Lyasso remained on friendly terms with most of them throughout his life.

Frowein-Lyasso also sponsored the independent theater of the city of Cologne. His particular interest was the situated also in the south of Cologne theater in the basement and connected to this theater " drama school of the basement " . Since 2009 he was deputy chairman of the development association of theater.

Life

1969 saw Frowein-Lyasso Joe Cocker's appearance at the Woodstock Festival

Dieter Frowein-Lyasso was born out of wedlock in 1945 and lived in a Protestant home until he came of age . After returning home, he enlisted in the German Armed Forces for four years . He used his release money in 1969 for his first long-distance trip and flew to the USA for the Woodstock Festival , which later became legendary .

He moved back from the USA to Cologne, where he learned the profession of typesetter . After completing his apprenticeship, he worked in an advertising graphics company . When he was fired in 1983 for operational reasons, he used his savings to take over the economically struggling artist's shop Tutti Paletti . He held the position of management for exactly 30 years to the day. At the end of the 1990s he met his Austrian half-siblings and kept in touch from then on. Around 2000 he changed his name from Dieter to Diter. Later he called himself Moritz.

Tutti Paletti

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Original company sign with the second color scheme created in 1990. (Acrylic on iron)
The lettering, painted with a brush, was the trademark
The stretching of large-format canvases rarely gave Dieter Frowein-Lyasso a headache
Dieter Frowein-Lyasso during a sales pitch, in the background his own advertising posters and the pigment shelf

Frowein-Lyasso took over the specialist shop founded in the early 1980s in Cologne's Südstadt district. The shop, which is only about 40 square meters in size, has been frequented by almost all of the picturesque Cologne residents who have become known by name over the past three decades and has been a place of mutually inspiring exchange.

The owner of the listed building, the Cologne restorer Georg Maul , coincidentally created the name Tutti Paletti on a wine blissful evening. When, after a long discussion, The Palette emerged as a name, he said: "Then everything will finally be tutti Paletti ", and the name was immediately found.

The first owner of the shop Konstantin Freiherr von Humboldt und Dachröten created the lettering on the company sign with free brushstrokes borrowed from calligraphy . As a color combination, von Humboldt chose vermilion lettering on a light lapis lazuli background . The first advertising posters were designed by Jacky Beumling , the later so-called “artist prince” Carnival of Cologne Jacky I (2007); For this purpose he selected handwritten signatures by well-known artists, which he arranged one above the other (including Albrecht Dürer , Rembrandt and Picasso ).

When the sign showed the first signs of weathering in 1990, a church painter changed the colors in consultation with Frowein-Lyasso, but the free lettering remained unchanged. From then on, carmine-red lettering on an ultramarine background shone on the metal shop sign . This color combination functioned as the trademark of the artist shop until Tutti Paletti closed on May 1st, 2013 .

When Dieter Frowein-Lyasso took over the specialist shop, he redesigned it by selecting a different selection of items. He achieved great economic success , especially through the general agency for the Kremer pigment article series for the Cologne area.

The space was dominated by a former dissecting table in the center, the canvases were cut to size on this, and Frowein-Lyasso also used this as a stand when he covered large formats. According to his own statements, a seven meter long picture ground was for Lucy McKenzie his greatest "masterpiece".

Frowein-Lyasso was present almost every day, and in addition to expert advice, his specialty was stretching canvas frames - this was especially true for the large formats mentioned. Often, already painted canvases, which had warped on inferior frames, were brought into the shop and stretched on the high-quality stretcher frames, which were made by a carpenter from the Lower Rhine region.

On request, there were also special sizes, special thicknesses or round and oval formats. The painted pictures were kept on an easel until they were picked up, which means that the Tutti Paletti had a very wide range of permanent temporary exhibitions . Many of his stretched canvases now adorn the walls of large private collections or well-known museums.

He also worked artistically himself, but only very rarely on canvas. He alienated everyday objects or used carpets as a painting surface, and he often used his own photographs within his object art . Through years of persistence, he succeeded in begging for an autograph from Marlene Dietrich , who lived very secluded in Paris , and immediately dedicated a large-format work of art to this gem .

Dieter Frowein sunbathes in front of his shop with a stored pug

From the beginning, Frowein-Lyasso supported numerous artists whose painting he liked. He acquired from these early works or granted time contract work ( Portrait ), for example by Oliver Jordan and since the early 1990s in New York acting David D. Stern . Since Frowein-Lyasso regularly went to exhibition openings or art fairs, he became acquainted with some collectors and gallery owners. He succeeded in making them aware of artists who frequented his shop. For a while he also dealt with the pictures of his customers, whose exhibition catalogs could be viewed in the Tutti Paletti .

The shop's vestibule acted as an advertising pillar for the fine arts. Exhibitions were announced here, studio spaces were sought or found, the subdistrict Dada personally announced its wisdom from its posters, and an infinite number of drawing courses and painting courses, including those that contained naked women for little money , advertised interested parties there.

Frowein-Lyasso also regularly sponsored the catering at the first vernissages of its customers, which overwhelmed their student budget. If an as yet unknown artist lacked the words for the exhibition catalog , they would also be happy to knock on Tutti Paletti-Ditta's , and then everything was very quickly. It was not uncommon for Frowein-Lyasso children or dogs to be entrusted to temporary custody, and children were given a coloring pad and colored pencils free of charge.

Behind the sales counter, a double glass door led to a small, shady inner courtyard that was shared by its customers and the staff of an adjacent restoration workshop. Modern art met historical techniques here, and the choice of materials for many a masterpiece was made here, right next to a small, if only occasionally dripping, fountain.

Painters , restorers , graphic designers , artists , sculptors , church painter , carpenter , gallery owners , art collectors, patrons , designer , violin and organ builder , but also the Ahlvunnevvenan and pigment fetishists were sitting here together, drinking freshly brewed coffee, this course's for free, holding chat or took part in the Carrom tournaments that took place here almost every day for some summers.

His customers also included many representatives of the Neue Wilden , including Adamski and Dokoupil . In the mid-1980s, Wolfgang Niedecken and his family moved into a house across the street, and the rock musician rediscovered his talent for painting thanks to the close proximity to Tutti Paletti . Cornel Wachter's studio was just around the corner, in close proximity to the Ulrepforte . In 1984 Tutti Paletti became the command center of his subdistrict Dada.

1986 brought Tutti Paletti the XLII. Biennale di Venezia received its first major order. The Cologne painter Sigmar Polke represented the Federal Republic of Germany there and ordered 40 canvases in order to experiment with a new material ( lacquer ). Polke then won the Grand Prize for Painting, the Golden Lion, in Venice. Back from Venice , Polke presented Frowein-Lyasso with one of the pictures on his canvases for his steadily growing collection. An intense friendship developed between the two. Polke left in Tutti Paletti a small mural , alluding to a person he drew in pencil a potato and wrote underneath potato monument .

In 1991 the Cologne artists Jo Oberhäuser and Cornel Wachter succeeded in persuading several Cologne painters to paint Tutti Paletti-Ditta in honor of his ten years at Tutti Paletti . Most of the aforementioned artists took part, Polke left an ant who laboriously rolls a penny and named his work Der Pfennigfuchser in reference to Dieter's change box . The following artists took part in the project in this order: Jo Oberhäuser, Robert Fährmann, Hans-Peter Adamski , Kurt Ebbers, Dieter Horky, Wolfgang Niedecken , Heribert C. Ottersbach , Jürgen Klauke , Oliver Jordan , Bernhard Patzack, Peter Valentiner, David D. . Stern , Dieter Kraemer, Sigmar Polke and the artist duo UnterbezirksDada (Cornel Wachter and Elmar Schmitt).

In 2010 Dieter Frowein-Lyasso mourned his friend Sigmar Polke in the Tutti Paletti

When the banking crisis in 2008 eroded the artists and restorers, it was Polke who ensured the survival of his favorite shop by making bulk purchases. When Polke died in 2010, Dieter Frowein-Lyasso honored his friend with an object work of art with an integrated photograph by Polke, which he installed in the middle of the long wall of the shop.

During Walburgis Night 2013, Dieter Frowein-Lyasso said goodbye to Tutti Paletti in his shop . Around 100 former customers and friends said goodbye, some of them had come from far away.

After Tutti Paletti

The potato monument was extended by a restorer with the intonacco layer of the plaster and is now privately owned.

Dieter Frowein-Lyasso had already been involved in the Theater der Keller during his Tutti-Paletti time . He was now more aware of this activity. He wrote his autobiography every day, but he never finished it. On October 17, 2013, he died of a heart attack in his apartment, which is reminiscent of a gallery .

On October 23, 2013, the children's group of the theater school dedicated a performance to Dieter Frowein-Lyasso in memory.

On the occasion of the death of Dieter Frowein-Lyasso, the Theater der Keller changed the front page of their website and wrote him an obituary.

List of artists who participated in the picture in 1993

Works

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Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Mayr: Remembering Woodstock, 40 years on. Deutsche Welle, August 15, 2009, accessed October 26, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c Diter, the artist's friend. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. May 3, 2012, accessed October 26, 2013 (portrait).
  3. ↑ a b c d FAZ , October 31, 2006, p. K5; on the occasion of Art Cologne
  4. ↑ bilderbuch-koeln.de: Tutti Paletti. Retrieved October 26, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Many exhibition catalogs thank him for his help, such as B. in David Stern: Study for a Path 1987–1992, Hungarian National Gallery Budapest 1992, Kunstverlag Wolfram, Vienna 1992
  6. ↑ contemporaryartdaily.com: Polke at the Venice Biennale. Retrieved October 26, 2013 .
  7. ↑ mwk-koeln.de: Die Kölner Theaterzeitung, February 13th (PDF; 2.1 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 29, 2013 ; accessed in October 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mwk-koeln.de
  8. ↑ www.theater-der-keller.de website of the theater
personal data
SURNAME Frowein-Lyasso, Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frowein-Lyasso, Diter; Frowein-Lyasso, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, art collector, artist and patron
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludenscheid
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 2013
Place of death Cologne