Edy de Wilde

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Edy de Wilde (1984)

Edy de Wilde , actually Eduard Leo Louis de Wilde , (born December 3, 1919 in Nijmegen , † November 19, 2005 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch museum director and curator , exhibition maker and art collector .

Life

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De Wilde studied in his hometown of jurisprudence . After World War II, he makes his hobby , the visual arts , profession: First inventoried it on behalf of the Dutch government so-called " trophy art ", the stock of the National Socialists from Dutch museums looted, palaces and private collections of art .

At the age of only 26 he became the new director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven , whose director he remained until 1963. During this time he expanded the rather modest art collection of this institute with an increasing budget into one of the most important in the Netherlands. He mainly acquired representatives from the École de Paris and Expressionism , and later also works by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque , both of whom he knew personally. De Wilde made international headlines when he bought an early Picasso, The Woman in Green , for the museum in 1954 for the then horrific sum of 114,000 guilders .

From 1963 to 1985 de Wilde was director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. During this time he tried to make modern art accessible to a wider audience and also to integrate current developments such as design , photography and video art into the museum's holdings. Critics accused him of being guided solely by personal preferences and of ignoring art movements that he did not like, such as Arte Povera , minimalism , conceptual art and performance . de Wilde curated the Pop Art exhibition of 1964 and the great Picasso exhibition of 1967. His farewell exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in 1984 under the title La Grande Parade saw 400,000 visitors, a Dutch record at the time.

Together with Harald Szeemann , he was to lead Documenta 8 from 1987. Due to differences in content between the two, the duo failed and Manfred Schneckenburger stepped in as a replacement.

Until recently, de Wilde was an active member of advisory boards for internationally renowned museums such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York City and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid . The Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven dedicated a small commemorative exhibition to him on the occasion of his death.

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  1. ↑ Dirk Schwarze: Milestones. Documenta 1 to 13. Works of art and artists. (3rd edition), Berlin / Kassel 2012, p. 128.
personal data
SURNAME Wilde, Edy de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilde, Eduard Leo Louis de (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch museum director and curator, exhibition maker and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Nijmegen
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 2005
Place of death Amsterdam