Ernst Beyersdorff

Ernst Albert Anton Beyersdorff (born February 17, 1885 in Oldenburg , † June 16, 1952 in Bad Wiessee am Tegernsee ) was a German lawyer and founder of the Association for Young Art .

Ernst Beyersdorff, who became a passive member of the Brücke artist group in 1909 , was an ardent advocate of modern art. His private art collection came to the State Museum's collections in 1984 as a "Donation from Ernst and Hanneliese Beyersdorff".

The State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg dedicated a special exhibition to Ernst Beyersdorff in spring 2017.

Fonts (selection)

• Black and white art in the Kunstverein , in Oldenburger Nachrichten für Stadt und Land , March 13, 1908 (partly reprinted in: Gerhard Wietek : Schmidt-Rottluff . Oldenburger Jahre 1907–1912, Mainz 1995, p. 212)
• The assumption of assets under German civil law (§§ 311 and 419 BGB) , dissertation, submitted to the law faculty of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen , Oldenburg, 1911
• The future of the Oldenburg galleries , in: Oldenburger Nachrichten für Stadt und Land , February 22, 1912
• Art of form and art of expression , in: Oldenburger Nachrichten für Stadt und Land , Part I, November 12, 1919; Part II, ibid., November 13, 1919
• The exhibition "Munch and the artists of the bridge" in the Bremen art gallery , in: Oldenburger Nachrichten für Stadt und Land , October 20, 1920 (partly reprinted in: Gerhard Wietek: Schmidt-Rottluff. Oldenburger Years 1907–1912, Mainz 1995 P. 228)
• Oldenburg and the fine arts , in: Oldenburgische Landeszeitung, No. 322, October 23, 1920
• Casual tour of the Bremen Art Gallery , Part I, in: Oldenburgische Landeszeitung, No. 295, October 27, 1920, supplement; Part II, ibid., October 28, 1920, supplement
• Painting and Environment , in: Der Kunstspiegel für Oldenburg, ed. v. of the Theater and Concert Directorate Oldenburg, Oldenburg 1947, p. 6

literature

• Peter Reindl (ed.): Donation Ernst and Hanneliese Beyersdorff. An Oldenburg collection , catalog for the exhibition in the Augusteum, March 17 - April 21, 1985, catalogs of the Landesmuseum Oldenburg, volume 3, Oldenburg 1985.
• Peter Reindl: Ernst Beyersdorff and the “Association for Young Art” in Oldenburg , in: Henrike Junge (Ed.): “Avant-garde and audience. On the reception of avant-garde art in Germany 1905–1933 ”, Cologne 1992, pp. 17–28.
• Gerd Presler: Ernst Beyersdorff (1885–1952) and Hanneliese (1896–1985) in: Die Brücke, roro TB 50642, Reinbek 2007, pp. 106–107 ISBN 978-3-499-50642-0
• State Museum for Art and Cultural History (Ed.): Ernst Beyersdorff. Oldenburg collector, sponsor and lawyer, catalog for the exhibition in the Prinzenpalais, March 4 to June 18, 2017, Oldenburg 2017.