Felix Tikotin

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Felix Tikotin (born October 12, 1893 in Glogau , Liegnitz district ; † August 15, 1986 in Vevey , Switzerland ) was a German-Jewish art dealer , art collector and museum founder.

Life

Felix Tikotin was born as Felix Levinsohn. He chose the name Tikotin because, according to family tradition, his ancestors immigrated from Tykocin to Silesia at the beginning of the 19th century . He grew up in Dresden , where he met the members of the artist group Die Brücke . At the International Hygiene Exhibition in Dresden in 1911 he came into contact with Japanese art for the first time ; after the end of the exhibition he was able to acquire some of the woodcuts shown there . At the request of his parents, he studied architecture at the Technical University of Dresden and then took part in the First World War as an officer .

After the war and a subsequent brief activity as an architect for the city of Dresden, Tikotin decided to give up his learned profession in order to devote himself entirely to his work as an art dealer and collector. He opened a gallery in Dresden and moved to Berlin in 1927. In 1927/1928 he went on a trip to Japan with Fritz Rumpf , where he studied the country's culture.

In 1933 Tikotin emigrated to the Netherlands , initially to Amsterdam. He later opened a new gallery in The Hague . The art collections were hidden after the invasion of the German Wehrmacht , but were lost due to theft. In 1950 the stolen collection was rediscovered. In the same year Tikotin moved to Wassenaar . He spent most of the years 1956 to 1960 in Haifa , where the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art was opened in 1960 . Then Tikotin settled on Mont Pèlerin in Switzerland. His daughter Ilana Drukker-Tikotin now lives in Jerusalem.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rob de Bruijn: In memoriam Felix Tikotin 1893-1986 . In: Andon. Shedding light on Japanese art. Bulletin of the Society for Japanese Arts and Crafts // Vereniging voor Japanse Kunst . ISSN  0168-2997 . No. 23 (1986), pp. 66-68.
  2. ↑ Life and work of Felix Tikotin (1893-1986) ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 / hma.org.il
  3. ^ Marianne Rumpf: Fritz Rumpf. An overview of life and work . In: Hartmut Walravens (ed.): You understand our hearts well. Fritz Rumpf (1888–1949) in the field of tension in German-Japanese cultural relations . VCH, Acta Humaniora, Weinheim 1989. ISBN 3-527-17686-1 . P. 3–18, here P. 14.

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personal data
SURNAME Tikotin, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Levinsohn, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art dealer, art collector and museum founder
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Glogau , Liegnitz district
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1986
Place of death Vevey