Frank Brabant

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Frank Brabant (* 1938 in Schwerin ) is a German art collector and entrepreneur.

Life

Frank Brabant grew up in Schwerin and moved from the GDR to Wiesbaden in western Germany in 1958 . He worked as an employee in an insurance company, later founded and operated the Pussycat discotheque and was economically very successful with this and other discotheques. In 1962 he visited Hanna Bekker vom Rath's gallery by chance , where he acquired a wood engraving by the artist at a vernissage with works by Max Pechstein .

With this purchase he became a committed collector, u. a. from works by Alexej von Jawlensky , Franz Marc , August Macke and Emil Nolde to contemporary art. A focus of his collecting activities are painters of the so-called lost generation, artists who emigrated during the National Socialist era or died in World War II , such as Johannes Wüsten , Erich Borchert , Rudolf Bauer and Paul Kleinschmidt . Works from the Brabants Collection have been exhibited in many museums, including a. in Montreal or Paris.

At the end of 2017, Brabant announced the regulation of his estate: After his death, the State Museum Schwerin and the Museum Wiesbaden in his adopted home town will each receive three hundred paintings. Until September 30, 2018, the Wiesbaden Museum exhibited the extensive art collection "From Beckmann to Jawlensky" by the Wiesbaden native.

The art gallery “Talstrasse” in Halle (Saale) shows from November 2019 to February 2020 in the exhibition “The image of women in the 1920s. Between femme fatale and earning a living “Works by Karl Hofer , Georg Tappert , Otto Dix , Max Pechstein , Alexej von Jawlensky, among others .

Brabant lives in Wiesbaden .

honors and awards

  • Presentation of the Goethe plaque by Art and Culture Minister Boris Rhein to the Wiesbaden art patron Frank Brabant
  • Entry in the Golden Book of the state capital Schwerin

literature

  • State Museum Schwerin , Museum Wiesbaden : From Beckmann to Jawlensky - The Brabant Collection in Schwerin and Wiesbaden , Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, 2017. ISBN 978-3-7319-0557-8
  • Thomas Hengstenberg (eds.), Edited by Thomas Hengstenberg and Sigrid Zielke: People and human work in the eyes of the lost generation: selected works from the Brabant Collection , Kettler Verlag, Bönen, 2006. ISBN 978-3-937390-99-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Landesmuseum Wiesbaden - The collector comes home , article in the Frankfurter Rundschau from October 14, 2010, accessed on February 13, 2018
  2. ^ Friends of the Wiesbaden Museum. Collector, sponsor, museum lover (Interview March 2, 2017)
  3. ↑ a b collector, sponsor, museum friend - interview with Frank Brabant on the website of the Friends of the Museum Wiesbaden e. V. of March 2, 2017, accessed February 15, 2018
  4. ↑ Donation: Collector Brabant gives a foretaste in Schwerin. Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 22, 2017, accessed on August 7, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Estate arrangement - Frank Brabant's collection definitely does not go to Opherdicke , article in the Ruhrnachrichten from December 1, 2017, accessed on February 13, 2018
  6. ^ Museum Wiesbaden: From Beckmann to Jawlensky. The Frank Brabant Collection (accessed September 5, 2019)
  7. ^ "Talstrasse" art gallery: The image of women in the 1920s. Between femme fatale and earning a living
  8. ↑ Art and Culture Minister Boris Rhein awards Wiesbaden art patron Frank Branbant the Goethe plaque. www.rhein-main.eurokunst.com , April 12, 2018
  9. ↑ Schwerin honors Frank Brabant with an entry in the Golden Book. www.schwerin.de , November 23, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Brabant, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art collector
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania