Franz Joseph van der Grinten

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Franz Joseph van der Grinten (* 1933 in Kranenburg (Niederrhein) ) is a German art historian , art collector and artist .

Life

Franz Joseph van der Grinten was born in Kranenburg in the Kleve district on the Lower Rhine in 1933. Together with his older brother Hans van der Grinten , he grew up on his parents' farm. From 1943 to 1954 he attended the grammar school in Kleve (school attendance was interrupted by the war). From 1946 to 1948 he trained in drawing with Johan Davidson Smith in Kleve.

In 1946, Franz Joseph and Hans van der Grinten met Joseph Beuys, who was a few years older than him, in the home of the English teacher Dr. Heinrich Schönzeler , with whom Beuys had lessons in high school, met by chance in Kleve. Beuys was preparing for the entrance exam for the Düsseldorf Academy together with Schönzeler's son Ernst . A friendly relationship developed from this encounter, and the van der Grinten brothers, on the recommendation of Hermann Teuber , acquired works by Beuys. In 1953 they organized the first exhibition of these works on their parents' farm. The art collection of the two van der Grintens, which they brought together since 1946, includes a comprehensive inventory of works and documents on Beuys (around 5,000 works and around 100,000 archival material on the life, work and work of the artist, handed over "in trust" by Joseph Beuys).

From 1954 to 1959 van der Grinten studied law and German at the University of Cologne and at the University of Munich , and from 1959 to 1965 philosophy, psychology, English, Romance studies and art studies at the University of Bonn , the latter mainly under Heinrich Lützeler .

In 1965 he married Ingeborg Weber, with whom he has three children, the artists Gerhard and Franz Rudolf van der Grinten and the milliner Daphne van der Grinten. Joseph Beuys found him a job as an art teacher at the Grillo-Gymnasium in Gelsenkirchen , where he worked from 1965 to 1971. From 1971 to 1993 van der Grinten worked as an art teacher and curator at the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck ; among his students, on whom he had a lasting influence, were u. a. Paul Wans , Andreas HH Suberg , Norvin Leineweber , Georg Maria Roers , Peter von Felbert , Christoph Peters , Martin Schumacher and Jürgen von Dückerhoff .

From 1993 to 2003 van der Grinten was director of the Joseph Beuys Archive and the Museum Schloss Moyland , to whose foundation the two brothers contributed their internationally renowned art collection, together with his brother Hans until his death .

Franz Joseph van der Grinten lives and works near Till-Moyland ( Bedburg-Hau municipality ) on the Lower Rhine.

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From 1946, Franz Joseph van der Grinten began to systematically build up a collection of modern works of art together with his brother Hans van der Grinten . He wrote the first stories. In 1950 the first woodcuts were made. Van der Grinten has been the organizer and host of art exhibitions since 1951. In 1953 the first paintings were created.

Since 1960 van der Grinten has published articles on modern art, ancient art and monument preservation as well as individual artistic personalities. The relationship between art and church plays an important role in these works. The first etchings were made in 1964. From the same year he also belonged to the Osterath etching community with other artists such as Erwin Heerich or Holger Runge .

After 1979 van der Grinten designed numerous tombs. Plastic works were created for the church interior and glass windows. Since 1985 he has worked intensively as an author and translator with poetry. In autumn 2013 the poetry volume Selected Poems was published .

Honors

Franz Joseph van der Grinten was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia on November 23, 1992 .

Fonts

  • Franz Joseph van der Grinten: Selected poems . Edited by the Friends of the Museum Schloss Moyland. Pagina, Goch 2013, ISBN 978-3-944146-21-8 (437 pages)

literature

  • Peter Sager : Hans and Franz Joseph van der Grinten, Kranenburg. (Modern art from the time of Goethe to Joseph Beuys). In: Peter Sager: The possessed - encounters with art collectors between Aachen and Tokyo. Cologne: DuMont 1992. ISBN 3-7701-2741-2 , pp. 91-106
  • Ron Manheim, Hans van der Grinten and Armin Lünterbusch: On the history of Moyland Castle. The first Joseph Beuys exhibition in 1953 in Kranenburg. Kleve: Boss 1993. ISBN 3-89413-363-5
  • Karl Ebbers, Bettina Paust, Florian Monheim (Red.): Museum Schloss Moyland. Cologne: DuMont 1997. ISBN 3-7701-3947-X
  • Fifty years of the van der Grinten collection. Preface by Johannes Look and Ron Manheim. Contributions by Ron Manheim, Barbara Strieder, Ute Haug, Bettina Paust, Hans van der Grinten and Franz Joseph van der Grinten u. v. a. Bedburg-Hau: Museum Schloß Moyland 1999. ISBN 3-929042-22-3 (With detailed bibliography)
  • Hella Kemper: Beuys and other art: Franz Joseph van der Grinten. In: Hella Kemper: Lust for collecting. With photographs by Ute Karen Seggelke. Hildesheim: Gerstenberg 2003. ISBN 3-8067-2880-1 , pp. 174-185

media

  • "Field work and collecting landscape - Franz Joseph van der Grinten tells" (DVD). Documentary by Carla Gottwein, 75 min, May 2013

See also

Web links

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  1. ↑ Fifty Years of the Van der Grinten Collection: 1946−1996 , Bedburg-Hau, 1999, p. 172
  2. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 209, p. 13 (FEUILLETON), Tuesday, September 11, 2007
  3. ↑ Andreas Daams: Hot autumn in Moyland. The West , September 11, 2007, accessed January 24, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Grinning, Franz Joseph van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, art collector and artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Kranenburg (Lower Rhine)