Friedrich Wilhelm Hollstein

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Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Hollstein (* 1888 ; † 1957 in Amsterdam ) was a German art dealer and art historian . He founded extensive catalogs of works by Dutch, Flemish and German printmakers of the Renaissance and early Baroque periods .

Life

Hollstein came from a Jewish family. On February 1, 1913, as Heinrich Hollstein , he and Reinhold Puppel opened an art dealer and antiquarian art store in Charlottenburg (part of Berlin since 1920) at Meinekestrasse 19. A first exhibition featured English and French prints. In the early years, works by contemporary artists were also included. There were no auctions between 1915 and 1918.

In 1923 the art dealer's inventory is said to have comprised around 200,000 sheets. Plans for an extensive cataloging of works of printmaking came to nothing in the Great Depression of the late 1920s. In 1929 the art dealer moved to the nearby Kurfürstendamm 220 and in 1934 to Fasanenstraße 65.

Since 1936 works from the large collection of the Cologne lawyer Stinnes have been offered for auction in the art dealer. At the end of 1936, the art dealership was "Aryanized" because Heinrich Hollstein, as a Jew, could not become a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts and Art Trade , he "left" the business to his partner Reinhold Puppel, who was the owner of the art dealership under the name Reinhold Puppel. Hollstein & Puppel continued.

Heinrich Hollstein went to Amsterdam in 1937 through the mediation of Max J. Friedländer . There he got a place in the printmaking department ( Rijksprentenkabinet ) of the Rijksmuseum . He began cataloging the engravings, etchings and woodcuts by Dutch and Flemish artists between 1450 and 1700 and published the first volume in 1949. In 1954 the first volume of catalog raisonnés by German copperplate and woodcut artists from that time was published. By the end of his life, Friedrich Wilhelm Hollstein was able to publish 14 volumes on Dutch and five on German graphics. The corpus on Dutch prints ended with the 72nd volume in 2010, and 91 volumes on German prints were published by 2019 (letter Thi). Since 1993 a new edition series of Dutch prints has been published under the title The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450–1700 , since 1996 supplemented with the series The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts 1400–1700 on the German graphics of that era, so far a total of over 150 volumes.

Publications (selection)

  • Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700. Menno Hertzberger, Amsterdam, since 1949
  • German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts approx. 1400–1700. Menno Hertzberger, Amsterdam, since 1954

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcrufts Hollstein projekt.
  2. cf. Hollstein's German engravings, etchings and woodcuts. (No longer available online.) 16th century prints, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on August 14, 2018 . Info: The archive link was 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 / wikidrucke16tesjh.hist.net