Götz Adriani

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Götz Adriani (born November 21, 1940 in Stuttgart ) is a German art historian. From 1971 to 2005 he was director of the Kunsthalle Tübingen and from 2003 to 2017 board member of the foundation of the same name.

biography

Götz Adriani was born on November 21, 1940 in Stuttgart. After graduating from high school, Adriani studied art history , archeology and history in Tübingen , Munich and Vienna . In 1964 he received his doctorate on the subject of the medieval preaching place and its design .

In 1965 he did an internship at the State Gallery in Stuttgart . In 1966 Adriani moved to the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt. There he was responsible for the painting department as well as for the Karl Ströher collection ranging from Joseph Beuys to American Pop Art . Thanks to the latter, contacts were established with well-known German and American artists - Beuys and Warhol , Rauschenberg , Oldenburg , Lichtenstein and Segal , Stella , de Maria , Flavin , Baselitz , Palermo , Polke , Richter and Walther .

In the spring of 1971, Götz Adriani followed a call placed by Georg Karl Pfahler as founding director of the Kunsthalle Tübingen, a foundation run by Paula Zundel and Margarete Fischer-Bosch , the daughters of Robert Bosch , in memory of the painter Georg Friedrich Zundel . With presentations by artists of classical modernism and the present, whose works had not yet been shown in German-speaking countries or had hardly established themselves as artistic positions, Adriani succeeded in realizing exhibition programs of supraregional status in Tübingen. Under his leadership, the Kunsthalle became an important meeting place for contemporary art and the avant-garde, especially in the first decade of its existence. Among other things, the first retrospectives and previously unknown groups of works by the following artists were on view here:

Another important exhibition series by Adrianis was dedicated to the predominantly French pioneers and protagonists of modernism. With a few exceptions, these scientifically developed retrospectives had their German premieres in the Kunsthalle Tübingen:

  • 1976: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , The graphic work (also 2002).
  • 1978: Paul Cézanne , The graphic work.
  • 1981: Alberto Giacometti .
  • 1982: Paul Cézanne , watercolors.
  • 1984: Edgar Degas ; Pastel oil sketches drawings.
  • 1986: Pablo Picasso , pastels, drawings, watercolors; Ingres and Delacroix, drawings and watercolors.
  • 1986/87: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, paintings and picture studies.
  • 1993: Cézanne, painting.
  • 1995: Edgar Degas, portraits.
  • 1996: Auguste Renoir , painting.
  • 2001: Henri Rousseau , Der Zöllner, Border Crosser to Modernity.
  • 2002: Pablo Picasso , figure and portrait.
  • 2005: Brothel and boudoir, scenes of modernity, Cézanne Degas Toulouse-Lautrec Picasso.

With regard to the public response, these exhibitions achieved visitor records even in international comparison. In the 1980s and 90s, for example, the number of visitors reached well over two hundred, even over three hundred thousand. The selection of 97 paintings by Cézanne, which is one of the largest and most important exhibitions of the artist's work, was particularly successful in 1993. Over 430,000 visitors came to the Kunsthalle during the 15 week period and around 250,000 catalog books were sold - a catalog edition that is still unique in the world today. In 1996, the 104 paintings in the first Renoir exhibition in German-speaking countries again attracted over 420,000 visitors. Götz Adriani had an exhibition budget of only 40,000 euros a year at his disposal for his projects - including the catalog publications, which were distinguished by their carefully researched content and high-quality equipment.

Due to the surplus generated by the Kunsthalle and a donation from Georg Zundel , the son of the founder, whose collection of works on paper from the 1960s and 70s Götz Adriani put together, the municipal institution was converted into a foundation under civil law in the summer of 2003. This secured the financial basis for the continued existence of the house.

Offers to take over the management of the Folkwang Museum in Essen, the Stuttgart State Gallery, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection in Düsseldorf, the newly created position of General Director of the Frankfurt Museums and, last but not least, the General Directorate of the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich he suggested. In addition to his work in Tübingen, he was also active for other institutions. He was the German commissioner of the Biennale in São Paulo three times, and for a long time he has been active both on the Presidium of the Institute for Foreign Relations in Stuttgart and on the Board of Trustees of the ZF Friedrichshafen Cultural Foundation. In 1985 he was appointed honorary professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, and from 1999 to 2004 Götz Adriani was also the founding director of the Museum of New Art at the Karlsruhe ZKM, where, in addition to the establishment and expansion of the so-called collector's museum, he was responsible for a total of 16 exhibition projects - about Bruce Nauman , Franz West , Tobias Rehberger or Martin Kippenberger - initiated and realized. From 1994 to 1999 he advised the Bundestag Art Advisory Council on furnishing the Berlin Reichstag building with works of art and, since 2001, has been supporting Frieder Burda in the construction, operation and programming of his museum in Baden-Baden. As a member of the board of the Frieder Burda Foundation, Adriani organized extensive exhibitions on Sigmar Polke , Gerhard Richter and Georg Baselitz, among other things .

In 2005 Götz Adriani withdrew from the operative business of the Kunsthalle Tübingen. In 2011/2012 the Kunsthalle celebrated its 40th anniversary with a two-part anniversary show, commemorating Adriani's exhibition initiatives.

Honors

Adriani has received numerous prizes and awards for his cultural commitment, including the prize of the Theo Wormland Foundation in Munich. In the same year he was awarded the Ordre des Palmes Académiques . At the end of the 1990s, Adriani received the Württembergische Hypothekenbank's foundation prize for art and science and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres . He received the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg , the Order of the French Legion of Honor , the First Class Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the right of honorary citizenship of the university city of Tübingen .

Bibliography (selection)

  • Götz Adriani, The medieval place of preaching and its design , Tübingen 1966.
  • Götz Adriani and Gerhard Bott , Artistic Forms of Expression 1960–1970, Karl Ströher Collection in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt , Darmstadt 1970
  • Götz Adriani, Willi Baumeister , painting , catalog publication at Kunsthalle Tübingen; Kunstverein Ludwigshafen - Kunstverein Mannheim; Municipal art collections Bonn, Tübingen and Cologne 1971
  • Götz Adriani, Franz Erhard Walther , work monograph, works 1955–1963, material for the first set of works 1963–1969 , catalog publication with the first catalog raisonné Kunsthalle Tübingen, Cologne 1972
  • Klaus Rinke , Zeit Time, Raum Space, Body Body, Actions Transformations , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication at Kunsthalle Tübingen, Cologne 1972
  • Götz Adriani, Winfried Konnertz and Karin Thomas , Joseph Beuys , Cologne 1973, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1994, English-language edition New York 1979
  • Götz Adriani and Dieter Koepplin , drawings by Claes Oldenburg , catalog publication at Kunsthalle Tübingen; Kunstmuseum Basel; Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus Munich; National Gallery Berlin; Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld; Museum of the 20th Century Vienna; Art association in Hamburg; Municipal gallery in the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt am Main; Kestner Society Hanover; Louisiana Museum Humlebaek, Tübingen and Basel 1975
  • Georg Friedrich Zundel 1875/1975 , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication at Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen 1975.
  • Götz Adriani, Joseph Beuys, drawings for the two sketchbooks »Codices Madrid« by Leonardo da Vinci , rediscovered in 1965 , Stuttgart 1975.
  • BHD Buchloh , Sigmar Polke, pictures cloths objects, selection of works 1962–1971 , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication with the first catalog raisonné Kunsthalle Tübingen; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Stedelijk van Abbe Museum Eindhoven, Cologne 1976
  • Götz Adriani, Toulouse-Lautrec, The entire graphic work , in collaboration with Wolfgang Wittrock , catalog publication Kunsthalle Tübingen, Cologne 1976
  • Götz Adriani, German painting in the 17th century , Cologne 1977, Romanian-language edition Bucharest 1982.
  • Götz Adriani, Bernhard and Hilla Becher , Typologies of Industrial Buildings 1963–1975 , catalog publication XIV. Bienal Internacional de São Paulo 1977
  • Richard Serra , Works 66-77 , ed. v. Götz Adriani, Hans Albert Peters and Clara Weyergraf, catalog publication with the first catalog raisonné at the Kunsthalle Tübingen; State art gallery Baden-Baden , Tübingen and Baden-Baden 1978
  • Götz Adriani, Paul Cézanne , drawings , catalog publication Kunsthalle Tübingen, Cologne 1978, 2002, Spanish-language edition Barcelona 1981, Japanese-language edition Tokyo 1997
  • Götz Adriani, Toulouse-Lautrec and Paris around 1900 , Cologne 1978.
  • Götz Adriani and Werner N. Greiner , Robert Rauschenberg, drawings, gouache collages 1949–1979 , catalog publication at the Kunsthalle Tübingen; Kunsthalle Berlin, Munich and Zurich 1979
  • Götz Adriani, Joseph Beuys , catalog publication XV. Bienal Internacional de São Paulo 1979.
  • Hannah Höch , photomontages, paintings, watercolors , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication at Kunsthalle Tübingen; Art museum Hannover; From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Cologne 1980
  • Götz Adriani, Paul Cezanne, Der Liebeskampf, aspects of Cezanne's early work , Munich and Zurich 1980.
  • Götz Adriani, Paul Cézanne, watercolors , catalog publication Kunsthalle Tübingen; Kunsthaus Zurich, Cologne 1981, 2002.
  • Götz Adriani, Willi Baumeister 1889 to 1955, catalog publication Institute for Foreign Relations , Stuttgart 1981.
  • Götz Adriani, Edgar Degas, pastels, oil sketches, drawings , catalog publication at Kunsthalle Tübingen; Nationalgalerie Berlin , Cologne 1984, 2004, French-language edition Paris 1985
  • Joseph Beuys, oil paints 1949–1967 , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication at Kunsthalle Tübingen; Art association in Hamburg; Kunsthaus Zurich, Tübingen 1984.
  • Götz Adriani, Toulouse-Lautrec, paintings and picture studies , catalog publication Kunsthalle Tübingen, Cologne 1986, 2002, English-language edition London 1987.
  • Götz Adriani, Toulouse-Lautrec, The entire graphic work, Gerstenberg Collection , catalog publication with catalog raisonné Nationalgalerie Berlin; House of Art Munich; State Art Gallery Baden-Baden; Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Cologne; Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh Amsterdam; Royal Academy London, Cologne 1986, 2002, English-language edition London 1988, Japanese-language edition Tokyo 1990.
  • Werner Spies , Picasso, pastels watercolors drawings , ed. v. Götz Adriani catalog publication at Kunsthalle Tübingen; Art Collection North Rhine-Westphalia Düsseldorf, Stuttgart 1986
  • Ingres and Delacroix, Drawings and Watercolors , ed. v. Ernst Goldschmidt and Götz Adriani, catalog publication at Kunsthalle Tübingen; Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, Cologne 1986.
  • Werner Spies, Andy Warhol, Cars , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication Kunsthalle Tübingen, Stuttgart 1988.
  • Götz Adriani, Joseph Beuys, drawings objects print graphics , catalog publication Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart 1989.
  • Sabine Rewald , Paul Klee , The Berggruen Collection , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication at Kunsthalle Tübingen, Stuttgart 1989
  • Götz Adriani, Anselm Kiefer , books 1969–1990 , catalog publication with the first catalog raisonné Kunsthalle Tübingen; Art Association Munich; Kunsthaus Zürich, Stuttgart 1990, English-language edition New York 1991
  • Götz Adriani, Toulouse-Lautrec , Paris 1991.
  • Götz Adriani, Cézanne, painting , with a contribution to the history of reception by Walter Feilchenfeldt, catalog publication Kunsthalle Tübingen, Cologne 1993, 2002, English-language edition New York 1994.
  • Götz Adriani, collages Hannah Höch, 1889–1978 , catalog publication Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart 1993.
  • Götz Adriani, Georg Baselitz , printmaking 1965-1992 , catalog publication with works Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Stuttgart 1994
  • Christoph Müller and Walter Springer (eds.): Parnass am Philosophenweg, 25 years Kunsthalle Tübingen and Götz Adriani. Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-928011-23-5 .
  • Götz Adriani, Renoir, paintings 1860–1917 , catalog publication at Kunsthalle Tübingen, Cologne 1996, 2004.
  • Götz Adriani, Sigmar Polke , music of unexplained origin , catalog publication Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart 1997
  • Rudolf Schlichter , paintings watercolors drawings , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication at Kunsthalle Tübingen; From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal; Municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus Munich, Munich 1997
  • Fabrice Hergott , Kandinsky, major works from the Center Georges Pompidou Paris , ed. by Götz Adriani, catalog publication at Kunsthalle Tübingen, Cologne 1999
  • Collecting Art , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication Museum für Neue Kunst ZKM Karlsruhe, Ostfildern 1999.
  • Bruce Nauman , works from the Froehlich and FER collections , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication Museum für Neue Kunst ZKM Karlsruhe, Ostfildern 1999
  • Bill Viola , Stations , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication Museum für Neue Kunst ZKM Karlsruhe, Ostfildern 2000
  • Sigmar Polke, Works from the Froehlich Collection , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication Museum für Neue Kunst ZKM Karlsruhe, Ostfildern 2000.
  • Franz West , In & Out , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication Museum für Neue Kunst ZKM Karlsruhe; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid, Ostfildern 2000
  • Ben Willikens , Spazi negli spazi, rooms in rooms , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Palazzo Pitti Florence, Ostfildern 2000
  • Götz Adriani, Henri Rousseau , Der Zöllner, Grenzgänger zur Moderne , catalog publication Kunsthalle Tübingen, Cologne 2001
  • Minimal Art from the FER, Froehlich and Siegfried Weishaupt collections , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication Museum für Neue Kunst ZKM Karlsruhe, Ostfildern 2001
  • Sylvie Fleury 49000 , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication Museum für Neue Kunst ZKM Karlsruhe, Ostfildern 2001.
  • Keith Haring , Heaven and Hell , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication Museum für Neue Kunst ZKM Karlsruhe; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, Ostfildern 2001
  • Picasso, Figure and Portrait, Major Works from the Bernard Picasso Collection , ed. v. Götz Adriani, Evelyn Benesch and Ingried Brugger, catalog publication Kunstforum Wien; Kunsthalle Tübingen, Vienna and Tübingen 2002.
  • Tobias Rehberger , peal - until I hear it , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication Museum für Neue Kunst ZKM Karlsruhe, Cologne 2002
  • Hans Peter Reuter , pictures 1972–2002 , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication at Kunsthalle Tübingen, Cologne 2002.
  • Art in the Reichstag building , on behalf of the German Bundestag, ed. v. Götz Adriani, Andreas Kaernbach and Karin Stempel, Cologne 2002.
  • Martin Kippenberger , The 2nd Being , ed. v. Götz Adriani, Museum of New Art ZKM Karlsruhe, Cologne 2003
  • Martin Kippenberger, shadow play in the branch, the drawings , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication Museum für Neue Kunst ZKM Karlsruhe - Kunsthalle Tübingen, Cologne 2003.
  • Works from the Boros Collection , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication Museum für Neue Kunst ZKM Karlsruhe, Ostfildern 2004.
  • Götz Adriani, brothel and boudoir, scenes of modernity, Cézanne Degas Toulouse-Lautrec Picasso , catalog publication Kunsthalle Tübingen, Ostfildern 2005.
  • Götz Adriani, Toulouse-Lautrec, The entire graphic work, picture studies and paintings , catalog publication with catalog raisonné Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich 2005.
  • The art of acting, masterpieces from the 14th to 20th centuries by Fritz and Peter Nathan , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication Kunsthalle Tübingen, Ostfildern 2005.
  • Götz Adriani, Anselm Kiefer, for Paul Celan , catalog publication Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg 2005.
  • Götz Adriani, Paul Cezanne, Life and Work , Munich 2006, 2008.
  • Götz Adriani, Polke, A Retrospective, The Frieder Burda Collections Josef Froehlich Reiner Speck , Catalog Publication Museum Frieder Burda Baden-Baden; Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna, Ostfildern 2007.
  • Heribert C. Ottersbach , In anticipation of events, works 1995–2006 , ed. v. Götz Adriani, catalog publication at Kunsthalle Tübingen, Ostfildern 2007
  • Götz Adriani, Gerhard Richter , pictures from private collections , catalog publication Museum Frieder Burda Baden-Baden; National Art Museum of China Beijing; National Gallery Edinburgh; Albertina Vienna; MKM Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art Duisburg, Ostfildern 2008, Chinese-language edition Beijing 2008, English-language edition Edinburgh 2008
  • Götz Adriani, The Artists of the Emperors, From Dürer to Tizian, from Rubens to Velázquez from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna , catalog publication Museum Frieder Burda Baden-Baden, Cologne 2009.
  • Götz Adriani, Baselitz, 50 years of painting , catalog publication Museum Frieder Burda Baden-Baden, Ostfildern 2009.
  • Götz Adriani and Peter Weibel , Just what is it ... 100 years of modern art from private collections in Baden-Württemberg, 10 years of the Museum of New Art at the ZKM, catalog publication Museum of New Art ZKM Karlsruhe , Ostfildern 2009
  • Götz Adriani, entrepreneur art collector, Private Museums in Baden-Württemberg , Stuttgart 2009.
  • Cézanne Picasso Polke & Co., 40 years at the Kunsthalle Tübingen and Götz Adriani , ed. from the Kunsthalle Tübingen Foundation, catalog publication Kunsthalle Tübingen, Cologne 2011.
  • Götz Adriani, Copley , catalog publication Museum Frieder Burda Baden-Baden; Max Ernst Museum Brühl; Ahlers Pro Arte Foundation Hannover, Heidelberg 2012.
  • Götz Adriani and Walter Smerling , Joseph Beuys - Anselm Kiefer, drawings, gouache books , catalog publication MKM Museum Küppersmühle for modern art, Duisburg 2012
  • Götz Adriani, a partnership at a distance. In: Ambroise Vollard, Memories of Edgar Degas, Vienna 2012.
  • Götz Adriani, Toulouse-Lautrec and the collector Otto Gerstenberg. In: The historical Otto Gerstenberg Collection, Volume I, ed. by Julietta Scharf and Hanna Strzoda, Ostfildern 2012, p. 258 ff.
  • 1514. Power. Violence. Freedom. The Treaty of Tübingen in Times of Change , ed. v. Götz Adriani and Andreas Schmauder, catalog publication Kunsthalle Tübingen, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-7995-0570-3 (museum edition), ISBN 978-3-7995-0550-5 (publisher edition)
  • 40 | 10, 40 years of the collection, 10 years of the Frieder Burda Museum , ed. v. Götz Adriani and Hans-Joachim Müller, catalog publication Museum Frieder Burda Baden-Baden, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-9811606-6-6 (museum edition), ISBN 978-3-7757-3906-1 (book trade edition)
  • "..... higher beings command". Works on paper from the Frieder Burda Collection , ed. v. Götz Adriani and Friedhelm Hütte, catalog publication Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-7757-3929-0

Web links

literature

  • Cézanne Picasso Polke & Co., 40 years at the Kunsthalle Tübingen and Götz Adriani, ed. from the Kunsthalle Tübingen Foundation, catalog publication Kunsthalle Tübingen, Cologne 2011.
  • Christoph Müller and Walter Springer, Parnass am Philosophenweg, 25 years at the Kunsthalle Tübingen and Götz Adriani, Tübingen 1996.

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Adriani, Götz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart