Gallery JH Bauer

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Gallery owner Jutta B. Bauer with a framed work by Marc Chagall in the side entrance of the Noltehaus on Pferdestrasse in Hanover (photo 2012).

The Galerie JH Bauer , actually Galerie Jens H. Bauer , based in Hanover was a gallery and Kunstantiquariat with paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints from the 15th to the 20th century. It existed from 1972 to 2016. The company focused on works of old master graphics, classicism and romanticism, German art of the 18th and 19th centuries, impressionism and expressionism as well as classical modernism .

The gallery was affiliated to the German Art Trade Association as well as the Federal Association of the German Art and Antiques Trade, the Association of German Antiquarians and the associated international associations and was one of the most important German dealers of works on paper.

history

The company was founded in 1972 in the old town of Hanover by the antiquarian and art dealer Jens-Heiner Bauer, who was born in Stettin on November 12, 1941. Among other things, Bauer was involved in the trade fair committee of the Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair . One of Bauer's particularly cultivated specialties was the work of Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki .

The company's founder died on June 5, 2007 at the age of 65 on Huahine / Tahiti of complications from a heart attack. The successor took over Jutta B. Bauer as part of a community of heirs of the company Galerie Jens H. Bauer, registered under commercial register number HRA 22165 .

Fonts

Under the title Catalog / Galerie JH Bauer, Kunstantiquariat , the company published, among other things, a more than 50-volume series of catalogs from 1974, in addition to monographs on individual artists, such as B. Johann Heinrich Ramberg or Daniel Chodowiecki , or thematically, such as paper cuttings from four centuries, art literature and illustrated books as well as bookplates .

Some of these sales catalogs under the direction of the company's founder received special attention in the press, among collectors and libraries. The ex-libris catalog for the owner's directory was evaluated for the ex-libris catalog of the Gutenberg Museum , a standard work.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reviewed the silhouette catalog in 2005: “In its latest catalog, the JH Bauer gallery in Hanover presents its holdings of more than a thousand paper cuttings from four centuries. The collection, which had been in a drawer for two decades, was put together by the gallery owner Jens-Heiner Bauer himself in the 1980s. ... The revival of this almost forgotten art is a risk; because the younger generation in particular has little use for the technique of paper cutting ... With the publication of the first catalog in sixty years on this difficult art, the gallery has perhaps laid the foundation for a renaissance of the genre ... "

In 2008 the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on the purchase of the entire Chodowiecki collection: “The Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg has acquired the largest private collection of works by the copper engraver Daniel Chodowiecki (1726–1801). The collection includes more than 2500 prints, 14 original drawings and extensive literature on the artist. With the purchase of the works of the most popular graphic artist and moral designer of the Enlightenment, the Regensburg gallery will in future be one of the largest graphic collections in Europe, said museum director Ulrike Lorenz. The Bavarian Ministry of Social Affairs financed the purchase of the collection of the gallery owner and graphic researcher Jens-Heiner Bauer from Hanover with 150,000 euros. "

Measure (selection)

Web links

Commons : Galerie JH Bauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ commercial register of gallery Jens H. Bauer from Hannover (HRA 22165). In: online-handelsregister.de. www.online-handelsregister.de, accessed on July 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Compare the information on the company's Internet homepage [undated], last accessed on June 19, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Florian Illies : Art fair: Off to Munich! The Munich highlights are Germany's newest and best art fair right away. In: Die Zeit , No. 45 of November 4, 2010; digital
  4. ↑ a b o. V .: died .. / antiquarian and art dealer Jens-Heiner Bauer died , article on the page of the weekly Börsenblatt from June 19, 2007, last accessed on June 19, 2019
  5. ↑ New members of the Verband Deutscher Antiquare and GIAQ boersenblatt.net
  6. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  7. ↑ Bookplate. 10,000 bookplates with 1540 images; Occasional graphics, bookplate literature, printing blocks - bookplates from 6 centuries. (Catalog 23), Galerie Bauer, Hanover 1983.
  8. ^ Maria Tetzlaff: Perspectives for the indexing of bookplate collections. Stuttgart 2008, p. 14 ( digitized version ).
  9. ↑ Kristina Deutsch: Old Plaisir, New Love. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung of April 10, 2005, No. 14, p. 62.
  10. ↑ The legacy of the engraver. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 31, 2008, p. 37.