Miethke Gallery

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The Miethke Gallery was a Viennese art gallery and the center of early Austrian modernism.

founder

Name giver and founder of the gallery was Hugo Othmar Miethke (born as Hugo Hermann Werner Ottomar on July 29, 1834 in Potsdam - died on November 11, 1911 at Gutenegg near Cilli ), son of the court glazier and Potsdam city councilor Friedrich Miethke († 13. October 1870), the ancestors have been documented there as court glaziers since the 17th century, and his wife Emilie geb. Hammerl. He was married to Mary, b. Lanz. The only son Otto Maria Miethke (1881–1922) was known as a painter, graphic artist and poet.

history

The company Miethke & Wawra , founded in 1861 by Hugo Othmar Miethke together with Carl Josef Wawra (November 19, 1839 in Vienna - May 26, 1905 in Vienna) initially operated an antiquarian bookshop and an art publisher. The business quickly developed into an important agency for the Viennese painters of historicism , especially Hans Makart , and also operated as an auction house. Tobias G. Natter , who has dealt with the history of the Miethke Gallery in a research project and published the results in a book and in an exhibition in the Jewish Museum Vienna in 2003/4 , emphasized the importance of Miethke and his partner Carl Josef Wawra as the "founder of the art auctions in Vienna ". In 1875 the gallery owners separated. In the Miethke Gallery, which he now runs alone, Miethke specialized in the auction of oil paintings and graphics as well as in the exhibition business, whereby, given his international contacts, he also presented works by French, English and German artists.

After the old location at Plankengasse 6, the gallery first moved to Neuer Markt 13 until, in 1895, Miethke acquired the Palais Eskeles in Vienna's Inner City at Dorotheergasse 11. According to his plans, under the direction of the Viennese city builder Kupka & Orgelmeister, he had renovations carried out, which have largely been preserved to this day. After the opening on May 29, 1896, the gallery, which was operated there on two floors, developed into one of the most important art dealers of the monarchy. The social highlight of the opening was the visit of the youngest brother of the emperor, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria and, in the later years, of the emperor Franz Joseph I. The gallery HO Miethke also had one by Josef Hoffmann under the artistic direction of Carl Moll designed branch in Vienna I., Graben 17. In addition to exhibitions, auctions were also carried out, including those of the bequests of Hans Makart, Emil Jakob Schindler , Viktor Tilgner , August von Pettenkofen , Charlotte Wolter and Rudolf von Alt .

In 1904 a friend of Gustav Klimt , Paul Bacher, bought the gallery with the intention of using it as a sales room for the Vienna Secession and in 1905 hired Arthur Roessler as gallery manager. Because of this planned commercialization, disagreements arose which caused a group of artists around Gustav Klimt to leave the Secession. Emil Maria Steininger followed Roessler in 1906. After Bacher's death, Carl Moll took over the management of the gallery, which has now developed into a center of modern art. In addition to the artists of Art Nouveau and the Wiener Werkstätte, she also presented international modernism in numerous exhibitions , including Aubrey Beardsley , Honoré Daumier , Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , Claude Monet , Édouard Manet , Paul Cézanne , Paul Gauguin , Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso . Miethke remained the owner of the palace and continued to live on its top floor. In 1906/1907, Helga Malmberg (* 1888; † 1967) from Hamburg worked for Galerie Miethke. In 1961, she vividly describes in her book how everyday life in the gallery was.

After the end of the First World War, the artistic director Hugo Haberfeld , who had been active since 1907, continued to run the gallery at a different address until he emigrated in 1938, while the Eskeles Palace was used as the “House of Young Artists” and in 1936 came into the possession of the Dorotheum . Today it houses the Jewish Museum Vienna.

A selection of catalogs

The gallery published numerous catalogs of exhibitions and art auctions between 1867 and 1912:

Auction catalogs

  • Art Coll. from d. Estate of Heinrich Stametz-Mayer , auction; Vienna: HO Miethke 1902
  • Catalog of a small selected collection of older copperplate engravings, etchings, woodcuts and black art sheets, [auction catalog], Vienna: Miethke 1867

Digitized auction catalogs from the State and University Library Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky

  • Catalog of Victor Tilgner 's estate , auction; (Vienna): 1896, [1]
  • Catalog of the important collections of oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, antiques and other art objects: from the estate of Messrs. Henri Lustig, Alexander Freiherr von Warsberg, Ms. Elise Hertz and from the property of Mr. Eduard Föst in Vienna, auction; (Vienna): 1889 [2]
  • Catalog of the painting collection of modern masters of the first order of Mr. Theodor Eggers, auction; (Vienna): 1888 [3]
  • Catalog of the collections of paintings and drawings by old and modern masters owned by the gentlemen: Artaria, Dr. F. Stars (†) u. a., auction; (Vienna): 1886 [4]
  • List of paintings and antiques from the estate of Emile Gérard history painter, auction; (Vienna): 1882 [5]
  • Catalog of Old Master Paintings: Collection des Weiland Dr. Franz Sterne in Vienna, auction; (Vienna): 1881 [6]
  • Catalog of the estate of Herr Hermann Schwarz estate owner on Leopoldsdorf and the collection of Herr F. v. S., auction; (Vienna): 1879, [7]

Digitized auction catalogs from Heidelberg University Library

  • Public auction of Rudolf von Alt's artistic estate in the gallery HO Miethke, auction catalog, Vienna 1906, [8]
  • Oil paintings by old masters from the collections of Karl Kohner, Budapest and Mauthner v. Markhof, Vienna (Editha Moser / Mauthner / Markhof), Galerie Miethke, Vienna 1908, [9]
  • Public auction of the collection of director Ferdinand Mayrhofer and other Viennese private property: Vienna: Miethke [1907], [10]
  • Public auction of the collection of watercolors and hand drawings by old and modern masters from the collection of Doctor Max Strauss - Vienna: Miethke 1906, [11]
  • Public auction of the artistic estate of Prof. Rud. Ribarz in the gallery HO Miethke, Vienna: Miethke 1905, [12]

Exhibition catalogs

  • Amateur exhibition, Miethke Gallery, Vienna 1909
  • Honoré Daumier , 1808-1879: Galerie Miethke, Vienna 1908
  • Catalog of the tenth internal anniversary exhibition at Galerie Miethke, Vienna: 1908 / Wiener Photo-Klub
  • Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes 1746 - 1828, Galerie Miethke 1908, Vienna: Chwalas, 1908
  • Wilhelm Bernatzik  : Exhibition of the main works and the artistic estate in the Galerie Miethke, Vienna: Miethke 1907
  • The Viennese portrait in the first half of the XIX. Century: Galerie Miethke; Vienna 1905
  • Edward Gordon Craig  : Catalog of some drafts for scenes, costumes, theater decorations, some drawings of English landscapes, woodcuts, Galerie HO Miethke, Vienna 1905
  • Raffaelli exhibition: paintings using the technique of dry Raffaelli oil paints; Elsa von Kalmar: Plastic Works, Vienna 1904
  • Galerie Miethke: Exhibition of works of ancient and modern art: Waldmüller, Ferdinand Georg , Vienna: Ohwala [approx. 1904]
  • Catalog of the exhibition of the Association of German Visual Artists in Bohemia, Vienna: Miethke 1902
  • Exhibition: Galerie Miethke, Vienna; Prof. Nikolaus Gysis , Prof. Fritz v. Uhde , Prof. Hans Thoma , Ludwig Carl Strauch , (Vienna: self-published; Fromme [in Komm.]), (1902)
  • Outstanding paintings by Dutch masters from Galerie Weber, Hamburg, in etchings / by William Unger; With art history. Discussions by Friedrich Schlie, Vienna: Miethke 1890
  • Catalog of the art collection of the late Mr. Daniel Penther , painter, custos of the painting gallery of the KK Akademie der Bild. Arts, Vienna, Miethke 1887
  • The Kaiserl. Royal Painting gallery in Vienna / etchings by William Unger , text by Carl von Lützow, Vienna: Miethke 1886
  • Catalog of the Princely Liechtenstein Picture Gallery in the Rossau Garden Palace in Vienna, Vienna: Publ. Von Miethke & Wawra 1873

literature

  • Migration and innovation around 1900: Perspectives on Vienna at the turn of the century , ed. by Elisabeth Röhrlich and Agnes Meisinger, Vienna, Böhlau Verlag 2016, pp. 421, 448 u. a.
  • Tobias G. Natter : The Miethke Gallery. An art shop in the center of modernity . Exhibition catalog of the Jewish Museum Vienna, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-901398-32-5 .
  • Werner J. Schweiger: "So that Vienna has a serious art salon." The Miethke Gallery with special consideration of Carl Moll as the organizer . In: Belvedere . Vienna. Vol. 4, Issue 2, 1998, pp. 64-85.
  • Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 2, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 451.
  • Courier of November 19, 2003, p. 30
  • Photographic archive: monthly Reports on the progress of photography , Volume 4, Grieben 1863, pp. 44-48

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Dieter Krickeberg refers in his essay Michael Mietke - a harpsichord maker from the circle of JS Bach , in: Cöthener Bach-Hefte 3/1985, S. 47-56, on the (Berlin-) Köllner Baufbuch St. Petri with entries for one Mrs. Hofglaser Anna Miedtke (also Mietke ) for the years from 1681 onwards.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wladimir Aichelburg: Friends and Employees of the Künstlerhaus (accessed on August 1, 2012)
  2. ↑ Communications of the Association for the History of Potsdam, Volume 5, Association for the History of Potsdam Heirs, 1872, Register, p. XVII
  3. ↑ a b Tobias G. Natter : The Miethke Gallery. An art shop in the center of modernity . Exhibition catalog of the Jewish Museum Vienna, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-901398-32-5
  4. ^ Tobias G. Natter: The Miethke gallery. An art shop in the center of modernity . Exhibition catalog of the Jewish Museum Vienna, Vienna 2003, p. 17, ISBN 3-901398-32-5 .
  5. ↑ cf. Tobias G. Natter: The Miethke Gallery. An art shop in the center of modernity . Exhibition catalog of the Jewish Museum Vienna, Vienna 2003, pp. 16–36, ISBN 3-901398-32-5 .
  6. ^ Galerie HO Miethke , on austria-forum.org
  7. ^ Tobias G. Natter: The Miethke gallery. An art shop in the center of modernity . Exhibition catalog of the Jewish Museum Vienna, Vienna 2003, p. 36, ISBN 3-901398-32-5
  8. ↑ Vienna cemeteries - search for the deceased Helga Blau (-Malmberg) Ober St. Veit J-16-10 (dissolved)
  9. ↑ Page 13 ff - Helga Malmberg "Echoes of the Heart - A Peter Altenberg Book". Munich 1961