Gallery Paffrath

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Königsallee 46

The gallery Paffrath is an art gallery in Dusseldorf , specializing in paintings of the 19th century.

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The Paffrath gallery specializes in 19th century paintings, especially works by painters from the Düsseldorf School , including Andreas Achenbach and Oswald Achenbach , Max Clarenbach , Hugo Mühlig , Johann Wilhelm Preyer and Emilie Preyer . In addition, the gallery sells paintings by painters of the classical modern as well as works by Scandinavian artists of the 19th century such as Peder Mönsted or Johan Laurentz Jensen .

In addition to monographic exhibitions on individual artists, Galerie Paffrath shows the gallery's new acquisitions twice a year, in spring and autumn, for two weeks each in an exhibition of the same name.

history

Oeder and Paffrath, Jacobistraße in 1910

In 1867 the master joiner Johann Baptiste Paffrath (1812–1880) founded a company in Düsseldorf. At the beginning of the 1860s, his carpenter's workshop was located at Ritterstraße 3, where he manufactured the transport boxes for the works by painters at the Düsseldorf School of Painting and the professors at the Art Academy, which were coveted overseas. He also set up studio rooms for the artists. The painters often owed the invoice amount and instead traded pictures. The basis of the gallery was, so to speak, the “box debts”. And so the art trade began next to the carpentry trade on Jacobistraße in house no.10 (1865) and later no.14a (after 1870), in the immediate vicinity of the artists' association Malkasten on the property of Georg Oeder . The move to house no.14a, which was on the premises of the former Jacobi'schen Zuckermanufaktur , was necessary before Oeder had his house built at the Düsseldorf Hofgarten at Jacobistraße 10 in 1872 .

His son Georg Paffrath (1847–1925) took over the art dealership in 1878 (Jacobistraße 14a) and expanded it into an art gallery in the course of the upswing from Düsseldorf to a wealthy industrial and commercial city. In 1914 the move to the house built by the architect Hermann vom Endt on Königsallee 46, where the gallery is still located today.

In 1918 the two sons Hans Paffrath (1877-1958) and Georg Paffrath (1881-1944) took over the gallery and shared the commercial and artistic management until 1944. They broadened the range to include modernity and established relationships with artists and collectors from England, Italy, France, Scandinavia and the USA and made Paffrath an international art house. There was also intensive consultancy work for large German museums.

After the destruction of the Second World War , Hans-Georg Paffrath rebuilt the gallery from 1948, resumed the tradition that his great-grandfather had established with the foundation stone for the Kunsthaus in 1867, and campaigned for the upgrading of what is now in the shadow of the Modern standing Düsseldorf painting school. In 1987 Hans Paffrath took over the management of the gallery from his father.

Publications of the Galerie Paffrath

literature

  • Margarita Krecker: Galerie Paffrath. From handicraft to art trade in the fifth generation. In: Nadine Oberste-Hetbleck (Ed.): On the history of the Düsseldorf art trade . Dup, Düsseldorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-943460-28-5 , pp. 56-61.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joh. Paffrath, carpenter , in the address book of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf 1863
  2. ↑ Oedersche houses 1924 Jacobistraße 10, 10a, 12, 14a, 14b, 14c , in the address book 1924 Düsseldorf
  3. ↑ Joh. Paffrath, Jacobistr. 10 , in the address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf 1865
  4. ↑ Factory site, Jacobistraße 14 and 16 , in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf 1865
  5. ↑ Joh. Paffrath, Jacobistr. 14a , in the address book of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf 1872
  6. ^ Andreas Rossmann: Obituary for Hans-Georg Paffrath, patron of the Malerschule , in Frankfurter Allgemeine, from September 27, 2013, accessed on November 12, 2016
  7. ^ The gallery, 150 years of Galerie Paffrath , on lambertundlambert.de