Gallery Wimmer

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The Galerie Wimmer is an art gallery founded in Munich in 1825 , which has been based in Berg am Starnberger See since 2016 .

history

In 1825 the artist Johannes M. von Hermann, who moved from Vienna in 1821, began selling his own works and selected lithographs by well-known colleagues in the “Hermann'schen Kunsthandlung” . At the same time he published picture sheets, which can be seen as the forerunners of the Munich picture sheets . In 1841 Herrmann signed the company over to his daughter and her husband Heinrich Wimmer (1806–1854), who continued it as "Heinrich Wimmer'sche Hofkunsthandlung".

Heinrich Wimmer died in 1854 and in 1859 the gallery was sold to the art connoisseur August Humplmayr, who traded under the name “Wimmer & Co” on Promenadenstrasse and not only traded in paintings and prints, but also in porcelain and glass painting . He made international contacts and at times even managed individual branches in London and New York. Ten years later he acquired representative premises at Brienner Strasse 3 in Munich from Princess Ilka von Wrede and from 1872 also traded as a dealer for paintings by Carl Spitzweg and Franz Defregger . Humplmayr was a well-known personality in the city. He was involved in local politics in the liberal party, was crowned the first Carnival Prince of Munich in 1894 and in 1905 donated the painting Chopin by Albert von Keller to the Neue Pinakothek .

After business transfers to Alfons Kolb and then to his daughter Edith Binding, the Galerie Wimmer is now managed by Christine Rettinger. The traditional focus of the gallery, exhibiting and selling works by the Munich School , has since been supplemented by changing themed and solo exhibitions in which works by painters and sculptors from the 19th to the 21st century, such as Franz Defregger and Carl Spitzweg, among others and Josef Willroider can be seen.

Shortly after the company's 190th anniversary, Galerie Wimmer moved from Munich to Berg on Lake Starnberg in early 2016.

literature

  • Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, shape cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc : Haspel - Keym, Volume 6, Verlag Fleischmann, 1838, P. 126 f (available from Google Books)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bild vom Stein: the development of lithography from Senefelder to the present day, catalog of the exhibition of the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich, Prestel, Munich, 1961, p. 21
  2. ^ Die Weltkunst , Volume 70, Issues 11–15, Munich, 2000, p. 2025
  3. ^ Robin Lenman: Artists and society in Germany, 1850-1914 , Manchester University Press ND, 1997, ISBN 0-71903636-4 , p. 158
  4. ↑ Günther Roennefahrt: Carl Spitzweg; Descriptive directory of his paintings , Bruckmann, Munich, 1960
  5. ^ The new regents of Munich , on: Muenchen.de

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 34 "  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 33.9"  E