Georg W. Koeltzsch

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Georg Wilhelm Költzsch (born October 19, 1938 in Chemnitz ; † February 2, 2005 in Essen ) was a German art historian . He was director of the Saarland Museum in Saarbrücken and the Folkwang Museum in Essen.

Life

Kötzsch studied art history and classical archeology and received his doctorate in 1973 at Saarland University , where he also worked as an assistant from 1972 to 1978. In 1978 he was appointed director of the Saarland Museum. In 1980 the exhibition " Artists of the Bridge " took place under his leadership. The catalog texts for the exhibition still bear witness to the intensive processing of this important exhibition that would no longer be conceivable in the current situation. In the Saarland , Költzsch primarily promoted the art of the Informel and established the reputation of the modern gallery not only with an excellent collection of expressionist paintings, which his predecessor Rudolf Bornschein in particular collected, but also with the newly defined collecting area of ​​"Informel" and especially informal painting (gestural painting). In October 1982 he invited to the Symposium Informel in the Modern Gallery of the Saarland Museum (October 8-12, 1982). From May 8th to May 19th In June 1983 there was an exhibition "Informel", which still shapes the concept of the Saarland Museum today.

In 1986, Költzsch drafted the plans for the conversion of the former district office in his place of residence St. Ingbert into a generously dimensioned and professionally equipped art museum, the Museum St. Ingbert . He placed the "Permanent Albert Weisgerber Collection" on a total area of ​​1500 m², and he also created partially fully air-conditioned rooms for temporary exhibitions with works by internationally renowned artists. Until his career change, Költzsch was the artistic director of the museum on a voluntary basis and built up the museum's reputation with top-class exhibitions (graphic works by Max Ernst , Alfred Hrdlicka and others).

From 1988 to 2002 he was director of the Folkwang Museum in Essen. During this time important exhibitions took place, for example: " Vincent van Gogh and the modern age" ( 1990 ) and " Edward Hopper and the photography" (1992). His last function was the moderation and ideas for the application of the Ruhr region as European Capital of Culture 2010 at the Regionalverband Ruhr (RVR).

He died at the age of 66 after a serious illness.

Publications (selection)

  • (Ed.) Artist of the Bridge. Heckel, Kirchner, Mueller, Pechstein, Schmidt-Rottluff (catalog for the exhibition). Saarbrücken, Modern Gallery 1980. 367 pp.
  • (Ed.) German Informel. Symposium Informel. KF Dahmen, KO Götz, Gerhard Hoehme, Bernard Schultze, Emil Schumacher, KRH Sonderborg, Fred Thieler. Berlin, Edition Galerie Georg Nothelfer, 1986, 2nd edition 294S. ISBN 3873299232
  • (Ed.) KRH Sonderborg - Werke 1948-1986. Saarbrücken 1987; 196 p. Catalog Modern Gallery of the Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken; Articles by Georg W.Költzsch, Meinrad Maria Grewenig, Lorenz Dittmann.
  • "William Turner, Light and Color [Museum Folkwang Essen, September 15, 2001 to January 6, 2002, Kunsthaus Zürich, February 1, 2002 to May 26, 2002]" Cologne: DuMont, 2001. ISBN 3-7701-5857-1
  • "Painter's model: the painter and his model; history and interpretation of a picture theme". Cologne: DuMont, 2000

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personal data
SURNAME Költzsch, Georg W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koeltzsch, Georg Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 2005
Place of death eat