Gerhard Koelsch

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Gerhard Kölsch (* 1964 ) is a German art historian .

Life

Gerhard Kölsch studied art history, German literature, philosophy and German folklore at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the University of Vienna . He received his doctorate in 1997 in Mainz under Michael Bringmann with a thesis on the Frankfurt painter Johann Georg Trautmann . After a traineeship at the International Days in Ingelheim am Rhein , he was a research assistant at the Free German Hochstift from 1999 to 2011 , a. a. Editing of the inventory catalog of the paintings in the Frankfurt Goethe Museum. Since then, freelance art historian, curator of exhibitions and scientific author. His field of research is German painting and graphics from the 17th to 19th centuries, the history of Frankfurt art collections and topics of remembrance and residence culture, and he is the author of numerous monographs, essays and book chapters.

Publications (selection)

  • Johann Georg Trautmann (1713–1769): Life and Work. Frankfurt am Main 1999 (with catalog raisonné; online ).
  • “Delicious leftovers”. In memory of Goethe and his family. Catalog of the Free German Hochstift / Frankfurt Goethe Museum, edit. by Gerhard Kölsch and Petra Maisak. Frankfurt am Main 2002.
  • Henrich Sebastian Hüsgen. A Frankfurt art connoisseur of the Goethe era as an art collector. In: Yearbook of the Free German Hochstift. 2007, pp. 1-54.
  • Georg Adam Eger (1721-1808). Hunting painter at the Hessen-Darmstädter Hof. Catalog of the works in the Museum Jagdschloss Kranichstein. Edited by Monika Kessler. Petersberg 2010.
  • Frankfurt Goethe Museum. The paintings. Inventory catalog, with Petra Maisak, ed. from the Free German Hochstift. Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811109-9-9 .
  • Rhine romance. Art and nature. Edited by Peter Forster in collaboration with Irene Haberland and Gerhard Kölsch, exhibition catalog Museum Wiesbaden. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2013 (four catalog articles: Ideal landscapes and Rhine regions. Christian Georg Schütz the Elder / A look into the Schütz workshop. Franz Hochecker and Franz Schütz / Picturesque trips to the Rhine. Christian Georg Schütz the Vetter / Mainz brochures and prospects vom Niederwald. Johann Caspar Schneider and Georg Schneider)
  • The discovery of the Taunus as a "romantic" landscape. In: Romance on the Rhine and Main. A topography , ed. by Wolfgang Bunzel, Michael Hohmann, Hans Sarcowicz. Darmstadt 2014, pp. 148–166.
  • Franz von Kesselstatt (1753-1841). Mainz Canon, diplomat and amateur in turbulent times. , ed. by Gerhard Kölsch, exhibition catalog, Bischöfliches Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz, Mainz 2014 (catalog article : Im Nachglanz der Aurea Moguntia. Franz von Kesselstatt and the Mainz vedute ).
  • Two Frankfurt painters at the Rhine Falls. Christian Georg Schütz the Elder Ä. and Franz Schütz, in: The Rhine Falls. Sublime nature and tourist marketing, exh. Cat. Mittelrhein-Museum Koblenz 2015, pp. 39–46.
  • Wallpaper for the king's lieutenant. Frankfurt painter and Johann Andreas Benjamin Nothnagel in the service of the Comte de Thoranc, in: Again salon-able. Hand-painted wallpapers from the 18th century, Petersberg 2016, pp. 95–105.
  • With an expert eye and an eagle eye. Original, forgery and copy, exhibition catalog for the Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum Mainz 2017/2018.
  • From citizens and bankers. Paintings by the Frankfurt families Gogel and Hauck, booklet accompanying the exhibition in the Historical Museum Frankfurt 2017/2018.
  • Januarius Zick, Rembrandt and other old masters - on the Dutch spirit in Zick's paintings, in: The legacy of the fathers. With the Zick family of painters through two centuries, exh. Cat. Mittelrhein Museum Koblenz, Petersberg 2018, pp. 56–62.
  • Creator of the interior views of St. Leonhard. On Johann Ludwig Ernst Morgenstern and Johann Friedrich Morgenstern, in: Treasures from the rubble. 800 years of St. Leonhard in Frankfurt am Main, ed. by Verena Smit, Bettina Schmitt, exhib. Cat. Dommuseum Frankfurt, Regensburg 2019, pp. 51–59.
  • The Frankfurt masterpieces owned by the city. An overview, in: Meisterstücke. From the craft of painters, ed. by Wolfgang P. Cilleßen and Andreas Tacke, exhib. Cat. Historisches Museum Frankfurt 2019, pp. 95–105
  • Frankfurt “academy aspirations”, the Cöntgen'sche Drawing Institute and a Frankfurt art student in Düsseldorf and Rome, in: Meisterstücke. From the craft of painters, ed. by Wolfgang P. Cilleßen and Andreas Tacke, exhib. Cat. Historisches Museum Frankfurt 2019, pp. 154–161.
  • From the Netherlands to the Rhine - and sometimes also back. Dutch and Flemish painters as emigrants and travelers in the 17th and 18th centuries, in: From job to vocation. The artist family Verflassen between Baroque and Biedermeier, ed. by Matthias von der Bank and Adolf T. Schneider, AK Mittelrhein-Museum Koblenz, Petersberg 2019, pp. 30–41.

Exhibitions (selection)

As a curator or co-curator, Gerhard Kölsch realized the following exhibitions:

  • Delicious leftovers. In memory of Goethe and his family. Free German Hochstift / Frankfurt Goethe Museum, 2002/2003
  • Collector and founder. Princess Henriette Amalie von Anhalt-Dessau in exile in Frankfurt. Giersch House / Museum Regional Art, Frankfurt am Main, 2002/2003
  • Henrich Sebastian Hüsgen: Art connoisseur and art collector of the Goethe era. Free Deutsches Hochstift / Frankfurt Goethe Museum, 2005
  • Salon arabesques. The two salons in Bettine von Arnim's house. Free Deutsches Hochstift / Frankfurt Goethe Museum, 2006
  • Rhine romance. Art and nature. Museum Wiesbaden, 2012
  • Franz von Kesselstatt (1753-1841). Mainz Canon, diplomat and amateur in turbulent times. Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum Mainz, 2014
  • With an expert eye and an eagle eye. Original, forgery and copy, Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum Mainz 2017/2018
  • From citizens and bankers. Paintings by the Gogel and Hauck families in Frankfurt. Historical Museum Frankfurt 2017/2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book recommendation, Goethezeit Portal of the LMU
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  4. ↑ "Original. Forgery and copy ”in the Mainz Cathedral Museum (from October 20th). Retrieved October 25, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Original, forgery or copy? - 17:30 live Rhineland Palatinate / Hesse . In: 17:30 live Rhineland Palatinate / Hesse . November 30, 2017 ( 1730live.de [accessed December 1, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Kölsch, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1964