Gerhard Leistner

Gerhard Leistner (born January 16, 1955 in Ludwigsburg ) is a German art historian and curator .

Life

Gerhard Leistner studied art history, classical archeology and folklore at the universities of Munich and Würzburg , where he spoke in 1985 on the subject of ideas and reality. Content and importance of urban expressionism in Germany, illustrated by the work of Ludwig Meidner who received his doctorate.

From 1986 to 1987 he was a research trainee at the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Museum Kunstpalast) and from 1987 to 1989 a research assistant at the Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart, State Office for Museum Care Tübingen.

From 1989 to 2020 Leistner worked as a collection manager (paintings / sculpture) and exhibition curator at the Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg. Between 1992 and 2014 he also held a lectureship in museums and exhibitions at the Institute for Art History at the University of Regensburg. From 2011 to 2019 he was also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Adolf Hölzel Foundation, Stuttgart.

Gerhard Leistner retired from active museum service at the beginning of 2020 and is now a freelance art historian, author and reviewer.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1987: Alfred Flechtheim . Collectors, art dealers, publishers , Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (together with Hans-Albert Peters and Stephan von Wiese) with catalog
• 1993: Markus Lüpertz . Painting after Poussin , Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg (together with Andreas Blühm) with catalog ISBN 3-89188-061-8
• 1994: Otto Freundlich . A pioneer of abstract art , Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg (in cooperation with the Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück) with catalog ISBN 3-89188-068-5
• 1996: Art as a concept. Concrete and geometric tendencies since 1960 in the work of German artists from Eastern and Southeastern Europe , Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg with catalog ISBN 3-89188-074-X
• 1998: Rolf Cavael (1898–1979). An artist of the German Informel. Retrospective for the 100th birthday , Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg with catalog ISBN 3-89188-083-9
• 2001: Ida Kerkovius (1879-1970). Paintings, pastels, watercolors, drawings, carpets - retrospective , Regensburg, Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg and Ārzemju Mākslas muzejs Rīga with catalog ISBN 3-89188-093-6
• 2002: From Otto Mueller to Oskar Schlemmer . Artist of the Breslau Academy , Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg (in cooperation with the State Museum Schwerin) with catalog ISBN 3-86106-076-0
• 2005: Dance of the Migofs. Bernard Schultze 1915–2005 , Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg with catalog ISBN 3-89188-107-X
• 2006/2007: Otto Mueller. Paradise lost. Works from the Karsch Collection , Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg with catalog ISBN 978-3-89188-113-2
• 2009/2010: Kaleidoscope. Hölzel in the avant-garde , Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg (in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart ) with catalog ISBN 978-3-86828-089-0
• 2012: geometry, color, light. Ben Muthofer retrospective , Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg with catalog ISBN 978-3-89188-124-8
• 2015: Sculpture experience! Pictures from the Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg with catalog ISBN 978-3-930633-20-3
• 2016/2017: Daniel Spoerri The open work of art , Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg with catalog ISBN 978-3-86832-346-7 (publisher's edition)
• 2019: Katharina Sieverding . Germany is becoming more German. Presentation and documentation , Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg with catalog ISBN 978-3-89188-136-1

Fonts (selection)

Gerhard Leistner is the author and editor of numerous publications on German art of the 19th century, classical modernism and after 1945. He is the editor of the catalog raisonné of Oskar Moll (1875–1947).

• The big city of Berlin as a hot spot for the Expressionists, in: Exh. Cat. “O my time. So namelessly torn ... “, On the world view of Expressionism; Kunsthalle Bielefeld 1985, pp. 26–49
• Walk through the collection. Paintings, sculptures and objects. Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Regensburg 1993 (together with Andreas Blühm and Brigitte Hausmann) ISBN 3-89188-063-4
• Markus Lüpertz 'Poussin cycle as a dialectical design form, in: Exh. Cat. Markus Lüpertz, painting after Poussin; Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Regensburg 1993, pp. 26–35 ISBN 3-89188-061-8
• Joseph Hickel. Portrait of a Viennese singer 1792. Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg; Regensburg 1996 ISBN 3-89188-072-3
• Ludwig Meidner. Portrait of the poet Ferdinand Hardekopf 1915. Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg; Regensburg 1997 ISBN 3-89188-079-0
• Adolf Hölzel. Saint Ursula 1914/15. Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg; Regensburg 2000 ISBN 3-89188-091-X
• Between natural mysticism and national myth. Schreiberhau in the Giant Mountains as a special case of European artist colonies, in: Exh. Cat. Artist colony in Europe. In the sign of the plain and the sky; Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg 2001, pp. 157–169 ISBN 3-926982-81-0
• Max Pechstein. Blauer Tag 1911. Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg; Regensburg 2003 ISBN 3-89188-101-0
• Migof labyrinth or the dialectic of a soul landscape, in: Exh. Cat. Dance of the Migofs. Bernard Schultze 1915-2005; Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Regensburg 2005, pp. 13–21 ISBN 3-89188-107-X
• Memory & vision. 100 masterpieces in the collection. Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Regensburg 2005 (together with Ulrike Lorenz) ISBN 3-89188-110-X
• Nature and experiment. Hölzel in Dachau, in: Exhibition cat. Kaleidoscope. Hoelzel in the avant-garde; Art Museum Stuttgart and Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg; Heidelberg 2009, pp. 34-46 ISBN 978-3-86828-089-0
• End of the world. Ludwig Meidner and the First World War, in: Fadani, Andrea; Horstenkamp, ​​Ulrike and Weidle, Gabriele (ed.): Between the fronts. Life and death in the First World War; Bonn 2014, pp. 224–247 ISBN 978-3-930370-34-4
• Vision color. Adolf Hölzel and the modern age; Paderborn 2015 (edited with Christoph Wagner) ISBN 978-3-7705-5258-0
• Art forum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg. Catalog of the sculptures (LETTER Schriften Vol. 21); Cologne 2015 (together with Johanna Kreis, Miryam C. Stillings and Bernd Ernsting) ISBN 978-3-930633-20-3
• Oskar Moll as a source of inspiration for modernism at the Breslau Academy, in: Exh. Cat. Painter. Mentor. Magician. Otto Mueller and his network in Breslau; Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, October 12, 2018 - March 3, 2019; Heidelberg 2018, p. 178 (Fig.) -187 ISBN 978-3-86828-873-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Leistner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Oskar Moll project catalog raisonné