Gerhard Schack

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Gerhard Schack (* 1929 ; † March 30, 2007 in Hamburg ) was a Hamburg art collector , art historian , curator , patron , author and editor .

Life

childhood and education

Schack's father, a businessman, had a soft spot for the art of Anselm Feuerbach , Arnold Böcklin and Moritz von Schwind , but was not a collector. However, he encouraged his son's passion for collecting at an early age, who initially collected wooden figurines from the Ore Mountains , but then as a ten-year-old Japanese gods made of ivory , or netsuke . Then graphics were added. At the age of thirteen, Gerhard Schack joined the Langenhorn Griffelkunst-Vereinigung , which was based in the Fritz Schumacher School , in the Fritz Schumacher settlement . The first sheets he bought back then were three lithographs by Alfred Kubin . Later he was a member of the advisory board and jury of the Griffelkunst-Vereinigung until 1980.

After completing school, he studied art history at the University of Hamburg with the art historian Wolfgang Schöne , who represented a phenomenologically oriented and style-historical arguing art history with his research . He studied the painters Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio , Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens , among others .

collection

In 1967 his name appears for the first time in the Hamburg address book . From around 1966 until his death, he lived in a house at Am Ochsenzoll 54 in Hamburg-Langenhorn , where his mother lived until her death. Schack, who often played his spinet or piano , had works from his collection hanging all over his house, even above the bathtub and in the kitchen. His collection included many artists, but his first main area of ​​collection was that of Japanese ink painting and ink drawing, as well as Japanese woodblock prints or Japanese woodblock prints by artists such as Gyokuen, Hamaguchi Rofu Nangai, Hokumyō Sekkōtei, Isoda Koryūsai , Katsukawa Shun'ei, Katsukawa Shunkō, Katsukawa shunsen, Katsukawa Shunshō , Katsukawa Shunzan, Hokusai , Kawanabe Kyōsai, Keisai iron, Keisei Kien, Kikukawa Eishin, Kikukawa Eizan, Kita Busei, Kitagawa Utamaro , Kitagawa Utamaro II, Kitao Shigemasa , Mori Ippo, Nagai Yoshitaki, Nakabayashi Chikukei, Okumura Masanobu , Ônishi Chinnen, Ryūkaen, Ryusai Shigeharu, Sakuragawa Jihinari, Satō Hodai, Shunbaisai Hokuei, Shungansai Hokushin, Shunshosai Hokuchō, Shunshōsai Hokuju, Shunkosai Hokushū, Suzuki Harunobu , Tachibana Morikuni, Takashima Chiharu, Takigawa Kunihiro, Tamagawa shucho, Tani Bunchō , Teisai Hokuba , Torii Kiyomitsu, Torii Kiyomitsu II, Torii Kiyonaga , Torii Kiyotomo, To toya Hokkei, Toyohara Kunichika , Tsukioka Kōgyo, Tsukioka Settei, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi , Utagawa Hiroshige , Utagawa Hiroshige III. , Utagawa Kunikatsu, Utagawa Kunimaru, Utagawa Kunisada , Utagawa Kuniyasu, Utagawa Kuniyoshi , Utagawa Sadakage, Utagawa Sadamasu (also Utagawa Kunimasu ), Utagawa Toyohiro, Utagawa Toyokiyo and Utagawa Toyokuni . (As is customary in Japan, surnames come before first names.)

Some works from Schack's Japanese collection, which are in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg :

  • Water dragons ( Mizuchi ) from the series Pictures of Birds, Animals, Insects and Fishes by Keisai Eisen, approx. 1830–1848

  • The Shinano Province : Reflection of the Moon in the Rice Fields on Mount Kyōdai , Sheet 25 from the series: Famous Areas of the More than 60 Provinces of Utagawa Hiroshige , 1853

  • Enjō Kihachirō (in front of a Jizō statue with a pilgrim's staff and a wish-fulfillment pearl (nyoi no tama)), sheet 8 from the series Poems about 28 famous murders or 28 famous murderers with poems by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi , 1867 (14 of the 28 sheets are from Yoshitoshi , the other 14 by Utagawa Yoshiiku.)

  • The first snow of the year: Oyster shells on the road from Kikukawa Eizan, around 1820 ( Gofun Shirayuki, a traditional Japanese white pigment, is obtained from the mother-of-pearl of the oyster shells .)

  • Empress Jingū , from the series: Tales of One Hundred Famous Heroes by Utagawa Kuniyoshi , 1843–1844

  • Picnic by the water by Katsukawa Shunsen, 1800–1820

Schack's second main collection area were paintings and drawings as well as graphics by Horst Janssen .

Horst Janssen

In the pen art association Langenhorn, Gerhard Schack became aware of Horst Janssen when he presented his lithographs to Johannes Böse . Then they met sporadically at exhibitions or at mutual acquaintances. They got to know each other better in Wolfgang Werkmeister's workshop in Hamburg-Rissen at the end of 1969, when the printer Hartmut Frielinghaus showed them proofs for the supplements of the special editions of their respective book projects. Schack's book project was the new edition of Gustav Schiefler's book Das graphische Werk by Arthur Illies , edited and edited by him , which appeared in 1970. Schack introduced Janssen to East Asian art and motivated him to draw from nature, which both influenced his art. With Janssen and his girlfriend at the time, the graphic artist Gesche Tietjen, Schack went for many walks in the Elbmarschen and in spring 1971 traveled with Janssen to the Swiss Ticino , where Gesche Tietjen was staying to relax. After a short time he left again to leave them both alone.

Schack not only became a friend of Janssen, he also soon acted as a middleman for the Griffelkunst-Vereinigung, as administrator of the Janssen account there, as publisher of Janssen books at Christians- Verlag and as a contact person for Janssen book projects at other publishers . He monitored the quality of the reproductions, watched over the productions, arranged exhibitions and thus kept Janssen's back free so that Janssen could devote himself to the artistic work. Janssen gave Schack room to maneuver in aesthetic and financial terms. Schack was paid for with test prints that came from Janssens Drucker Frielinghaus and certain editions of etchings and lithographs that Schack enclosed with special editions of some book projects. There are portraits of Gerhard Schack that Horst Janssen sketched, drew or painted in the course of their friendship. One of them is the pen and ink drawing by Gerhard Schack reading, July 23, 1972 with the dimensions 20.6 × 14.4 cm, which is in the possession of the Hamburger Kunsthalle .

At the end of 1979 and beginning of 1980 the friendship between Janssen and Schack broke up, which Janssen had long ceased to be a stimulus for works or series of works. After a denunciation at the tax office, Schack was supposed to pay taxes on all gifts he had received from Janssen. He turned to Janssen for help, asking for an estimate of the value for the tax office. Perhaps out of vanity, he gave a comparatively high figure to the authorities and thus increased Schack's problem. Schack felt betrayed. At home he took all Janssen pictures from the walls and gave away or sold whatever he was less attached to.

There was also a second problem for Schack in the form of an allegation that he allegedly embezzled money from the Janssen account with the Griffelkunst-Vereinigung in order to finance his projects or his activities himself. Whether the accusation is based on facts or whether it was brought about by his enemies Carl Vogel and Lieselotte Kruglewsky-Anders can hardly be reconstructed because too much material was destroyed or is inaccessible. Because of the discrepancies, Schack was relieved of his activities at the Griffelkunst-Vereinigung in 1980 and forced to compensate for the damage. In addition, he was not allowed to enter the rooms. Janssen withdrew Schack's right of representation. When Janssen himself was confronted with demands from the tax office, he referred, defending himself, to Schack, who is said to have received a total of around 250,000 DM from the Griffelkunst-Vereinigung in order to pay them into the tax office. Whether Janssen's statements are correct cannot be said with certainty, since the allegation has apparently not been proven and Janssen is said to have assumed things in similar disputes with others that only he considered agreed. It is also unclear who still had access to the account.

In the course of the 1980s, Janssen sent greetings to Schack, who, however, did not respond. Contact was only revived in the run-up to her 60th birthday and an anniversary of the Griffelkunst-Vereinigung, but Schack always remained a little reserved at meetings. In August 1995 Horst Janssen died, in December of that year his printer Hartmut Frielinghaus, who was also a collector of Janssen's works.

On February 7, 1997, Gerhard Schack made his Janssen collection available as a permanent loan to the Hamburger Kunsthalle, which opened the new gallery of the present with the Janssen cabinet that year. In the first two exhibitions of the Janssen-Kabinett in 1997, works from the Schack collection were shown. In the same year the Hamburger Kunsthalle acquired one of Janssen's most important groups of works from the estate of Hartmut Frielinghaus with the support of private donors and the Kulturstiftung der Länder . The first works from the Frielinghaus Collection were shown in the third exhibition of the Janssen Cabinet in 1997 from the end of October.

legacy

Schack died on March 30, 2007 in Hamburg. He left his Janssen collection of around 3300 sheets as well as writings and photographs to the Hamburger Kunsthalle. The support group Horst Janssen in the Hamburger Kunsthalle plans to completely record and digitize the estate over the next few years. Gerhard Schack bequeathed around 3,000 Japanese ink drawings, ink paintings and woodcuts to the Museum of Art and Crafts in Hamburg. 409 of these have so far been digitized and can be viewed online in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Collection .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1997: Horst Jannsen. Hanno's death - drawings and prints from the Gerhard Schack collection, for the opening of the Horst-Janssen-Kabinett in the Galerie der Gegenwart at the Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 1997: Horst Janssen. Carnevale di Venezia - drawings and prints from the Gerhard Schack collection, Horst-Janssen-Kabinett in the Galerie der Gegenwart at the Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 1999: Horst Janssen. Landscape 1972 - Approaches to Claude Lorrain , from the Gerhard Schack collection, in the Janssen cabinet of the Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 2002: Seen with a brush - Japanese drawings and paintings from the 17th to 20th centuries from the Gerhard Schack Collection , approx. 280 works, Museum Schloss Moyland , Bedburg-Hau
  • 2003 to 2004: Horst Janssen and his printer Hartmut Frielinghaus , in the Janssen cabinet of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, conception of the exhibition: Petra Roettig and Gerhard Schack
  • 2004: Seen with a brush - Japanese drawings and paintings from the 17th to the 20th centuries from the Gerhard Schack Collection , Haus zum Kiel , Dépendance of the Museum Rietberg , Zurich
  • 2006: Horst Janssen and the Dutch of the 17th century , approx. 40 etchings and drawings from the Gerhard Schack Collection, Detlefsen Museum in the Brockdorff Palais in Glückstadt
  • 2007: Horst Janssen. Leporello (figure from Don Giovanni ): The lovers of Don Juan , 50 works from the Gerhard Schack collection, in the Janssen cabinet of the Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 2007: Horst Janssen: in Japanese style , 50 exhibits, Horst Janssen Museum , Oldenburg. The exhibition, which was agreed with Schack, contained, among other things, a number of works from his collection from the Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 2009 to 2010: Horst Janssen. Art of friendship - good and bad leaves , 80 selected works from the collections of Klaus Hegewisch and Gerhard Schack, Hamburger Kunsthalle

Publications (selection)

As an author:

Participations:

  • 1966: Ernst-Barlach-Haus , edited by Kurt Sternelle, part with hand drawings edited by Gerhard Schack, Christians, Hamburg
  • 1968: Edvard Munch , graphics from the Munchmuseum, Oslo , catalog and bibliographical information: Gerhard Schack, editor: Isa Lohmann-Siems, Christians, Hamburg
  • 1970: Surimono - Japanese congratulatory sheets from the Gerhard Schack Collection - Exhibition in the Overbeck Society Lübeck 1970 (edited)
  • 1970: Gerhard Schack and Ulrich Weisner: Richard Haizmann 1895–1963 , Kulturhistorisches Museum Bielefeld
  • 1971: Gerhard Schack and Ulrich Weisner: David Hockney - drawings, graphics, paintings , with a text by Günther Gercken, Kunsthalle Bielefeld
  • 1973: Contemporary German Drawings , Carl Vogel, Ulrich Weisner, Gerhard Schack, Kunsthalle Bielefeld (eds.)
  • 1974: Gerhard Schack:  Illies, Arthur. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , pp. 135 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • 1975: Horst Janssen. Graphic cycles , edited by Alfred Hagenlocher and Gerhard Schack, Hans Thoma-Gesellschaft (Reutlingen Art Association), Reutlingen
  • 1976: Horst Janssen , catalog editors: Gerhard Schack and Wieland Schmied , edited by Gerhard Schack, Kestnergesellschaft , Hanover
  • 1979: Gerhard Schack and Carl Vogel: Horst Janssen. Landscapes , fifty of them for his fiftieth birthday from the Schack and Vogel collections, Griffelkunst-Vereinigung, Hamburg
  • 1979: Gyosai Suigwa - Japanese woodcuts , catalog text on Kyōsai by Gerhard Schack, Artica Gallery, Cuxhaven
  • 1993: Horst Janssen. Nature Morte , introduction: Gerhard Schack, compiled and edited by Dierk Lemcke, St. Gertrude, Hamburg, ISBN 3923848471
  • 1996: Horst Janssen. Friends and others , foreword: Peter Rühmkorf , notes on the sitters: Gerhard Schack, compiled and edited by Dierk Lemcke, St. Gertrude, Hamburg, ISBN 3-923848-69-2
  • 1996: Horst Janssen. I'm just the whole eye , with texts by Wieland Schmied (ed.), Horst Janssen, Gudrun Fritsch and Gerhard Schack, St. Gertrude, Hamburg, ISBN 3923848676
  • 1997: Our reading lesson , edited by Gerhard Schack, Issue 85, Hamburger Reading Books Verlag , Husum, ISBN 3872910841
  • 1997: Gerhard Schack: On the graphics by Arthur Illies in Der Hamburgische Künstlerclub von 1897 - Hundred Years Later , page 108–110, Hamburger Kunsthalle (ed.), Fischerhude, Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, ISBN 3-88132-197-7
  • 1998: Horst Janssen - The Portrait - A Selection - 1945 to 1994 , Foreword: Manfred Osten , Notes on the sitters: Gerhard Schack, Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Ed.), St. Gertrude, Hamburg, ISBN 3-923848-78-1
  • 2000: Retrospective: Horst Janssen - looking back over half a century - drawings and prints from 1945 to 1995 , description of images: Gerhard Schack, St. Gertrude, Hamburg, ISBN 3-923848-89-7
  • 2001: Janssen sees Goya , with contributions by Ewald Gäßler , Eva Kirn-Frank, Jutta Moster-Hoos , Gerhard Schack and Antje Tietken, St. Gertrude, Hamburg, ISBN 3895988162
  • 2001: Petra Roettig and Gerhard Schack: Horst Janssen. Adopted ancestors , St. Gertrude, Hamburg, ISBN 3923848927
  • 2002: Horst Janssen. Krickelkrakeln and Uhupappen , with contributions by Stefan Blessin , Barbara von Kameke, Rainer Meyer, Eva Morawietz, Jutta Moster-Hoos and Gerhard Schack, Isensee Verlag , Oldenburg, ISBN 3895989193
  • 2002: Nora von Achenbach, Barbara Strieder (eds.): Seen with a Brush - Japanese Drawings and Paintings from the 17th to the 20th Century from the Gerhard Schack Collection , Translations: Hiroko Yoshikawa-Geffers and Gerhard Schack, Foundation Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, ISBN 3-935166-13-3
  • 2003: Petra Roettig and Gerhard Schack: Horst Janssen and his printer Hartmut Frielinghaus , Michael Sauer (ed.), St. Gertrude, Hamburg, museum edition ISBN 3-922909-85-X
  • 2003: Petra Roettig and Gerhard Schack: Horst Janssen and his printer Hartmut Frielinghaus , Michael Sauer (eds.), St. Gertrude, Hamburg, book trade edition ISBN 3-935855-05-2
  • 2004: light and line. Horst Janssen and photography , editors: Jürgen Blankenburg and Claus Clement, contributions: Erika Billeter, Jutta Moster-Hoos and Gerhard Schack, St. Gertrude, Hamburg, ISBN 3-935855-03-6
  • 2005: William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream , edited by Gerhard Schack, Issue 127, Hamburger Reading Books Verlag, Husum, ISBN 3872911260

As editor:

  • 1964: Chinese clay figures , selection and epilogue: Hans Hermann Hagedorn, Piper Verlag , Munich
  • 1970: Gustav Schiefler: The graphic work of Arthur Illies , Christians, Hamburg (also supplemented)
  • 1971: Paul Gavarni 1804–1866 - Exhibition in the Griffelkunst Hamburg 1971, Kunsthalle Bielefeld 1972 and in the Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück 1972 (also edited)
  • 1971: Horst Janssen. 14 Biber , Christians, Hamburg, ISBN 3-7672-0100-3
  • 1972: Horst Janssen. Subversionen , Leporello, Christians, Hamburg, ISBN 3-7672-0105-4
  • 1973: Horst Janssen. Carnevale di Venezia , Christians, Hamburg, ISBN 3-7672-0234-4
  • 1973: Horst Janssen. Misunderstandings , Leporello , Christians, Hamburg, ISBN 376720214X
  • 1974: Gustav Schiefler: My collection of graphics , Christians, Hamburg, ISBN 3-7672-0244-1 (also supplemented)
  • 1974: Horst Janssen. Small gesture book , Christians, Hamburg, ISBN 3-7672-0296-4
  • 1974: Horst Janssen. Landscape , Christians, Hamburg, ISBN 3767202158
  • 1975: Horst Janssen. Self-portraits on Hanno's death , Christians, Hamburg, ISBN 3767203553
  • 1975 and 1976: Japanese hand drawings (Itchô, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi, Kyôsai, Chinnen, Eisen, Hiroshige, Kunisada, Hokkei, Hokuba, Isai and Horst Janssen with copies after Kyôsai and Hokusai), foreword: Basil William Robinson, Christians, Hamburg, ISBN 3-7672-0383-9
  • 1976: Postcards to Gustav Schiefler , Christians, Hamburg, ISBN 3767204517
  • 1976: Horst Janssen. Drawings and etchings 1969–1975 , with texts by Horst Janssen, Wieland Schmied and Gerhard Schack, Christians, Hamburg, ISBN 3-7672-0389-8
  • 1977: Horst Janssen. The copy (also afterword), Christians, Hamburg, ISBN 3-7672-0414-2 (normal edition), ISBN 3-7672-0462-2 (numbered edition)
  • 1977: Jonas Hafner: Threni , Christians, Hamburg, ISBN 3767204827
  • 1989: Horst Janssen. Dragon and butterfly , Prestel Verlag , Munich, ISBN 3-7913-1042-9
  • 1997: Horst Janssen. Hanno's Tod , St. Gertrude, Hamburg, ISBN 3-923848-71-4
  • 1998: Horst Janssen. Hokusai's walk , St. Gertrude, Hamburg, ISBN 3-923848-76-5
  • 1999: Horst Janssen. Landscape 1972 - Approaches to Claude Lorrain - Gerhard Schack Collection in the Kunsthalle , St. Gertrude, Hamburg, ISBN 3-923848-88-9
  • 2007: Horst Janssen. Leporello: The lovers of Don Juan , St. Gertrude, Hamburg, ISBN 3-935855-10-9

literature

  • Clear Warnecke: My wonderful years with Horst Janssen, WELT conversation with the Hamburg collector Gerhard Schack, who today is handing over his important Janssen collection to the Kunsthalle , in Die Welt , No. 32 of February 7, 1997
  • Henning Albrecht: Horst Janssen - A Life , Rowohlt Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-498-00091-2

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Schack  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Proof , article The legacy of the collector Gerhard Schack in the Hamburger Abendblatt from April 1, 2008
  2. ↑ Lieselotte Kruglewsky-Anders (Ed.): Graphics in the 20th Century - 50 Years of Style Art . Edition Griffelkunst Hamburg, Hamburg 1977, p. 60
  3. ↑ Harald Rüggeberg (Ed.): Griffelkunst - Directory of Editions 1976–2000 , Volume I, 1976–1988, Griffelkunst-Vereinigung Hamburg eV, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-9804397-6-3 , p. 490
  4. ^ Article studying art history at the University of Hamburg on the website www.portalkunstgeschichte.de
  5. ↑ Article Gerhard Schack's dream of the butterflies in the world on Sunday of March 23, 2003
  6. ^ Gerhard Schack in the Hamburg address book from 1967
  7. ^ Jizō Bosatsu in Religion in Japan , a web manual on the website of the University of Vienna
  8. ↑ White pigment ( Memento from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Clickable and thus enlargeable image of the pen drawing Gerhard Schack reading, July 23, 1972
  10. ^ Gerhard Schack in Horst Janssen - A Life of Henning Albrecht, Rowohlt Verlag 2016 (reading sample)
  11. ↑ Date and place of death in the journal Der Spiegel from April 7, 2007
  12. ^ The sponsorship group on the Hamburger Kunsthalle website
  13. ↑ Mention of the legacy on the website of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
  14. ^ The exhibition on the Detlefsen Museum website
  15. ↑ Article Colorful Goddesses: "The Lovers of Don Juan" in the art gallery in the newspaper Die Welt from April 20, 2007
  16. ^ Article Balls from the Far East , NWZ Online , September 7, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Schack, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art collector
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2007
Place of death Hamburg