Gerhard Storck

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Gerhard Storck (* 1940 in Essen ; † June 30, 2008 in Krefeld ) was a German art historian and museum director.

Life

Gerhard Storck was born in Essen in 1940. He studied art history in Berlin and Bonn . His doctorate in 1971 was on the theaters of the 20th century. From 1973 Storck worked at the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf as a curator for contemporary art. He acquired the so-called ZERO room , thereby strengthening this area of ​​the collection.

From 1975 to 1999 Gerhard Storck was director of the Krefeld art museum . He succeeded Paul Wember and continued his work. Above all through acquisitions and exhibitions, Storck sharpened the collection's profile in the field of avant-garde art. At the beginning of his work in Krefeld he focused on American conceptual art and minimalism of the 1970s with acquisitions and exhibitions by artists such as Bruce Nauman , Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier . In 1975 he showed Claes Oldenburg in the Lange house . In addition, he kept in touch with artists in Düsseldorf and Cologne. In 1977 Storck presented an exhibition by Blinky Palermo , for whose fabric pictures he also presented the catalog raisonné. This exhibition is considered to be Palermo's international breakthrough. In 1978, the exhibition [Self] by Abraham David Christian in the Lange House, set up by Storck, followed . In 1981 he organized the exhibition Kounellis - Merz - Nauman - Serra - Works around 1968 in the same museum .

As early as 1976, Gerhard Storck exhibited works by Gerhard Richter in the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum. This retrospective marked the beginning of a long-term collaboration with the artist. In 1989 Storck presented the first exhibition of Richter's cycle October 18, 1977 in the Esters House . Storck also had close ties to Joseph Beuys . In 1976 he acquired the artist's early drawings and his Fond IV / 4 work for the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum. In 1977 and 1984 he supported the installation of the two Beuys rooms in the same museum. In the 1980s and 1990s, Gerhard Storck placed the focus of the exhibitions on the Düsseldorf art scene with artists such as Reinhard Mucha and Thomas Schütte . Works by the photographers Thomas Struth , Andreas Gursky and Thomas Ruff von Storck were also presented in the collection rooms of the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum.

Storck supported the collectors Walther and Helga Lauffs in building up their collection, which was on loan to the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld for a long time before it was put on the art market. In 1982 Gerhard Storck was on the artistic advisory board of Documenta 7 in Kassel . His main focus was almost exclusively on the museums in Krefeld.

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SURNAME Storck, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 2008
Place of death Krefeld