Gottfried Sello

Gottfried Sello (born February 4, 1913 in Posen , † January 30, 1994 in Hamburg ) was a German art historian and art critic . As an author and director, he designed numerous programs on old and contemporary art on German television .

Live and act

After graduating from high school in Berlin-Zehlendorf , Sello studied law and art history in Berlin, Munich and Greifswald and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. At the age of twenty he wrote articles for the magazine Die Literarian Welt, which Willy Haas published from 1925 to 1933 .

After marrying the photographer Ingeborg Sello in Berlin, the daughter Katrin Sello (1941–1992) and the son Thomas Sello (* 1945) were born. The family moved to Hamburg in 1945. Here Sello founded the Galerie der Jugend in December 1945 , which had its domicile in the attic of the tax office in Steinstrasse . He showed works by artists who could not be seen publicly during the National Socialist era , such as Max Pechstein and Erich Heckel , among others . The gallery closed in 1951 because the rooms in the tax office were no longer available. For Sello, the gallery activity was the basis for acquaintance with numerous artists and members of the art world.

Sello then worked as an art critic for the Hamburg weekly newspaper Die Zeit . His first contribution was a review of an exhibition by Hans Hartung at the Hamburger Kunstverein . Later he also wrote articles for the Hamburger Abendblatt and the art magazine art . In 1961 Gottfried Sello wrote a multi-part, architecture-critical report on art in buildings for the " Neue Heimat " monthly.

Besides Wibke von Bonin Sello is one of the protagonists , the programs have produced on contemporary art in the German television. As early as 1964 he worked as a writer and director on the first episode of the series Titel Thesen Temperamente, which is still broadcast today . This was followed by individual film presentations, including about Tilman Riemenschneider and Hans Baldung Grien . In connection with the broadcasts, his books on Riemenschneider and Adam Elsheimer (1985), Veit Stoss (1988) and “77 women painters from five centuries” were also published. In 1992 he published the book "In the footsteps of Caspar David Friedrich ".

In 1988 Sello married the book author Astrid von Friesen , living in Hamburg and Freiberg .

Works

• Art of the world - today. A description of their manifestations and problems. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1970, ISBN 3-499-60011-0 .
• Grandville, The Complete Works. Rogner & Bernhard, Munich. 1972. ISBN 3-920802-22-5 .
• Tilman Riemenschneider. (with Toni Schneiders), Lexicographical Institute, 1983.
• Adam Elsheimer. CH Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-32026-0 .
• Veit Stoss. Hirmer, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7774-4390-5 .
• Painters from five centuries. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-89234-077-3 .
• 20th century painters. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-89234-526-0 .
• Female painters from four centuries. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-89234-525-1 .
• In Caspar David Friedrich's footsteps. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-8319-0022-0 .
• Endless dream ... About art. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8319-0510-2 .

Television broadcasts

• The evening star. Hessischer Rundfunk (HR3 November 5, 1983)
• Titles, theses, temperaments. Hessischer Rundfunk (for ARD), episode 1 1964
• Old Masters: Between Gestures and Mannerism. The painter Hans Baldung.
• Old Masters: Wolf Huber. A painter from the Danube School.

as well as numerous other television films about ancient and contemporary art

literature

• Die Zeit: Galerie der Jugend. No. 49, December 7, 1950
• Time: On the death of Gottfried Sello: Critics of sympathy. ( Memento of April 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) No. 6, February 4, 1994

Web links

• Literature by and about Gottfried Sello in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Gottfried Sello  in the German Digital Library
• Search for Gottfried Sello in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ With the exception of the exhibitions Degenerate Art