Graham Dry

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Graham Dry (* 25. April 1944 in Grantham , England) is an in Munich acting art historians , art experts and bibliophile . He studied Romance and German at Christ Church, Oxford , as well as art history , classical archeology and Italian at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. He has been based in Munich since 1971. He worked in the art trade in Munich until 2009, most recently until 2010 together with his wife Beate Dry-von Zezschwitz as co-owner of the Von Zezschwitz art and design auction house . Since 1984 he has worked as a consultant for The Wolfsonian , Miami Beach, the American Federation of Arts , New York, the British Museum , the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art .

He is a book author and has published numerous articles for art magazines and exhibition catalogs on the topics of the German and Central European history of the arts and crafts of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially on arts and crafts in Munich around 1900.

He built since 1968, a 11,000-volume collection of book bindings with Verlagseinbänden and book covers , as well as book decoration with the German Jugendstil on. It contains a large number of book covers designed by artists such as Peter Behrens , Hans Eduard von Berlepsch-Valendas , Otto Eckmann , August Endell , Rudolf Koch , Hermann Obrist , Walter Tiemann and Henry van de Velde . Numerous lesser known artists are also represented. In 2018, the Berlin State Library acquired this collection, which supplements the holdings of its single-cover collection and, in its time segment, the Collection of German Prints .

Works

  • Orchids as book decorations: From a collection of German Art Nouveau bindings . In: Binding Research . No. 43, September 2018, pp. 44 - 51 .
  • International contributions to the German publisher's binding around 1900 . In: Binding Research . No. 30, April 2016, pp. 9–32.
  • Nietzsche cult and the right to new beauty. Peter Behrens and the publisher's covers of the Darmstadt artists' colony 1899–1914 . In: Binding Research . No. 38, April 2012, pp. 66-75.
  • Book art in Dresden . In: Art Nouveau in Dresden - Departure into the Modern Age . Ed. Gisela Haase et al ., Statliche Kunstsammlungen, Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden 1999, pp. 130-6, with catalog of the books on display.
  • Color printing and historicism. Ornamental styles in German book art from 1820 to 1850 . In: WELTKUNST , Munich, Part I, Vol. 66, Issue 19, October 1, 1996, pp. 2234–2237; Part 2, ibid., Issue 21, pp. 2652-2655.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olga Kronsteiner: New auction house. In: Die Welt .de. September 21, 2001. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Bettina Krogemann: You don't just live alone with painting. In: Die Welt.de. September 16, 2006, accessed June 20, 2018 .
  3. ^ Graham Dry: Orchids as book decorations for an 'orchid compartment'. Acquired a unique collection of German Art Nouveau bindings . In: library magazine. Messages from the state libraries in Berlin and Munich . No. 2 , 2018, ISSN  1861-8375 , p. 5–11 ( staatsbibliothek-berlin.de [PDF]).
  4. ^ Andreas Wittenberg: Foreword . In: Binding Research . No. 42 , April 2018, p. 3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Dry, Graham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British antiquarian, art dealer and bibliophile
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Grantham , England