Guido Dessauer

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Guido Dessauer, 2010

Guido Dessauer (born November 7, 1915 in Aschaffenburg ; † January 13, 2012 in Tutzing ) was a German physicist , colored paper manufacturer, honorary professor , art patron and collector .

Life

Guido Dessauer came from a family of scholars and industrialists from Aschaffenburg who owned the traditional Aschaffenburg colored paper factory ( Alois Dessauer ). His parents were Hans Dessauer sen. and his wife Bertha, b. Thywissen, his brother was Hans Dessauer , his uncle Friedrich Dessauer .

Versatile and talented, he studied physics in Munich , but also dealt intensively with art and history. During the Second World War, Dessauer was active in the aircraft industry research, later he did pioneering work in paper technology and acquired over 30 patents. From 1945 Dessauer worked in the management of the Aschaffenburg colored paper factory, of which he became technical director in 1951.

Gabrielle and Guido Dessauer, 2007

In 1985 Dessauer was appointed honorary professor at the Institute for Paper, Pulp and Fiber Technology at the Graz University of Technology , where he received his doctorate in 1972. At the same time, from 1970 on, he worked as research and development manager at Feldmühle AG in Düsseldorf .

In 1949 Dessauer married Gabrielle von Keller (born December 20, 1916), a daughter of Friedrich von Keller , with whom he remained married until her death on February 22, 2010. The couple had three daughters, Irene, Franziska ( psychologist and sworn expert for clocks and works of art; known from the TV show of Bayerischer Rundfunk Kunst und Krempel ), Friederike, and a son, Gabriel Dessauer , who lived in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden , Cantor is. The family lived in Tutzing .

Collector

Guido Dessauer put together a collection of colored paper, which was then sold to the Royal Library of the Netherlands in The Hague , where it represents an important part of the paper history collections.

Guido Dessauer brought together one of the most important private collections of small baroque sculptures . The selection includes works by Italian, French and Flemish sculptors as well as works by artists from German-speaking countries. Numerous bozzetti (sculptor's drafts ) and modeletti (execution or presentation models) provide an insight into the creation process of sculptures as well as the working methods of a sculptor and his studio. A selection of around 70 works of European baroque and classicism was shown in 2001/02 under the title "Kleine Ekstasen" with a detailed catalog in several museums, including the Germanisches Nationalmuseum and the Landesmuseum Joanneum . It contained works by Antonio Canova , François Duquesnoy , Etienne-Maurice Falconet , Jean-Antoine Houdon , Camillo Rusconi and Philipp Jakob Straub .

In the early 1950s, Dessauer commissioned Horst Janssen to portray Dessauer's father-in-law, which was followed by many more paintings by the Dessauer family. With the help of the technical possibilities available in Aschaffenburg, Janssen's first lithographs were also created .

honors and awards

Guido Dessauer was a member of the Rotary Club from 1957 , initially in Würzburg . As a founding member of the club in Aschaffenburg in 1958, he was awarded honorary membership on the occasion of the 50th anniversary.

For his services to the Styrian paper industry and art promotion, he was awarded the Great Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Styria in 2002. In 2008 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

Fonts (selection)

  • Horst Janssen and Aschaffenburg. Contributions by Horst Janssen, Brigitte Schad, Guido Dessauer, Reiner Meyer. Aschaffenburg 2002, ISBN 3-87707-593-2 .
  • Cloud paste, marble and brocade. Historical colored papers. Contributions by Gisela Reschke , Guido Dessauer. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89500-013-2 .
  • The colored paper in the 19th century. In: Bound in the steam bookbindery. Bookbinding through the 19th century. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1994, pp. 115-118.
  • The endogenous and exogenous causes of aging of paper and the papermaker's options for producing non-aging papers. In: Das Papier 32 (1978), No. 10A, pp. V32 - V38.
  • Paper disintegration: causes and consequences. In: Conservation Forum of the University of Münster 2001.

literature

  • Frank Matthias Kammel (arrangement): Small ecstasies - Baroque masterpieces from the Dessauer collection. Contributions by Saskia Durian-Ress, Annette Scherer, Beatrize Söding, Ulrich Söding. Nuremberg 2001, ISBN 3-926982-73-X .
  • Graphics / Janssen / Two hundredweight of talent . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1965 ( online - also as PDF with illustrations by Janssen).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paper pioneer and physicist Guido Dessauer . Main-Echo: City & District Aschaffenburg, September 27, 2008; accessed on October 19, 2018
  2. ^ Albert Haemmerle : The colored paper collection Guido Dessauer, Aschaffenburg . Antiquariat Hartung & Karl, Munich 1976.
  3. ^ Henk Voorn: colored paper collection Dr. Guido Dessauer. In: IPH-Information , NF 11, 1977, No. 3/4, p. 105.
  4. ↑ Regina Voges: The tone of the first idea / sketches in the third dimension: The models of baroque sculptors are a small, fine area to collect . Wiener Zeitung . January 5, 2003. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
  5. ↑ Small ecstasies in the old gallery in Graz ( English ) Wiener Zeitung . August 14, 2001. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
  6. ↑ All of the Great Gold Medal of Honor awarded since January 1, 1970 with the deadline: December 5, 2006 (PDF; 4.6 MB) Styrian Parliament . December 5, 2006. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Dessauer, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist (paper industry), colored paper manufacturer, patron of the arts, university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschaffenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2012
Place of death Tutzing