Gustav Nebehay

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Gustav Nebehay (born June 26, 1881 in Vienna , † September 17, 1935 in Marienbad ) was an Austrian art dealer .

Life

The bookseller Nebehay moved from his hometown of Vienna to Leipzig in 1900 , where he and Hans Boerner joined the company CG Boerner - one of the oldest German art dealers, whose customers were Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - and which was previously more nationally known Business gained worldwide recognition in the field of old graphics. His customers included personalities such as the writer Stefan Zweig . In the following years in the book and art metropolis of Leipzig, Nebehay rose to become an important graphic connoisseur and antiquarian and became a leading specialist in the field of hand drawings by old masters. Nebehay was the first art dealer to have his catalogs produced in the form of bibliophile occasional prints.

In 1908 he married Marie Sonntag, the sister of Carl Sonntag jun. , and moved with her back to his hometown Vienna in 1917, where he opened his own art shop in the Hotel Bristol in the first district and also became a partner in the VA Heck antiquarian bookshop on the Kärntnerring .

Nebehay was in professional and friendly contact with many artists of the turn of the century such as Gustav Klimt , Egon Schiele and Josef Hoffmann . Gustav Klimt, for example, dedicated three of his drawings to the Nebehay family. It was also Nebehay who was entrusted with the sale of the artistic legacies of Klimt and Schiele. Nebehay organized Schiele's first posthumous exhibition and the exhibition of Klimt's work drawings for the Stoclet frieze .

On a photograph of Klimt's funeral, Nebehay can be seen next to Klimt's muse, Emilie Flöge , the architect and founding member of the Wiener Werkstätte , Josef Hoffmann , the writer and salonnière Berta Zuckerkandl , the painter Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel and the health politician Julius Tandler .

Sponsor

Nebehay appeared as a sponsor of many Austrian artists. Egon Schiele wrote in a letter to his brother-in-law in 1917: “Someone has been found who is very interested in me.” Nebehay published the first catalogs of her hand drawings for Schiele as well as for Klimt.

When Schiele visited an exhibition of the Carinthian Art Association in the Künstlerhaus in Klagenfurt , he was enthusiastic about one of the portraits of the young artist Herbert Boeckl and recommended it to Gustav Nebehay. Nebehay thus became Boeckl's patron and sponsor and enabled him to study trips to Paris , Berlin and Sicily, among others, at an early stage .

After Nebehay's early death in 1935, his eldest son Christian M. Nebehay continued to look after the Heck family's share . In 1945 he went into business for himself and founded his own antiquarian bookshop in Annagasse , which is still there today.

literature

  • Christian M. Nebehay, My father's golden armchairs . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 1983, ISBN 978-3-85447-038-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the company CG Boerner , website CG Boerner (accessed on December 16, 2017)
  2. ^ A b Christian M. Nebehay:  Nebehay, Gustav. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 49.
  3. ↑ Christian M. Nebehay: The golden armchairs of my father . Verlag Christian Brandstätter, Vienna 1983, p. 51.
  4. ↑ a b c d Nebehay, Stefan: 50 years “Wiener Antiquariat”. ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.antiquare.at archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Online presence of the Austrian Association of Antiquarian Booksellers, December 3, 2012
  5. ^ Georg Jäger: History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries . Volume 1: The Empire 1871–1918 . Part 3. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, p. 250.
  6. ↑ Christian M. Nebehay: The golden armchairs of my father . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 1983, p. 114.
  7. ↑ Sonja Niederacher: Dossier on Egon Schiele: Standing boy with hat. In: Publications of the Leopold Museum Private Foundation, January 16, 2012
  8. ^ Spiegler, Almuth: New York Autumn Auctions: Not at all petty . In: Die Presse (online), November 7, 2007
  9. ^ Draft for the poster for the exhibition "Gustav Klimt Stoclet-Fries" by Gustav Nebehay (1920), website Leopold Museum Vienna (accessed November 12, 2017)
  10. ^ Gustav Nebehay at Getty Images Online (accessed December 9, 2017); Christian M. Nebehay: My father's golden armchairs . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 1983, p. 112.
  11. ↑ Christian M. Nebehay: The golden armchairs of my father . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 1983, p. 117.
  12. ↑ Christian M. Nebehay: The golden armchairs of my father . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 1983, p. 7.
  13. ↑ Herbert Boeckl in the online database "Gedächtnis des Landes" (accessed on December 16, 2017)
  14. ↑ Herbert Boeckl's biography, Herbert Boeckl's website (accessed December 16, 2017); Herbert Boeckl: Portrait of Christian Nebehay (1929) , Belvedere Vienna website (accessed November 12, 2017); Herbert Boeckl: Minister Dr. Heinrich Drimmel II (1957), Website Museum Moderner Kunst Wien (accessed November 12, 2017)
  15. ↑ Christian M. Nebehay closes . In: Börsenblatt (online), 23 August 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Nebehay, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian antiquarian, art dealer and patron
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1935
Place of death Marienbad