Gustav Schiefler

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Gustav Schiefler, 1906

Gustav Schiefler (born December 28, 1857 in Hildesheim , † August 9, 1935 in Mellingstedt ) was a Hamburg judge, art collector, patron and art critic.

Life

Edvard Munch : Portrait of Gustav Schiefler, etching, 1905/06
Family grave cemetery Bergstedt

Gustav Schiefler entered the Hamburg civil service as a judge in the district court in 1888, and later became the district court director . Together with his wife Luise Schiefler, Schiefler was an important supporter of Expressionism and a proven collector of prints. From 1895, his house on Oberstrasse became a meeting place for artists and intellectuals. Among others, Edvard Munch , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Paul Gangolf were guests in his house .

Like Rosa Schapire , he became a passive member of the artists' association Die Brücke and had close contact with the Hamburg Art Club . Schiefler wrote catalogs of the graphic works of Emil Nolde , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Liebermann and Edvard Munch.

The first director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle , Alfred Lichtwark , had a great influence on his understanding of art, and Schiefler had great admiration for him. Lichtwark appointed him secretary in the Society of Hamburg Art Friends, which he founded . In this capacity, he aroused the interest of many Hamburg citizens in contemporary artists such as Max Liebermann, Ernst Eitner and Arthur Illies , who portrayed the Schiefler couple in 1902. When Lichtwark died in 1914, Schiefler gave the funeral speech. Schiefler's interest later turned to the representatives of the Hamburg Secession .

In 1927 he published a book in the Society of Book Friends with the title Meine Graphiksammlung . The edition was 500 copies. In it, Schiefler described how he came into contact with the bridge . Karl Schmidt-Rottluff was the first Brücke painter to visit him in Hamburg in 1907. He commented on their end as follows: [...] “As an artist group, you have done your job with honor. We recognize in her work the beginning of the development that German art took in the first quarter of the 20th century. ”( Meine Graphiksammlung , p. 53)

In 1930 his nephew, the Swiss painter Max Böhlen, visited him .

Gustav Schiefler died in Mellingstedt in 1935, where he had owned a house since 1912.

In March 2019 it became known that the grandson Otto Georg Schiefler, who died on January 7, 2019, had bequeathed the villa at Oberstrasse 86, his parents' house, to the Friends of the Kunsthalle . In the future, the association's events will take place there on the mezzanine floor of the house.

Works

  • A cultural history of Hamburg 1890 - 1920. Observations by a contemporary. Edited by Georg Ahrens, Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-923356-05-6
  • The artists of the bridge. Extract in: booklet. Life dates and personal testimonies for examples: Art in the persecution. Degenerate Art (exhibition) 1937 in Munich picture portfolio. Ed. State Institute for Education and Teaching Stuttgart. Neckar, Villingen-Schwenningen (1998) without ISBN, p. 30f. (Also texts by Max Beckmann , Karl Hofer , Paul Klee , Oskar Schlemmer and others) From: My collection of graphics. Hamburg 1919, new edition. 1974

literature

Web links

Commons : Gustav Schiefler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Huggler : Max Bohlen. Huber, Frauenfeld 1973, ISBN 3-7193-0466-3 (with list of works).
  2. ↑ Vera Fengler: Kunsthalle friends inherit villa in Harvestehude , abendblatt.de, March 18, 2019, accessed on March 18, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Schiefler, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg judges and patrons of the arts
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1935
Place of death Hamburg