Hanns Theodor Flemming

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Hanns Theodor Flemming (born December 15, 1915 in Hamburg ; † August 5, 2005 in Reinbek ) was a German art historian and art critic .

Career

Flemming grew up in an art-loving family. His father, Max Leon Flemming from the Rhineland , was an art patron and art collector. The parents' collection included works by Picasso , Chagall , Marc , Macke and Kandinsky . His sister was the future photographer Evelinde Manon .

He studied art history, archeology and English in Munich, Heidelberg, Hamburg and Oxford. In addition, Flemming worked since 1945 as an editor for the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation (NWDR) in Hamburg. In 1954 he was at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the English Pre-Raphaelites Dante Gabriel Rossetti Dr. phil. PhD.

Act

Since 1946 he wrote as an art critic for the daily newspaper Die Welt , to which he was connected for decades and in which he is said to have published a total of over 6000 articles. He reported for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Tagesspiegel , among others, and his exhibition reports appeared in numerous domestic and foreign art magazines. Flemming founded the German section of the International Art Critics Association (AICA) in 1951 with Bruno E. Werner , Franz Roh , Will Grohmann and Carl Linfert . In 1952 he became managing director and in 1958 vice-president of the German section.

In addition to his journalistic and scientific work, Flemming was a lecturer in art history from 1959 to 1981, initially at the State Master School for Fashion , and later in the design department at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences .

Many young artists owed early journalistic attention to Flemming. He was the first to report on Bernard Schultze , Paul Wunderlich and Horst Janssen , but also had conversations with Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse , Max Beckmann and Joseph Beuys . "Hanns Theodor Flemming was omnipresent in research and teaching, at exhibition openings and in all art-relevant publications [...]". He has published books on Ewald Mataré , Henry Moore , Otto Mueller and Bruno Bruni .

In 2005 Flemming died at the age of 89 in his house in Reinbek near Hamburg. His written estate is in the German Art Archive in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg.

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Individual evidence

  1. Hanns Theodor Flemming: The stylistic development of painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti , unpublished dissertation, Free University, Berlin 1954
  2. Rolf Italiaander: We experienced the end of the Weimar Republic: Zeitgenossenbericht , Droste, 1982, ISBN 3-7700-0609-7 , p. 175
  3. ^ Obituary in: Die Weltkunst, Volume 75, 2005
  4. German Art Archives, inventory list, p. 6