Hans-Georg Paffrath

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Hans-Georg Paffrath (born April 12, 1922 in Düsseldorf ; † September 18, 2013 there ) was a German art dealer and gallery owner .

Life

Hans-Georg Paffrath was the son of the Düsseldorf gallery owner Hans Paffrath (1877–1958) and his wife Eleonore, née Theegarten (1896–1926). He grew up in Düsseldorf , where his grandfather Georg Paffrath (1847–1925) opened the art dealership he had taken over in 1878 as Galerie Paffrath at 46 Königsallee . The family lived on the upper floors of the building designed by the architect Hermann von Endt . In 1948 Hans-Georg Paffrath entered his father's art trade. He built it up again and ran the business into a general partnership . In 1952 he was one of the founders of the Rhenish Art Dealers Association , which later awarded him honorary membership. In 1970 he was one of the initiators of the West German Art Fair , which was first held at the Düsseldorf Ehrenhof and then took place annually alternately in Cologne and Düsseldorf.

During the equestrian games of the 1956 Summer Olympics , Paffrath held for the hand of Helena Baronesse Åkerhielm (1938-2017), the Swedish junior champion in dressage, whom he had met in 1955 in a Düsseldorf riding stable. The two became a couple and had two sons and three daughters.

In 1958 he took over the gallery from his late father. In this position he advocated representing the works of the Düsseldorf School of Painting , which at that time were overshadowed by modern painting. In 1971 he acquired a portrait of Oswald Achenbach , which he had painted in 1843 of his brother Andreas . In 1976 he succeeded in acquiring important paintings from this painting school, the workers before the magistrate from Johann Peter Hasenclever and The Silesian Weavers from Carl Wilhelm Hübner , in the United States. In the late 1970s, he supported the art historian Wend von Kalnein as a lender and advisor in the preparations for the exhibition Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule , which took place in 1979 in Düsseldorf and Darmstadt. In 1987 he handed over the management of the gallery to his eldest son, Hans Paffrath .

Hans-Georg Paffrath died in 2013 at the age of 91 and was buried in the family grave in the Düsseldorf North Cemetery .

Honors

In 1977, Paffrath was appointed Royal Swedish Honorary Consul , and in 1983 he was made Honorary Consul General. The Swedish Foreign Ministry awarded him the Medal of Merit for his achievements. He also received from King Carl XVI. Gustaf the Commander of the North Star Order . On May 19, 1994, Prime Minister Johannes Rau awarded him the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in the Rheinische Post ( PDF )
  2. ^ Gudrun Schmidt-Esters: Fine arts . In: Barbara Budrich, Andreas Kost, Ulrike Sommer, Johannes Varwick: NRW-Lexikon: Politics, Society, Economy, Law, Culture . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2000, ISBN 978-3-322-97444-0 , p. 37
  3. ↑ Obituary in the Rheinische Post ( PDF )
  4. ^ Anna Klapheck : From makeshift to prosperous art. Art in the Rhineland in the post-war period . DuMont, Cologne 1979, ISBN 978-3-7701-1165-7 , p. 144 ff.
  5. ↑ Andreas Rossmann : Patron of the painting school . Obituary of September 27, 2013 in the faz.net portal , accessed on April 25, 2020
  6. ^ Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 10
  7. ^ Art trade: Hans-Georg Paffrath 80 . In: Beaux-arts du monde , Volume 72, Issues 4–6, 2002, p. 257
  8. ↑ Order of Merit of the State , website in the land.nrw portal , accessed on April 25, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Paffrath, Hans-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art dealer and gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH 18th September 2013
Place of death Dusseldorf