Hans-Jürgen Niepel

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Hans-Jürgen Niepel (born February 6, 1928 in Berlin ; † August 8, 2007 in Düsseldorf ) was a German gallery owner and bookseller .

Life

Hans-Jürgen Niepel came to Düsseldorf from Berlin in 1953 and opened the first bookstore after the Second World War in Grabenstrasse 11 in 1957 and had its first exhibition in 1957. As early as 1959, he showed works by Johannes Geccelli , Peter Royen and Gerhard Hoehme . With the exhibition “Small Formats” by Group 53 in the “Graphisches Kabinett”, the legendary era of the bookshop with gallery space began, which was a popular meeting place for young artists in the 1950s and 1960s. The Berliner in the Rhineland also presented the artists from his first home in his gallery, where he began with informal and tachistic art . The Viennese writer Rüdiger von Schmeidel created the slogan “Better People go to Niepel”. Niepel exhibited what he himself found interesting, and so was the selection of literature. In the late 1950s, he was one of the booksellers who sold Henry Miller under the counter. The concrete poetry was one of his favorites, and in the 28 square meter shop you came quickly this week. He represented French literature, such as Michel Butor and Alain Robbe-Grillet , and Americans such as Jack Kerouac . He was very influential when he brokered the Heinrich Heine monument of the "Split Heine" by Bert Gerresheim as a gift to the city in 1981. After the death of his wife and daughter and a disease of the spine, he increasingly withdrew and became quieter. But the gallery owner Hans-Jürgen Niepel had never lost his Berlin dialect and Berlin humor, although he lived in Düsseldorf for 55 years until his death.

Honors

In 2002, the gallery owner and bookseller Hans-Jürgen Niepel was awarded the prize of the KulturSalon Düsseldorf . The forum for artists, cultural workers and friends of culture, founded in 2000, honored the native of Berlin for his life's work and his services to the culture of the North Rhine-Westphalia capital.

In 2010 the exhibition “Painting meets poetry” of the Heinrich Heine Institute showed paintings by Hannelore Köhler and Hans-Günther Cremers with representatives of Düsseldorf's cultural life. a. to Hans Jürgen Niepel.

Exhibitions (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Painting meets poetry, picture by gallery owner Hans-Jürgen Niepel , on NRZ.de on April 16, 2010, accessed on August 5, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Niepel, Hans-Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Niepel, Hans Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gallery owner and bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 2007
Place of death Dusseldorf