Hans-Jürgen Niepel
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)
- 1959 and 1963: Johannes Geccelli
- 1961: Joachim Dunkel
- 1963: Gerhard Wind , gouaches
- 1965: Ferdinand Kriwet , Publit 1
- 1965: Curt Stenvert , Human Situations
- 1966: Georg Rauch, Rolloide
- 1967: Otmar Alt , oil paintings and drawings
- 1968: Winfred Gaul
- 1968: Friedrich Meckseper , oil paintings and etchings
- 1969: Hans-Joachim Speßhardt
- 1969 and 1973: Hans-Jürgen Diehl
- 1971 and 2004: Klaus Kammerichs
- 1973 and 1991: Maina-Miriam Munsky
- 1976: Hartmut Lincke, oil paintings and drawings
- 1977: Herbert Kaufmann (1924–2011), works from 1956 to 1976
- 1983: Otto Lenz, pictures from 1973 to 1983
- 1980: Klaus Jürgen-Fischer
- 1984: Axel Heibel
- 1985: Die Langheimer group with Fritz Schwegler
- 1986: Wolfgang Rohloff
- 1990: Homage to Peter Brüning on the 20th anniversary of his death
- 1991: Roger David Servais
- 1996 and 1999: Misch Da Leiden
- 1987 and 1989: Hans Scheib
- 1993: Kang Jinmo
- 1998: Martel Wiegand , head and collar
- 2002: Christiaan Paul Damsté
- 2003: Hans-Günther Cremers , pictures 2003, Galerie Hans-Jürgen Niepel near Morawitz
Web links
- Bookseller Hans-Jürgen Niepel: Ein Berliner im Rheinland , WZ from February 5, 2008, accessed August 4, 2015
- Vexierportrait Hans-Jürgen Niepel by Bert Gerresheim, 1971 , on artax.de, accessed on August 5, 2015
- Portrait of Hans-Jürgen Niepel by Peter Royen, jun., 1995 , at artax.de, accessed on August 5, 2015
- Hans-Jürgen Niepel died at the age of 79 , on buchmarkt.de, accessed on August 5, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Painting meets poetry, picture by gallery owner Hans-Jürgen Niepel , on NRZ.de on April 16, 2010, accessed on August 5, 2015
personal data | |
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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 |