Hans Konrad Röthel

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Hans Konrad Röthel (also Roethel, born July 12, 1909 in Hamburg , † February 17, 1982 in Princeton (New Jersey) ) was a German art historian . From 1956 to 1971 he was director of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich .

Career

Röthel studied art history at the University of Hamburg , among others with Erwin Panofsky . In 1936 he received his doctorate under Gustav Pauli in Hamburg. From 1937 to 1941 he assisted at the St. Annen Museum in Lübeck and then worked at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg. After the war he moved to Munich and was chief curator at the Central Collecting Point until 1949 and then curator at the Bavarian State Painting Collections . In 1946 he was the initiator and co-founder of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich.

In 1951 he was on a Fulbright scholarship at American universities. He also visited his former teacher Panofsky in Princeton , who remembered the visit in a letter to William S. Heckscher : “We had a rather nice visit from little Röthel […]. He is still extremely nice and candid and has developed in a most enjoyable fashion. "

Act

In 1960 and 1962 Röthel was commissioner for the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale , where he showed Willi Baumeister , HAP Grieshaber , Erich Heckel , Brigitte Matschinsky-Denninghoff and Emil Schumacher , among others .

In 1956, Röthel was appointed director of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich as the successor to Arthur Rümann . He was interested in classical modernism , especially the artist group Der Blaue Reiter . In 1957, with the Gabriele Münter Foundation, he was able to acquire the most extensive and most important collection of works by Wassily Kandinsky for the house. At the same time he published a number of publications about the artist, such as the Critical Catalog of Prints from 1970. In mid-1971, Röthel retired prematurely after ongoing conflicts with the city administration over financing the expansion of the gallery. He was succeeded by Michael Petzet .

Since 1970 Röthel was director of the Blue Rider Trust in Princeton. He died in 1982 after completing the manuscript for the catalog of Kandinsky's oil paintings . He was married to Elly Röthel (1911–2009) and they had three children.

Curated exhibitions

  • 1960: New painting - form, structure, meaning
  • 1961: Bernhard Hanfstaengel - travel memories in drawings and watercolors for his 50th birthday

Fonts

  • Acquisitions of contemporary painting and sculpture. 1945-1950 . Bavarian State Painting Collection and State Graphic Collection, Munich, 1951
  • The Hanseatic cities of Hamburg, Lübeck, Bremen . Prestel, Munich, 1955

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Topic of the dissertation: Bourgeois culture and portrait painting in Hamburg during the first half of the 18th century (published by Hansischer Gildenverlag, Hamburg, 1938)
  2. ^ Irene Netta: 75 years old: Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich , Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 2004 ISBN 9783886451579 , p. 28
  3. ↑ Panofsky in a letter to Heckscher dated June 7, 1951. In: Dieter Wuttke (Ed.): Korrespondenz 1950 to 1956 , Volume 3 of Korrespondenz 1910 to 1968: An annotated selection in five volumes , Harrassowitz, 2006 ISBN 9783447053730 , p. 167
  4. ↑ Ursula Zeller , Katia Reich (ed.): The German Contributions to the Venice Biennale 1895–2007 , DuMont, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-8321-9016-3 , p. 39
  5. ↑ Pantheon, Bruckmann, Munich, Volume 42, 1984, p. 100
personal data
SURNAME Röthel, Hans Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1982
Place of death Princeton, New Jersey