Hans Paffrath

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Hans Christian Paffrath (* 1959 in Dusseldorf ) is a German art dealer for painting of the 19th century and classical modernism.

Vita

Hans Paffrath was the eldest of five children of Hans-Georg Paffrath and his wife Helena, born Baroness Åkerhielm (1938–2013), into an art dealer family. After studying art history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , he took over the Paffrath Gallery in 1987 in the fifth generation. First he was the managing director of the family company, since 2000 he has been the sole shareholder.

As a native of Düsseldorf, Hans Paffrath primarily deals with pictures by painters from the Düsseldorf School of Painting . These include: Andreas Achenbach and Oswald Achenbach , Max Clarenbach , Hugo Mühlig , Johann Wilhelm Preyer and Emilie Preyer . In addition, Hans Paffrath also represents internationally known artists of classical modernism in his gallery, such as Max Liebermann , Lovis Corinth , Emil Nolde , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Gabriele Münter . The third major inventory of the art trade is determined by works by Scandinavian artists of the 19th century, such as Peder Mönsted and Johan Laurentz Jensen .

Hans Paffrath is a member of numerous museum associations and is on the board of the Volmer Collection Foundation . In 2008 he founded the Paffrath Art Foundation .

In addition to the art trade, Hans Paffrath's activities also include organizing sales exhibitions . In recent years he has worked in the gallery rooms on Königsallee in Düsseldorf, including Andreas Achenbach , Oswald Achenbach , Max Clarenbach (2001), Hugo Mühlig (2004), Emilie and Johann Wilhelm Preyer (2009), Peder Mönsted (2013) and Günther Uecker (Aquarelle, 2017) dedicated a solo exhibition . In addition, Hans Paffrath presents the new acquisitions of Galerie Paffrath twice a year - in spring and autumn - for two weeks each in an exhibition of the same name.

In 2004 and 2006, Hans Paffrath discovered paintings that were considered “lost” . In 2004 it was the picture “Hunters in the Dunes”, which was painted by Max Liebermann in 1914 and was considered lost for over 70 years. Hans Paffrath discovered a second painting in 2006. It was a picture that Lovis Corinth had painted in oil in 1911 and is entitled "Roses". This was after the Second World War missing, since it 50 years undetected in the Depot was a Dresden museum.

In 2017, Galerie Paffrath celebrated its 150th anniversary with several exhibitions and book publications, such as the book “The Gallery. 150 Years of Galerie Paffrath ”on the company's history and an interview with Hans Paffrath. The work "Bearded Man (Jacob Becker, called Becker von Worms)" by Wilhelm Schadow formed a special centerpiece of the celebrations . At the same time, Hans Paffrath, together with the Museum Kunstpalast and the Schadow specialist Cordula Grewe, published the catalog raisonné “Wilhelm Schadow. Catalog raisonné of the paintings with a selection of the associated drawings and prints ”.

He has been married to the German tennis player Vanessa Henke since 2017.

Hans Paffrath volunteers for the Catholic Prison Association Düsseldorf eV in Düsseldorf.

Publications (selection)

  • Hugo Mühlig. 1854 Dresden - Düsseldorf 1929 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1993.
  • Masterpieces from the Düsseldorf School of Painting . Droste, Düsseldorf 1995.
  • Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf and Galerie Paffrath (ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . 3 volumes. Bruckmann, Munich 1997–1998.
  • Max Clarenbach. 1880 Neuss - Cologne 1952 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-1134-1
  • with Siegfried Weiß (Ed.): Preyer. With the catalog raisonné of the paintings by Johann Wilhelm and Emilie Preyer . Wienand, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86832-003-9 .
  • Peder Mönsted. Magic of nature . Düsseldorf / Goch 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-038996-2 .
  • The gallery. 150 years of Galerie Paffrath . Düsseldorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-7700-6022-1 .
  • with Cordula Grewe (author) and Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): Wilhelm Schadow. Catalog raisonné of the paintings with a selection of the associated drawings and prints . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7319-0500-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tsf: Liebermann painting emerged - NZZ. In: nzz.ch. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 5, 2004, accessed on April 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ RP ONLINE: Anniversary: ​​Galerie Paffrath looks back on 150 years. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Michael-Georg Müller: Schadow catalog shows works by the Düsseldorf artist icon . ( nrz.de [accessed February 1, 2018]).
  4. ^ RP ONLINE: Hans Paffrath: Kö-Galerist marries his dream woman. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Paffrath, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paffrath, Hans Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf