Hans Pels-Leusden

Hans Pels-Leusden (1975)

Hans Pels-Leusden (born August 19, 1908 in Lüdenscheid , North Rhine-Westphalia , † April 26, 1993 in Berlin ) was a German painter , gallery owner and art dealer .

Life

Grave of Hans Pels-Leusden in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Pels-Leusden, the child of a family of lawyers, studied with Paul Bindel from 1927 and was trained as a painter by Willy Jaeckel . In the early 1930s he was discovered and promoted by Edwin Redslob and in 1932 he had his first solo exhibition at the renowned Nierendorf Gallery in Berlin. A number of his pictures were confiscated during the Nazi era and destroyed in a hail of bombs in 1941.

In 1950 he took over an antiquarian bookshop in the ruins at Kurfürstendamm 181, which over time turned into an art trade and became a place of pilgrimage for the Berlin art scene. After the premises there became too small and the house was demolished due to the construction of Lietzenburger Straße as a bypass road for Kurfürstendamm, he moved to Kurfürstendamm 59/60 in 1961. He had the villa Grisebach at Fasanenstrasse 25, threatened by decay, reconstructed from private funds and moved into the new gallery space on March 21, 1986 with his business partner Bernd Schultz. In the same year he founded the Villa Grisebach auctions there with the art dealers Bernd Schultz (Berlin), Wilfried Utermann (Dortmund), Raimund Thomas (Munich) and Michael Neumann (Düsseldorf).

From his collected works by Käthe Kollwitz , he founded the Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin in the neighboring building, Fasanenstrasse 24, on May 31, 1986 . He served as its director until his death.

Hans Pels-Leusden died in Berlin in April 1993 at the age of 84. His grave is in the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 7-G-20/21).

Honors

On August 18, 1983, Hans Pels-Leusden received the honorary professorship . Hans Pels-Leusden was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class.

Web links

Commons : Hans Pels-Leusden - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Hans Kinkel: A later born Hans in luck. FAZ, No. 98, April 28, 1993, p. 37.
Michael Zajonz: Painter, collector, bon vivant: for the 100th birthday of Hans Pels-Leusden. Tagesspiegel, August 19, 2008.

Camilla Blechen: Memory of a Magician. FAZ, August 19, 2008.

Heerstrasse cemetery, Hans Pels-Leusden memorial. Friedparks, Grave Preservation Berlin eV

Individual evidence

↑ https://www.villa-grisebach.de/de/wir-ueber-uns/geschichte-der-firma/
^ Website of the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum. Retrieved on November 14, 2019. Arne Kollwitz: Dispute about the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum. The evil game with exile . In: Der Tagesspiegel . May 9, 2017. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
↑ New director for the Kollwitz Museum . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Saturday / Sunday, 29./30. January 1994. p. 9. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 492.
↑ http://www.luise-berlin.de/ehrung/p/pels_leusden_hans.htm

personal data
SURNAME	Pels-Leusden, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, gallery owner and art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 19, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ludenscheid
DATE OF DEATH	April 26, 1993
Place of death	Berlin

[1] ttps://www.villa-grisebach.de/de/wir-ueber-uns/geschichte-der-firma/

[2] Website of the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum. Retrieved on November 14, 2019. Arne Kollwitz: Dispute about the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum. The evil game with exile . In: Der Tagesspiegel . May 9, 2017. Retrieved November 14, 2019.

[3] New director for the Kollwitz Museum . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Saturday / Sunday, 29./30. January 1994. p. 9. Retrieved November 14, 2019.

[4] Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 492.

[5] ttp://www.luise-berlin.de/ehrung/p/pels_leusden_hans.htm