Hein Stünke

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Heinrich "Hein" Stünke (* 25. October 1913 in Oberhausen , † 29. December 1994 in Friborg ) than upper Colonel deputy bureau chief in the Cultural Office of the Reich Youth Leadership . After 1945 he established himself as a well-known German gallery owner , art publisher and art dealer . In 1967 he founded the Cologne art market with Rudolf Zwirner .

Life

Career in the Hitler Youth

Academy for Youth Leadership (topping-out ceremony 1938)

Hein Stünke joined the Hitler Youth (HJ) in 1930 . From 1934 he was full-time responsible for training in Lower Saxony, most recently he was chief ban leader in the Reich Youth Leadership , Berlin. He became a soldier in 1939 and was seriously wounded in 1941. He wrote a theoretical pamphlet in which he called for "true political leadership" and called for the educational dominance of the Hitler Youth for youth in Greater Germany .

In 1942, Stünke was appointed course director and finally deputy director of the Academy for Youth Leadership in Braunschweig , which he reported on in Westermann's monthly magazine in 1944 . During his time in Braunschweig he met Eberhard Zwirner , the father of his future colleague Rudolf Zwirner. In 1944 he was ordered to use the academy for defense. He put together several Volkssturm units, subordinated the companies to Hitler Youth leaders, who were also referred to as "HJ Combat Group Stünke" and had their command post in Weddel , and took over the management of the battalion.

Art dealer

In 1945 Stünke fled with his wife Eva (1913–1988) on foot westward to the British occupation zone in Cologne. They were able to establish themselves there quickly and opened the “ Der Spiegel Gallery ” on December 2, 1945 in the Deutz district on the right bank of the Rhine, in a half-destroyed house in Gotenring . Leaving their past completely behind, they took on artists like Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart , who had been considered “ degenerate ” under National Socialism . Stünke and his surroundings tabooed his National Socialist past throughout his life.

From 1959 to 1972 Stünke was active as a consultant for the Kassel Documenta . Among other things, he was a member of the Committee for Printmaking (together with Arnold Bode and Werner Schmalenbach ) at Documenta II in 1959 , the selection of which was shown in a separate exhibition at Bellevue Palace . “There he observed that more visitors streamed into this exhibition in a single day than in his gallery rooms in the whole year. Stünke did not receive a fee, but was instead allowed to sell and exhibit graphics [from his gallery] in Kassel and realized that people wanted to 'not only look at art, but also own it': the idea of ​​founding a fair for contemporary art was born. " Since 1959 Stünke belonged to the Association of the Documenta Foundation , which supported the exhibitions with donations and with artist editions, but also had an influence on the artistic direction and the composition of the executive bodies.

In 1966, Hein Stünke and his colleague Rudolf Zwirner founded the “Association of progressive German art dealers”. V. ”, which was preparing an international art fair. It took place for the first time in 1967 under the name Kunstmarkt Köln '67 in Cologne's Gürzenich and is known as the “mother of all art fairs”.

Fonts

  • (Ed.) Struggle and Faith. Poems by Austrian poets 1933–1938. Voggenreiter, Potsdam 1938.
  • The Hitler Youth. In: Rudolf Benze, Gustav Gräfer: Educational powers and educational sovereignty in the Greater German Reich as shaping forces in the life of the German. Leipzig 1940.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hildegard von Kotze: Regesten, Part 1 , new edition de Gruyter, Munich, 1983 ISBN 978-3-11097489-8 p. 398
  2. ↑ The Hitler Youth. In: Rudolf Benze, Gustav Gräfer: Educational powers and educational sovereignty in the Greater German Reich as shaping forces in the life of the German. Leipzig 1940, p. 77 ff.
  3. ↑ Hein Stünke: The academy for youth leadership. In: Westermanns Monatshefte, July 1944, p. 431.
  4. ↑ Hans Holzträger: Combat deployment of the Hitler Youth in the chaos of the last months of the war. AGK-Verlag, Dinklage 1995, ISBN 978-3-92838915-0 , p. 46.
  5. ^ Klaus Honnef, Hans Martin Schmid: From the rubble - art and culture in the Rhineland and Westphalia 1945–1952: New beginning and continuity. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Art Museum Düsseldorf, Museum Bochum. Rheinland-Verlag, 1985, ISBN 978-3-79270871-2 , p. 317. (Interview with Eva Stünke)
  6. ^ Karl Ruhrberg , Hans-Christian Hoffmann, Heinz Scharbert: Zeitzeichen: Stations of fine arts in North Rhine-Westphalia. DuMont, Cologne 1989, ISBN 978-3-77012314-8 , p. 450.
  7. ↑ Jürgen Raap : 50 Years Art Cologne - The Anniversary Fair. In: Kunstforum International , Vol. 239 ( California Dreaming II), 2016.
  8. ↑ This is the world - the Documenta planners fell out over the influence of an art dealer. Now the project is being boycotted by exhibition organizers. In: Der Spiegel from June 17, 1974.
personal data
SURNAME Stünke, Hein
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stünke, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art dealer, art collector and curator
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1994
Place of death Freiburg in Üechtland