Heinz Spielmann

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Heinz Spielmann (born November 9, 1930 in Hattingen ) is a German art historian and museum curator .

Live and act

Schleswig-Holstein State Museum Schloss Gottorf

Spielmann was born the son of the master carpenter Heinrich Spielmann and his wife Elisabeth (née Müller). He studied in Aachen and Stuttgart architecture , art history and philosophy and was a thesis on Palladio Dr. Ing. PhD. After completing his studies, he became head of the modern department at the Museum of Art and Crafts in Hamburg, which Max Sauerlandt had set up from 1918 to 1933 . In his exhibitions he showed contemporary arts and crafts as well as illustrations and posters by well-known artists such as Picasso , Braque , Miró , Chagall , Max Ernst and Kokoschka . At the museum, he expanded the Art Nouveau collection, which Justus Brinckmann had already started, into one of the most important in Central Europe. From 1983 to 1995 he was an honorary professor for 19th and 20th century art at the University of Münster .

In 1986 Spielmann became the State Museum Director of Schleswig-Holstein . At the same time he was director of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum at Gottorf Castle . In this function he founded the Jewish Museum in Rendsburg and the Richard Haizmann Museum in Niebüll . After his retirement in 1998 he organized several exhibitions in Japan. In 2002 he became the founding director of the Bucerius Kunst Forum , which he headed until 2005.

Bucerius Art Forum in Hamburg

For the artist Willi Baumeister he wrote the catalog raisonné of prints: Serigraphs (1963), Lithographs (1965), etchings, original graphic posters, catalog of typographic works (1966), special edition: Das Graphische Werk (1972) and the catalog of prints (2005). He has been involved in the Rotary Club Hamburg-Steintor since 1970 .

The Lichtwark Society, Hamburg, founded a Heinz Spielmann scholarship to promote young artists.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Rooms and masterpieces from the Art Nouveau collection . Museum of Arts and Crafts, Hamburg, 1977.
  • Kokoschka. Life and Work , DuMont Verlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-83217320-X .
  • Up close - My life with artists 1950-2000 , Wachholtz Verlag - Murmann Publishers, Neumünster / Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-529-03433-6 .
  • Fantastic ideas for utopian architecture - about drawings, paintings and sculptures by Ingo Kühl . In: Ingo Kühl Architektur-Fantasien / Architectural Fantasies. Pp. 5–11, Verlag Kettler, Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-86206-470-0 .
  • Heinz Spielmann, Hella Häussler: Carl Otto Czeschka . 1878-1960. A Viennese artist and the Hamburg economy. Exhibition from August 18 to October 7, 2011. Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, Hamburg 2011
  • Heinz Spielmann: Carl Otto Czeschka. A Viennese artist in Hamburg. With unpublished letters and articles by Hella Häussler and Rüdiger Joppien. HWS series: Artists in Hamburg (Ed. By Ekkehard Nümann) Vol. 1, Wallstein-Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-8353-3434-2 [1]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Club and membership directory of Rotarians in the Federal Republic of Germany 2002/2003
  2. http://www.hws.org/maezaene/die-kuenstlerreihe/die-baende/