Helmut Klewan

Helmut Klewan (born May 27, 1943 in Bad Friedrichshall ) is an Austro-German gallery owner , author and art collector .

Life

Helmut Klewan spent his childhood and youth in Linz and Vienna . His mother and father ran an art and antiques trade in Vienna , and Helmut Klewan also initially devoted himself to this profession. However, he was more interested in modern art than salon painting, which was sold in his parents' shop. A meeting with Arnulf Rainer , who also dealt in antiques in the 1960s, led to an even stronger interest in contemporary art. Klewan bought his first “black picture” from Arnulf Rainer. Then Helmut Klewan was introduced to the circle of Viennese Actionists and opened his first gallery in 1970. For the design of the gallery Klewan recorded Luigi Blau responsible.

He founded a gallery association with Kurt Kalb and Hubert Winter. In addition, he studied art history at the University of Vienna. In 1978 he opened a branch in Munich. Klewan also appeared as an author and co-author as well as a publisher of art books. In 1986 the Vienna location was closed, the Munich gallery remained in existence until 1999. Since then, Helmut Klewan has only appeared as a collector and lender for museums, and has continued to devote himself to art books.

Helmut Klewan lives in Vienna.

literature

• " Hermann Nitsch , Akustisches Abreaktionsspiel", first long-playing record by H. Nitsch, recorded by WDR in Cologne 1972, Vienna 1973.
• " Kurt Schwitters , 12 collages", with an essay by Gerhard Rühm, Vienna 1976.
• "Rarely shown art, group work from Berlin, 1975, by Attersee, Günter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Dominik Steiger and Oswald Wiener, with texts by Attersee, Roth, Rühm", Munich 1979.
• "Walter Pichler", Munich 1979.
• " William N. Copley , Pictures and Drawings", with a text by Ingrid Reim and a reply by Copley, Munich 1981.
• "Triumph of the heart, salon painting & kitsch & curiosity", with a foreword by Helmut Klewan and texts by HC Artmann, Attersee, Silvio Baviera, Claus Heinrich Meyer, Hermann Nitsch, Mechthild Rausch and Gerhard Rühm, Munich 1982, ISBN 978-3930127085 .
• "The ladies of Paul Kleinschmidt (1883-1949)", with an introduction by Dorothea Baumer, Munich 1983, ISBN 978-3930127092 .
• "Twelve Austrians, Attersee, Brus, Frank, Gironcoli, Kocherscheidt, Lassnig, Nitsch, Pichler, Rainer, Rühm, Staudacher, Steiger", with an introduction by Otto Breicha, Munich 1983.
• "Turi Werkner, Works 1981-1984", with a text by Stefan Silbernagl, Munich 1984.
• " Loftus Etienne , works on cardboard", with texts by Attersee, Otto Breicha and Hermann Nitsch, Munich 1985, ISBN 978-3930127122 .
• " Klaus Walterspiel , Pictures and Drawings", Munich 1985.
• Carl Felix von Schlichtegroll, "Die Hexe von Klewan", with the essay "Die Lust am Böse" by Albert Caraco, Munich 1986 (first edition 1901), ISBN 3-88221-513-5 .
• " Hans Staudacher , Graffiti, Stamp Images, Scriptural Informel 1956-1968", with a text by Doris Schmidt, Munich 1986.
• " Attersee . Early Pictures 1964-74", with a text by Dorothee Baumer, Munich 1987.
• " Loftus Etienne , Rainer-Revisions", with a text by Arnulf Rainer, Munich 1987, ISBN 978-3930127153 .
• "Ways to Giacometti ", with texts by Aragon, Boehm, Brassai, Buccarelli, Genet, Giacometti, Gide, Leiris, Sartre, Sylvester and others, Munich 1987, ISBN 978-3882212341 .
• "The view out of the frame, painted photographs 1850-1950", with a text by Mechthild Rausch, Munich 1987.
• "Tempi Passati, Hermann Nitsch , Arnulf Rainer , Hans Staudacher ", with a text by Otto Breicha, Munich 1988, ISBN 978-3930127177 .
• " Maria Lassnig , Pictures of the Sixties", with a text by Oswald Wiener, Munich 1989, ISBN 978-3930127191 .
• " Christine Linder , Pictures", with a text by Hanne Weskott, Munich 1989.
• " Michael Langer , Speech Bubbles and Distorted Images 1965-1968", monograph with texts by Cornelia Stabenow and Michael Langer, Munich 1990, ISBN 978-3930127207 .
• " André Masson , Gesammelte Schriften", Volume I, with texts by Masson, Bataille, Beckett, Leiris, etc., Munich 1990, ISBN 978-3882212457 .
• " Hans Staudacher , writing and gesture / The 50s", monograph with texts by Dieter Ronte, Doris Schmidt and Arnulf Rainer, Munich 1991, ISBN 978-3930127214 .
• " Maria Lassnig , pictures, drawings, watercolors, graphics", with a text by Wieland Schmied, Munich 1992, ISBN 978-3930127221 .
• " Alberto Giacometti , drawings", with texts by Stephan Broser, James Lord and Wieland Schmied, Munich 1994, ISBN 978-3930127252 .
• " Heinrich Nüsslein (1879-1947), Medial Painting", with texts by Mechthild Rausch and Gerhard Rühm, Munich 1994, ISBN 978-3930127238 .
• " Alberto Giacometti , drawings, unique prints and additions to the catalog raisonné of the prints by Lust", with texts by Andreas Franzke, Bruno Giacometti, Christiane Lange and James Lord, Munich 1997.
• " Franz Hubmann , Visiting Picasso", 55 photographs 1957, with texts by Otto Breicha, Franz Hubmann, Christiane Lange, Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3930127276 .
• " Franz Hubmann , artist portraits from the Klewan Collection", with texts by Ulrich Pohlmann, Otto Breicha and Christiane Lange, Munich 1999.
• Christiane Lange : "Obsession. Klewan Collection", 2001, Hanover 2001.
• " André Masson , Collected Writings", Volume II, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-88221-297-7 .
• Helmut Klewan (Ed.): "Poets, Thinkers, Dadaists", Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-88221-999-9 .
• Helmut Klewan (Ed.): "Self-portraits. Klewan Collection", Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3854095040 .
• Andreas Otto Kühne, Ulrike Göschen, Bernd Göbel: "Alberto Giacometti: Painting, Graphics, Sculpture from the Klewan Collection, Munich", Kunstverein Talstrasse 2009, ISBN 978-3-93296-248-6 .
• Helmut Klewan (Ed.), "Kisses, Bites, Erotic Trophies", Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85418-137-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Art magazine "Parnass" issue 1/09, "The collector Helmut Klewan" by Hanne Weskott
2. ↑ Report in Die Welt

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Klewan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Helmut Klewan in the catalog of the Austrian National Library