Hubertus Schoeller

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Hubertus Schoeller (born May 28, 1942 in Düren ) is a German art collector and donor as well as a former gallery owner . His Schoeller gallery in Düsseldorf specialized in concrete art . After his gallery was closed, Schoeller brought large parts of his art collection to the Hubertus Schoeller Foundation , which has since been permanently available to the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren.

Life

Hubertus Schoeller, son of Christa Schoeller and the industrialist Kurt Schoeller, is a scion of the Düren branch of the Rhenish entrepreneurial family Schoeller . Schoeller showed a keen interest in modern art during his school days and developed the idea of ​​working as a gallery owner, but was also intended as a probable successor for the management of his parents' wire mesh and screen technology company . After graduating from the Stiftisches Gymnasium , he first completed a commercial apprenticeship and then studied business administration and art history in Berlin from 1964 to 1969 . Even after further training with a tax consultant and some stays abroad, including as a trainee in a London gallery, he had not yet made a decision about his professional life and initially joined his parents' company in 1972. In 1974 he finally decided to work as a gallery owner.

He took a share in the Wendtorf & Swetec gallery, founded in 1969 on Bilker Strasse in Düsseldorf, which he took over a year later. This had a focus on the artists of the Düsseldorf artist group ZERO, which existed from 1958 to 1966, in the field of "concrete" or "constructive" art. In 1979 he rented rooms in the old Conzen glass factory on Poststrasse in Düsseldorf and moved there with his gallery after renovating the rooms.

Schoeller worked with artists like Antonio Calderara , Carlos Cruz-Diez , Günter Fruhtrunk , Jiří Kolář , Richard Paul Lohse , Adolf Luther , Heinz Mack , Otto Piene , George Rickey , Peter Royen , Klaus Staudt and Ludwig Wilding and stayed during his loyal to the entire activity of the art movement of Concrete Art and its sub-areas and neighboring areas ( Kinetic Art , Op Art , Visual Poetry ). During his decades of activity, he built up a private collection of works by the artists he represented.

At the end of 2002, Schoeller closed his gallery - apart from a final exhibition in August 2003. He gave the archive of his gallery to the Central Archive of the International Art Trade in Cologne . Schoeller brought part of his private collection, supplemented by donations from works by his artists, to the newly established Hubertus Schoeller Foundation. The foundation is located at the Leopold Hoesch Museum in his home town of Düren, where it has since been permanently available to the museum together with other pieces from Schoeller's private collection. The first exhibition of the holdings took place there from April to June 2004; the catalog listed 116 works by 51 artists. Schoeller is still connected to the artists of the ZERO group and the legacy of the group as a member of the Board of Trustees of the ZERO foundation.

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SURNAME Schoeller, Hubertus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gallery owner and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren