Jakob Wilhelm Hinder

Jakob Wilhelm Hinder (born March 1, 1901 in Weidenhausen , † January 1, 1976 in Deidesheim ) was a German collector of modern ceramics .

Life

Hinder was born in Weidenhausen in the Biedenkopf district (Hessen) in 1901, where he spent his childhood. He then worked for an iron merchant and became aware of this craft among farmers who made pottery. With the help of relevant literature, he familiarized himself with pottery and the history of ceramics. In his hometown he organized his first ceramic exhibition, which was well received, and from 1925 moved with his exhibition through Germany. In between he also worked as a timber buyer in East and West Prussia ; in World War II he was used as a soldier in Poland, Italy and Russia.

After the war, he traveled through West Germany with his traveling exhibition "Craft weaving and pottery", from 1951 together with Lotte Reimers . In 1961 the two settled in Deidesheim in the Palatinate, after Hinder had advertised for a property in the newspaper Die Rheinpfalz and one of the three responses was one from Deidesheim.

Hinder was a promoter of young talent in the ceramics scene; With a lot of willingness to take risks, he bought entire deliveries from ceramists who he recognized as good approaches, thereby helping to secure their artistic existence. His life's work was an extensive, unique ceramic collection that Hinder and his partner Lotte Reimers exhibited in the “ Museum for Modern Ceramics ” they set up in Deidesheim, the first museum of its kind in Germany. Hinder was known as the “ceramic headquarters”. Since 1961, he has brought together many well-known German and international artists from the ceramic scene at regular meetings in Deidesheim.

For his collection, which was on view in the Museum of Modern Ceramics, artists such as Ingeborg and Bruno Asshoff, Elfriede and Heiner Balzar-Kopp, Richard Bampi , Jan Bontjes van Beek , Albrecht Hohlt, Otto Hohlt, Beate Kuhn , Wim Mühlendyck , Walter Popp , Jürgen Riecke, Karl Scheid, Ruth Koppenhöfer , Brigitte Schuller and others did their best work. The collection comprised various techniques: clinker and terracotta , faience , earthenware , porcelain and stoneware ; The exhibits included vessels such as vases, jugs, jugs, bowls, etc., as well as sculptures of various animals and Madonnas, but also abstracts such as the model of chemical or physical substances. Hinder gave lectures for visitors to the museum and gave demonstrations on the pottery wheel .

Together with his colleague Lotte Reimers, Hinder brought out the volume "Modern Ceramics from Germany" in 1971, which offered an overview of the history of modern ceramics as well as an overview of the then current ceramic scene and introduced leading ceramists and their work. After his death in 1976 the museum in Deidesheim was initially closed, but reopened a short time later by his partner Lotte Reimers, who continued Hinder's life's work and was able to expand the collection. In 1993 the Ministry of Education and Culture of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate took over the collection, which consists of 1,587 objects. It has been in the vaulted cellar of the Villa Ludwigshöhe in Edenkoben since July 2005 , where it is exhibited today as "Modern 20th Century Ceramics".

literature

Jakob Wilhelm Hinder and Lotte Reimers: Modern Ceramics from Germany , Museum for Modern Ceramics, Deidesheim, 1971
Ingrid Vetter: Ceramics in Germany 1955 - 1990: the Hinder / Reimers collection (a selection) . Arnold, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-925369-77-5 .

Web links

Literature by and about Jakob Wilhelm Hinder in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Kurt Kölsch : Jakob Wilhelm Hinder. Guardian of the oldest handicraft in the world . In: The Palatinate on the Rhine . tape 38 , no. 8 . Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1965, p. 149 ff .
^ ^A ^b Christina Didier: Weinreb ash for ceramics . In: Bad Dürkheim district (Hrsg.): Heimat-Jahrbuch 1992 . Print shop u. Verlag Englram, Haßloch / Pfalz 1991, ISBN 3-926775-08-4 , p. 103 f .
↑ Vetter, p. 28
↑ Ars Phantastica. Works from the circle of artists around JW Hinder and L. Reimers. General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate, accessed on December 21, 2017 .
↑ Vetter, p. 34
↑ Modern ceramics of the 20th century - The Hinder / Reimers collection of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Association Museum for Modern Ceramics Deidesheim, accessed on December 21, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hinder, Jakob Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ceramic collector
DATE OF BIRTH	March 1, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weidenhausen
DATE OF DEATH	January 1, 1976
Place of death	Deidesheim

[Kölsch-1] Kurt Kölsch : Jakob Wilhelm Hinder. Guardian of the oldest handicraft in the world . In: The Palatinate on the Rhine . tape 38 , no. 8 . Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1965, p. 149 ff .

[Didier-2] A ^b Christina Didier: Weinreb ash for ceramics . In: Bad Dürkheim district (Hrsg.): Heimat-Jahrbuch 1992 . Print shop u. Verlag Englram, Haßloch / Pfalz 1991, ISBN 3-926775-08-4 , p. 103 f .

[3] Vetter, p. 28

[4] Ars Phantastica. Works from the circle of artists around JW Hinder and L. Reimers. General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate, accessed on December 21, 2017 .

[5] Vetter, p. 34

[6] Modern ceramics of the 20th century - The Hinder / Reimers collection of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Association Museum for Modern Ceramics Deidesheim, accessed on December 21, 2017 .