Justin Thannhauser

Justin Thannhauser (also: Justin K. Thannhauser , born May 7, 1892 in Hürben , today part of Krumbach (Swabia) ; † December 26, 1976 in Bern ) was an initially German, later American gallery owner and art collector.

Life

Justin Thannhauser was the son of the art dealer Heinrich Thannhauser from a Jewish family originally based in Mönchsdeggingen . He learned from his father in his modern gallery in Munich, which he founded in 1904 .

Thannhauser among colleagues, 3rd from left (1938)

Vincent van Gogh : Hill near Saint-Rémy from the JK Thannhauser collection

In 1919 he opened a branch in Lucerne and in 1927 he ventured to Berlin , initially with two sensational solo exhibitions. A year later, he relocated the art dealer's headquarters entirely from Munich to Berlin.

From 1933 on, Thannhauser tried to move his business abroad. In 1937 he emigrated to Paris, where he ran a gallery until 1940, the holdings of which were also confiscated after the occupation by the German Wehrmacht. He managed to flee to New York with part of his collection , where he ventured a new beginning for the third time.

Thannhauser Collection

In 1963 Justin Thannhauser donated his private collection and that of his father as the Thannhauser Collection to the Guggenheim Museum , in which a room named after him commemorates him. This added works from Impressionism and Post- Impressionism to the still young collection . The collection only came to the museum as a loan and after Thannhauser's death in 1976 it was inherited by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation . These include works such as Hills near Saint-Rémy by Vincent van Gogh , Haere Mai by Paul Gauguin , In front of the mirror by Édouard Manet and Hilly Landscape near Pontoise by Camille Pissarro , which dates from 1867 and is still the oldest work in the collection is. 32 paintings and works on paper by Pablo Picasso such as Le Moulin de la Galette and Woman with Yellow Hair also come from the Thannhauser Collection . After the museum was already in possession of some works from the analytical- cubist and thus abstract phase of Picasso such as the accordion player , it is now in possession of one of the largest public collections of Picasso's works after the addition of the Thannhauser Collection.

literature

• Matthew Drutt: Thannhauser: The Thannhauser Collection of the Guggenheim Museum. Published by Guggenheim Museum, New York 2001 ISBN 0810969203 , ISBN 9780810969209
• Thannhauser. Dealers, collectors, donors. Edited by Central archive of the international art trade e. V. ZADIK in cooperation with the SK Stiftung Kultur of Sparkasse KölnBonn. Nuremberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst 2006 (Sediment. Communications on the history of the art trade. 11.)
• Emily D. Bilski: The "Modern Gallery" by Heinrich Thannhauser / The "Modern Gallery" of Heinrich Thannhauser. Munich: Edition Minerva 2008. (collecting images. 06.). (For the exhibition of the same name Jewish Museum Munich January 30 - May 25, 2008)

Web links

Commons : Collection Thannhauser  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ picture Le Moulin de la Galette ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ picture woman with yellow hair ( memento of the original from September 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Picture accordion player ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.