Karl Hartung (Antiquarian)

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Karl Hartung (born September 4, 1914 in Bad Ischl , † October 26, 2012 in Munich ) was a German antiquarian and auctioneer . He was active in his profession for over 80 years, since 1971 as head of the auction house Hartung & Karl, since 1989, after the entry of his son Felix, as managing director of "Hartung & Hartung", which is located on Karolinenplatz in Munich. In media reports on his death, he was described as "one of the greats in his field".

Life

Karl Hartung was born in Bad Ischl, Upper Austria, but grew up in Munich- Schwabing . In 1929 he started as an apprentice at the company Karl & Faber , which the baroque expert Curt von Faber du Faur and the art historian Georg Karl had founded in Munich.

In the 1930s, the sale of the Fürstlich Oettingen-Wallersteinschen Library by Karl & Faber, which took place in eight auctions , was a significant event.

After the Second World War , Georg Karl and Karl Hartung rebuilt the company, Hartung became a partner in 1966. In 1971 the auction of art and that of books were separated: Hartung & Karl was responsible for the auction of books, Karl & Faber for the auction of art. In 1989, Karl Hartung's son Felix Hartung joined the company, which he now runs with his sister Katharina Hartung.

The Hartung companies auctioned the books of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1978), the specialist library of the restaurateur Alfred Walterspiel (1984), the "Schlossbibliothek Triefenstein" (1995) "and the literary estate of the Frankfurt collector Carl Hagemann .

For many years Hartung was a member of the board of the Association of German Antiquaries and a member of the executive committee of the "Federal Association of German Art Auctioneers", which he co-founded.

Until the year of his death, Hartung ran auctions for his company, which "is one of the top addresses in the guild and enjoys an international reputation". In around 2008, Hartung & Hartung made an estimate of the value of Karl May's estate and based it on it estimated seven million euros.

Karl Hartung was buried in the Westfriedhof in Munich .

literature

  • Brita Sachs: On the death of Karl Hartung: A life for the book , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung November 3, 2012 online
  • Brita Sachs: The Lord of Books , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 4, 2005 online
  • Elisabeth Müller-Gaertner: Knowledge, experience, patience - auctioneer Karl Hartung celebrated his 90th birthday , Welt September 18, 2004 online
  • Antiquarian Karl Hartung dies , Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels October 29, 2012
  • Wolfgang Görl: The Lord of the Hundred Thousand Books , Süddeutsche Zeitung May 19, 2010 (for Hartung's 90th birthday (sic!)) Online

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brita Sachs: The Lord of Books , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 4, 2005
  2. ↑ The Karl & Faber auction house still exists under this name (as of 2016), see Karl and Faber's homepage
  3. ↑ In reality the library of the Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg house , s. Klaus Graf: Bloodletting on regional cultural assets. The Princely Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg book and music bazaar in 1995 .
  4. ^ Brita Sachs: The Lord of Books , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 4, 2005
  5. ↑ see Stefan Locke: Karl May - Does his estate disappear in the private safe? , FAZ April 10, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Hartung, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German antiquarian and auctioneer
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Ischl
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 2012
Place of death Munich