Katrin Stoll

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Katrin Stoll (* 1962 in Munich as Katrin Neumeister ) is a German art auctioneer and art dealer and has been the sole owner of the Neumeister Munich art auction house since 2008 . She left the Nazi history of the predecessor house scientifically worked up and introduced annotated auction protocols from the National Socialism of provenance research available. This makes it a pioneer in the German art trade.

Life

Katrin Stoll is the daughter of Christa and Rudolf Neumeister. The father was a lawyer. She grew up with two sisters in Munich. In 1958, the parents had acquired the Munich art auction house Adolf Weinmüller , which they renamed the "Neumeister Münchener Kunstauktionshaus" in 1978.

After a few semesters of medicine, Katrin Stoll trained with a carpenter who specialized in restoration and did an apprenticeship as an office clerk . She sat in on auction houses such as Sotheby’s in London and others in Paris before joining her father’s company in 1983 and working through all departments. She is also a sworn expert for painting and graphics of German Expressionism by the IHK . Rudolf Neumeister retired from business life in 1999 and handed the auction house over to his three daughters. Katrin Stoll became a member of the management in 2000, initially with a third of the company's shares. In April 2008 she took over the shares of her two sisters. Since then she has been the sole managing partner of the auction house and also conducts auctions herself. According to the art historian and journalist Bettina Krogemann, it is the only art company of this size and turnover in the German-speaking area that is managed by a woman.

Katrin Stoll was married to a doctor and is the mother of three children.

Act

Coming to terms with Nazi history

Neumeister's predecessor, Adolf Weinmüller, profited from the Nazi looted art and the “ Aryanization ” of Jewish art dealerships and collections in Munich and Vienna. After taking over the auction house, Stoll decided to have the company's history thoroughly investigated between 1933 and 1945. In spring 2009 she commissioned an independent scientist, the art historian Meike Hopp . A cooperation between the Central Institute for Art History in Munich, the Neumeister auction house and the Provenance Research Center of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin began. The Dorotheum except in Vienna was the first time an art trading company in the German-speaking reappraise its history during the Nazi era. After three years of research, the volume Kunsthandel im National Socialism: Adolf Weinmüller in Munich and Vienna was published in 2012 and is considered a standard work. As a follow-up project, this resulted in the investigation of Weinmüller's activities after the war, which Stoll co-financed and which was scientifically supported by Hopp and their colleagues Stephan Klingen and Christian Fuhrmeister .

In 2013, a total of 93 annotated auction catalogs and records from the Nazi era were found in a steel cupboard in the cellar of the Neumeister auction house on Barer Strasse, in which the names of consignors and buyers were noted, with Adolph Weinmüller's handwritten notes on over 33,000 auctioned objects as well as eleven catalogs from the Viennese auction house S. Kende , which Weinmüller had "aryanized" in 1938. The find revealed for the first time how deeply Adolf Weinmüller was involved in the Nazi art theft. Like many of his colleagues, Weinmüller had claimed that all business documents were burned in the war. After the war he was again granted an art trading and auction license, as there was almost no evidence of any dealings with looted art. Stoll again commissioned Meike Hopp to evaluate the catalogs. The documents were digitized together with the Berlin Provenance Research Center and then transcribed. As a facsimile edition was not possible for legal reasons , Stoll made the electronic, scientific edition fully accessible on the website of the Magdeburg coordination office lostart.de. If the stolen objects come back into the art trade, these data, object descriptions and images can be used to identify stolen works of art and to substantiate claims to ownership of the heirs of the former owners. Examples of this are the private collections of Agathe and Ernst Saulmann from Reutlingen and the Munich art dealer Siegfried Lämmle, from which parts could be returned to the heirs.

The British author Catherine Hickley , who has published a book about Hildebrand Gurlitt and the creation of his art collection, described Stoll's handling of Weinmüller's auction records as an exemplary approach to his own history. In 2014, the art critic Julia Voss said about Katrin Stoll:

“Without your courageous decision, we would not know anything of Weinmüller's well-kept secrets to this day. [...] To this day, Katrin Stoll runs the only German art trading company that gives independent historians access to files from the time of National Socialism. "

At the Saulmann collection, u. a. Julius Harry Böhler enriched, silent partner at Weinmüller from 1936 to 1938 and owner of an art shop in Munich. His descendant, Florian Eitle-Böhler, who continued the family business, followed Stoll's example in 2014 and handed over the entire object index of his ancestors to the Central Institute for Art History for digitization and research.

On the occasion of the restitution of Carl Spitzweg's “ Justitia ” after more than 80 years to the Jewish heirs of Else and Leo Bendel and the handover of the painting to the Neumeister auction house, the Frankfurter Rundschau named Katrin Stoll a “committed activist in matters of restitution , and thus a pioneer in Germany Art trade ". The painting was auctioned off to a private collection in 2020 for 550,000 euros.

Innovations in the auction house

The Neumeister auction house has traditionally specialized in older art eras with four auctions a year. Paintings of 19th century landscapes in Munich were particularly popular . In addition, in 1986 Stoll began building up the department for the art of classical modernism in his father's business and established it with two auctions a year. African art and design came later, and she rented gallery space for temporary exhibitions. At the 50th Modern Auction in 2011, she presented modern and contemporary art as well as a special auction entitled “Shape” with sculptures and sculptures. The focus was on works from the sixties and seventies, including works by Hans Steinbrenner . In 2016, in a specially curated section on the topic of “She”, Stoll brought together art by women, including Katharina Sieverding , and art about women, and others. a. with a work by George Grosz .

Attention in professional circles and public media received their auctions of vintage fashion the haute couture of five decades. which Stoll introduced in 2008 and held in the form of a "Silent Online Auction". Interested parties could bid on the Internet in ten euro increments. “Plastic Fantastic” was Stoll's second special auction for design with objects, furniture, jewelry and everyday items from the period from 1930 to the present day.

In 2017, Katrin Stoll was commissioned by the Max Mannheimers family to auction 35 Mannheim paintings in cooperation with the Jewish Museum in Munich for the benefit of the humanitarian association "Leopolis Aid for Ukraine". In another charity auction in 2018, she auctioned 22 objects by contemporary artists for the benefit of the peace project “The Art Road to Peace”, which brings together Jewish, Muslim and Christian children in Israel, the oldest being a self-portrait by Oskar Kokoschka four years before his death.

Volunteering

Katrin Stoll is an honorary member of boards of trustees and commissions, such as the purchasing committee of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus . She is a member of the board of trustees of the Flick Foundation, the board of the Munich Academy and the board of the "Friends of Tel Aviv Museum of Art Germany" (Tamad).

documentary

  • Under the hammer of the Nazis. The secret files of Adolf W. Directed by Oliver Halmburger and Thomas Staehler (55 min), Arte 2014, (broadcast on ARD 2018)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bettina Krogemann: On dealing with art , DER STANDARD / print edition, June 26, 2008
  2. ↑ a b c Tobias Timm : Neumeister auction house. This is how education works. DIE ZEIT No. 41/2015, October 8, 2015
  3. ^ A b c Barbara Reitter-Welter: Die Moderne bei Neumeister , Welt am Sonntag, November 11, 2001
  4. ↑ IHK expert directory, Munich and Upper Bavaria 2019, p. 55
  5. ↑ Julia Voss: Adolf Weinmüller's gruesome monopoly , FAZ, January 11, 2013
  6. ↑ Julia Voss: Auction logs from the NS: Where does discretion end, where does the lie begin? FAZ, April 13, 2013
  7. ^ Meike Hopp: Art trade in National Socialism: Adolf Weinmüller in Munich and Vienna. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2012, also dissertation at the University of Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20807-3
  8. ↑ Miryam Gümbel: The Neumeister auction house had its history examined , Jüdische Allgemeine, June 12, 2012
  9. ↑ a b Julia Voss: The Guilt of the Predecessor , FAZ, December 17, 2014
  10. ↑ a b c d Ira Mazzoni: Art theft in the Third Reich. The truth from the steel cupboard , Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 28, 2014
  11. ^ Looted art. Auction house publishes records from the Nazi era. Katrin Stoll in conversation with Dina Netz, Deutschlandfunk, May 28, 2014
  12. ^ A b Felix von Boehm: Nazi looted art. Last flight from Pfullingen , Zeit Online, November 9, 2019
  13. ↑ Catherine Hickley: Gurlitt's Treasure. Hitler's art dealer and his secret legacy , Czernin Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7076-0574-7 , Chapter 8: The sale of looted art , pp. 185 ff.
  14. ↑ Susanne Hermanski: With the means of the law , Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 7, 2020
  15. ^ Ingeborg Ruthe: Nazi looted art. Hitler wanted them for Linz , FRI, March 5, 2020
  16. ↑ Sabine Spindler: Spitzweg's late justice , in: Weltkunst , February 28, 2020
  17. ^ Bettina Sachs: Anniversary at Neumeister. Venus, Stalin and Drum , FAZ, November 4, 2011
  18. ↑ Annegret Erhard: Modern sculptures. Fight with volume , DIE ZEIT No. 45/2011, November 3, 2011
  19. ↑ Britta Sachs: Women to the easels , FAZ, December 6, 2016
  20. ↑ Rose-Maria Gropp: Vintage means noble , FAZ, July 12, 2019
  21. ↑ Sally Fuls: À la mode: Neumeister is auctioning Haute Couture in Munich , AD Magazin , July 11, 2019
  22. ↑ Ann-Kathrin Riedl: One of the most comprehensive auctions for vintage fashion is taking place in Munich , Vogue, July 15, 2019
  23. ↑ Helmut Reister: For a good cause, Jüdische Allgemeine, February 20, 2017
  24. ^ Martina Scherf: charity campaign. Pictures full of intensity , Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 7, 2017
  25. ^ Evelyn Vogel: Brückenschlag , Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 5, 2018
  26. ↑ Lenbachhaus: Annual Report 2018, Acquisition Commission (pdf p. 57) , accessed on June 25, 2020
  27. ^ Committees - Friedrich Flick Förderungsstiftung. In: flickfoerderungsstiftung.de. Friedrich Flick Förderungsstiftung, accessed on October 10, 2018 .
  28. ^ Akademieverein München: The board
  29. ↑ Nils Kottmann: tamad. Travel agency for art , Jüdische Allgemeine, March 23, 2015
  30. ↑ Program ARD.de, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Stoll, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art auctioneer
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich