Klaus Lafrenz
Klaus Lafrenz (* around 1941; † 1999 ) was a German art collector .
Live and act
Klaus Lafrenz was a pharmacist in Hamburg . In 1969 he was at the University of Hamburg with the work of studies on the stability of plasma replacement fluids with special emphasis on plastic packaging for Dr. rer. nat. PhD .
Lafrenz Collection
From the beginning of the 1970s, Klaus Lafrenz collected works of art with key positions in post-painting abstraction , minimal art , Arte Povera and conceptual art from Europe and the United States. He loaned the collection to the Weserburg Museum for Modern Art in Bremen in 1991 . The collection includes works by Michael Bauch , Daniel Buren , Pier Paolo Calzolari , Alan Charlton , Raimund Girke , Donald Judd , Harald Klingelhöller , Sol LeWitt , Richard Long , John McCracken , Mario Merz , Bruce Nauman , Blinky Palermo , Rolf Rose , Ben Schonzeit , Thomas Schütte and Jerry Zeniuk .
His son Björn Lafrenz (* 1973) continues the collection after the death of Klaus Lafrenz.
Fonts
- Investigations into the stability of plasma replacement fluids with special consideration of the plastic packaging. Dissertation. University of Hamburg 1969.
literature
- Martin Hentschel (Red.): The Lafrenz Collection. Foreword by Thomas Deecke . New Museum Weserburg Bremen, 1991, ISBN 3-928761-02-1 .
- Hanne Zech: Incitement to a new perception. A dialogue between the Lafrenz and Reinking collections . New Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen 2002, ISBN 3-928761-55-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Klaus Lafrenz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Katharina Deschka-Hoeck: The many colors of black and gray. For the exhibition “Arte povera to Minimal - Insights into the Lafrenz Collection” at the Museum Wiesbaden . FAZ , June 9, 2009 ( video on art-in-tv.de)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bremen model: Eleven collectors, a museum ( memento from October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on art-magazin.de, September 1, 1991
- ^ Artworks from the collections on weserburg.de
- ↑ Dissertations ( Memento from November 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the University of Hamburg
- ↑ Promotions ( memento of October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on digisrv-1.biblio.etc.tu-bs.de
- ↑ Generous thrift. In: Der Spiegel . 36/1991, September 2, 1991. p. 270
- ↑ Generation twenties. In: taz . April 11, 2002
- ^ The Lafrenz Collection on the website of the New Museum Weserburg Bremen
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lafrenz, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1941 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1999 |