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Lore Kegel born Lessing, former Gessner, former Konietzko (born October 9, 1901 in Düsseldorf ; † October 20, 1980 ) was an art dealer and collector of non-European art (especially African art ).

Life

Lore Kegel was one of the first women to study at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and later worked as a painter and art dealer. In 1923 she married the Düsseldorf painter Richard Gessner . After the divorce, she married the explorer and art dealer Julius Konietzko in 1924 . After the divorce of this marriage in 1935, Lore Kegel opened her own art shop "Lore Kegel - Exotic Art". During the Nazi era, she was excluded from the Reich Chamber of Culture because of Jewish ancestors . During the war, she organized so-called "bowling evenings" in her house, at which artists, writers and humanities scholars regularly came together. She also wrote contemporary poetry and children's poems.

Already in the early 30s Kegel traveled to India , Lapland , Tibet , Sardinia , Aran Islands and Abruzzo , where she and her husband Julius Konietzko did ethnographic and folklore research and collected material for numerous museums.

After the Second World War , both alone and with her third husband, Dr. med. Georg-Arthur Kegel and her second-married son Boris Kegel-Konietzko , who was living in the Congo at the time , took several study trips to Africa , during which she was able to add numerous tribal art objects of exceptional quality to the local collection.

Your art dealer supplied German and foreign museums and exhibitions. The Kegel-Konietzko collection still stands for the impressive art of the tribes of Africa.

In his will, Lore Kegel was entrusted with looking after the estate of the sculptor and graphic artist Friedrich Wield (* March 15, 1880; † June 10, 1940). In 1943 she had rescued his work from her burning house. Today the estate is in the care of her son Boris Kegel-Konietzko .

After her son Boris Kegel-Konietzko took over the company "Lore Kegel - Exotic Art" in 1964 , the versatile inspired Lore Kegel devoted herself intensively to painting, the creation of bio-rhythms and the review of her children's poems, some of which were also published on vinyl. After her death in 1980, her son Boris took over the artistic estate of over 1,000 pastel drawings.

Lore Kegel is the grandmother of Sascha Konietzko , the founder and frontman of the industrial rock band KMFDM .

literature

  • Maike Bruhns : Art in Crisis; Volume 1: Hamburg Art in the “Third Reich”.
  • Maike Bruhns : Art in Crisis; Volume 2: Artist Lexicon - Hamburg 1933–1945.
  • Dictionary of International Biography; Volume 10, 1974.

source

  • Boris Kegel-Konietzko, qualified biologist
  • Maike Bruhns: Art in the Crisis, Volume 2, p. 408 ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Sieker : Sculptor Wield 1880–1940. A memorial book. Hans Christians, Hamburg 1975, pages 78-82.
personal data
SURNAME Kegel, Lore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lessing, Lore (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German collector of African art
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH 20th October 1980
Place of death Hamburg