Lothar Schirmer

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Lothar Schirmer at the end of 2013

Lothar Schirmer (born February 1, 1945 in Schmalkalden ) is a German publisher and art collector.

Life

Lothar Schirmer was born as the son of Werner Schirmer, who later became the commercial director of Bremen Vulkan , and his mother had trained as a dressmaker. His brothers are the physicist Jochen Schirmer and the director Friedrich Schirmer . The business administration graduate founded and managed the Schirmer / Mosel publishing house for art books. Schirmer made friends with artists such as Cy Twombly and Joseph Beuys at a young age and began to collect their works. Schirmer created his publishing start-up capital by buying and selling art prints and drawings. Schirmer made his publishing debut with the rediscovery of August Sander, the then almost forgotten visual artist of the Weimar Republic . Schirmer had acquired the rights to the portraits and landscapes. In a similar way he discovered previously unknown photographs by Heinrich Zille from the Berlin “Milljöh” around 1900.

In 1973, the work of art Joseph Beuys' bathtub , which Schirmer had made available for a traveling exhibition in Leverkusen, was destroyed.

Together with Tanja Graf , Schirmer founded the literary publisher Schirmer / Graf in 2003 , which has not existed in its original form since 2015.

On Schirmer's 75th birthday, the book About My Artists was published. Speeches and lectures , a small almanac with twenty speeches on authors and artists whose illustrated books and books have been published by Schirmer / Mosel Verlag for 46 years.

Awards

Publications

  • About my artists. Speeches and lectures . Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2020, ISBN 9783829609012 .

See also

Documentation

  • People in Munich - Lothar Schirmer - publisher and collector (2015). Documentary, Germany, 2015, 46 minutes, script and direction: Jörg van Hooven, production: München TV , first broadcast: June 30, 2015, video .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lothar Schirmer celebrated his 70th birthday with “Praise of the Paper”. In: Book Market . February 1, 2015
  2. ↑ The Beuyscout. In: ZEIT Online . April 23, 2013
  3. ↑ Peter von Becker : publisher Lothar Schirmer 70 - detective with instinct. In: Tagesspiegel . February 1, 2015
  4. ^ New literary publisher in Munich. ( Memento from March 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Press release from October 1, 2003
  5. ↑ The Lure of the Lonely Hunt. In: FAZ . June 14, 2005
  6. ↑ books de IT and Production: About my artists. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Lothar Schirmer named Publisher of the Year. In: Book Market. November 27, 2012
  8. ↑ Lothar Schirmer receives the Federal Cross of Merit. In: Book Market. 29th September 2014
  9. ↑ DGPh Culture Prize. Honor for Lothar Schirmer. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 5./6. May 2016, p. 24
personal data
SURNAME Schirmer, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmalkalden