Ludwig Gutbier

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Ludwig Wilhelm Gutbier (born October 25, 1873 in Dresden , † March 18, 1951 in Rottach-Egern ) was a German art dealer. He was the owner of the Arnold Gallery, founded in 1818 .

Life

Ludwig Gutbier was the son of Adolf Ludwig Gutbier (1841–1902), who joined the Ernst Arnold art dealer in 1863 and bought Friedrich Albert Arnold's company in 1867 together with the merchant Bernhard Carl Christian Graef for 50,000 thalers. In 1872 the business partners separated again and Adolf Ludwig Gutbier became the sole owner of the "Kunsthandlung Ernst Arnold".

In 1891 Ludwig Gutbier joined his father's art dealership. From 1893 exhibitions of modern artists were shown there. Gutbier was enthusiastic about the 1st exhibition of the Munich Secession in 1893 and wanted to show the Munich painters in Dresden as well. With financial support from his father, the first floor of the Löwenapotheke in Wilsdruffer Strasse on the Altmarkt was rented to create an exhibition space for modern contemporary art. From 1893 to 1896, paintings by members of the Munich Secession were permanently shown there, which was followed by numerous other exhibitions.

In 1901 Ludwig Gutbier became a partner in his father's art dealership. The father died a year later. In 1906 Ludwig Gutbier expanded the business by opening the Arnold Gallery in Dresden's Schloßstraße, which was closed again in 1927. There he also organized several exhibitions of modern art, including by painters from the artist group Brücke .

In 1909 Ludwig Gutbier opened a branch gallery in Breslau. From 1930 he also organized exhibitions in the USA. In 1934/36 he was forced by the National Socialist rulers to give up his shops and exhibitions. He moved to Munich, where he founded the Neue Galerie Arnold in 1937, which was destroyed in 1944. At the end of the war he moved to Rottach-Egern, where he founded the Rottacher Kunstheim in 1947 , but died in 1951.

Ludwig Gutbier Foundation

In 1958, his widow donated around 600 modern art prints to the State Graphic Collection in Munich as the Ludwig Gutbier Foundation . As a collector, Gutbier had pursued the goal of “using characteristic sheets of art from the 19th and 20th centuries to exemplify the parallel development of etching, lithography and woodcutting within a century. The didactic element underlying his collection was also evident in exhibitions that Gutbier initiated in the United States . "

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener: Who is it? , Berlin 1935, p. 562
  • Martin Glaubrecht: Gutbier, Ludwig , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 7 (1966), p. 338
  • Michael Semff , Kurt Zeitler (Hrsg.): Artists drawing - collectors donate. 250 years of the State Graphic Collection in Munich. Volume 3, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2179-0 , p. 68 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Gallery of the 20th Century in West Berlin
  2. ↑ Susanne Wagini, in: Artists drawing - collectors donate, p. 69.
personal data
SURNAME Gutbier, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gutbier, Ludwig Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1951
Place of death Rottach-Egern