Manfred de la Motte

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Manfred de la Motte (born January 11, 1935 in Iserlohn , † March 19, 2005 in Villingen-Schwenningen ) was a German exhibition maker and publicist . Between 1961 and 1972 he headed the Haus am Waldsee in Berlin, the Kunstverein Hannover and the Hamburger Kunstverein .

Life

After graduating from high school, Manfred de la Motte studied art history and sinology and Japanese studies at various universities. From 1957 to 1960 he led with Jean-Pierre Wilhelm , the Galerie 22 in the Kaiserstraße 22 in Dusseldorf - Pempelfort . In 1959 de la Motte met the painter Walter Stöhrer . In de la Motte's memoirs it says: “I was very excited, but also very proud. On September 12, 1959, the 1st German Youth Art Prize was awarded in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden - and I was allowed to speak at the opening of the exhibition - between the museum director and the minister of culture ... There was a large picture of Walter Stöhrer hanging there, I remember At least me, it was called Yuma and it was very impressive. I had never seen anything like it before ... Joyful re-encounter with Stöhrer and his work in Berlin in 1962 in the unforgettable gallery Schüler . Schülers also made me write my first text about Walter Stöhrer. "

From 1961 to 1963 de la Motte headed the house on Waldsee in West Berlin . With his first exhibition, present to 62 , he showed the most important Informel painters of the 1950s, from Mark Tobey , Henri Michaux and Jean Fautrier to Jean Dubuffet , Robert Motherwell , Antonio Saura and Wols . The German painters were Karl Otto Götz , Karl Fred Dahmen , Emil Schumacher and the Berliners Hann Trier , Fred Thieler and Hermann Bachmann . Another exhibition organized by de la Motte was on scriptural painting ; there were also individual shows, among others by Fred Thieler.

Then de la Motte worked as an exhibition maker in the State Art Gallery in Baden-Baden . From 1969 to 1972 he was director of the Kunstverein Hannover . In April 1972 he took over the management of the Hamburger Kunstverein and left at the end of the year. Günther Gercken became the new chairman. Until his death in 2005, Manfred de la Motte was a lecturer at various universities, freelance exhibition maker and publicist.

Award

1984 Will Grohmann Prize

Publications (selection)

  • Franz Mon , Walter Höllerer , Manfred de La Motte (eds.), Movens. Documents and analyzes on poetry, fine arts, music, architecture , Limes Verlag, Wiesbaden 1960.
  • Manfred de la Motte, Fred Thieler 1961–1963 , Oldenburger Kunstverein, 1963.
  • Manfred de la Motte (Ed.), USA, West Coast 1972 . Catalog for the exhibitions at the Kunstverein in Hamburg and at the Kunstverein Hannover, Hamburg 1972.
  • Manfred de la Motte (Ed.), Documents on the German Informel . Marianne Hennemann Gallery, Bonn 1976.
  • Manfred de la Motte (ed.), Carl Buchheister . Exhibition catalog, Marianne Hennemann Gallery, Bonn 1977.
  • Manfred de la Motte (Ed.), Karl Otto Götz . Exhibition catalog, Marianne Hennemann Gallery, Bonn 1978, ISBN 978-3-88482-019-3 .
  • Manfred de la Motte (Ed.), Karl Fred Dahmen . Exhibition catalog, Galerie Marianne Hennemann, Bonn 1979, ISBN 978-3-88482-020-9 .
  • Manfred de la Motte, Development of an Avant-Garde in Austria , Heimeshoff Gallery / Jochen Krüper, Essen 1983.
  • Manfred de la Motte (Ed.), Sorgfalt '84. Positions in German art since 1945 . Book accompanying the exhibition from September 8 to October 7, 1984 in the Halle am Stadion, Rottweil 1984.
  • Manfred de la Motte, Victor Vasarely , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 978-3-608-76217-4 .
  • Manfred de la Motte (ed.), Messensee . Edition of the Nothelfer gallery in Henssel-Verlag , Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3-87329-894-1 .
  • Manfred de la Motte, Walter Stöhrer , Orangerie-Reinz Gallery, Cologne 1993.
  • Manfred de la Motte, sculptor '95 in Germany , Kunstverein Augsburg , 1995.
  • Manfred de la Motte, The world's first 24-hour art museum , Kunst-Stiftung Celle, Celle 1998, ISBN 978-3-925902-29-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Walter Stöhrer. New work . Exhibition catalog, Kunstverein Hannover, 1998.
  2. ^ Information on the website of the Hamburger Kunstverein
  3. ↑ Article by Gottfried Sello in Die Zeit of November 24, 1972
personal data
SURNAME Motte, Manfred de la
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist, exhibition curator, art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 2005
Place of death Villingen-Schwenningen