Martin Lantzsch Nötzel Foundation

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Martin Lantzsch Nötzel Foundation - Foundation for the art of the 50s
Logo of the Martin Lantzsch Nötzel Foundation
purpose The Martin Lantzsch Nötzel Foundation is a non-profit foundation for art and culture. It was established in January 2004 as an independent foundation under civil law in Cologne and recognized by the Cologne District Government.
Chair: Ulrich Winkler
Establishment date: January 2004
Seat : Cologne
Website: www.lantzsch-noetzel.de

The Martin Lantzsch Nötzel Foundation is a foundation that aims to keep the life's work of the Düsseldorf painter and draftsman Arno Martin Lantzsch-Nötzel (1894–1986) in mind. In addition, it is possible to work with selected contemporaries of Lantzsch-Nötzel, such as the Hungarian sculptor Lajos Barta . As a representative of abstract post-war art, Martin Lantzsch-Nötzel's main creative phase was in the 1950s. The same goes for Lajos Barta. Accordingly, the foundation bears the addition: "Foundation for the art of the 50s"

history

Emergence

With the death of Lantzsch-Nötzel in early 1986, Hannerose Fischer, as the heir, made it her task to organize the estate and keep the work in memory. She met the painter in the Black Forest in the early 1950s and remained loyal to him as a muse for more than 30 years. Eight years after his death, on the anniversary of his 100th birthday, Fischer brought out a small bibliophile publication entitled Art is a Language . For this, she selected 20 abstract paintings and graphics from the 1950s and early 1960s, for which the Düsseldorf art critic Yvonne Friedrichs wrote an introductory text.

Time and again, Hannerose Fischer succeeded in transferring works of art from the estate to leading German museum collections, such as the Von der Heydt Museum , the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett and the Dresden New Masters Gallery . Shortly before her death in 2002, she made a will to set up a foundation under the name of her master in order to institutionally secure the care of the artistic estate and to continue it in her favor.

Excursus on the name »Lantzsch-Nötzel«

The artist was born as Martin Lantzsch (spoken like the English lunch), but lost his father at a young age. When his mother remarried, Martin was given the family name Nötzel. He later called himself Arno Martin Lantzsch-Nötzel.

Original work profile

Since its inception, the Martin Lantzsch Nötzel Foundation has identified an artist oeuvre of over 1,800 numbers, compiled them in an electronic catalog raisonné and described them. In 2016, selected works by Lantzsch-Nötzel were again on view during the ongoing exhibition. The Märkisches Museum in Witten showed the painter as part of the exhibition Liberated Modern Art - Art in Germany 1945–1949.

Extension to the "Foundation for the 1950s"

Since the artist and work are only known to a small circle of collectors and experts, a greater public perception of the foundation's work through the (difficult) foundation name alone seemed impossible, but achievable in a larger historical context. Therefore, in 2011, with a view to its own 10th anniversary in 2014, the foundation suggested the first posthumous retrospective on the Hungarian-German sculptor Lajos Barta.

With this expansion of the scope of action, the foundation became an address for art of the 1950s, also in a political context. Because both artists, the painter Martin Lantzsch-Nötzel and the sculptor Lajos Barta, worked in their main creative period of the 1950s and early 1960s under the strong influence of the Cold War era ; Barta in the east, in the People's Republic of Hungary and Lantzsch-Nötzel in the west, in the Bonn Republic. In comparing her art from different political hemispheres , the 1950s in its bipolar political world situation with its similarities and contradictions become clearly noticeable. This polarity only ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall . But Lantzsch-Nötzel and Barta no longer experienced that. They died very old three years earlier, in 1986.

job

Completed Projects

The Martin Lantzsch Nötzel Foundation initiated and sponsored the first German Bartas retrospective at the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck in 2013 with the subsequent takeover in 2014 in the Danube Swabian Central Museum in Ulm . In autumn 2015 she published a comprehensive monograph entitled Lajos Barta - Emigration from the Hatje-Cantz publishing house with funding from the Kunststiftung NRW and the Landschaftsverband Rheinland . In 2018, Lantzsch-Nötzel entered the art historical discourse with the first comprehensive monograph.

Publications

  • Hannerose Fischer: A. Martin Lantzsch-Nötzel: Art is a language. Self-published, Wuppertal 1994
  • Ulrich Winkler: Lajos Barta - Emigration. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2015, ISBN 978-3-7757-3994-8
  • Ulrich Winkler: Lajos Barta (1899–1986) The complete sculptural work. Between constructivism and organoid concretion. Verlag 71, Plön 1995, ISBN 3-928905-06-6
  • Oliver Kornhoff: Lajos Barta - adopted home. Salon Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-89770-440-4
  • Ulrich Winkler: "Martin Lantzsch-Nötzel. Between Expressionism and Informel." Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-86832-397-9