Otto Stangl

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Otto Stangl (born October 9, 1915 in Dachau ; † July 20, 1990 in Munich ) was a German gallery owner, art dealer and art collector. Together with his wife Etta, he founded the Modernen Galerie Etta and Otto Stangl in Munich in 1947, one of the most important avant-garde galleries in Germany after the Second World War . Their influence on the mediation of contemporary art played an important role in the rehabilitation of the so-called “ degenerate art ” of the “ Third Reich ”.

Live and act

Otto Stangl was the son of the sculptor and academy professor Hans Stangl (1888–1963), who had been running a private painting school in Munich since the 1930s, which was also attended by numerous students from wealthy families. Otto, who trained as a graphic artist, met Hulda Elsa (Etta) Ibach (1913–1990) there, who studied with Hans Stangl in 1942/1943. The couple married in September 1944. Etta came from a wealthy family in Barmer; her father, the piano manufacturer Albert Rudolf Ibach , was an art connoisseur and from 1921 to 1937 chaired the art association in Barmen-Wuppertal from 1921 to 1937. As early as 1920 he had bought watercolors by Paul Klee from Heinrich Thannhauser in Munich , which formed the basis for his important Clover Collection made up.

Martiusstraße 7 in Schwabing, photograph from 2009
The Luitpoldblock today

In 1948 the couple founded the modern gallery Etta and Otto Stangl on a high floor at Martiusstraße 7 in Schwabing , which existed there with its business premises until 1962 and, alongside the Günther Franke gallery, was one of the most important meeting places for avant-garde artists in Munich. Works from the collection of the deceased father-in-law formed the basis of the gallery, which opened on February 11, 1948 with an Alexej von Jawlensky exhibition.

On July 19, 1949, the "Group of 'Objectless' South German Painters" was founded in the gallery, which was renamed ZEN 49 at the end of 1949 . The name probably goes back to the suggestion of the sculptor and founding member Rupprecht Geiger . Stangl promoted the militant group, which had as its goal to strive for a cultural renewal in Germany by radically turning away from the recent past. He also developed a special interest in the representatives of the École de Paris. A first exhibition by Hans Hartung in the spring of 1949 was followed three years later through Hartung's mediation by Gérard Schneider's first German solo exhibition (May – June 1952) and then one by Pierre Soulages (October – November 1952), with which the Stangls also had one close friendship.

Parallel to the memorial exhibition Der Blaue Reiter in the Haus der Kunst put together by Ludwig Grote , the Stangl gallery showed the Franz Marc exhibition from August 30, 1949 . Watercolors and drawings , for which a catalog was published with a foreword by Klaus Lankheit . This year Otto Stangl was asked by Maria Marc to manage the artistic estate of her late husband Franz Marc . From September 1st to October 1952 the gallery showed tapestries by Maria Marc together with drawings from Franz Marc's last sketchbook . After the death of Maria Marc on January 25, 1955, Stangl became the administrator of the estate and “custodian of the Franz Marc estate” who, according to the widow's bequest, donated a set number of paintings to important museums.

From 1962 to 1975 the gallery was located in the Luitpoldblock at Brienner Straße 11. In 1962 a comprehensive exhibition of works by Serge Poliakoff took place there.

In 1963 Stangl showed a memorable exhibition with Pablo Picasso's graphics, from 1969 he turned to Concrete Art with Max Bill and Richard Paul Lohse and promoted the conceptuals Antonio Calderara , Günter Fruhtrunk , Raimund Girke and the sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro . On behalf of the heirs to Maria Marc, Otto Stangl sold a large part of the written estate in 1973 to the archive for fine arts located in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg .

Two months after Otto Stangl's death on July 20, 1990, his wife Etta died on September 22 of that year in Munich.

Etta and Otto Stangl Foundation

In addition to the gallery, the Etta and Otto Stangl collection was created , parts of which were transferred to various museums and on permanent loan after his death. The Wuppertaler Von der Heydt Museum received 31 Klee watercolors for the Rudolf-Ibach-Paul-Klee room, which was inaugurated in March 1992.

With the collaboration of Klaus Lankheit, Stangl promoted the creation of the Franz Marc Museum in Kochel am See , which opened in 1986 and to which the Etta and Otto Stangl Foundation, established on November 9, 2001 and based in Freiburg im Breisgau, contributed important works. In 2008 the museum was expanded to include a cube-shaped extension planned by the Swiss architects Diethelm & Spillmann by 700 m². The new building "[...] was financed for 6.5 million euros by the Freiburg-based Etta and Otto Stangl Foundation, which also contributes an annual amount to the operating costs."

literature

  • Memory of Etta and Otto Stangl . In: Clelia Segieth: Etta and Otto Stangl Collection - from Klee to Poliakoff, Hatje, Ostfildern-Ruit 1993, ISBN 3-7757-0439-6 , p. 28 ff.
  • Clelia Segieth: Etta and Otto Stangl, gallery owners, collectors, museum founders. Published in cooperation with the Central Archive of the International Art Trade, with contributions by Carla Schulz-Hofmann and Peter Klaus Schuster, Wienand, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-87909-675-9
  • Andrea R. Stoll: Homage to a gallery owner. Otto Stangl and his artist friends. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2003, ISBN 978-3-77579125-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hour 0. Rupprecht Geiger and Hilla von Rebay. Museum Villa Stuck, accessed May 29, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Clelia Segieth: Etta and Otto Stangl, gallery owner-collector-museum founder , Cologne 2000, p. 54
  3. ↑ Jawlensky's catalog raisonné lists February 15 to March 25, 1948 for the first Stangl exhibition, cf. Maria Jawlensky, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, Angelica Jawlensky (eds.): Alexej von Jawlensky. Catalog Raisonné of the oil-paintings , Vol. 1, Munich 1991, p. 502
  4. ↑ ZEN 49 , www.archiv-geiger.de, accessed on June 3, 2011
  5. ↑ Martin Schieder: The modern gallery Otto Stangl and the École de Paris , in: Franz Marc Museum. Art in the 20th century. Etta and Otto Stangl Foundation. Franz Marc Foundation, ed. by Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy, Cologne 2008, pp. 276–285.
  6. ↑ Beate Ofczarek, Stefan Frey: Chronology of a friendship . In: Michael Baumgartner, Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy, Katja Schneider (Eds.): Franz Marc. Paul Klee. Dialogue in Pictures , p. 225 f.
  7. ^ Donation of the Etta and Otto Stangl Library , Central Institute for Art History , accessed on November 15, 2012
  8. ↑ Beate Ofczarek, Stefan Frey, in: Michael Baumgartner, Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy, Katja Schneider (eds.), P. 226
  9. ↑ Quoted from the Franz Marc Museum
  10. ^ Dpa: Franz Marc Museum opens extension building . In: Badische Zeitung, July 18, 2008. Retrieved May 29, 2011.
  11. ^ Petra Bosetti: More space, more art ( Memento from June 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) , www.art-magazin.de, June 11, 2008, accessed on May 29, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Stangl, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gallery owner, art dealer and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Dachau
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1990
Place of death Munich