Otto van de Loo

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Otto van de Loo (born March 9, 1924 in Witten ; † April 19, 2015 in Munich ) was a German gallery owner . He founded the Galerie van de Loo in Munich's Maximilianstrasse in 1957 and passed it on to his daughter Marie-José van de Loo in 1997/1998.

Life

Van de Loo opened his program in 1957 with an exhibition by KRH Sonderborg . With exhibitions of German Informel in the context of international currents, he created a place for current trends in art, which was rare at the time. He represented painters such as Pinot Gallizio , Hans Platschek , Maurice Wyckaert , Arnulf Rainer , Emil Schumacher , Antonio Saura , Henry Michaux , Wolf Vostell as well as members of the artist associations CoBrA , SPUR and their successor groups such as Constant , Pierre Alechinsky or Asger Jorn , Lothar Fischer , Heimrad Prem , Helmut Sturm , HP Zimmer , Hans Matthäus Bachmayer , Heino Naujoks and Helmut Rieger . In addition, the gallery owner published works on art theory, which appeared from 1982 as part of the series “Texts on Art”.

With his program and his critical attitude, he was often the focus of cultural disputes. His work has repeatedly met with outrage in the conservative art scene. At the same time, as early as the early 1960s, he had to defend himself against attacks from the left-wing, art-trade-hostile avant-garde group Situationist International . Since many gallery artists belonged to this movement, this briefly led to a conflict that was quite critical for the gallery owner.

In 1997 Otto van de Loo's gallery was closed after 40 years and more than 250 exhibitions. Since 1998 his daughter Marie-José van de Loo has been running the gallery (also) under her own name and is expanding the program with younger positions.

From the beginning, Otto van de Loo collected the works of his artists parallel to his gallery work. In 1990 he donated 55 works from his collection to the Nationalgalerie Berlin . In 2000, almost 200 works were donated to the Kunsthalle in Emden , which opened its own extension to accommodate the collection.

Otto van de Loo's importance for Munich was recognized in 2005 with the extensive exhibition Passion for Art in the Munich Pinakothek der Moderne .

literature

  • Departures. Gallery van de Loo . The first years 1957–1966, ed. by Marie-José van de Loo and Selima Niggl, Munich 2007, therein: Birgit Jooss , The Wrestling for Modernity in Munich , pp. 8–31
  • Passion for art . Otto van de Loo and his gallery, ed. by Carla Schulz-Hoffmann, exhib.cat. Munich (Pinakothek der Moderne), Munich / Cologne 2005
  • The Otto van de Loo donation , ed. from the Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin 1992
  • Gift of Otto van de Loo . National Gallery Berlin, ed. by Fritz Jacobi and Sibylle Luig, published on the occasion of the exhibition Anarchy in Art . The donations Otto van de Loo - Berlin and Emden, National Gallery, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin 2003
  • Gift of Otto van de Loo . Masterpieces in the Kunsthalle in Emden, ed. by Achim Sommer on the occasion of the opening of the extension, Emden 2000
  • Commitment and distance. Aspects of a Collection, ed. by Otto van de Loo, arr. by Andreas Neufert , Munich 1992 (Volume 1)
  • Image and Reflection , ed. by Hans Matthäus Bachmayer, Munich 1992 (Volume 2)
  • In the beginning was the picture , ed. by Hans Matthäus Bachmayer and Otto van de Loo, exhib.-cat. Munich (Villa Stuck), Munich 1990
  • Texts on art 1957–1982. 25 years of Galerie van de Loo , ed. on the occasion of the exhibition Schnittpunkt München , Galerie der Künstler, Munich 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Archive of the gallery
  2. ↑ Kunsthalle Emden: Otto van de Loo. Retrieved January 5, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Loo, Otto van de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2015
Place of death Munich