Ottomar Domnick

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Ottomar Domnick (born April 20, 1907 in Greifswald , † June 14, 1989 in Nürtingen ) was a German psychiatrist , film author and art collector.

Life

Domnick studied medicine at the universities of Berlin , Greifswald , Munich and Rostock . He then became a specialist in neurology and psychiatry. He ran his own clinic in Stuttgart . In addition to his work as a doctor, he was particularly committed to the arts. Domnick wrote scripts and produced documentaries and feature films. He won the Federal Film Prize in 1957 with the avant-garde film Jonas and the Bambi in the same year . He played the cello , held concerts and collected abstract works of art from the time after the Second World War. In 1967 he had Paul Stohrer build a museum for his collection in the middle of a landscape conservation area in Nürtingen , which is now open to the public.

In addition to music and film, Domnick was also interested in sports cars. On May 26, 1950, he laid the foundation stone for the Porsche tradition of personally picking up customer cars at the Zuffenhausen plant when he received his Porsche 356 sports car in fish silver with chassis number 5001. For the specialist in neurology and psychiatry, it was a dream to be the first Porsche customer in Germany. Domnick was 43 years old at the time.

In 1972, Domnick was with moments participant of Documenta 5 in Kassel in the department movie actor: reflective film .

The Domnick Cello Prize, which has been awarded to young soloists since 1982, goes back to Domnick. In 1957 Domnick was awarded the German Critics' Prize. In 1988 he received the gold film tape for many years of outstanding work in German film. In 1979 Ottomar Domnick was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg .

His brother Hans Domnick was a German film producer and documentary filmmaker.

Memorial plaque on the house of the Domnick Collection

Filmography

  • New art - new vision. An Introduction to the Nature of Modern Painting , 1953
  • Willi Baumeister , 1954
  • 1957: Jonas
  • 1960: Gino
  • Without date , 1962
  • NN , 1968/69
  • Moments , 1972
  • Domnick on Domnick , 1979

Footnotes

  1. ↑ See the entry of the matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ 70 years of the Porsche factory collection in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen. Retrieved June 20, 2020 (English).

literature

  • Ottomar Domnicks JONAS. Creation of an avant-garde film. Materials and documents (incl. CD). Edited from the estate and commented on by Guntram Vogt. ibidem-Verlag Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 3-89821-597-0
  • Martin Schieder : In the eyes of the other. The Franco-German art relations 1945–1959 (with a foreword by Werner Spies and a poem by KO Götz), Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2005 (Passagen / Passages, vol. 12), pp. 91–117. ISBN 978-3-05-004148-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Domnick, Ottomar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art collector, physician and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1989
Place of death Nürtingen