Paul Erich Küppers

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Paul Küppers (born October 19, 1889 in Essen , † January 7, 1922 in Hanover ) was a German art historian. He was a co-founder of the Kestner Society and brought contemporary art to Hanover.

Life

Paul Erich Küppers was the son of a geometer and surveyor who later owned a mine.

Küppers attended the Hermann Lietz School in Haubinda and published a first volume of poems from there in 1907 . After his father's company went bankrupt , he moved to Hamm . In 1909 he began studying art history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , with Heinrich Wölfflin among others . In 1909 he became active in the Corps Isaria . There he met Sophie Schneider , daughter of the Isar, in 1911 . He married her in 1916. To continue his studies, he went to the Eberhard-Karls-University , where he was reciprocated on November 1, 1910 (with Otto Springorum ) in the Corps Rhenania Tübingen . When he was inactive , he moved to the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . Sick of tuberculosis , he spent a year of convalescence in the Black Forest . He then studied the panel paintings by Domenico Ghirlandaio at the Art History Institute in Florence . Engaged since 1913, Küppers wrote his doctoral thesis on Ghirlandaio in Kiel .

From there he finally went to Hanover, where he initially assisted the later museum director Albert Brinckmann in the numismatic cabinet of the Kestner Museum . Shortly before his wedding in September 1916, in the middle of the First World War , Küppers became a co-founder of the Kestner Society on June 10, 1916, chaired by Albert Brinckmann .

Despite the war and economically difficult times, Küppers managed a successful art exhibition of modern and contemporary art with the support of the progressive part of the Hanoverian art scene , including artists such as Max Slevogt , Paula Modersohn-Becker or Emil Nolde . Küppers himself wrote numerous catalog texts and articles in magazines . After he wrote the book Der Kubismus . An artistic form problem of our time published, Das Kestnerbuch was published in 1919 under the direction of Küppers . Küppers founded the Kestner stage with Karl Aloys Schenzinger .

Paul Erich Küppers was close friends with Herbert von Garvens , Walter Gieseking and Hanns Krenz, who took over the management of the Kestner Society in 1922. Küppers was only 32 years old.

Fonts

  • The panel paintings by Domenico Ghirlandaio , dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Kiel, with panel as: On the history of art abroad , issue 111, Strasbourg 1915
  • Willy Jaeckel, Berlin. Paintings, graphics [with appendix: Walter Alfred Rosam ], for the exhibition from December 17, 1916 to January 17, 1917, with a foreword by Paul Erich Küppers, in the series Sonderausstellung / Kestner-Gesellschaft eV , issue 3, Hanover: Kestner -Gesellschaft e. V., 1916
  • Paula Modersohn- [Becker]. Paintings, drawings, etchings , for the exhibition from September 2 to October 4, 1917, with a foreword by Paul Erich Küppers, in the series Sonderausstellung / Kestner-Gesellschaft eV , issue 10, Hanover: Kestner-Gesellschaft e. V., 1917
  • Paul E. Küppers (ed.): The Kestner Society EV communications on ways and goals of the Kestner Society , ed. on behalf of the board of directors, (print: Hanover: Edler & Krische) 1918
  • Paul Erich Küppers u. a .: On the art of our time. Thoughts on the occasion of the Emil Nolde exhibition , in the series of pamphlets of the Kestner Society , writing 1, Hanover: Kestner Society e. V., 1918
  • Franz Heckendorf. Paintings, graphics , for the exhibition from May 15 to June 16, 1918, with a foreword by Paul Erich Küppers, in the series Sonderausstellung / Kestner-Gesellschaft eV , issue 17, Hanover: Kestner-Gesellschaft e. V., 1918
  • Ludwig Meidner, César Klein. Paintings, graphics , for the exhibition from July 28th to August 27th 1918, with a foreword by Paul Erich Küppers, in the series Sonderausstellung / Kestner-Gesellschaft eV , issue 18, Hanover: Kestner-Gesellschaft e. V., 1918
  • Max Burchartz: Raskolnikoff. 10 stone drawings , with a foreword by PE Küppers, in the series of editions of the Alfred Flechtheim gallery , work 2 (folder No. 58), Düsseldorf: Flechtheim, 1919
  • Christian Rohlfs. Paintings, graphics , for the exhibition from April 21st - May 25th 1919, with a foreword by Paul Erich Küppers, in the series Sonderausstellung / Kestner-Gesellschaft eV , issue 24, Hanover: Kestner-Gesellschaft e. V., 1919
  • Götz von Seckendorff, Otto Schulze. Paintings, graphics , for the commemorative exhibition from August 2 to September 3, 1919, with a foreword by Paul Erich Küppers, in the series Sonderausstellung / Kestner-Gesellschaft eV , issue 26, Hanover: Kestner-Gesellschaft e. V., 1919
  • Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger. Paintings, graphics , for the exhibition from November 30, 1919 - January 1, 1920, with a foreword by Paul Erich Küppers, in the series Sonderausstellung / Kestner-Gesellschaft eV , issue 29, Hanover: Kestner-Gesellschaft e. V., 1919
  • Paul Erich Küppers (Ed.): Das Kestnerbuch , Hannover: Böhme, 1919
  • Paul Erich Küppers: Cubism. An artistic problem of form of our time , Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1920

literature

  • Wieland Schmied (Hrsg.): Trailblazer for modern art. 50 years of the Kestner Society , with contributions by Sophie Küppers-Lissitzky and others, Hanover: Fackelträger-Verlag, 1966, p. 252
  • Sophie Küppers-Lissitzky: The first years , in Wieland Schmied (Hrsg.): Trailblazer to modern art. 50 Years of the Kestner Society , Hanover: Fackelträger-Verlag, 1966, pp. 11–26
  • Ines Katenhusen : Art and Politics. Hanover's confrontations with modernity in the Weimar Republic , at the same time a dissertation at the University of Hanover under the title Understanding a time is perhaps best gained from her art , in the series Hanoverian Studies , series of publications by the Hanover City Archives, Volume 5, Hanover: Hahn , 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 , pp. 258-260 et al.
  • Hugo Thielen : KÜPPERS (1), Paul Erich. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 216 and others; online through google books
  • Hugo Thielen: Küppers, (1), Paul Erich (with changes compared to the Biographical Lexicon ), in: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 375.

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Hugo Thielen: KÜPPERS (1), Paul Erich (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 109 , 951; 128 , 643
  3. ^ Paul Küppers (xx). In: Die Tübinger Rhenanen , 5th edition (2002), p. 145
  4. ↑ a b c d Hugo Thielen: Küppers, (1), Paul Erich (see literature)
  5. ↑ The date of publication differs from the dates in the German National Library .
personal data
SURNAME Küppers, Paul Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Küppers, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, curator in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1922
Place of death Hanover