Peter Kemna

Peter Kemna (* 1920 in Breslau ; † February 2017 in Hamburg ) was a German art collector, art patron and road construction company.

life and work

Peter Kemna was born in Wroclaw in 1920 as the eldest of four sons of Erich Kemna . The road construction company KEMNA BAU Andreae GmbH & Co. KG , which still has its headquarters in Pinneberg near Hamburg, emerged from his grandfather's machine factory located there . After technical studies and first years of work, Kemna joined the company, which was relocated to Hamburg after the war, as a managing partner in the company. In 1984 Kemna left the company due to old age.

After leaving the company, Kemna began his second life as an art collector. By working with the woodcut genre, Kemna came together around 2000 with the Reutlingen art museum Spendhaus, which also specializes in woodcut, and its director at the time, Beate Thurow . After the turn of the millennium, Kemna thought about the future of his now valuable woodcut collection of 660 art prints. In November 2004, he decided against a donation to the graphic collections in Hamburg and Dresden, which were also interested. He bequeathed the collection to the Reutlinger Kunstmuseum Spendhaus , as the two collections complemented each other in an extraordinary way. The collection includes works by Paul Gauguin , Edvard Munch , Roy Lichtenstein and Max Pechstein .

In February 2017 the entrepreneur and art collector Peter Kemna died at the age of almost 97 years in his hometown Hamburg.

swell

Kemna Bau: history. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
City of Reutlingen: Patron Peter Kemna has passed away. February 28, 2017, accessed November 17, 2019 .
Hamburger Holzschittsammlung in the art museum Reutlingen. In: kunstmarkt.com. July 9, 2005, accessed November 17, 2019 .

Web links

Literature by and about Peter Kemna in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Kemna construction: history.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g City of Reutlingen: Peter Kemna.
↑ kunstmarkt.com: Hamburger Holzschittsammlung. (2005).

personal data
SURNAME	Kemna, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German art collector, patron and road construction company
DATE OF BIRTH	1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH	February 2017
Place of death	Hamburg

[:0-1] Kemna construction: history.

[:1-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g City of Reutlingen: Peter Kemna.

[3] unstmarkt.com: Hamburger Holzschittsammlung. (2005).