Rolf Hoffmann (entrepreneur)

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Rolf Hoffmann (born July 12, 1934 ; † October 17, 2001 in Berlin ) was a German entrepreneur and private art collector .

Life

Rolf Hoffmann was the son of the entrepreneur Heinrich Hoffmann, who took over the Van Laack textile brand from Berlin after 1945 and rebuilt it in Mönchengladbach . As a general partner, he led the management from 1970 until the company was sold in 1986. Hoffmann was a collector and patron of contemporary art and in the last years of his life was a member of the board of trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

Art collection

According to their own account, Hoffmann and his wife came into contact with the artist scene during visits to the documenta and Rhenish art exhibitions in the 1960s and subsequently began to build up a private collection. Hoffmann was chairman of the Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig Cologne, founded in 1985 . After German reunification , he presented a building design by Frank Stella for an art gallery in " The Duchess Garden " at the Zwinger in Dresden , which was to be supported both publicly and privately. However, since the project failed at the time due to political resistance from the property owner, the Free State of Saxony, he instead built a private museum in 1997 in the Sophie-Gips-Höfe in the Spandau suburb of the Berlin district of Mitte , thus making his collection accessible to the public.

The widow handed over the Hoffmann Collection to the Dresden State Art Collections in 2018 .

Private

Rolf Hoffmann was married to Erika Hoffmann-Koenige and had a daughter.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Uta Baier: In the middle. In: The world . October 27, 2001. Retrieved July 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Press release of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, December 6, 1999.
  3. ^ Hoffmann Collection - History. Hoffmann Collection, accessed on July 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Rolf Hoffmann has died. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger . October 23, 2001. Retrieved July 25, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Post Baroque Dresden . In: The time . No. 41 , October 4, 1991 ( online at Zeit.de ).
  6. ^ Birgit Grimm: Great coup for Dresden. In: Sächsische Zeitung online. March 10, 2018, accessed July 26, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Erika Hoffmann: Van Laack entrepreneur gives away art collection. In: Handelsblatt . March 9, 2018, accessed July 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and private art collector
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1934
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 2001
Place of death Berlin