Roswitha Neu-Kock

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Roswitha Neu-Kock (* 1946 ) is a German art historian .

Career

After studying art history , classical archeology and history at the University of Münster and the FU Berlin , Roswitha Neu-Kock received her doctorate in Münster in 1974 . She then worked in museums, monument preservation and universities. As a research assistant at the Friends of the Roman Church in Cologne , she was responsible for the publication of the association's yearbooks from 1986 to 1989. From 1989 to 2007 she was in charge of the Rheinisches Bildarchiv in Cologne.

In 2007 she moved to the position newly established by the city as a consultant for provenance research , where she dealt with works of art in Cologne museums that may have been Jewish property or were confiscated during the Nazi era . In this role she was involved in researching the Kokoschka painting Portrait Tilla Durieux , which was restituted to Alfred Flechtheim's heirs in 2013 after lengthy negotiations and a final call from the Limbach Commission .

Publications (selection)

  • Johann Brabender . Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster 1977.
  • Gerhard Bott (Ed.): Still life - Natura Morta: in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum u. in the Museum Ludwig . Museums of the City of Cologne, Cologne 1980.
  • August Kreyenkamp: a Cologne photographer's life in the first half of the century . Wienand, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-87909-454-3 .
  • Press and Information Office of the City of Cologne (Ed.): 1900 - 2000 / [City of Cologne]: City views at the beginning and end of the century . Cologne 2000.
  • Municipal Gallery Villa Zanders (Ed.): Helmut Moos - Sculptures . Bergisch Gladbach 2001, ISBN 3-939227-17-X .

Essays

  • Alfred Flechtheim, Alexander Vömel and the situation in Düsseldorf from 1930 to 1934 . In: Eva Blimlinger, Monika Mayer (Hrsg.): Collecting art, acting art. Contributions to the international symposium in Vienna . Vienna 2012, p. 155-166 .
  • 9. Oskar Kokoschka Portrait of Tilla Durieux (Portrait of Tilla Durieux) . In: Alfred Flechtheim: Looted Art and Restitution . De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-040497-5 , pp. 218–221 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783110404975-030 ( degruyter.com [accessed July 29, 2020]).
  • Alexander Vömel - The years of collaboration with Alfred Flechtheim until 1933 . In: Alfred Flechtheim: Looted Art and Restitution . De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-040497-5 , pp. 101-106 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783110404975-014 ( degruyter.com [accessed July 29, 2020]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yearbook & Editing. In: romanische-kirchen-koeln.de. Retrieved July 29, 2020 .
  2. ^ Museum Association Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Between market and museum . Contributions to the conference “Forms of Presentation of Photography” on June 24 and 25, 1994 in the Reiss Museum of the city of Mannheim. Göppingen 1995, p. 77 ( rundbrief-fotografie.de [PDF]).
  3. ↑ Provenance research. The origin of works of art and cultural assets in our museums. In: stadt-koeln.de. Retrieved July 29, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Recommendation of the Advisory Commission for the return of cultural property confiscated as a result of Nazi persecution . Press release. Berlin April 9, 2013 ( lostart.de [PDF]).
  5. ↑ Michael Kohler: Kokoschka picture: Farewell to Tilla Durieux. In: ksta.de. April 10, 2013, accessed on July 29, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Neu-Kock, Roswitha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1946