Lothar Schirmer Collection

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The Lothar Schirmer Collection is the private collection of the Munich publisher Lothar Schirmer .

collection

Lothar Schirmer at the end of 2013

The foundation of the only partially public art collection of the passionate collector Lothar Schirmer, who was born in Schmalkalden in 1945, was laid in 1969 and 1972 through the first purchases of drawings by Cy Twombly and Joseph Beuys , with an emphasis on photography in the period that followed.

The collection contains extensive groups of works by Joseph Beuys, Cindy Sherman and Cy Twombly, but also works by John Cage , Walter De Maria , August Sander , the Bechers , Erwin Heerich , Lothar Baumgarten , Hanne Darboven , Hans-Peter Feldmann , Gerhard Richter , Jeff Wall , Thomas Struth , Andreas Gursky , Jörg Sasse and others

In addition to managing the publishing house at Schirmer / Mosel Verlag , which was founded in 1974 with Erik Mosel, Schirmer also emerges as an author, contributor and curator . The collection also gives rise to exhibitions in the Schirmer / Mosel Showroom in Munich belonging to the publisher .

Exhibitions

  • From Beuys to Cindy Sherman. Lothar Schirmer Collection , Kunsthalle Bremen , May 16 to July 25, 1999
  • From Beuys to Cindy Sherman. Lothar Schirmer Collection , Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus , Munich, August 7 to September 26, 1999
  • “The Düsseldorf School. Photographs 1970 - 2008 from the Lothar Schirmer Collection ” , Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts , Munich, November 12, 2009 to February 14, 2010

literature

  • Wulf Herzogenrath, Helmut Friedel (eds.): From Beuys to Cindy Sherman. Lothar Schirmer Collection . Kunsthalle Bremen, May 16–25. July 1999; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, August 7–26. September 1999. With an essay by Wolfgang Kemp and a conversation by Wulf Herzogenrath with Lothar Schirmer, Schirmer / Mosel Munich 1999, ISBN 3-88814-870-7
  • The Düsseldorf School: Photographs 1970 - 2008 from the Lothar Schirmer Collection. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8296-0455-0 . (Booklet accompanying the exhibition).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lothar Schirmer: The photo as a time capsule. A conversation with Heinz-Norbert Jocks . In: Kunstforum international . Volume 171, 2004, pp. 176-193.
  2. ↑ Cornelia Gockel: > From Beuys to Cindy Sherman <: Lothar Schirmer Collection. In: Kunstforum international. Volume 147, 1999, pp. 427-430.