Schellmann Art

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Schellmann Art (formerly Edition Schellmann) is the trade name under which Schellmann GmbH, Munich , produces and markets contemporary art . The company was founded in 1969 by Jörg Schellmann .

history

While studying law in Munich, Jörg Schellmann opened his first gallery, Kunstladen , in Schwabing. With the intention of producing art that is accessible to a broader public due to lower prices than the originals, Schellmann began to publish limited editions of graphics , objects and installation works by internationally known artists.

In 1975 he joined forces with Bernd Klüser ; together they founded Galerie / Edition Schellmann & Klüser based in Maximilianstrasse, Munich. The first significant collaboration took place with Joseph Beuys - Schellmann and Klüser are the editors of some of his most renowned graphics and objects. Schellmann & Klüser also initiated the famous installation work " show your wound " by Joseph Beuys, and exhibited it for the first time in 1976 in the art forum in the Maximilianstrasse / Altstadtring pedestrian underpass. Two years later, with the help of an anonymous donor, the Lenbachhaus in Munich acquired the then highly controversial environment and made plenty of headlines. "show your wound" was described by the press in 1979 as "the most expensive bulky waste of all time".

After Schellmann and Klüser decided in 1985 to separate the subject areas gallery and edition, Jörg Schellmann took over the edition company. With a new name, Edition Schellmann, and based in Munich and New York, Schellmann published graphics and objects by Christo , Donald Judd , Jannis Kounellis , Andy Warhol and others.

In 1989, the New York Museum of Modern Art honored Edition Schellmann's editing activities in Germany and the USA with the exhibition For 20 Years: Editions Schellmann . In 1992 Schellmann published the catalog raisonné of the Multiples by Joseph Beuys at Verlag Schirmer / Mosel and in 1997 was commissioned to produce and sell the official editions of documenta X and 11. In 2003 and 2005 Edition Schellmann published the graphics and objects of the 50th and 51st Biennale di Venezia .

Projects

One edition series that Edition Schellmann has been developing and publishing since 1992 is the Wall Works project : architecture-related wall paintings and installations that are designed and conceived by contemporary artists so that they can then be adapted to the respective spatial situations and executed on site. Artists for this project include Dan Flavin , Liam Gillick , Damien Hirst , Terence Koh , Sol LeWitt , Sarah Morris , Nam June Paik , Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol . So far Wall Works consists of 51 works; the entire archive was acquired by the Nationalgalerie Berlin in 2013 and will be exhibited there until the beginning of 2015.

Jörg Schellmann is also editor (and co-editor) of the graphic catalogs by Christo , Donald Judd , Jannis Kounellis , Thomas Ruff and Andy Warhol .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The most expensive bulky waste of all time", Bayerischer Rundfunk
  2. ^ "Wall Works", Nationalgalerie Berlin ( Memento from November 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )