Siegfried Weishaupt

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Siegfried Weishaupt (* 1939 ) is a Baden-Württemberg entrepreneur , art collector and patron .

Entrepreneur

Max-Weishaupt GmbH , headquartered in Schwendi in Upper Swabia , has been managing director of Max-Weishaupt GmbH since 1982 and is a medium-sized family business named after Max Weishaupt , the company founder and father of Siegfried Weishaupt, who is one of the world market leaders in combustion technology.

Between 1989 and 1992 the "Weishaupt Forum" was built on the Weishaupt factory premises, an award-winning building designed by New York star architect Richard Meier . It serves as the company's central training, exhibition and social building.

Art collector and patron

The Weishaupt art gallery in Ulm's “New Center”, with a glazed walkway to the Ulm Museum (right in the picture). The red building on the left is the museum society's new building.

The Siegfried Weishaupt collection is one of the most important in Baden-Württemberg , along with the collections of Frieder Burda , Reinhold Würth , Friedrich E. Rentschler ( FER ), Josef Froehlich , Peter Schaufler and the Grässlin family . Initially only a few works from it were shown publicly, then a large part in the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe, which opened at the end of 1999 . The Weishaupt Collection contains important works of modern art from the 1950s and 1960s, e. B. by Roy Lichtenstein , Andy Warhol (who incidentally also portrayed company founder Max Weishaupt), Willem de Kooning , Keith Haring and Karl Gerstner . A focus is on several major works of international color field painting from the 1960s, including by Mark Rothko , Ad Reinhardt , Frank Stella , Agnes Martin , Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland . It also includes numerous works by the Düsseldorf artist group ZERO , including works by the founder Heinz Mack and Otto Piene , Günther Uecker , Pol Bury , as well as works by artists who influenced this group, such as Lucio Fontana , Piero Manzoni and Enrico Castellani . Another focus is on pictures by the hard edge artist Josef Albers . There are also examples of the work of Imi Knoebel and Günther Förg , as well as François Morellet , Maurizio Nannucci and Keith Sonnier .

From 2005 until the opening on November 24, 2007, a private art museum (“ Kunsthalle Weishaupt ”) was built in the city center of Ulm for 8.5 million euros in order to make the Weishaupt collection accessible to the public. Weishaupt awarded the contract to design the art gallery directly to the architecture office of Wolfram Wöhr , Munich, who is a student of Richard Meier. The overall urban development project Neue Mitte Ulm , the culmination of which is the Kunsthalle Weishaupt, was one of the winners of the German Urban Development Award 2006 (“Award” category). The design of the building, which is located in the vicinity of the minster , the town hall and the Ulm municipal museum , is controversial in parts of the public.

Siegfried Weishaupt's brother and his wife, the Munich-based architect couple Maximilian and Agathe Weishaupt, are also collectors of modern art; see Maximilian and Agathe Weishaupt collection .

Several buildings in the public space of the village of Schwendi were entirely financed or supported by the entrepreneurial family Siegfried Weishaupt. Siegfried Weishaupt is one of the founding sponsors of the private Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance, he holds 10% of the capital of the sponsoring company. He was also the managing director of the now defunct ISGM International School of General Management .

Public offices

Weishaupt was President of the Ulm Chamber of Commerce for many years . He is a member of the Advisory Board of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW). Weishaupt was also its chairman from the establishment of the BioRegioUlm Förderverein Biotechnologie in 1997 until 2004.

Honors

In April 2005, Weishaupt was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit for its commitment to the IHK. Siegfried Weishaupt is also Honorary President of the IHK Ulm and since 2005 Honorary Curator of Zeppelin University . In April 2009, Weishaupt was made an honorary citizen by his home community Schwendi, just like his father Max Weishaupt .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of medal recipients 1975–2019. (PDF; 180 kB) State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, p. 51 , accessed on June 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Official Journal of the municipality of Schwendi with sub-municipalities, April 9, 2009, 53rd year, No. 15 (PDF; 547 kB)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Page 3 - accessed January 2, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schwendi.de  

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SURNAME Weishaupt, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, art collector and patron
DATE OF BIRTH 1939