Theo Wormland

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Theo Wormland (born January 7, 1907 in Gladbeck / Westphalia , † January 16, 1983 in Munich ) was a German textile merchant , founder of the Wormland company, art collector and patron, and founder of the Theo Wormland Foundation .

Life

Theo Wormland was born in 1907 at the time of the German Empire as the son of a restaurateur in Gladbeck and completed an apprenticeship as a textile merchant. After working in Berlin , Munich and New York , he opened his first own shop for men's clothing in 1935 at the time of National Socialism in Hanover's Theaterstrasse . In the year of the beginning of the Second World War , he moved his company in 1939 to its own building on Karmarschstrasse ; However, the soon by the bombing of Hannover the bombs fell victim.

After the end of the war, Wormland rebuilt buildings and companies and reorganized his house "for men's clothing on fashionable chic". As the “ avant-garde of men's fashion” in the still young Federal Republic of Germany , he has since set standards “in the field of fashionable men's clothing”, first in Hanover, and then opening branches in Cologne , Munich and other major cities.

The company's founder was also known as a collector of art . After initially concentrating on classical modernism , he later enriched his collection with contemporary art . The patron, who gave donations to museums in Hanover, Cologne and Munich during his lifetime , bequeathed his collection, which was initially supposed to go to the Sprengel Museum Hanover , to the Theo Wormland Foundation, which in 2013 was transferred to the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich gave. In 2013, both this donation and the works purchased from the assets of the Theo Wormland Foundation were shown in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich .

Wormland had contributed his further assets by will to the Theo Wormland Foundation, founded in 1982, which - at that time still the owner of the Wormland company - "kicked off" the donation campaign for the construction of the Pinakothek der Moderne with a contribution of DM 3 million.

Honors

Theo Wormland was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and the Bavarian Order of Merit.

Exhibitions

  • 2013: dream pictures. Ernst, Magritte, Dalí, Picasso, Anteas, Nay ... The Wormland donation , Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. Catalog.

literature

  • Hartwig Garnerus: The Theo Wormland Collection . Thiemig 1983, ISBN 3-521-04152-2 .
  • Exhibition catalog: dream pictures. Ernst, Magritte, Dalí, Picasso, Antes, Nay ... , Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7757-3655-8 .
  • Karl Bosl : Biographical Dictionary of German History , founded by Hellmuth Rössler and Günther Franz, edit. by Karl Bosl, Günther Franz and Hanns Hubert Hofmann, 2nd, completely revised and greatly expanded edition, Munich: Francke
  • World art. Current magazine for art and antiques , 55th volume, p. 426
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Wormland, Theo. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 395.
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Wormland, men's fashion. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 684-685.

Web links

Commons : Theo Wormland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Wormland, Theo (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Wormland, Herrenmoden (see literature)
  3. ↑ Information under the GND number of the German National Library (sd)
personal data
SURNAME Wormland, Theo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German textile merchant, art collector and patron
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Gladbeck
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1983
Place of death Munich