Tobias G. Natter

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Tobias G. Natter (2011)

Tobias Günter Natter (born May 26, 1961 in Dornbirn ) is an Austrian art historian specializing in the “Vienna around 1900” era.

Life

Natter studied at the Universities of Innsbruck , Munich and Vienna and received his doctorate in 1988 , Dr. phil. He began his academic career at the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna and then worked for 15 years at the Austrian Gallery Belvedere , most recently as chief curator . At the same time, Natter often acted as a consultant and guest curator for the Jewish Museum Vienna, which was rebuilt in 1990 . In 2001, at the invitation of the newly founded Neue Galerie New York , he realized their first temporary exhibition on Oskar Kokoschka .

In 2006 Natter was appointed director of the Vorarlberg State Museum in Bregenz. In this function, he had a significant influence on the content and structural realignment of the museum. He then headed the Leopold Museum in Vienna as artistic director until 2013, where he opened up new audiences with exhibitions such as naked men (2012/13).
In October 2013 Natter announced his resignation from this function and justified his step with the new double function of his commercial director Peter Weinhäupl, which he criticized as incompatible, in the Gustav Klimt Vienna 1900 private foundation for the Klimt collection of the, founded by Ursula Ucicky (* 1922) Nazi-charged filmmaker Gustav Ucicky .

In 2014 the art historian started his own business with Natter Fine Arts , a company that specializes in the development of exhibitions, art appraisals and appraisals. Natter has been a court-sworn expert since 2011, u. a. with an estimate of the artistic estate of Maria Lassnig (1919–2014), Ernst Fuchs (1930–2015) and Anton Lehmden (1929–2018).

Natter was and is a member of various art commissions. As an exhibition organizer, he curated highly regarded exhibitions for museums in Austria, Germany, Italy, France, the USA and Japan. Outside Austria, for example, for the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, the Tate Gallery London, the Musée d´Orsay Paris, the Fine Arts Museums San Francisco and the Neue Galerie New York. As part of his journalistic activity, Natter presented the two current catalog raisonnés of paintings by Gustav Klimt (2012) and Egon Schiele (2017). Both catalogs of works have been published in several languages ​​by Taschen Verlag Cologne.

Awards

  • 2018: Award of the professional title of professor by the Austrian Federal President

Fonts (selection)

  • The Self-Portrait: From Schiele to Beckmann. Prestel Verlag, Munich u. a. 2019, ISBN 978-3-7913-5859-8 .
  • Egon Schiele. All paintings 1909–1918. Taschen, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-8365-4613-3 .
  • with Max Hollein (eds.): Klimt & Rodin: An Artistic Encounter. DelMonico Books - Prestel Verlag, Munich a. a. 2017, ISBN 978-3-7913-5708-9 .
  • with Stella Rollig (ed.): Klimt and the ancient world. Erotic encounters. Prestel Verlag, Munich u. a. 2017, ISBN 978-3-7913-5698-3 .
  • Klimt and The Women of Vienna's Golden Age 1900–1918. Prestel Verlag, Munich u. a. 2016, ISBN 978-3-7913-5582-5 .
  • with Max Hollein and Klaus Albrecht-Schröder (eds.): Art for all. The color woodcut in Vienna around 1900. Taschen Verlag, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-90-00-06619-3 .
  • with Agnes Husslein-Arco (Ed.): Fürstenglanz. The power of splendor. Belvedere self-published, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-902805-97-3 .
  • with Franz Smola (Ed.): Kokoschka. Focus on the self. Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85033-785-4 .
  • Gustav Klimt. The collection in the Leopold Museum. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7757-3744-9 .
  • with Franz Smola (Ed.): Clouds. World of the fleeting. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503018-4-7 .
  • Gustav Klimt: Complete Paintings. Taschen, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-8365-2794-1 .
  • with Franz Smola and Peter Weinhäupl (eds.): Klimt personally. Pictures - letters - insights. Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85033-628-4 .
  • with Elisabeth Leopold (ed.): naked men. from 1800 until today. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7774-5721-5 .
  • with Michael Fehr and Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen (eds.): Das Schaudepot. Between open magazine and staging. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1616-3 .
  • Snow. The raw material of art. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2430-2 .
  • with Christoph Grunenberg (Ed.): Gustav Klimt. Painting, Design and Modern Life. Tate Publishing, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-85437-735-7 .
  • Gustav Klimt and The Dialogues of the Heterae. Erotic Boundaries in Vienna Around 1900. In: Renée Price (Hrsg.): Gustav Klimt. The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Neue Galerie New York. Prestel, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3834-7 .
  • Angelika Kaufmann. A woman of tremendous talent. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Vorarlberg State Museum. Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-901802-28-7 .
  • with Thomas Trummer (ed.): The round table. Egon Schiele and his group. DuMont, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8321-7700-0 .
  • with Thomas Trummer (Ed.): after Schiele. DuMont, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8321-7722-1 .
  • with Max Hollein (Ed.): The naked truth. Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka and other scandals. Prestel, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-7913-3284-8 .
  • Egon Schiele and the Neulengbach Affair. In: Renée Price (Ed.): Egon Schiele. The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collection. Prestel, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-7913-3390-9 .
  • with Ursula Storch (ed.): Schiele & Roessler. The artist and his sponsor. Art and Networking in the Early 20th Century. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-7757-1479-0 .
  • The world of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka. Collectors and patrons. DuMont, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8321-7258-0 .
  • Gustav Klimt and the image of women in Vienna around 1900. Kobe u. a. 2003.
  • Oskar Kokoschka. The Modern Portrait 1909–1914. DuMont, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-8321-7182-7 .
  • with Gerbert Frodl (ed.): Klimt and the women. DuMont, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7701-5370-7 .
  • Chaim Soutine. A French expressionist. Self-published by the Jewish Museum Vienna, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-901398-12-0 .
  • with Julius H. Schoeps (Ed.): Max Liebermann and the French Impressionists. DuMont, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7701-4294-2 .
  • Kokoschka and Vienna. Self-published by Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85202-131-6 .
  • DEPARTURES. Austrian painting and sculpture from the 1950s. Self-published by Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-901508-00-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Director of the Vienna Leopold Museum resigns surprisingly. ( Memento from November 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on: art-magazin.de , October 30, 2013.
  2. ↑ New start as a new self-employed person: Tobias Natter opens a new office. on: vol.at , March 6, 2014.
  3. ↑ Tobias Natter received the honorary title "Professor". In: vorarlberg.orf.at. February 24, 2018, accessed November 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Natter, Tobias G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Natter, Tobias Günter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Dornbirn , Austria