Wolfgang Wittrock
Wolfgang Wittrock (born May 1, 1947 in Cuxhaven ) is a German art dealer.
After Wittrock moved to Düsseldorf in 1968, he began his training in the art trade with Borgmann in Cologne and Kornfeld in Bern in 1970. After completing his training in 1973, he founded his own gallery in 1974 with a focus on photography (Brassai, Schulz-Dornburg, etc.) and graphic prints (Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Tanguy, Kirchner, Nolde, Klee, Mansen, etc.). This resulted in around 20 monographic and warehouse catalogs between 1975 and 2001. There was also participation in various art fairs, most recently Art Basel from 1995 to 2002.
From 1983 to 1990 Wittrock took on the advice and development of the Deutsche Bank collection (international). As a guest curator, he took care of the mediation and exhibition activities at institutions such as the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf or the MoMA in New York and others
After moving to Berlin in 2001, Wittrock concentrated on arranging individual works, primarily by Paul Klee. The purchases he brokered include Max Beckmann's Reise auf dem Fisch for the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's women on Potsdamer Platz for the Nationalgalerie (Berlin) .
In 1995 he founded the Ferdinand Möller Foundation together with Angelika Fessler-Möller (1919–2002), the daughter of Ferdinand Möller , from the proceeds of the sale of restituted paintings, of which he is still chairman. One of the main tasks of this foundation is the third-party funding of the "Degenerate Art" research center, which has been set up at the Free University of Berlin since 2003 .
From 1999 Wittrock acted as co-founder and director of Pro Humanitate & Arte, eV He is also a founding member of the Graphische Gesellschaft zu Berlin, Association of Friends of the Kupferstichkabinett e. V.
Wittrock also supports the archive work of the Berlinische Galerie (art trade archive Werner Schweiger ).
Wittrock received the Cross of Merit on Ribbon in 2017 for his initiative in art historical research and the support of the art collections in Berlin.
Fonts (selection)
- Yves Tanguy. The graphic work. Stuttgart, 1976.
- Toulouse-Lautrec. The complete prints. 2 volumes, London: For Sotheby's Publications by P. Wilson Publishers 1985, ISBN 0-85667-192-4
- Paul Gauguin, the graphic work: Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 1979.
- with Riva Castleman: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Pictures of the Belle Époque; Paintings, drawings, lithographs. [on the occasion of the exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1985] Munich: Prestel 1985, ISBN 3-7913-0730-4
- (Red.) Academy tour 1950–1988. An exhibition of contemporary art at Deutsche Bank, Düsseldorf, 1988.
- (ed.) Buchskulpturen = Book sculptures / Helfried Hagenberg . Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3187-4
literature
- Meike Hoffmann , Andreas Hüneke , Tobias Teumer (Eds.): Festschrift for Wolfgang Wittrock: for his 65th birthday on May 1, 2012. Schwarz, Meerane 2012, ISBN 978-3-9811118-5-9 Table of contents (PDF; 744 kB)
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Wittrock in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Publications of the Wolfgang Wittrock art trade in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Wolfgang Wittrock Vom Feinsten , FAZ reportfrom May 1, 2007, accessed on November 5, 2013
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Feuilleton - Art Market from May 1, 2017: Art dealer. At the side of the museums , by Philipp Demandt
Individual evidence
- ↑ Foundation and tasks
- ^ Ferdinand Möller Foundation. March 15, 2010, accessed October 11, 2017 .
- ^ Stifter - Graphic Society of Berlin. Retrieved October 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Wittrock receives the Cross of Merit on ribbon. September 21, 2017. Retrieved October 11, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wittrock, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art dealer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cuxhaven |