User:Eli185/Art gallery Hugo Graetz
The Hugo Graetz art dealership was a gallery in Berlin that existed between 1923 and 1933 at Achenbachstrasse 21 (now Lietzenburger Strasse) in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. The owner was the Jewish merchant Hugo Graetz († 1961)[1].
History
[edit]Hugo Graetz was the brother[1] of the Berlin industrialist and art collector Robert Graetz (1878-1945),[2] through whose connections he had numerous contacts with artists even before opening his gallery. The existence of numerous portrait paintings by the businessman (including those by Jacob Steinhardt[3] and Ludwig Meidner[4]) attest to these artistic relationships[5].
At the beginning of the 1920s, Hugo Graetz became managing director of the Novembergruppe artists' association, which was newly founded in 1918 and whose first exhibition took place in 1920 in the Fraenkel & Co. gallery (Josef Altmann).[1] From around 1923, the Novembergruppe's office was also housed in Hugo Graetz's premises. [2] Some of the concerts organized by the artists' association also took place in the gallery.[1] According to art market researcher Werner J. Schweiger, themed or personal exhibitions are unlikely to have taken place in the Hugo Graetz art gallery, which is why no catalogs or reviews are known. The presentations of works by various artists were sales exhibitions. According to information about the opening exhibition and the few known advertisements at Graetz in 1923 and 1924, the artists represented with works included Heinrich Campendonk, Charles Crodel, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, Lyonel Feininger, Friedrich Feigl, Ernst Fritsch, Erich Heckel, Willy Robert Huth, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Franz Radziwill, Martel Schwichtenberg and Jacob Steinhardt.[3]
An important customer was probably his collecting and supportive brother Robert Graetz, who expanded his original collection of Impressionists to include contemporary art under the influence of his advising brother. Numerous artists from the Robert Graetz Collection were exhibited and represented by Hugo Graetz.[1] One of the last exhibitions at Achenbachstrasse 21 in 1931 was dedicated to the Polish painter and graphic artist Henryk Barczynski.[2]
When the National Socialists came to power, Graetz was forced to give up his art business in 1933. With the help of his brother Robert, he was able to emigrate to Palestine in the same year. Nothing is known about his subsequent fate[3],.
Exhibitions
[edit]1923
[edit]- Opening exhibition with works by Heinrich Campendonk, Charles Crodel, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, Lyonel Feininger, Friedrich Feigl, Erich Heckel, Willy Robert Huth, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Franz Radziwill, Martel Schwichtenberg, Jacob Steinhardt[3], among others.
1924
[edit]- Heinrich Campendonk[4]
- Lyonel Feininger[4]
- Ernst Fritsch[4]
- Erich Heckel[4]
- Emil Nolde[4]
- Max Pechstein[4]
- Jacob Steinhardt[4]
1931
[edit]- Henryk Barczynski[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Enderlein, Angelika (2006). Der Berliner Kunsthandel in der Weimarer Republik und im NS-Staat: Zum Schicksal der Sammlung Graetz. Berlin: De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-05-008589-0.
- ^ Neue Revue. Heft 2 vom Mai 1931, S. 124
- ^ a b "Collection Online | Berlinische Galerie | Ihr Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin". sammlung-online.berlinischegalerie.de. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Werner J. Schweiger. "Kunsthandlung Hugo Graetz". [Eintrag für geplante Publikation "Lexikon des Kunsthandels der Moderne im deutschsprachigen Raum 1905-1937"] (in German). Berlinische Galerie. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
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