Hans Goltz
Hans Goltz ( born August 11, 1873 in Elbing, † October 21, 1927 in Baden -Baden ) was a German art dealer and a pioneer of modern art.
Life and work
Hans Goltz was born the fourth of five children of the linen weaver and merchant Benjamin Goltz in what was then East Prussia Elbing. The successful school days of "quiet, gentle dreamer ," as he has been described by his three years older and only sister, experienced a sudden rupture when the family in 1886 the possessions lost and moved to Königsberg. The visit to the school was not possible for reasons of cost, which is why Hans Goltz ' college career ended on the Latin high school in Königsberg. The subsequent formation of a bookseller led the 17 -year-olds to Bamberg, because his original training company had to be closed for economic reasons.
1904 settled Hans Goltz in Munich and led from 1911 independently a book and art shop, which was to develop over the years to a sensational art center. First, Hans Goltz, however, a very good reputation acquired by the given out at their own publishing " Goltz - books ", books with artistically designed bindings.
In 1912, the second exhibition of the editorial Der Blaue Reiter in the rooms of Goltz 's art dealer in Briennerstr. 8 instead. With the founding of the Gallery of Contemporary Art - Hans Goltz Goltz undertook in September 1912 the decisive step in the kunsthändlerische professionalism. In more than 160 exhibitions, he tried to make the Munich audience acquainted with modern art at home and abroad, presenting paintings, drawings, sculptures and crafts of Fauvism, Cubism and Expressionism. The almost overwhelming number of avant-garde artists ranging in alphabetical enumeration of Hans Arp to Emil Zoir.
Numerous graphic print portfolios that have appeared in the self-publishing should provide for additional dissemination of contemporary art. After the Gallery of Contemporary Art - Hans Goltz had been laid over the bookstore Goltz, also lectures on new literature took place alongside exhibitions. Else Lasker-Schüler and Franz Kafka were among the presenters. Kafka held in the bookstore Goltz from his only reading outside Prague.
The aftershocks of the First World War, for example, had the Munich Soviet Republic to the episode, Hans Goltz persuaded to publish the pamphlet " Ararat " with political content. " Ararat " is changed, however, in 1920 to a richly illustrated art magazine. At that time, Hans Goltz had already become general agent of the German -Swiss painter Paul Klee, who remarked in February 1920: " Goltz works very well so far ." Not all were impressed by Hans Goltz ' commitment to modern art. Ambivalent reactions in the population and the press learned Hans Goltz abound. The negative is probably the one to count in the People's Observer of 29 March 1923:
Remained unaffected Hans Goltz this kind of hostility in any way. Distance and rest he sought in Baden -Baden, which his daughter Charlotte reported that he had loved the spa town. Health severely affected by Pressehäme and death threats affected, he sought also in the autumn of 1927, rest in Baden-Baden, where he died unexpectedly on October 21, 1927.
The Bavarian writer Oskar Maria Graf has him in his recent autobiography "Laughter from the outside " with the assessment, Hans Goltz was "the most famous pioneer of modern art," a literary monument. In Türkenstrasse in Munich existed until January 2013, the art bookstore Goltz, who was in possession of his descendants.