Gustav Pauli
Theodor Gustav Pauli (usually Gustav Pauli) (2 February 1866, Bremen – 8 July 1938, Munich) was a German
.Early life and career
Gustav Pauli was the son of Bremen
Bremen
In the summer of 1899, Pauli was appointed to the Kunsthalle Bremen. He engaged the gallery with modern German art, including the first monographic (and sadly, posthumous) exhibition of work by Paula Modersohn-Becker in 1908. He also collected a large number of German and French Impressionist works, which today form the core of the Kunsthalle's collection. In 1911, his purchase of Vincent van Gogh's Poppy Field caused a protest, led by Carl Vinnen, a German painter from Worpswede. Pauli's preference for modern works was seen by some, such as the painter, poet and critic Arthur Fitger, as both dissolute and irrelevant. Like his contemporary gallerist Hugo von Tschudi, Pauli collected works of modern painting at a time when it was deeply unattractive to the broader public, and unappreciated by many art critics.[2]
Hamburg
In 1914, Pauli succeeded
Pauli acquired more modern works, following Lichtwark's lead, including
A fire in the Glass Palace in Munich in 1931 destroyed many important works which had been borrowed from the Kunsthalle Hamburg collection. A Festschrift was given to Pauli in that year.[6] In 1933, Pauli signed his name to the Vow of allegiance of the Professors of the German Universities and High-Schools to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialistic State. Despite this, with the early stages of the Nazi attack on modern art and Pauli's public friendships with leading Jewish intellectuals, including Erwin Panofsky, he rapidly fell out of favour and was dismissed. His successor, Harald Busch, continued to defend the collection of modern art in the Kunsthalle.[7]
Life post-1933
The
Major works
- Gainsborough, Künstlermonographie. Bielefeld & Leipzig: Verlag von Velhagen & Klasing, 1904.
- Venedig. 3rd edition, Leipzig: Verlag E. U. Seemann, 1906.
- (as editor) Philipp Otto Runge. Bilder und Bekenntnisse. Berlin: Furche-Verlag, 1918.
- Die Kunst und die Revolution. Berlin: Verlag Bruno Cassirer, 1921.
- Die Hamburger Meister der guten alten Zeit. Munich: Hyperion Verlag, 1925.
- Die Kunst des Klassizismus und der Romantik. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1925.
- Paula Modersohn-Becker. Berlin: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1934.
- Erinnerungen aus sieben Jahrzehnten. Tübingen: Wunderlich Verlag, 1936.
References
- ^ Charles de Tolnay, "Erinnerung an Gustav Pauli und an meine Hamburger Jahre", Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, 19 (1974), pp. 10-12.
- ^ Dorothee Hansen, "Gustav Pauli", Kunsthalle Bremen - Geschichte
- ^ Jörg Deuter, "Theodor Gustav Pauli", Neue Deutsche Biografie, 20 (2001), p. 121 (online version)
- ^ The History of the Hamburger Kunsthalle Archived 2012-12-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Aby M. Warburg zum Gedächtnis: Worte zur Beisetzung von Professor Dr. Aby M. Warburg: geboren am 13. Juni 1866, gestorben am 26. Oktober 1929, Darmstadt: Roetherdruck, 1929.
- ^ Gustav Pauli zum 65. Geburtstage am 2. Februar 1931, Hamburg, 1931.
- ^ The History of the Hamburger Kunsthalle Archived 2012-12-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Erinnerungen aus sieben Jahrzehnten. Tübingen: Wunderlich Verlag, 1936.