Die Facetten der Vermittlungstätigkeit Adolf Wuesters für rheinische Museen The facets of Adolf Wuester's mediation work for Rhenish museums
The facets of Adolf Wuester's mediation work for Rhenish museums This article looks at the strategies applied by Adolf Wuester, the marchand amateur and later appointed Consul of the German Embassy in Paris, to assume an important role for certain German museums’ success on the French art marke...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Kunst und Profit / Elisabeth Furtwängler, Mattes Lammert (Hrsg.) |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The facets of Adolf Wuester's mediation work for Rhenish museums This article looks at the strategies applied by Adolf Wuester, the marchand amateur and later appointed Consul of the German Embassy in Paris, to assume an important role for certain German museums’ success on the French art market during the Occupation. Wuester’s role was clearly not that of an art dealer buying and selling his own stock of artworks, the understanding of his function as an art market actor needs to be broadened. By looking at his activities on behalf of German museums, especially the Kaiser-Wilhelm- Museum in Krefeld and its director Friedrich Muthmann, it becomes clear that he skilfully applied certain mechanisms allowing the handling of payments based on the dynamics of military occupation - all beyond the activity of merely seeking relevant art works or arranging contacts between buyers and sellers. Archival sources such as correspondence reveal that he wrote out checks for works he did not sell himself. Not only does he appear as a mediator, his dependency on having mercantile privileges to succeed in actually buying and exporting desired objects also becomes apparent. The challenges to fully grasp the quality and quantity of Wuester’s activity as an intermediary illustrate the importance of expanding object-related research on power dynamics, networks and the (varying) roles of art market actors, depending on their privileges and dependencies. |
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| Beschreibung: | Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-3-11-073760-8 |