Martin Leyer-Pritzkow
Martin Leyer-Pritzkow (born January 2nd. 1957 in Duesseldorf) is a German Curator of contemporary art. He lives and works in Duesseldorf, Germany.
Life
Martin Leyer-Pritzkow grew up the first years in Düsseldorf. Influenced by his grandfather, who has taken him to many exhibitions of classical modernism as a child, his interest in art developed. At grammar school in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim he received art lessons from Konrad Fischer (artist name: Konrad Lueg) and Gerhard Richter. In the year 1972 Leyer-Pritzkow changed school and graduated for high school in Bonn.
After studying economics at the Universities of Regensburg and Cologne, he began his career in 1983 as a marketing manager at Diners Club International, in Germany. He was director of marketing and sales at a former subsidiary of the 1989 Swiss reinsurance and the "Dr. Harald Quandt Holding ". He subsequently worked as a managing partner of a Direct Marketing company in Munich and consultant for a French consulting company in Lyon. In 1996 he started his own business as an independent curator in Düsseldorf.
Curated Exhibitions
Martin Leyer-Pritzkow curated exhibitions such as Young Figuratives, 2001 Carolinen Palais Munich and Mönchehaus-Museum of Modern Art, Goslar 2002, Young German Painters, Decoplage, Miami, USA 1998, Due Dimensioni - Arte Giovane Italia e Germania, 1998 Venice, and 1999 Rovigo and 2000, Cologne; Adolf Bierbrauer in 2000, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Muc-Dus Exchange, White Box, Munich and EON Headquarters, Duesseldorf, 2010.
He cares for artistic life works, mediates and exhibits contemporary fine art and gives lectures about the quality characteristics of contemporary art and strategical collecting contemporary art.
From 1999 to 2008 he has been teaching at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.
Writings
- (Ed.): Due Dinemsioni, Giovane Arte in Italia e Germania Texts by Massimo Dona, Fabrizio Gazzarri, Martin Leyer-Pritzkow, Tonato Antonio and Luigi Viola, in English, Italian and German language, Leyer-Pritzkow, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-926820-61-6.
- (Ed.). Adolf Bierbrauer, in English and German language, Leyer-Pritzkow, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-926820-70-5.
- (Ed.): Young Figuratives, in English and German language, Ketterer Kunst, Munich 2001. ISBN 3-00-007375-2.
- (Ed.): Fabrizio Gazzarri: Dialoghi Inversi - Fabrizio Gazzarri, in English, Italian and German language, Leyer-Pritzkow, Düsseldorf 2003. ISBN 3-00-012419-5.
- with Klaus Sebastian: Das Kunstkaufbuch (The Art Purchase Book) Prestel, Munich, Berlin, London, New York, 2005. ISBN 3-7913-3359-3.
- Limits of freedom, the aesthetics of the moment, the introduction to the photographs of the artist Sven Kierst, in English and German, dauvi-Verlag, Bergheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-937855-06-6.
External links
- webside of the curator
- Wikipedia Germany
- Literature by Martin Leyer-Pritzkow in the German National Library
- Literature by Martin Leyer-Pritzkow in the online Library "Bibliothèque Kadinsky", Centre Pompidou, France
- Literature by Martin Leyer-Pritzkow in the online Libray of the fine art collection of North Rhine-Westfalia
- In zehn Jahren wird es das erste Milliarden Kunstwerk geben (In ten years there will be the first art work for a billion), Curator Leyer-Pritzkow: The boom just started, in: Die Welt, February 16th, 2008
- Der Spiegel, Die Dekade der Gier (The Decade of Greed) Nr. 10 / 2005