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.

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