Martin Leyer-Pritzkow (born 2 January 1957 in Düsseldorf) is a German curator and writer about contemporary art. He lives and works in Düsseldorf, 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

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and Cologne, he began his career in 1983 as a marketing manager at

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, in Germany. He was director of marketing and sales at a former subsidiary of the 1989 Swiss reinsurance and the "Dr.

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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.

Curatorial activities

Martin Leyer-Pritzkow organizes his own exhibitions of contemporary art in Germany and foreign countries. He cares about artistic life works, mediates contemporary fine art and gives lectures about the quality characteristics of contemporary art and strategical collecting. He analysis developments and tendencies of the international art market in newspapers and broadcast.

Curated exhibitions (selection)

* 2016 H50 21K, Domagk Art studios, Munich, Germany * 2015 Natura nutrix - Homo vorax, Collateralevent of the

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with Nevia Pizzul-Capello and Hans-Joachim Petersen at Palazzo Albrizzi, Associaczone Culturale Italo-Tedesca, Venice, Italy * 2010 ''Muc-Dus Exchange'', White Box, Munich and E.ON Headquarters, Düsseldorf, Germany * 2001 Young Figuratives, 2001 Carolinen Palais Munich, Germany * 2002 '' Young Figuratives'' Mönchehaus-Museum of Modern Art, Goslar, Germany * 2000 '' Adolf Bierbrauer'',

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, Düsseldorf, Germany * 2000 '' Young Figurattives'' Cologne, Germany * 1999 '' Young Figuratives'' Rovigo, Italy * 1998 ''Due Dimensioni – Arte Giovane Italia e Germania'',

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, Italy * 1998 ''Young German Painters'', Decoplage, Miami, USA

Exhibited artists (selection)

Agata Agatowski, Mahssa Askari,

Armin Baumgarten Armin Baumgarten (born 25 September 1967 in Wolfsburg) is a German painter and sculptor. Life Armin Baumgarten spent his childhood in Lower Saxony and dealt early with drawing and painting, supported by his art teacher Wilfried Wöhler also w ...

, Thomas Bernstein, Christoph Beyer, Sarah Budde, Adolf Bierbrauer, Peter Brüning, Stefan Demary, Thea Djordjadze, Stefan Ettlinger, Fabrizio Gazzarri, Jårg Geismar,

Karl Otto Götz Karl Otto Götz (22 February 1914 – 19 August 2017) often simply called K.O. Götz, was a German artist, filmmaker, draughtsman, printmaker, writer and professor of art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He was one of the oldest living and ac ...

, Heinz Hausmann,

Hans-Jörg Holubitschka Hans-Jörg Holubitschka (born 29 July 1960 in Seltzer, Westerwald - 16 December 2016 Düsseldorf) was a German painter. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Holubitschka lived and worked in Düsseldorf. At the Ruhrakademie in Schwerte he ...

, Gerhard Hoehme, Florian Huth, Jacobo Jarach, Tina Juretzek, Agnieszka Kaszubowska, Horst Keining, Sven Kierst, Anna Krammig,

Hendrik Krawen Hendrik Krawen (born 1963 in Lübeck, Germany) is a contemporary visual artist and installation artist. Life and work From 1978 to 1981 Hendrik Krawen learned painting in the studio of the painter and graphic artist Rainer Erhard Teubert and 19 ...

, Augusta Laar,

André Lanskoy André Lanskoy (31 March 1902 – 24 August 1976) was a Russian painter and printmaker who worked in France. He is associated with the School of Paris and Tachisme, an abstract painting movement that began during the 1940s. Biography He wa ...

, Peter Lindenberg, Bernard Lokai, Yoshiyuki Miura, Maria-Elisabetta Novello, Jennifer Rieker, Katrin Roeber, Thomas Ruch, Julia Schewalie,

Thyra Schmidt Thyra Schmidt (1974) is a German visual artist. Life and work Schmidt studied fine arts from 1996 to 2000 at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover, under Peter Tuma, and in 1999/2000 at the Hiroshima City University, Faculty ...

Emil Schumacher Emil Schumacher (29 August 1912 in Hagen, Westfalen – 4 October 1999 in San José, Ibiza) was a German painter. He was an important representative of abstract expressionism in post-war Germany. In 2009 the Kunstquartier Hagen was inaugurat ...

, Brigitte Stenzel, Angelika J. Trojnarski,

Fritz Winter Fritz Winter (22 September 1905 in Altenbögge (now part of Bönen) – 1 October 1976 in Herrsching) was a German painter of the postwar period best known for his abstract works in the Art Informel style. Life Like his father, Winter ...

et alii.

Teaching

From 1999 to 2008 he was lecturer at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia in Venice.

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, . *(Ed.). Adolf Bierbrauer, in English and German language, Leyer-Pritzkow, Düsseldorf 2000, . *(Ed.): Young Figuratives, in English and German language, Ketterer Kunst, Munich 2001. . *(Ed.): Fabrizio Gazzarri: Dialoghi Inversi – Fabrizio Gazzarri, in English, Italian and German language, Leyer-Pritzkow, Düsseldorf 2003. . *with Klaus Sebastian: Das Kunstkaufbuch (The Art Purchase Book) Prestel, Munich, Berlin, London, New York, 2005. . *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, .

External links

Website from curator of contemporary art Martin Leyer-Pritzkow
* 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, FranceLiterature by Martin Leyer-Pritzkow in the online library of the fine art collection of North Rhine-Westfalia

* [https://www.welt.de/welt_print/article1681696/In-zehn-Jahren-wird-es-das-erste-Milliarden-Kunstwerk-geben.html 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, 16 February 2008]
Der Spiegel, Die Dekade der Gier (The Decade of Greed) Nr. 10 / 2005

Television

Television Interview with Munic TV about the curated exhibition H50 21K in Domagk Studios, Munic with Christopher Griebel (German Language), 2016
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