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Martin leyer pritzkow kurator f r zeitgen ssische kunst
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.
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- Martin leyer pritzkow kurator f r zeitgen ssische kunst
- Curator martin leyer pritzkow
- Life
- Curatorial activities
- Curated exhibitions selection
- Exhibited artists selection
- Teaching
- Writings
- Television
- References
Curator martin leyer pritzkow
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.
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)
Exhibited artists (selection)
Agata Agatowski, Mahssa Askari, Armin Baumgarten, Thomas Bernstein, Christoph Beyer, Sarah Budde, Adolf Bierbrauer, Peter Brüning, Stefan Demary, Thea Djordjadze, Stefan Ettlinger, Fabrizio Gazzarri, Jårg Geismar, Karl Otto Götz, Heinz Hausmann, Hans-Jörg Holubitschka, Gerhard Hoehme, Florian Huth, Jacobo Jarach, Tina Juretzek, Agnieszka Kaszubowska, Horst Keining, Sven Kierst, Anna Krammig, Hendrik Krawen, Augusta Laar, André Lanskoy, Peter Lindenberg, Bernard Lokai, Yoshiyuki Miura, Maria-Elisabetta Novello, Jennifer Rieker, Katrin Roeber, Thomas Ruch, Julia Schewalie, Thyra Schmidt, Emil Schumacher, Brigitte Stenzel, Angelika J. Trojnarski, Fritz Winter et alii.
Teaching
From 1999 to 2008 he has been teaching at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.