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23-528: Kaselowsky was the eldest son of the entrepreneur Richard Kaselowsky (died 1921) and his wife Elise Pauline Kaselowsky née Delius. In 1907, he passed his Abitur in Bielefeld. He studied law at the University of Bonn , Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Freiburg . In 1910, he completed a banking apprenticeship. In 1910, he volunteered for military service, however he was discharged due to an illness

46-687: A decisive influence on the industrial machinery sewing machines, bicycles, cash registers, cars, etc. in the 1890s. After leaving the Dürkopp plants, he was deputy chairman of the supervisory board. In 1900 he was a founding member of E. Gundlach A.-G. and also belonged to the Supervisory Board there. From 1899 to 1903 he was a nationalliberal deputy in the Prussian Landtag and lived with his family in Berlin. This business-related biographical article

69-572: A majority of the SPD and the Greens in the city council removed Kaselowsky's name from the name of the art gallery. The renaming of the street, on which Kaselowsky's villa stood, to Kaselowskystrasse, which took place on the occasion of Rudolf August Oetker's 85th birthday in 2001, led to protests. In 2016, the municipal committees decided to rename the street to Hochstraße, which was carried out on February 17, 2017. This business-related biographical article

92-680: A variety of styles, had 47,000. The museum also offers guided tours, teaching activities for children, and a library. The museum is located on the south-west edge of Bielefeld's old town . It was built in 1968 by the American architect Philip Johnson in the International Style that he had founded, and is his only museum building in Europe. Johnson had been invited by the museum's director Joachim Wolfgang von Moltke and Rudolf August Oetker in 1966. In 1994, Frank O. Gehry proposed an extension to

115-470: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Richard Kaselowsky (died 1921) Richard Kaselowsky (16 June 1852 - 6 April 1921) was a German entrepreneur and deputy in the Prussian state parliament. His son was also Richard Kaselowsky . Richard Kaselowsky was born on 16 June 1852. He married Elise Pauline, born Delius (1862-1921), on 7 October 1887. She came from the textile producer family of

138-457: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kunsthalle Bielefeld The Kunsthalle Bielefeld is a modern and contemporary art museum in Bielefeld, Germany . It was designed by Philip Johnson in 1968, and paid for by the businessman and art patron Rudolf August Oetker . Initiated in 1950 with a donation by Oetker and gradually expanded from 1954 with municipal acquisitions,

161-605: The Dr. Oetker company. In 1920, Kaselowky effectively took over as the company's manager. By this time, Dr. Oetker had over 600 employees. The company continued to perform well under Kaselowsky. Kaselowsky also served as the chairman of the supervisory board of the Budenheim chemical factory in Mainz , Gundlach Holding in Bielefeld , a member of the supervisory board of Vogt & Wolf AG in Gütersloh,

184-678: The Hamburg Süd , and deputy chairman of the supervisory board of the company now known as Dürkopp Adler . He also served with the Gebrüder Borchers and Deutsche Bank . In 1926, Kaselowky founded a stud farm for thoroughbred breeding. Kaselowsky joined the Nazi Party on the 1 May 1933, with his wife following in 1937. He later became an SS - Gruppenführer and a member of the Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft . Kaselowsky maintained close ties to

207-576: The 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, the Kunsthalle presented the documentary "Ilya und Emila Kabakov: Die Utopische Stadt. 1997-2003", which was on permanent display in the "Utopia Station Now!". As part of its series of exhibitions of important museum collections of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn presented »The Unknown Bielefeld Collection« in 2011. The Kunsthalle also hosts temporary exhibitions to complement

230-526: The Kunsthalle ceased using the controversial part of its name in public. The discussion was revived in 1998 when the then-director, Thomas Kellein , sought to strengthen ties with the Oetkers and resurrected the Kaselowsky name. After the attempt to reach an uncontroversial solution failed, the city council changed the name to simply Kunsthalle Bielefeld , whereupon Rudolf Oetker ended his support and withdrew all

253-604: The Nazi movement, and donated a total of 80,000 Reichsmarks to Heinrich Himmler , who used this money for various causes "outside the budget", such as funding the Ahnenerbe , which conducted Aryan historical and eugenicist research. Dr. Oetker became one of the first German businesses to be declared a "National Socialist model company". The company profited from the Aryanization of Jewish property. During World War II , Kaselowsky supported

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276-516: The SS, he was brutally beaten by the guards. For years after the war, Oetker would need a cane to walk. He was released from custody in 1947. He would elevate the company to a household name in Germany today. Dr. Oetker became one of the symbols of the post-World War II recovery effort in the country. Oetker died in 2007. In the post-war period, Kaselowsky was highly controversial in Bielefeld, especially regarding

299-401: The ceremony along with two federal ministers. This led to the event, with 1,200 invitees, being completely cancelled – but the city council stuck to its choice of name. The "silent" opening on 27 September 1968 was accompanied by protests. A memorial to Kaselowsky, commemorating him as a victim of the heavy aerial bombing of September 1944, was only removed in 2017. In the following years,

322-582: The collection focuses on Expressionism , international sculpture, and contemporary art. The permanent collection features a wide array of 20th-century art, including paintings by Pablo Picasso and Max Beckmann , works by the Blaue Reiter group and movements centred on László Moholy-Nagy and Oskar Schlemmer , and more recent art from the 1970s and '80s. The museum stands in a sculpture garden featuring works by Auguste Rodin , Henry Moore , Richard Serra , Ólafur Elíasson and other modern sculptors. At

345-513: The existing building; it was never realized. The museum was refurbished in 2002. Cubic in shape and with a square ground level, it has three storeys above ground, two below, and a total exhibition space of 1,200 square metres (13,000 sq ft). The facade is of red sandstone . When he endowed the building, Rudolf Oetker expressed a desire for it be called the Richard-Kaselowsky-Haus , after his stepfather. Richard Kaselowsky

368-554: The following year. He then completed an apprenticeship at the Bethmann Bank , where he met chemist and entrepreneur Rudolf Oetker (1889–1916), the son of the pharmacist and entrepreneur August Oetker . From April 1913 he continued his training at a London bank. In 1914, Kaselowsky became a poultry farmer at Bad Nauheim . In 1916, both he and Rudolf Oetker were drafted into the Imperial German Army during World War I . Oetker

391-610: The naming of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld , co-financed by his stepson Rudolf August Oetker. While the Oetker family emphasized his role as a father and successful entrepreneur and described him as a victim of the war, others criticized his involvement in the regime, something which the company had ignored. Today, the Ida and Richard Kaselowsky Foundation, set up by the Oetker family, promotes social and charitable causes. In 1998, after long debates,

414-417: The permanent collection. Recent examples have been devoted to Emil Nolde , Rirkrit Tiravanija , and the locally born artist Peter August Böckstiegel together with Conrad Felixmüller . The 1991 exhibition "Picasso's Surrealism: 1925–1937", one of five internationally renowned Picasso exhibitions in 1984, 1988, 1993, and 2011, attracted 67,000 visitors; an exhibition in 2007–08, featuring art from 1937 in

437-494: The same name. The couple had a daughter and two sons, one of them the industrialist Richard Kaselowsky. Kaselowsky was among the financially and politically influential citizens of Bürgern Bielefelds. He was a merchant in Bad Nauheim. From 1894 he belonged to the supervisory board of the forward mill and became a shareholder of the company Nikolaus Dürkopps. From 1876 to 1896 he was commercial director there. In this position, he had

460-481: The war effort by providing pudding mixes and munitions to German troops. The business also used slave labour in some of its facilities. On 30 September 1944, during an American air raid on Bielefeld , Kaselowsky and his family took shelter in a bunker which had been built in the basement of his villa. However, the bunker failed to protect them after the house was hit by a bomb. Kaselowsky, his wife, and their daughters, Ilse and Ingeborg, were all killed. The sole survivor

483-563: Was Richard Kaselowsky Junior. After the bombing raid, Kaselowsky's stepson, Rudolf August Oetker , who was serving in the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front , was allowed to return home and take over the company. After the war, Oetker was interned in the Staumühle internment camp near Paderborn. When his SS blood group tattoo was discovered under his left armpit, which identified him as a member of

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506-573: Was a controversial figure in Bielefeld due to his Nazi past, including membership in not only the NSDAP but also the Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft . This led to a debate in Bielefeld, coinciding with the general social unrest of 1968 and becoming a major theme of it. The composer Hans Werner Henze cancelled the piano concert he had written for the inauguration, and the Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia , Heinz Kühn , excused himself from

529-525: Was killed in action during the Battle of Verdun the same year. Kaselowsky survived the war. In 1919, he received his doctorate from the Goethe University Frankfurt . The same year, he married Rudolf Oetker's widow, Ida Oetker née Meyer. The couple had four children together: Ilse (1920 – 1944), Richard (1921 – 2002), Theodor (1922 – 1930), and Ingeborg (1927– 1944). Kaselowsky soon became a partner of

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