Living Moments - N°4 Edition 2017

www.private-residences.net 7TaTYR 8ZXPY_^ 105 personal exhibition visions for many years. On several floors he showed cross sections from the “documenta 8” and, until 1990, the Biennale in Venice again and again new young art; Beuys, as well as classical art such as Picasso’s entire lithographical art. For Thomas it was not only profit, but the joy of art and its presentation which was uppermost. An important step into the future was introduced with the entry of his daughter, Silke Thomas, into the family business in 1995. Since then father and daughter have shared the management of the gallery. Both place much emphasis on customer contact. “The personal conver- sation is of the highest priority – whether it is in gallery rooms, at art fairs or with the collectors on site,” is how Raimund Thomas concludes his business philosophy. Among the most crucial exhibitions of the most recent past, Raimund Thomas cites the exhibition with works by Chaim works of the most crucial representatives of German post-war art, such as Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer and Rebecca Horn. But contemporaries from the US can also be found here, for example, AndyWarhol, TomWesselmann, JimDine, JoanMitchell, George Segal and Sam Francis. Along with them, internationally established artists of the younger generation like Marc Quinn and Peter Halley are also dis- played. Last autumn the family business faced a big change. In order to concentrate the gallery activities in one place, both galleries have been under one roof on 16 Tuerkenstrasse since September 2015. The motivation for moving was the fact that in the past decades Maximilianstrasse has changed from an art to a fashion thoroughfare. The new art area around the Pinacothecas, however, offers perfect conditions for a gallery, according to Thomas. Since the founding of the gallery many things have changed – in the art market and also in the life beyond art. Before he received the Art Cologne Prize, Raimund Thomas summarised his thoughts as fol- lows:“An event like this award ceremony makes me become aware of what has happened in the past half century – from the typewriter to the computer, from Zero to Pop Art, to today’s Stylistic Plura- lism – and all the things I have achieved myself – from the modest gallery for a local clientele in the beginning, to a business of international standing.” At a time when the exhibition with the hero images of Baselitz was closed by the public prosecutor, an exhibit with the “Nudes” by Wesselmann was a risk indeed. Kontakt Contact: Galerie Thomas Türkenstraße 16 D-80333 Munich Phone: +49 (0)89 29 000 80 Fax: +49 (0)89 29 000 888 info@galerie-thomas.de www.galerie-thomas.de Soutime, the cycle “Masterpieces I-V”, a loose sequel of exhibitions with extraor- dinary works by artists from German Expressionism, but also individual exhibi- tions with significant representatives of American post-war art like Tom Wessel- mann, Frank Stella and Jim Dine, as well as an international exhibition project on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Fernando Botero, including the exhibition of the monumental sculptures on the Museum Island in Berlin in the autumn of 2007. Two years later Galerie Thomas opened another location in Munich, the Galerie Thomas Modern. At 16 Tuerkenstrasse, right by the Pinakothek der Moderne and the Museum Brandhorst, space of about 900 square metres has been created for art since 1945. The broad range comprises Marc Quinn "San Fernando Valley Falls", 2010 © Marc Quinn 2016 advertisement