"Science is the mind of the world,
art is her soul. "
Maxim Gorki (1868-1936)
The foundation was set up in September 2017 as a non-profit dependent foundation at the German Chemical Society . The idea behind it: art and chemistry should stimulate each other. The founder, Dr. Wolfgang Johannes Hönle, therefore, sees the GDCh as the perfect trustee.
In the spirit of building a cross-border bridge according to Wilhelm Ostwald, the foundation aims to promote cooperation and a better understanding of art and culture on the one hand and chemistry in science and research on the other by financing a wide range of projects.
The founder, Dr. Wolfgang Johannes Hönle, worked in the fields of Inorganic Chemistry and solid state research. For many decades he worked for the Max Planck Society in solid-state research and in planning for the construction and operation of research institutes.
Extensive art collections and capital assets were brought into the foundation. The art collections comprise a total of around 4,000 graphic sheets and come from the donor's private collection. They were included in the foundation's assets and handed over to the University of Trier as a permanent loan. The foundation's capital comes largely from the inheritance of the founder's mother, Edith Hönle (1923 - 2009), who selflessly preserved and passed on the family inheritance. This heritage also made it possible to build up the art collections.
The founder, Dr. Wolfgang Johannes Hönle, is particularly interested in making quick and unbureaucratic decisions about funding. The decision-making body is the Board of Trustees. Interdisciplinary projects in particular should be funded.
through the further development of the collections from the donor's private collection, which were taken over into the foundation's assets and given to the University of Trier as a permanent loan. The collections can be increased in value through purchases and barter transactions. Exhibitions and/or permanent loans to other suitable institutions are being considered. It is also planned to produce publications on these collections and to research the objects in the collection as part of projects.
Allocation of grants for research work/projects by graduate students, doctoral students, habilitation candidates and professors (m/f/d) in the field of solid state research (chemistry, physics and materials research) and dissemination of results in the field of solid state research through appropriate public relations work and press reports.
In the middle of the First World War in October 1916, Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932) wrote the foreword to his "Color Primer" in Großbothen/Sa., which was published in the same year with 1200 copies and soon became a bestseller in today's sense of the word. It contained 8 drawings and 192 color samples, which were not printed but made from pigment spreads, partly by the author himself, partly "made by hand under his direct supervision, and are therefore much more accurate than printed ones could be at that time." In 1917, Ostwald was able to publish the 2nd and 3rd editions within a few months, followed by the 4th and 5th editions in May 1920.
The new edition of the "Color Primer", published on the occasion of Ostwald's 170th birthday, based on the 4th and 5th editions, which Ostwald himself described as a completely revised edition, contains nine drawings and 238 color samples. This new edition is "truffled" by an extensive afterword by Eckhard Bendin (*1941), a recognized expert on Ostwald's work on color and himself the author of numerous articles on color theory. The double cone after Wilhelm Ostwald shown on page 57 in Fig. 5 has been part of the permanent loan from the Wolfgang Johannes Hönle Foundation "Art and Chemistry" at the GDCh to the Custody of the TU Dresden since 2022.
Chair: Vladimir Reschetilowski, Prof. em. TU Dresden
Deputy Chair: Dr. WJ Hönle, Ettlingen
Members:
Dr. Matthias Urmann, Sanofi Aventis, GDCh former president
for Prof. Dr. Karsten Danielmeier, GDCh President 2022/2023
Dr. Michael Maeder, State Art-
Collections Dresden
Susanne Bauer, qualified cultural scientist
The special issue can be downloaded from the homepage of the Wilhelm Otswald Society.
Available as PDF only.
The statutes of the Wolfgang Johannes Hönle - Art and Chemistry Foundation for reading
Dr. Jasmin Herr
Varrentrappstr. 40 - 42
60486 Frankfurt aM
Tel. +49 69 7917-323
Fax +49 69 7917-1323
Email: j.herr@gdch.de
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