Bettina Baumgärtel

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Bettina Baumgärtel (* 1957 ) is a German art historian . She heads the painting collection in the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf and is considered an expert on the painter Angelika Kauffmann and painting of the 18th and 19th centuries, especially the Düsseldorf School of Painting .

Live and act

From 1975 to 1981 Bettina Baumgärtel studied art history, classical archeology and philosophy at the University of Bonn and at the Free University of Berlin . In 1988 she received her doctorate, supervised by Eduard Trier in Bonn. Her dissertation was published in a shortened version in 1990 as a book under the title Angelika Kauffmann (1741–1807). Conditions of female creativity in painting of the 18th century , "a thorough and material-rich investigation of the biographical, social-historical, art-theoretical and psychological aspects of creative conditions". As a result of her many years of research into the life and work of Angelika Kauffmann, she founded the interdisciplinary research project "Angelika Kauffmann Research Project" in 1990.

Since 1993 she has worked as a curator at the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf , first as a research assistant, from 1994 to 2000 as head of the graphic collection and since 2000 as head of the painting collection. She presented an overview of contemporary trends in drawing from the 1980s to the 1990s. a. in the exhibition “Eyewitnesses. The Hanck Collection ”. She initiated the donation of this collection of more than 3000 works to the Museum Kunstpalast. Under her leadership, the systematic expansion of the graphic collection began to include artistic photography. Also under her direction and that of Silvia Neysters, the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf presented an exhibition with feminist aspirations for the first time in 1995 : The Galerie der Starken Frauen with 40 paintings and 150 graphics presented heroines of French and Italian art of the 17th century . In 1998, Bettina Baumgärtel curated the Angelika Kauffmann retrospective , which was shown in Düsseldorf, Munich and Chur. The FAZ found: "The beautiful and successful Düsseldorf exhibition under Bettina Baumgärtel showed that Angelika Kauffmann can still occupy emotions."

In 2005 she opened the collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings from the 16th to 18th centuries in the Museum Kunstpalast and dedicated herself to the reconstruction of the legendary collection of Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz in the former picture gallery at Düsseldorf Palace . The collection with more than a thousand works of the Düsseldorf School of Painting in the Museum Kunstpalast, the largest relevant collection in the world, has been scientifically processed, supplemented with loans from the USA and placed in the context of the international importance of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. In 2011 she curated the comprehensive show Weltklasse. The Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918 with 450 works - paintings, drawings, prints, illustrated books and photographs. As an expert in painting at the Düsseldorf School, she and Hans Paffrath are on the board of the Volmer Collection Foundation .

Publications (selection)

monograph

  • Angelika Kauffmann (1741–1807). Conditions of female creativity in painting of the 18th century (= results of women's studies. Volume 20). Beltz, Weinheim / Basel 1990, ISBN 3-407-58312-5 (also dissertation).

Exhibitions and catalogs

  • "... you upgrade women!" Enlightenment painters . Painting exhibition for the festival of the historical women's art and culture project 1993/94, Ludwig Roselius Museum , Bremen 1993
  • with Sylvia Neysters: The Gallery of Strong Women / La Galerie des Femmes Fortes. Exhibition at Museum Kunst-Palast Düsseldorf (1995) and Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (1996). Catalog, Klinkhardt & Biermann Verlag, Munich / Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-7814-0385-8 .
  • Eyewitnesses. The Hanck Collection. Works on paper from the 80s and 90s . Exhibition Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf 1997
  • Angelika Kauffmann. A retrospective . Exhibition Museum Kunst-Palast Düsseldorf (November 15, 1998 - January 24, 1999), Haus der Kunst Munich (February 5 - April 18, 1999), Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur (May 8 - July 11, 1999). Catalog, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 1998, ISBN 978-3-7757-0756-5 .
  • Moving landscapes. The Düsseldorf School of Painting , ed. by Bettina Baumgärtel and Klaus Thelen, exhibitions, Museum der Stadt Ratingen, Neanderthal Museum Mettmann, Wilhelm-Fabry-Museum Hilden, Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 3-89904-072-4
  • A festival of painting. The Dutch and Flemish paintings from the 16th to 18th centuries Century. Inventory catalog of the painting collection, Museum Kunst-Palast - collection of the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Seemann, Leipzig 2005.
  • Heavenly - wonderful - courtly. Peter Paul Rubens, Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz and Anna Maria Luisa de 'Medici . Exhibition catalog on the occasion of the exhibition at the Museum Kunst-Palast September 20, 2008 - January 11, 2009. Verlag Seemann, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-86502-192-2 .
  • The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . 2 volumes, on the occasion of the exhibition Weltklasse. The Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918 , Museum Kunstpalast, 2011/2012. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9
  • Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): Angelika Kauffmann. Unknown treasures from Vorarlberg private collections , Hirmer 2018 ISBN 978-3-7774-3084-3

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University database ARTtheses ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arttheses.net
  2. ↑ Ellen Spickernagel , review of: Bettina Baumgärtel: Angelika Kauffmann (1741–1807). Conditions of female creativity in 18th century painting. In: Journal for Gender Research and Visual Culture , No. 12 (1991) full text .
  3. ↑ Worlds and counter-worlds. A long night about changing gazes in art (with contributions by Bettina Baumgärtel), Deutschlandfunk, April 4, 2015
  4. ↑ Magdalena Drexel in: Kritischeberichte 1/1996, pp. 33–36 ( pdf ).
  5. ^ Social history as a lure. An interview with Bettina Baumgärtel by Sabine Oelze about the Angelika Kauffmann retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf. In: Texts on Art , Issue No. 34 / June 1999, pp. 175–188.
  6. ↑ Lucrative businesses a soft soul , In: FAZ , 30 November 1999 .
  7. ↑ Video: Dr. Bettina Baumgärtel on the world class exhibition . The Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819-1918 in the Museum Kunstpalast 2011.
  8. ↑ Review in: Critical Reports. Journal for Art and Cultural Studies , Vol. 19, No. 3 (1991), doi : 10.11588 / kb.1991.3.10356 .
personal data
SURNAME Baumgartel, Bettina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1957