Agnes Husslein

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Agnes Husslein, 2017

Agnes Husslein (also Agnes Husslein-Arco; born May 22, 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian art historian and art manager.

Life

Husslein was born as the daughter of Felicitas (née Boeckl) and Carl Heinrich Arco (1920–1978). She is a granddaughter of the Austrian painter Herbert Boeckl .

After a sports career as a figure skater in her youth, she studied art history and archeology at the University of Vienna , the Sorbonne and the École du Louvre in Paris.

Husslein was Managing Director of Sotheby’s Austria from 1981 to 2000, Managing Director of Sotheby's Prague and Sotheby's Budapest from 1989 to 2000 and Senior Director, Sotheby's Europe from 1990 to 2000. From 1990 to 1998 she was Director of European Development at the Guggenheim Museum and from 1990 to 2000 she was the organizer of the Guggenheim Association Salzburg and the Austrian Guggenheim Advisory Board.

In 1994 she ran for the ÖVP in the National Council elections . From 1996–2000 she was a board member of the Society of Friends of the Vienna Secession and from 1996–1998 she was vice-president of the Carinthian Art Association .

Husslein was director of the Rupertinum in Salzburg from 2001 to 2003 and founding director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg from 2003 to 2005 . From 2002–2004 she organized the establishment of the Museum of Modern Art Carinthia .

2007–2016 she was director of the Austrian Gallery Belvedere .

In 2016 she applied for another term of office. As a result, the supervisory board investigated allegations that Husslein had problems with the compliance rules for managing directors. Husslein admitted various allegations and paid 30,000 euros in damages to the Belvedere; Due to this, otherwise criminally relevant actions were not pursued further because of active repentance . The preliminary investigation into suspected breach of trust was closed in January 2018.

In July 2016, Dieter Bogner was appointed interim commercial director. At the end of July 2016 it was published that the Chancellery Minister responsible for culture, Thomas Drozda ( SPÖ ), would not extend Husslein's contract. The contractual relationship ended on December 31, 2016; Legal disputes about mutual claims were only resolved in August 2019. In October 2016, Drozda announced the reigning management duo of the Austrian Gallery Belvedere from 2017. Stella Rollig was appointed her successor in the artistic field .

After leaving the Belvedere, she moved to the board of directors of the Leopold Museum Private Foundation. In autumn 2018 she was elected President of the Austrian National Committee of Blue Shield International as the successor to Ursula Stenzel .

Husslein is married to the gynecologist Peter Husslein (* 1952), head of the Vienna University Clinic for Gynecology , and has two children with him.

Awards

criticism

  • In 2001, it was claimed that she lost her job at Sotheby's because she invited FPÖ politician Thomas Prinzhorn to give a lecture. In 2000, a birthday party for Prinzhorn took place in her private apartment.
  • In 2003 she opened the Carinthian Museum of Modern Art in Klagenfurt with the FPÖ politician and then Carinthian Governor Jörg Haider .
  • In Salzburg (Museum der Moderne) most of the employees were replaced after taking office (early 2001); During their first few months at the Belvedere, numerous employees quit.
  • The Greens criticized her as a “jet-setter” and “sideways glance lady”.
  • Your opening exhibition in the Belvedere is likely to be based on an exhibition from the Salzburg Museum that was canceled after Husslein's departure, but without naming the art historian Christian Huemer , who was responsible for the conception of the exhibition in Salzburg . Huemer called in the Ombudsman .

Web links

Commons : Agnes Husslein-Arco  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ genealogy.euweb.cz : Karl Heinrich in the family tree after Karl Ferdinand Anton Graf von Arco (1776–1845)
  2. ↑ angelfire.com/realm/gotha : Carl Heinrich in the family tree after Karl Ferdinand Anton Graf von Arco (1776–1845)
  3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Interview with Agnes Husslein @ erLesen ; TW1 media library@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.tw1.at
  4. ↑ Report on Agnes Husslein ; Ala carte
  5. ↑ Interview with Agnes Husslein ; Club career
  6. ↑ Belvedere: Infidelity investigation against Husslein-Arco closed Die Presse , February 5, 2018
  7. ^ Announcement on the ORF website from July 27, 2016
  8. ↑ derstandard.at August 27, 2019: Causa Husslein-Arco: Duties violated, confidentiality agreed
  9. ↑ Agnes Husslein-Arco is 65: Art connoisseur on the smooth society floor . Article dated May 18, 2019, accessed May 18, 2019.
  10. ↑ Blue Shield Austria elects Agnes Husslein-Arco as its new president . OTS report from October 3, 2018, accessed on May 18, 2019.
  11. ↑ Minister Dr. Claudia Schmied awards Dr. Agnes Husslein-Arco the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art . APA-OTS. September 19, 2013. Retrieved September 20, 2013.
  12. ↑ European Academy
  13. ↑ welt.de
  14. ↑ a b web.redaktionsbuero.at ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ a b Agnes Husslein-Arco at the end of a conflicting era. Der Standard , January 11, 2005, accessed December 13, 2017 .
  16. ↑ a b Nina Schedlmayer: "As servants treated" . In: profile . No. 40 , October 1, 2007, p. 118 .
  17. ↑ a b Anselm Wagner: Gartenfrust . In: The press . May 22, 2007, p. 37 ( web archive, March 4, 2016 [accessed December 13, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Husslein, Agnes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Husslein-Arco, Agnes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian and art manager
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna