Alexander Bastek

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Alexander Bastek (* 1973 in Essen ) is a German art historian and museum director .

Life

Alexander Bastek studied art history , history and philosophy at the Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Hamburg . Studying abroad took him to the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa . His master's thesis in Hamburg dealt with the art critic Emil Heilbut . In 2005 he was in Hamburg with a dissertation on Ferdinand Brütt to Dr. phil. PhD.

During his studies he worked on projects at the Museum Folkwang Essen, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover. He had his first job in 2005 at the Museum Giersch in Frankfurt am Main . Here he curated exhibitions with a focus on art from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

On December 1, 2008, he was appointed director of the Museum Behnhaus Drägerhaus as the successor to Brigitte Heise . In the museum association of the Lübeck museums, managed by the Kulturstiftung Hansestadt Lübeck , the house serves as a gallery of the 19th century and classical modernism .

Works

  • Ferdinand Brütt and the urban-bourgeois genre around 1900. Weimar: VDG 2007 ISBN 978-3-89739-550-3 , plus dissertation Hamburg 2005

Exhibition catalogs

  • Of heads and bodies: Frankfurt sculpture from the Städel. Frankfurt a. M .: Städel / Frankfurt a. M .: Museum Giersch 2006 ISBN 978-3-935283-11-3
  • Mattheuer, Tübke, Triegel: a Frankfurt private collection. Petersberg: Imhof 2007 ISBN 978-3-86568-329-8
  • Ferdinand Brütt: 1849–1936, story and impression. Petersberg: Imhof 2007 ISBN 978-3-86568-230-7
  • The Kaisergalerie in the Frankfurt Römer = The emperors' gallery in the Frankfurt "Römer". Petersberg: Imhof 2007 ISBN 978-3-86568-297-0
  • Volker Bartsch, sculptor - painter - graphic artist, sculptor - painter - graphic artist. Petersberg: Imhof 2008 ISBN 978-3-86568-440-0
  • Anton Radl: 1774-1852; Painter and engraver. Petersberg: Imhof 2008 ISBN 978-3-86568-360-1
  • "We sat by the waters of Babylon": figurations of longing in romantic painting; Ferdinand Olivier and Eduard Bendemann. Petersberg: Imhof 2009 ISBN 978-3-86568-514-8
  • Art, cuisine and calculation: Carl Friedrich von Rumohr (1785–1843) and the discovery of cultural history. Petersberg: Imhof 2010 ISBN 978-3-86568-591-9
  • Edvard Munch, woodcuts: from a Norwegian private collection. Petersberg: Imhof 2011 ISBN 978-3-86568-681-7
  • The Swedish impressionist Anders Zorn (1860–1920). Petersberg: Imhof 2012 ISBN 978-3-86568-741-8
  • Lyonel Feininger, Lübeck - Lüneburg. Petersberg: Imhof 2013 ISBN 978-3-86568-983-2
  • Johann Wilhelm Cordes: wild hunt and wide landscape. Lübeck: Museum Behnhaus Drägerhaus 2013 ISBN 978-3-942310-05-5
  • (with Anna Pfäfflin) Thomas Mann and the fine arts. Petersberg: Imhof 2014 ISBN 978-3-7319-0101-3
  • Carl Wilhelm Götzloff (1799–1866); a landscape painter from Dresden on the Gulf of Naples. Petersberg: Imhof 2014 ISBN 978-3-7319-0047-4
  • (with Tilmann von Stockhausen and Elise Ditmars) Dutch Modernism - the Veendorp Collection from Groningen. Petersberg: Imhof [2015/2016] ISBN 978-3-7319-0263-8
  • Erich Klahn, Ulenspiegel: 1901–1978. Petersberg: Imhof 2015 ISBN 978-3-7319-0164-8
  • (with Jacob Helbo Jensen) Møder: dansk og tysk malerkunst 1860–1960 / Encounters: German and Danish painting 1860–1960. Petersberg: Imhof [2016] ISBN 978-3-7319-0385-7
  • (with Jan Zimmermann ) Photography in Lübeck 1840–1945. Petersberg: Imhof [2016] ISBN 978-3-7319-0366-6
  • One hundred masterpieces: the collection of the Museum Behnhaus Drägerhaus Lübeck. Petersberg: Imhof [2017] ISBN 978-3-7319-0598-1

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Behnhaus Drägerhaus under new management , press release of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck from September 5, 2008, accessed on December 9, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Bastek, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH eat