Andreas Bee (art historian)

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Andreas Bee, 2018 at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main

Andreas Bee (born August 26, 1953 in Bochum ) is a German art historian , curator and professor of art education.

life and work

After training as an industrial and textile merchant, Bee studied art history with the minor subjects archeology and education at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg . From 1980 to 1990 he was (through ongoing work contracts) a research assistant at the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and worked on the 1986 exhibition Abstract - Concrete, New Acquisitions for the collection of the Wilhelm Hack Museum . From 1980 to 1986 he was a research assistant (through ongoing contracts for work) at the Prinzhorn Collection at Heidelberg University.

As an employee of the Heidelberger Kunstverein from 1987 to 1991, Bee worked on various catalogs and exhibitions, including the 1990 exhibition "Blue - Color of the Distance" and, with Chrismuth Präger, on the catalog Blue: Kaleidoscope of a Color . In 1989 Bee received her doctorate from the sculptor Hans Nagel (1926–1978) with Peter Anselm Riedl at the Art History Institute of Heidelberg University with the support of the City of Heidelberg Foundation . Since 1986 he has written for various newspapers and magazines.

Since February 1991 Bee has been a research assistant at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main , with a focus on press and public relations . He was already involved in the construction phase of the museum under Jean-Christophe Ammann , which was completed with the opening of the museum on June 6, 1991. Bee then conceived and organized the mediation activity through guided tours and lectures and supervised the museum's series of publications. From 1992 he initiated the concerts of contemporary music as well as the film and video series in the museum. Since 2005 he has been deputy director.

In 1996 he curated the exhibition Landvermesser at the Mannheimer Kunstverein with Martin Stather . Landscapes in contemporary art . Since the 1997 summer semester, Bee has been teaching contemporary art and museum practice for modern art at the Institute for European Art History at Heidelberg University.

In 2009 Bee left the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt and from September 2009 became Professor of Art History: Art in Discourse at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts . From the summer semester 2018 he became a part-time vice president of the university.

Bee curated numerous exhibitions and published mainly on topics of contemporary art. He lives and works in Berlin .

Fonts

  • City Views - City Views: Palatinate cities then and now. City Museum Ludwigshafen am Rhein, 1984.
  • Reiner Ruthenbeck. Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, 1996.
  • Katalin Káldi. Museum of Modern Art, 1999.
  • Have a seat. About chairs, seating arrangements and art , in: Rolf Lauter (Ed.): For Jean-Christope Ammann. Festschrift, Societätsverlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2001 ISBN 3-7973-0789-6 .
  • (Ed.) Richter drawing: Alexander Roob draws the extract from Gerhard Richter's Stammheim cycle. Salon-Verlag, Cologne 2001 ISBN 978-3-8827-0489-1 .
  • (Ed.) Ten years of the Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main. DuMontKöln, 2003 ISBN 978-3-8321-5629-9 .
  • with Barbara Willer: Alighiero Boetti, Order and disorder. Museum Ritter, Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Verlag das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2008 ISBN 978-3-8842-3314-6 .
  • with Joachim Valentin: Angel dust: Bogomir Ecker, Mark Wallinger and an unknown master. Museum of Modern Art Zollamt, König, Cologne 2009 ISBN 978-3-8656-0614-3 .
  • with Michael Eckel: Martin Liebscher. One for all. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008 ISBN 978-3-7757-2251-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Topic of the dissertation: Hans Nagel - The plastic work. An investigation into the development of the design language. With a catalog raisonné. Published as a book in 1996.
  2. ^ Exhibition catalog: Martin Stather, Andreas Bee: Landvermesser - Landschaftsdarierungen in der Contemporary Kunst. Mannheimer Kunstverein, Wunderhorn, ISBN 3-88423-103-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Bee, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, curator and professor for art education
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum