Andreas Hüneke
Andreas Hüneke (born March 9, 1944 in Wurzen ) is a German art historian and provenance researcher .
Life
Since the son of a Protestant pastor was denied the opportunity to do a regular Abitur, he attended a church seminar and worked as a theater painter and co-driver. In addition, he trained as a poster painter and attended evening school until he graduated from high school.
From 1965 to 1970 he studied Protestant theology and art history at the University of Halle . He then worked as a research assistant at the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle until 1977 . After a year as an editor at the Allgemeine Künstlerlexikon in Leipzig , he worked as a freelance art historian, critic and exhibition curator from 1978. He has lived in Potsdam since 1982. He was harassed for decades, until German unification by the State Security Service of the GDR and restricted in his professional development.
Since 2003 he has been working at the Degenerate Art Research Center at the Art History Institute of the Free University of Berlin , combined with a teaching position.
Hüneke has been researching the fate of works of art that were confiscated as part of the Degenerate Art campaign since the 1970s and is considered one of the experts in this field. In 1997 he was able to identify the Harry Fischer list in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London .
He is the founder and chairman of the Potsdamer Kunstverein and longstanding honorary vice-president of the international art critics association AICA.
Honors
- 2012 Honorary doctorate from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- 2013 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
Web links
- Official website
- Website at the Kunstverein Potsdam with selection bibliography
- A life for art: Andreas Hüneke from the “Degenerate Art” research center honored with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- Interview on the Schwabing art find "For a long time the state has done too little for provenance research" , Der Tagesspiegel of December 20, 2013
Individual evidence
- ^ High distinction for distinguished art historian from the Free University
- ↑ Brandenburger honored with the Federal Cross of Merit - Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke congratulates . State Chancellery of the State of Brandenburg, press release, October 4, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hüneke, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and provenance researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Spice up |