Bärbel Hedinger

Bärbel Hedinger (born November 20, 1940 in Danzig ) is a German art historian and curator. She is the former director of the Altona Museum in Hamburg .

Live and act

Hedinger first studied economics in Münster , Heidelberg , Marburg and Hamburg and graduated with a diploma. She then worked in this profession for a few years, but in 1977 she decided to study art history at the University of Hamburg with Martin Warnke and Horst Bredekamp , where she received her doctorate in 1983 with an investigation into the cultural and political function of wall maps in Dutch interior paintings. She then went on to work as a volunteer at the Altona Museum / North German State Museum in Hamburg, where she was soon appointed head of the painting and graphics department and, from 2001, the Jenisch House / Museum for Art and Culture on the Elbe as a branch of the Altona Museum responsibly managed and reorganized. In 2004 she was appointed director of the Altona Museum to work out a fundamental reorientation of the house. From 2007, following her museum career, Hedinger turned to work as a freelance curator and author. Among other things, she designed exhibitions for the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg and the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation in Potsdam. She lives in Berlin, married to the art historian Michael Diers .

She realized numerous exhibitions in Hamburg and outside the Hanseatic city. In addition to monographic shows on northern German artists of the 19th century ( Hermann Kauffmann , Louis Gurlitt ) and on contemporary art and current photography, the art and cultural history exhibitions stand out. Including exhibitions on architecture, garden and interior design ( Franz Gustav Forsmann , CF Hansen , Karl Friedrich Schinkel or Joseph Ramée ), on game and artist postcards, on bathing life (the beach season) , on fashion (bride fashion show ; Luise. The clothes the Queen) , on the art of cloud representation (cloud images) and the trompe l'oeil (deceptively real) or on the history of technically supported perception and image production (curiosity, optical theater & other spectacles - the Werner Nekes collection ) . A major study of Max Liebermann's art collection was published in 2013 and a first comprehensive publication on the work of the artist Mary Warburg (1866–1934) is currently in preparation.

Fonts

Monographs

• Sculpture of the Osnabrück region from the 14th to the 18th century in the Osnabrück Cultural History Museum , Osnabrück 1977.
• A war memorial in Hamburg , together with Roland Jaeger, Brigitte Meißner, Jutta Schütt, Lutz Tittel and Hans Walden, Hamburg 1979.
• Maps in pictures. On the iconography of the wall map in Dutch interior paintings of the seventeenth century , Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1986.
• The Elbe from a picturesque point of view , Hamburg 1992 (= "Small Hamburg Library").
• Max Liebermann. The art collection. From Rembrandt to Manet , ed. together with Michael Diers and Jürgen Müller, Munich 2013.

Exhibition catalogs

• Hamburg playing cards , Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, Hamburg 1984.
• Season on the beach. Bathing life at the North and Baltic Seas , Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, Herford 1986.
• Hermann Kauffmann. Pictures from Northern Germany , Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, Hamburg 1989.
• The artist postcard - from the beginnings to the present , Altonaer Museum in Hamburg and Deutsches Postmuseum Frankfurt am Main, Munich 1992.
• Rainville's festival. A French pleasure garden in the Danish Altona , Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, Hamburg 1994.
• SehFahrt - The ship in contemporary art , Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, Hamburg 1997
• Louis Gurlitt (1812-1897). Portraits of European landscapes in paintings and drawings , together with Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, Altonaer Museum in Hamburg and Museumsberg Flensburg as well as Nivaagaard's painter Nivaa near Copenhagen, Munich 1997.
• CF Hansen in Hamburg, Altona and the Elbe suburbs. A Danish Classicist Architect , Altonaer Museum in Hamburg and Library of the Art Academy, Copenhagen, Munich, Berlin 2000.
• Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Furniture and interior , together with Julia Berger, Altonaer Museum in Hamburg / Jenisch Haus, Munich, Berlin 2002.
• Joseph Ramée. Garden art, architecture and decoration. An international classicist architecture artist , Altonaer Museum in Hamburg / Jenisch Haus, Munich, Berlin 2003.
• Cloud images. The discovery of heaven , exhibition and catalog, together with Inés Richter-Musso and Ortrud Westheider, Bucerius Kunstforum and Jenisch Haus, Hamburg, Hamburg 2004.
• Bride fashions show. Wedding dresses and accessories 1755–2005 , together with Julia Berger, Altonaer Museum in Hamburg / Jenisch Haus, Hamburg, Munich et al. 2005.
• Franz Gustav Forsmann 1795–1878. A Hamburg architecture career , together with Julia Berger, Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, Hamburg 2006.
• Everything in flux. A panorama of the Elbe , Altona Museum for Art and Cultural History, Hamburg, Hamburg 2006.
• Deceptively real. Illusion and Reality in Art , Exhibition and Catalog, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Munich 2010.
• Luise. The queen's clothes. Fashion, jewelry and accessories at the Prussian Court around 1800 , together with Adelheid Schendel and Stefan Schimmel, Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, Munich 2010.

Web links

• Literature by and about Bärbel Hedinger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gisela Reiners: Started again before retiring . In: Die Welt of December 10, 2005.
2. ↑ Stefan Grund: The director resigns in protest . In: Die Welt from March 21, 2007; Stefan Koldehoff: Resignation in protest against Hamburg museum plans . In: Deutschlandfunk , Kultur heute broadcast on March 21, 2007.
3. ↑ Exhibition Deceptively Real. Illusion and Reality in Art , supervised by Bärbel Hedinger as guest curator , Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg.
4. ↑ Barbara Wiegand: Luise, the queen of fashion . In: Deutschlandfunk , broadcast Conclusion from July 29, 2010.
5. ^ Bärbel Hedinger: 150th birthday of Mary Warburg. First artist, then forgotten . In: The newspaper of October 13, 2016.