Beate Thurow

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Beate Thurow , also Beate Grubert-Thurow (* 1944 in Jüterbog ; † August 22, 2019 in Reutlingen ), was a German art historian and museum director.

life and work

Beate Thurow attended school in Brink and Hanover . She then studied art history, literature and classical archeology in Göttingen and Bochum. In 1975 she received her doctorate on the Goethe painter Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein .

First Thurow headed the archive of the Bahlsen Museum in Hanover and then helped to expand this museum. Then she headed the Reutlingen Art Museum Spendhaus , from its reopening in October 1989 to July 2005. One of her main areas of work there was the presentation of the work of HAP Grieshaber . In November 2004 , the Hamburg art collector Peter Kemna donated a collection of 660 art prints to the Spendhaus , which specializes in the art of printing, under Beate Thurow's management, which supplements its print collection. The donation included works by Paul Gauguin , Edvard Munch , Roy Lichtenstein , Max Pechstein , Alex Katz and Georg Baselitz , among others .

Beate Thurow died in August 2019 at the age of 75.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c Reutlinger Generalanzeiger 2019: Beate Thurow (obituary).
  2. GND.
  3. a b Reutlinger Generalanzeiger 2005: Beate Thurow (Donation Kemna).
  4. Dr. Matthias Gretzschel: Precious collection given away - November 17, 2004 Matthias Gretzschel: Hamburger Peter Kemna hands over 660 sheets to Reutlingen. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . November 17, 2004, accessed November 14, 2019 .
  5. ^ Rüdiger Schott: Hamburger Holzschittsammlung in the art museum Reutlingen. In: kunstmarkt.com. 2005, accessed November 24, 2019 .