Björn R. Kommer

Björn R. Kommer (born January 7, 1942 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German art historian .

Life

Kommer spent part of his childhood in the immediate post-war years with his grandmother in Sweden. He studied art history in Heidelberg and Uppsala and passed his exams in both countries. In 1971 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg with a dissertation on the Swedish architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and his main work, the Stockholm Palace .

He began his career as a museum man in Lübeck as a research assistant at the Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , where he worked at the Behnhaus and the St. Annen Museum . In 1990 he was appointed director of the art collections of the city of Augsburg and worked in Augsburg until he retired in 2005. One of the highlights of his work was the exhibition on Adriaen de Vries 2000 in Augsburg.

Fonts

• Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and the Stockholm Palace: Investigations into the main work of the Swedish architect , Heidelberg art-historical treatises (Volume 11), Winter, Heidelberg 1974 (dissertation)
• View into the lübsche house: living and party rooms from the 18th and 19th centuries , Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Lübeck 1974
• Caspar David Friedrich and his circle: Paintings and graphics from public collections in Schleswig-Holstein , Gemäldegalerie der Stiftung Pommern, Kiel 1975
• Werner Oehlschlaeger: Gold u. Silversmithing , Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Lübeck 1975
• Behnhaus Museum , Lübeck 1976
• Carl Fredrik Hill: 1849-1911; Paintings and Drawings from d. Museum Malmö , Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Lübeck 1978
• Portals and doors in Lübeck , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1978
• Lübeck silver: 1781–1871 , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1978
• Lübeck, Northern Europe's medieval metropolis: Exhibition on the building history of the city , Lübeck 1979
• New acquisitions 1974–1979 , Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Lübeck 1980
• The Buddenbrookhaus: Reality and Poetry , Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Lübeck 1983
• When old doors open ...: Lübecker Wohnkultur u. Lifestyle in the 19th century , Verlag Lübecker Nachrichten, Lübeck 1985
• Lübeck 1787–1808: the housekeeping books of the businessman Jacob Behrens the Elder , Verlag Graphische Werkstätten, Lübeck 1989
• Cityscapes: Views of Augsburg from the 15th to 19th centuries , Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Augsburg 1992
• The Buddenbrookhaus in Lübeck , Coleman-Verlag, Lübeck 1993
• Silverware for the Grand Duke: two saucieres from the service of Grand Duke Georg von Mecklenburg-Strelitz in the Maximilian Museum , Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Augsburg 1994
• In the focus of time: Gustaf III. of Sweden , Municipal Art Collections, Augsburg 1995
• Pine nut and tsar's eagle: Augsburg silver for Catherine II of Russia , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1997
• Hans Holbein the Elder J. (1497 / 98–1543): "... like an ever-green laurel tree ...". Exhibition on the 500th birthday of the artist , Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Augsburg 1997
• Rugendas, a family of artists in change and tradition . Weißner Verlag, 1998
• Adriaen de Vries: 1556-1626; Augsburg's Shine - Europe's Fame , [Catalog for the exhibition of the same name by the Municipal Art Collections Augsburg, March 11 - June 12, 2000], Municipal Art Collections, Augsburg 2000
• The Schaezlerpalais in Augsburg , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2003

Web links

• Literature by and about Björn R. Kommer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Alois Knoller: The Indefatigable - Former museum director Björn R. Kommer is celebrating his 70th birthday. In: Augsburger Allgemeine, January 7, 2012 ( accessed March 5, 2012 )