Brigitte Klesse

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Brigitte Klesse (born September 28, 1929 in Berlin , † January 19, 2014 in Bonn ) was a German art historian and museum director.

Life

Brigitte Klesse is the third child of the doctors Maria and Max Wilhelm Klesse (1896-1963), around which around the time of National Socialism in November 1942, the so-called group of "man hard" founded. Politically active companions at the time were Hans and Hildegard Schneider , parents of the political scientist Gesine Schwan .

After graduating from high school in 1947, she first attended the Berlin master school for arts and crafts , where she passed the journeyman's examination for hand weaving in 1950. From 1951 she studied art history, classical archeology and psychology at the University of Cologne and received her doctorate in 1958. The dissertation was entitled The Depiction of Silk Fabrics on Italian Pictures of the 14th Century. After a traineeship at the Historical Museum in Bern and at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, she joined the Cologne Museum of Decorative Arts as an assistant in 1961 . She then worked as a personal advisor to the General Director of the Cologne Museums, Gert von der Osten, and during this time she played a key role in founding the Cologne Museum Service . In 1972 she was appointed director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Cologne as the successor to Erich Köllmann , with whom she moved to the former Wallraf-Richartz Museum in 1989 and which she directed until 1992. She also initiated the renaming of the museum to the Museum of Applied Art and redesigned the exhibition collection for historical handicrafts and built up and expanded the collections for design. Klesse was the first woman ever among Cologne museum directors. She systematically expanded the collection to include objects from the 19th and 20th centuries. She researched, published in the fields of European textile and glass art and organized exhibitions.

Klesse completed his habilitation in 1974 and taught part-time at the University of Cologne in the fields of applied art and museology . In 1975 she was appointed Associate Professor. In addition, she was involved in committees such as the expert commission for teachers in artistic subjects of the Ministry of Science and Research, the Association of Art Historians and the International Council of Museums (ICOM). From 1987 to 1989 she was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the North Rhine-Westphalia Foundation for Nature Conservation, Heritage and Culture .

In 1992 Klesse retired.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • European glass from 1500-1800: the Ernesto Wolf collection . 1987.
  • New acquisitions 1972/1982 . Decorative Arts Museum of the City of Cologne, Cologne 1982.
  • with Gisela Reineking-Von Bock: Glass . Decorative Arts Museum of the City of Cologne. Cologne, 1973.
  • Catalog of Italian, French and Spanish paintings up to 1800 in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum . Wallraf-Richartz Museum. Cologne, 1973.
  • Silk fabrics in 14th century Italian painting . Bern, Stämpfli, 1967.
  • Majolica . Decorative Arts Museum of the City of Cologne, 1966.
  • The depiction of silk fabrics in Italian paintings from the 14th century . Munich, 1959 (= dissertation).

literature

  • Klesse, Brigitte . In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 21st edition. KG Saur Verlag, Munich [ua] 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-23616-7 , p. 1799–1800 ( degruyter.com - constantly updated, restricted online edition).
  • Ingrid Guntermann; Brigitte Tietzel (Ed.): Festschrift for Brigitte Klesse . P. Hanstein Verlag, Berlin 1994
  • Obituary in the Kölner Stadtanzeiger on January 31, 2014, p. 24.
  • Taste designer , In: FAZ , January 27, 2014, p. 27.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Wilhelm Klesse. In: Persecuted Doctors. Institute for the History of Medicine, Charité , Berlin 2013.
  2. ↑ The date was given by Max Klesse in 1949 as the month when the group "Mannhart" was founded.
  3. ↑ "Mannhart"; in: Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : The "other" Reich capital: Resistance from the workers' movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2007, pp. 254 ff. ISBN 978-3-936872-94-1
  4. ↑ 75 years of the Second World War. The end. Flyers of the anti-fascist resistance from the last days of the war in Berlin. trend online newspaper - Backgrounds and Topics, Issue 10/2014, Working Group on Capitalism Repeal (AKKA).
  5. ^ Gabriele Thieme-Duske ; Eckhard Rieke: The Mannhart group. Resistance in the north of Berlin. Möller, Berlin 2006, p. 26.
  6. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Klesse, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 2014
Place of death Bonn