Carsten Meyer-Tönnesmann

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Carsten Meyer-Tönnesmann (* 1954 in Hamburg ) is a German art historian and author.

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Meyer-Tönnesmann studied art history , classical archeology and historical musicology. He wrote his doctoral thesis in 1984 under the title " The Hamburg Artist Club of 1897 ". He was a research assistant at the Hamburger Kunsthalle , the Altona Museum and the Hamburg cultural authority. His focus is on the history of art in northern Germany, on which he has written numerous articles, including for the Allgemeine Künstlerlexikon (AKL) and Der neue Rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area .

Meyer-Tönnesmann has been organizing art exhibitions for the Hamburger Sparkasse gallery since 2002 and is a freelancer for the Ernst Barlach Foundation in Güstrow . In 2015 he was the curator for the exhibition about the Hamburg painter Thomas Herbst in the Jenisch Haus . On the occasion of this exhibition on the 100th anniversary of the artist's death, he compiled a catalog of works in autumn .

Carsten Meyer-Tönnesmann lives and works in Hamburg.

Publications (selection)

  • The Hamburg Artist Club from 1897. Christians, Hamburg 1985; Atelier in the farmhouse, Fischerhude 1997, ISBN 3-881-32255-8 .
  • Julius von Ehren (1864–1944) - a Hamburg painter of the Lichtwark period. Catalog for the exhibition in the Altonaer Museum 2004. Altonaer Museum, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-927637-46-7 .
  • Between Hamburg and Paris - the Siebelist students. Catalog for the exhibition in the Haspa gallery 2009. Haspa, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-9811915-7-8 .
  • Thomas Herbst: 1848–1915. Catalog raisonné of paintings, oil studies and watercolors. Published by Christoph H. Seibt for the Gesellschaft der Freunde Thomas Herbsts e. V., Hamburg. Hirmer, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7774-2479-8 .
  • with Ingrid van Skyhawk: Ernst Odefey 1882–1964. Life and work of the Hamburg painter and graphic artist. Volume accompanying the exhibition in the library of the Helmut Schmidt University, May 11 - September 30, 2016. Published by the library of the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86818-079-4 .
Holdings
  • The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Revised new edition, ed. by Kay Rump, edited by Maike Bruhns , with the assistance of Carsten Meyer-Tönnesmann. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2005, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography ( memento of October 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: University Library of the Helmut Schmidt University , Hamburg
personal data
SURNAME Meyer-Tönnesmann, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg