Christiane Lange

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Christiane Lange (born March 19, 1964 in Mainz ) is a German art historian and director of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart .

biography

After graduating from high school in Munich in 1983, Lange completed an internship in the wood carving trade. In 1984 she began studying art history, Bavarian history and German and comparative folklore at the University of Munich . From 1986 to 1987 she continued studying art history at the Free University of Berlin . After an internship at the Neumeister auction house in Munich, she did her master's thesis on "The witch pictures at David Teniers the Younger" in 1989. In 1990 she graduated with a Magister Artium from the Philosophical Faculty for History and Art Studies at the University of Munich. From 1990 to 1994, Lange worked as a freelancer at the Klewan Gallery in Munich. During this time she also worked on her dissertation "On the work of Hans skull. A contribution to church building in Germany in the fifties" with Hans Körner and received her doctorate in 1994 from the University of Munich. Until 1999 she was permanently employed at the Klewan Gallery . From 2000 she worked as a curator at the art gallery of the Hypo-Kulturstiftung . From 2006 to 2012 she was director of the art gallery of the Hypo-Kulturstiftung. On January 10, 2013, Lange was appointed director of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart as the successor to Sean Rainbird .

Since 1995 she has been teaching at adult education centers, independent cultural organizations in Munich and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, and since 2003 Lange has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , which awarded her an honorary professorship in 2011. From 2002 to 2012 she was a board member of the Akademieverein München | Akademievereins München, since 2004 a jury member of various art in architecture competitions and since 2006 a member of the board of trustees and advisory board of the Ernst Wilhelm Nay Foundation in Cologne. She is also a member of the art jury of the state of Baden-Württemberg, which awarded the Oskar Schlemmer Prize for the first time in 2014. She was also on the jury of the Leipzig Saxony Prize and the Wiesbaden Jawlensky Prize. Lange has also been a member of the jury for the Robert Jacobsen Prize since 2016 and the Hannes Burgdorf Prize since 2018.

Lange has been a member of the German National Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) since 2000. She is also in the Association of German Art Historians. In 2013 she joined the Advisory Board of the Schwäbische Bank and was on the University Council of the Stuttgart University of Music from 2014–2015. Since 2015 she has been a member of the board of trustees of the Catholic Academy Rottenburg and since 2016 of the board of trustees of the Bucerius Kunstforum. Lange has also been a member of the board of trustees of the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra since 2013 and of the Domnick Foundation since 2014. In the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) and the non-profit association departure Stuttgart Lange has 2,017 members. In the same year she sat in the jury of the planning competition of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. In addition, Lange has been a member of the Stuttgart presidential group since 2018 and has been supporting the mentoring program of the "Women in Culture and Media" project office of the German Cultural Council since 2019.

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  • On the work of Hans skull - contribution to church building in Germany in the fifties. DGV-Verlag, Weimar 1995, ISBN 978-3-92974260-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Lange, Christiane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz