Christof Trepesch

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Christof Trepesch in the ballroom of the Schaezlerpalais in Augsburg, 2016

Christof Trepesch (* 1967 in Neunkirchen ) is a German art historian and museum director.

Career

After graduating from the Krebsberggymnasium in Neunkirchen, he studied art history, classical archeology and prehistory and early history at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken from 1987 to 1993 . In 1993 he was at Lorenz Dittmann with the thesis "Studies on the dark design of the German late Gothic sculpture" doctorate . From 1994 to 1996 he completed a scientific traineeship at the Saarland Museum Saarbrücken, which was followed by his work in the scientific inventory. From 1998 to 2002 he was curator of the old collection of the Saarland Museum. In 2003 he was acting director of the Saarland Museum and head of the Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation , leading the largest Saarland museum association. Since 2004 he has been the leading museum director of the art collections and museums in Augsburg and is responsible for their eight houses and institutions. He was and is a lecturer at the universities in Saarbrücken, Freiburg and Augsburg .

Since 2016 he has been a board member of the Working Group of Museums in Bavaria , as well as a board member of the Rhomberg Foundation and the Friends of the Art Collections and Museums Augsburg eV

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Garden art in Saarbrücken (1999)
  • Ottweiler porcelain (2000)
  • Biedermeier culture. The painter Louis Krevel (2001)
  • Alexander Archipenko and his heirs, Kiev, National Museum (2003)
  • When peace was possible. 450 Years of Religious Peace in Augsburg (2005)
  • Johann Moritz Rugendas and Chile , Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes , Santiago de Chile (2007)
  • Earthly paradises. Masterpieces from the Kasser Art Foundation (2008)
  • Free Imperial City of Augsburg - Centuries of Majesty, State Cultural History Museums Moscow Kremlin (2009)
  • Discoveries. 19th century paintings from the holdings of the art collections and museums Augsburg, Liberec, Oblastní galerie (2009)
  • Max Kaminski meets Guglielmi (2011)
  • Johann Heinrich Schönfeld . Painter of the World, Salzburg, Baroque Museum (2011)
  • "A different kind of painting" reverse glass paintings and their originals (2012)
  • Paul Klee . The Myth of Flying (2013)
  • Jaume Plensa . The secret Heart (2014/15)
  • Rendezvous of the artists. Masterpieces from the Klewan Collection (2016)

Publications

  • Studies on dark design in German late Gothic sculpture. Concept, representation and meaning of the dark (= European university publications , series 28, art history vol. 210), Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Vienna 1994 (Diss. Saarbrücken 1993).
  • Vitality as a form of design in late Gothic sculpture , in: Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 41 (1996), No. 2, pp. 281–305, 306–12.
  • On the life and work of the sculptor Jacques Pierrard de Coraille (around 1670-1724 / 25) , in: Journal for the history of the Saar region 46 (1998), pp. 25–66.
  • Biedermeier culture. The painter Louis Krevel , Saarland Museum, catalog on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the temporary exhibition pavilion from August 19, 2001 to November 11, 2001, Worms 2001.
  • The Schaezlerpalais and the German Baroque Gallery (= Augsbuch 7), Augsburg 2006.
  • From the repraesentatio to the landscape. The two Schaezler city gardens in Augsburg in the late 18th and early 19th centuries , in: Lorenz Dittmann, Christoph Wagner, Dethard von Winterfeld (eds.), Languages ​​of Art. Festschrift for Klaus Güthlein on his 65th birthday, Worms 2007, pp. 187–198.
  • Editors: Horst Keßler, Karl Haberstock. Controversial art dealer and patron, Munich, Berlin 2008.
  • "... the wrong way to apply the paint". An inventory catalog of the reverse glass pictures of the art collections and museums Augsburg , Augsburg 2008.
  • Alexander Archipenko and the Twenties - Forming the Body , in: Ars et Scientia. Art and science. Ivan Franko State University in Zhytomyr, Zhytomyr 2015, pp. 76–79.
  • Editor: Wolfgang Steiner, Goldglanz und Silberpracht. Reverse glass painting from four centuries. Exhibition in the Schaezlerpalais, September 11-15, 2015, Berlin, Munich 2015.
  • Publisher: The German Baroque Gallery in the Schaezlerpalais. Masterpieces from the Augsburg Collection, Berlin, Munich 2016.

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personal data
SURNAME Trepesch, Christof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen