Christoph Martin Vogtherr

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Christoph Martin Vogtherr (born January 17, 1965 in Uelzen ) is a German art historian . Since February 7, 2019, he has been General Director of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg .

education

Christoph Martin Vogtherr studied art history, medieval history and classical archeology at the Free University of Berlin , the University of Heidelberg and at Trinity College in Cambridge . In 1996 he received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the founding of the Berlin museums 1797-1835 .

job

During his studies Vogtherr worked as a freelancer in the museum education service in the Berlin National Gallery . From 1995 to 1996 he worked as a research assistant at the Berlin Academy of the Arts . After a two-year academic traineeship at the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (SPSG), he became the collection curator for painting in Romanesque schools in 1998. As a project manager and curator, he was in charge of the exhibitions " Friedrich Wilhelm II. And the Arts" (Potsdam, 1997), " Sophie Charlotte and her castle" (Berlin, 1999), "The 'letter sealer' from Jean Siméon Chardin " (Berlin, 2003) and “De Vernie à Sans Souci. Le roman comique illustrè ”(Berlin and Le Mans, 2004). In addition, he was co-author of the catalog of losses published in 2004, “Destroyed Kidnapped Lost. The losses of the Prussian castles in the Second World War: Painting I ”and was responsible for the inventory catalog“ French Paintings I: Watteau Pater Lancret Lajoüe ”, which appeared in 2011.

In 2007 Vogtherr moved to the Wallace Collection in London as curator , of which he became director in 2011. During this time he conceived and realized exhibitions such as “Watteau at the Wallace Collection”, “Jean de Jullienne. Collector and Connoisseur ”(both London, 2011),“ De Watteau à Fragonard . Les Fêtes galantes ”(Paris, 2014),“ French Drawings from the Time of Gainsborough ”(Sudbury, 2016),“ The Middle. Tom Ellis at the Wallace Collection ”(London, 2016).

From 2016 to 2018, Vogtherr succeeded Hubertus Gaßner as director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle and initiated the participatory exhibition “Open Access” in 2017 and the show “ Thomas Gainsborough . The modern landscape ”. On November 1, 2018, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg appointed him to succeed Hartmut Dorgerloh as General Director. Vogtherr took office on February 7, 2019.

After teaching positions at the Humboldt University (1998–2001) and the Free University (2001–2007) in Berlin, Vogtherr was Visiting Professor at the University of Buckingham (2009–2014) and lecturer at the University of Hamburg (2016–2019). He has been teaching at the Technical University of Berlin since 2019 .

research

From an academic perspective, Vogtherr has dealt intensively with the history of Prussian castles, French art of the 18th century, the history of art collecting in the 18th and 19th centuries, and has presented publications in each case.

Current committee and other memberships

  • Association des Résidences Royales Européennes (ARRE), Vice President (since June 2019)

Publications (selection)

Jean-Siméon Chardin: The letter sealer
  • The royal museum in Berlin. Planning and conception of the first Berlin Art Museum , Yearbook of the Berlin Museums 39, 1997, Suppl., ISBN 3-7861-1972-4 .
  • The picture gallery of Sanssouci , Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-8148-0013-3 .
  • Nicolas Lancret, portrait of the dancer Maria Sallé , Patrimonia 217, Berlin / Potsdam 2001.
  • Nicolas Lancret, The Peep Box Man , Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2003.
  • with Gerd Bartoschek: Destroyed, Kidnapped, Lost. The losses of the Prussian palaces in World War II: Painting I , Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2004.
  • with Mechthild Most: Jean-Siméon Chardin's letter sealer , Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2003.
  • with S. Duffy: Miniatures in the Wallace Collection , London 2010.
  • with Jens Bartoll and Ursula Baumer: French paintings. Watteau, Pater, Lancret, Lajoüe , Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-004652-5 .
  • Watteau at the Wallace Collection , Holberton, London 2011, ISBN 978-0-900785-84-9 .
  • with Mary Tavener Holmes: De Watteau à Fragonard , Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-94-6230-046-0 .
  • Ed., With M. Preti and G. Faroult: Delicious Decadence - The Rediscovery of French Eighteenth-Century Painting in the Nineteenth Century , London 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ministry of Science, Research and Culture: New SPSG boss starts on February 7th . Retrieved February 8, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Vogtherr, Christoph Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Uelzen