Christoph Stiegemann

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Christoph Stiegemann (born October 12, 1954 in Paderborn ) is a German art historian , exhibition organizer and, from 1990, director of the Archbishop's Diocesan Museum in Paderborn .

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Christoph Stiegemann studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf , Münster department , as well as art history and education at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster . He passed the first state examination in 1979. After completing his studies in art history, philosophy and education in Münster, he became famous in 1989 with his work on “ Heinrich Gröninger (um 1578–1631). A contribution to sculpture in the Bishopric of Paderborn between late Gothic and Baroque " doctorate .

Stiegemann became a research assistant and has been director of the Archbishop's Diocesan Museum in Paderborn since 1990. In 1994 he also took over the management of the art department in the Archbishop's General Vicariate in Paderborn as well as the chairmanship of the art commission. In 1998 he was appointed custodian of Paderborn Cathedral . Since 2001 he has held an honorary professorship for the history of Christian art at the Archbishop's seminary in Paderborn .

In the course of the extensive renovation of the Diocesan Museum Paderborn, the new conception and design of the also spatially expanded exhibition collection, together with the expansion and establishment of a new depot, arose under his direction from 1991 to 1993. From 1988 to 2019, under Stiegemann's direction, the measure to inventory movable art objects in the Archdiocese of Paderborn took place with the creation of a database. Since 2016 he has headed the project “Conservation and Didactic Development of the World Heritage Westwerk Corvey”.

Stiegemann realized important art and cultural history exhibitions that received national attention. For 2020 the last exhibition in his tenure as museum director on the subject of "Peter Paul Rubens and the Baroque in the North" is in preparation.

Stiegemann is a member of various advisory boards and commissions. He heads the Commission for Church Art in the Archdiocese of Paderborn. a. Board member of the Association for Christian Art in the Church Province Paderborn e. V. and member of the advisory board of the Görres Society.

In 2015 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for his decades of commitment in the cultural field .

Stiegemann is married, has three children and lives in Paderborn.

Curated exhibitions (selection)

  • 1999: 799 Charlemagne and Pope Leo III . in Paderborn - art and culture of the Carolingian era , exhibition at three museum locations around the Paderborn Cathedral (together with Matthias Wemhoff and others)
  • 2001/02: Byzantium. The light from the east , exhibition in the Diözesanmuseum Paderborn
  • 2004: a miracle. Divine order and measured world , monographically arranged work show, dedicated to the silversmith and copper engraver Antonius Eisenhoit and the court art around 1600
  • 2006: Canossa 1077 - Shaking the world. History, art and culture at the rise of the Romanesque , (together with Matthias Wemhoff, Christiane Ruhmann and others)
  • 2009/10: For kingship and heaven. 1000 years of Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn , exhibitions in the Diocesan Museum and Museum in the Kaiserpfalz (together with Martin Kroker)
  • 2011/12: Francis - Light from Assisi , Diocesan Museum Paderborn
  • 2013: Credo - Christianization of Europe in the Middle Ages , exhibition at three locations (in collaboration with Martin Kroker, Christiane Ruhmann and others)
  • 2015: Caritas - charity from early Christians to the present day
  • 2017: The miracle of Rome - in the view of the north. From antiquity to the present
  • 2018: Gothic - The Paderborn Cathedral and the building culture of the 13th century in Europe , exhibition on the 950th anniversary of the consecration of the Paderborn Cathedral

Publications (selection)

Fonts

  • Heinrich Gröninger around 1578-1631: A contribution to sculpture and baroque in the prince-bishopric of Paderborn. Bonifatius, Paderborn 1989, ISBN 3-87088-589-0 .
  • Archbishop's Diocesan Museum and Cathedral Treasury Paderborn. History - architecture - collection. Diözesanmuseum, Paderborn 2003, ISBN 3-931664-15-5 .
  • Bright spots. Form and decoration of Romanesque altar candlesticks based on examples from the 10th to 13th centuries. In: Das Münster: Journal for Christian Art and Art History. Issue 2/2008, ISSN  0027-299X .
  • with Ansgar Hoffmann: Paderborn: The chapels at the cathedral. Schnell & Steiner, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 3-87088-589-0 .
  • The furnishings of the Paderborn Cathedral in the course of change from the early Middle Ages to today In: Metropolitan Chapter Paderborn (Hrsg.): The Paderborn Cathedral. History - architecture - equipment . Petersberg 2018, pp. 281–441, ISBN 978-3-7319-0614-8 .

As editor

  • with Matthias Wemhoff : 799 - Art and Culture of the Carolingian Period. Charles the Great and Pope Leo III. in Paderborn , Diözesanmuseum / Museum in der Kaiserpfalz Paderborn, exhibition catalog, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-8053-2456-1
  • Miracle - divine order and measured world. The goldsmith and copper engraver Antonius Eisenhoit and court art around 1600, catalog of the exhibition in the Diözesanmuseum Paderborn, Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-8053-3260-2
  • with Matthias Wemhoff (ed.): Canossa 1077 - Shock of the world. History, art and culture at the rise of the Romanesque , Museum in der Kaiserpfalz / Diözesanmuseum Paderborn, Munich, 2006, ISBN 3-7774-2865-5
  • with Hiltrud Westermann-Angerhausen : Treasure art at the rise of the Romanesque. The Paderborn Cathedral portable altar and its surroundings , Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7774-2905-8
  • with Martin Kroker: For royalty and heaven. 1000 years of Bishop Meinwerk von Paderborn , Museum in the Kaiserpfalz / Diözesanmuseum Paderborn, Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7954-2152-6
  • with Bernd Schmies, Heinz-Dieter Heimann : Franziskus - Licht aus Assisi , catalog for the exhibition in the Archbishop's Diocesan Museum Paderborn, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7774-4081-1
  • with Martin Kroker u. a .: Credo - Christianization of Europe in the Middle Ages , catalog for the exhibition, 2 volumes, Petersberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86568-827-9
  • with Christiane Ruhmann, Credo. Christianization of Europe in the Middle Ages , Volume III: Contributions to the exhibition, Archbishop's Diocesan Museum Paderborn, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7319-0043-6
  • Caritas - Christian Charity from the Early Christians to the Present , Catalog for the exhibition in the Archbishop's Diocesan Museum Paderborn, Petersberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7319-0142-6
  • Wonder of Rome in the view of the north. From antiquity to the present , catalog for the exhibition in the Archbishop's Diocesan Museum Paderborn, Petersberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7319-0441-0
  • Gothic - The Paderborn Cathedral and the building culture of the 13th century in Europe , catalog for the exhibition in the Archbishop's Diocesan Museum Paderborn, Petersberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7319-0734-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Stiegemann (Ed.): Diözesanmuseum Paderborn 1913–1993. Commemorative publication on the occasion of the reopening on June 18, 1993 . Bonifatius, Paderborn 1994, ISBN 3-87088-816-4 .
  2. ↑ World Heritage Westwerk Corvey. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Christoph Stiegemann: World Heritage Westwerk Corvey - work in progress . Ed .: Christoph Stiegemann. Corvey 2017.
  4. ↑ Video interview with Thomas Sternberg about the exhibition "GOTIK The Paderborn Cathedral and the building culture of the 13th century in Europe". In: https://dioezesanmuseum-paderborn.de/gotik/ . Diözesanmuseum Paderborn, 2018, accessed on November 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Christoph Stiegemann: An experience of simultaneity. The large art and cultural-historical medieval exhibitions in Paderborn since 1999 between science and staging . In: Andreas Sohn (Hrsg.): Ways of Remembrance in and on the Middle Ages (Festschrift for Joachim Wollasch on his 80th birthday) . Bochum 2011, p. 207-230 .
  6. ↑ The Federal President. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Holger Kosbab: Neue Westfälische newspaper. June 30, 2015, accessed November 7, 2019 .
  8. ^ Diözesanmuseum Paderborn (Ed.): Selected works. List of all special exhibitions from 1975 to 2013 . 1st edition. Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86568-955-9 , pp. 280-291 .
personal data
SURNAME Stiegemann, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and exhibition organizer
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn