Claus Grimm (art historian)

Claus Grimm (born November 22, 1940 ) is a German art historian . From 1983 to 2007, he was director of the House of Bavarian History in Augsburg .

Life

Claus Grimm is the son of the historian Claus Grimm the Elder. Ä. (1904–1987), who worked in Lindau as a high school teacher, archivist, librarian and curator. After his doctorate in 1969 and his habilitation in 1978, he worked as a private lecturer at the University of Munich . In 1984 he was appointed professor at the University of Konstanz . In 1990 he took on an extraordinary professorship at the University of Munich. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Bayernbund .

Act

The focus of his work was the management of the House of Bavarian History, as its first director he was appointed in 1983. Under Grimm, the house distinguished itself as an important educational institution, in particular with nationwide events and didactically valuable presentations. Since 1984, there have been annual special exhibitions - since 1990 as the Bavarian State Exhibition  - in which the cultural diversity of Bavaria and Franconia and the way the country is embedded in the context of European history is presented.

In 2006 Grimm was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit for his commitment to depicting the history, art and cultural history of Bavaria .

Web links

• Literature by and about Claus Grimm in the catalog of the German National Library
• House of Bavarian History