Dagmar Preising

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Dagmar Preising (* 1956 in Eschweiler ) is a German art historian and curator. She has been head of the graphics collection at the Suermondt Ludwig Museum in Aachen since 1994 and headed the Couven Museum there from 2007 to 2016 . She researches and publishes on the late Middle Ages and the early modern period as well as on the 19th century .

Life

Dagmar Preising studied art history , building history and history at RWTH Aachen University and art history, classical archeology and medieval studies at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . As part of her dissertation in Munich in 1994, she investigated the shape and function of Gothic relic tablets and reliquary altars . In the 1980s she had already carried out inventory projects at the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen and was responsible for several smaller catalogs. After completing her doctorate, she stayed in the museum from 1994 as curator for sculpture and graphics.

She held a teaching position at the Institute for Art History at RWTH Aachen University from 1998 until 2006, and since 1998 she has been a member of the editorial team of Aachener Kunstblätter , in which she published numerous articles.

From 2007 to 2016, in addition to her duties at Suermondt-Ludwig, she took over the management of the Couven Museum, where the number of visitors to the museum doubled within two years.

Publications (selection)

  • Dagmar Preising: Image and relic: Shape and function of Gothic relic tablets and altars . (Dissertation 1994). In: Aachener Kunstblätter . tape 61 . Aachen 1997, p. 13-84 .
  • with Adam C. Oellers , Ulrich Schneider : In Gothic company: late medieval sculptures from a Dutch private collection . (Exhibition catalog April 18 - July 12, 1998 Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen). Ed .: Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum (=  The large private collections ). Wienand, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-87909-602-3 .
  • Painted masterpiece in copper engraving and etching: how to handle images in the 17th and 18th centuries . (Exhibition catalog Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, December 17, 1998 - February 21, 1999) (=  inventory catalog of the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen . No. 24 ). Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen 1999.
  • Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum (Ed.): Sculpture catalog of the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum. Part 1: Sculptures from the Cologne-Liège area from 1180 to 1430 . Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen 2003.
  • Karl-Heinz Jeiter - "Not a day without a line": Drawings from 2001 to today . [Exhibition Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, October 7, 2005 - January 8, 2006]. Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen 2005, ISBN 3-929203-57-X .
  • The Secret Life of Ornaments: Odine Lang . [to the exhibition "The Secret Life of Ornaments", Odine Lang - Objects in the Couven Museum, Aachen, 24.9. - 10/30/2011]. Couven-Museum, Aachen 2011, DNB  1014968631 .
  • Hunting trophy and carving. On the type of antler chandelier . In: Dagmar Preising, Michael Rief and Christine Vogt (eds.): Artifact and natural wonders. The female candlestick of the Ludwig Collection , exhibition Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen February 6 to April 17, 2011, Bielefeld, Leipzig, Berlin 2011, pp. 17–83
  • The instruction of Mary or Anna teaches Mary to read. On an image of the veneration of Anne in the late Middle Ages , in: Anna teaches Maria to read . On the cult of Annen around 1500. The Instruction of Mary from the collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig, ed. Dagmar Preising, Michael Rief and Christine Vogt, Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen, Bielefeld-Berlin 2019, pp. 15–51.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b AZ questionnaire Dr. Dagmar Preising, ... In: Aachener Zeitung. May 2, 2009, accessed December 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Dagmar Preising: Dagmar Preising. Retrieved December 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Gerald Eimer: Aachen: Dagmar Preising brings momentum to the Couven Museum. In: Aachener Nachrichten. Retrieved December 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ At the start, she steals the show from the big ones ... In: Aachener Zeitung. May 2, 2009, accessed December 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Preising, Dagmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, curator and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschweiler