Detlef Zinke

Detlef Zinke (born November 19, 1947 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German art historian .

After graduating from high school, Zinke studied art history and classical archeology at the universities of Frankfurt and Vienna . In 1977 he was in Frankfurt with a thesis on Joachim Patinir world landscape doctorate .

After completing his dissertation , he worked on the first volume of the corpus work “Nachantike Großplastische Bildwerke” at Liebieghaus in Frankfurt . From 1979 to 1981 he was a volunteer at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart.

In 1981 he became a research assistant at the Augustinermuseum in Freiburg im Breisgau and soon became deputy director. His main focus was painting and sculpture up to 1800. From 2002 to 2008 he was acting director of the house. He designed and organized numerous large exhibitions as well as the redesign of the Augustinermuseum up to the opening in March 2010. In December 2012, he retired.

Publications (selection)

• Patinir's "World Landscape" . Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / Las Vegas 1977.
• Raffael in Freiburg. After-images of a model; Augustinermuseum Freiburg, exhibition from December 29, 1983 - February 12, 1984 . Freiburg 1983.
• Post-antique large sculptures. Volume 1: Italy, France, Spain, Germany 800-1380. Scientific catalogs / Liebieghaus - Museum of Alter Plastic Frankfurt am Main. Verlag Gutenberg, Melsungen 1981, ISBN 3-87280-008-6 .
• Art treasures from the Rijksmuseum "Het Catharijneconvent", Utrecht : Exhibition as part of the "Encounter with the Netherlands", July 16 to September 13, 1987 . Augustinermuseum, Freiburg i. Br. 1987.
• A hitherto unknown version of 'St Michael' by the Cavaliere d'Arpino . In: Burlington Magazine. 132, 1990.
• Augustinermuseum Freiburg im Breisgau: paintings up to 1800 . Rombach, Freiburg 1990, ISBN 3-7930-0582-8 .
• Joseph Hermann: 1732-1811; a Freiburg painter and the rediscovery of the old Germans . Augustinermuseum Freiburg, July 30th to October 1st, 1994.
• Sculptures from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 1100–1530. Selection catalog. Augustinermuseum Freiburg . Hirmer, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7774-6560-7 .
• Hidden splendor. Medieval book art from eight centuries in Freiburg collections . Catalog of the exhibition of the Augustinermuseum Freiburg in the University Library Freiburg, June 8th - July 28th 2002. Lindenberg 2002, ISBN 3-89870-059-3 .
• Masterpieces from the Middle Ages to the Baroque in the Augustinian Museum . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-422-06948-0 . (English edition, ISBN 978-3-422-06949-7 ; Italian edition, ISBN 978-3-422-06951-0 ; French edition, ISBN 978-3-422-06950-3 )

Web links

• Literature by and about Detlef Zinke in the catalog of the German National Library