Dieter Ronte
Dieter Ronte (born January 10, 1943 in Leipzig ) is a German art historian . He was museum director in Vienna, Hanover and Bonn.
Life
Ronte was born as the son of the Englishist Heinz Ronte and his wife Liselotte. He studied art history, archeology and Romance studies in Münster, Pavia and Rome. In 1968 he married Barbara Hermann and the marriage resulted in a son. In 1970 he was awarded a doctorate in Münster with the subject “The Nazarenes and Dante ”. phil. PhD. From 1971 to 1979 he was a research assistant at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, most recently there as head of the graphic collection.
From 1979 to 1989 Ronte was director of the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna and then director of the Sprengel Museum in Hanover. In 1993 he was appointed director of the Bonn Art Museum as the successor to Katharina Schmidt . For the museum he acquired the “Colored Composition II: Large Flower Carpet” by August Macke , as well as numerous works of contemporary art by Gerhard Richter , Andreas Gursky and Katharina Grosse, among others . After the 7.4 million DM exhibition, Zeitenwenden 1999, which he organized together with Walter Smerling's Foundation for Art and Culture eV Bonn and which devoured the entire exhibition budget at the time, the museum had to move from a Baselitz painting (to cover the Minus almost 2 million DM).
At the end of 2007, Ronte left Bonn for reasons of age; Stephan Berg was his successor . Since then he has been working as a freelance expert in contemporary art and museology. In 2007 he took over as artistic director of the newly opened Frohner Forum in Krems an der Donau .
Ronte had teaching duties since 1980, including at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , at the University of Applied Arts Vienna , from 1990 at the University of Hanover and since 1993 at the University of Bonn .
The art historian lives and works in Bonn and Palma .
Fonts
- Adolf Frohner : work book of a restless work. Alberten graphic collection, Residenz-Verlag, Vienna / Salzburg 1980, ISBN 3-7017-0266-7 .
- Wolf Vostell , Tauromaquie - Automaquie - Frauenmaquie , 1987-88, Chobot, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-900-346-15-1 .
- Can art be conveyed? Is art education an art? Picus-Verlag, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85452-364-5 .
- (with Karin A. von Rockes): Languages of the desert. Languages of the Desert. Contemporary Arab art from the Gulf States. Dumont, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-8321-7668-3 .
- Christo and Jeanne-Claude : International Projects: The Wurth Museum Collection. Palgrave Macmillan, London 2005, ISBN 0-85667-597-0 . (English)
Web links
- Literature by and about Dieter Ronte in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ berliner-zeitung.de: Off to the Lunapark (accessed December 19, 2015)
- ^ Kunstmuseum Bonn bids farewell to its director Professor Dr. Dieter Ronte . Website of the city of Bonn.
- ↑ Frohner Forum opened in Krems . On the website oe24.at
- ^ [1] Text about Wolf Vostell
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ronte, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and museum director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |