Dirk Bluebaum

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Dirk Blübaum (born May 4, 1961 in Detmold ) is a German art historian .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1981 at Wilhelmstrasse in Holzminden , Blübaum studied art history, modern German literature, classical archeology and Dutch studies at the University of Marburg and the University of Leiden until 1987 . He completed his studies with a master's thesis on the Dutch painter Wim Schuhmacher (1894–1986). From 1987 to 1989 he was a research assistant at the Photo Archive Photo Marburg . From 1991 he worked at the Bodensee Museum in Friedrichshafen ; In 1994 he became head of the art department of this museum, from 1996 Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen - technology and art .

In 1994 he was given a dissertation on the treatment of the art of the old masters in the magazine Onze Kunst. Art history in the field of tension between language and politics in Belgium for Dr. phil. PhD. Since the winter semester 2007 he had a teaching position in the subject of art history at the University of Trier .

At the end of 2008, the state government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania appointed him to succeed Kornelia von Berswordt-Wallrabe as director of the Schwerin State Museum with the three locations Schwerin (gallery building and castle museum ), Güstrow Castle and Ludwigslust Castle with effect from February 1, 2009 .

In his tenure, the donation of the extensive collection of Dutch paintings falling from the 16th to the 18th century, the publisher Christoph Müller in 2013. The 155 Flemish and Dutch paintings are probably the largest donation of old master paintings that a German museum after World War II received . The east wing of Ludwigslust Palace was also restored during his tenure. In 2014, an agreement was reached on the ducal collection and its acquisition. In 2016 the gallery building in Schwerin received an extension.

With the establishment of the state authority State Palaces, Gardens and Art Collections Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2018, the State Museum Schwerin (excluding Güstrow and Ludwigslust) was downgraded to a department of this authority. Blübaum and his employer, the Ministry of Finance, agreed to terminate his employment contract by 2020 at the latest.

Since July 1, 2020, he has been head of the state office for non-state museums in Bavaria in Munich.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Dirk Blübaum becomes the new director of the State Museum Schwerin , press release from November 25, 2008, accessed on June 28, 2018.
  2. ^ The Christoph Müller donation ( Memento of April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 28, 2016; Dirk Blübaum, Gero Seelig (ed.): Cosmos of the Dutch: the Christoph Müller collection. Inventory catalog State Museum Schwerin; on the occasion of the handover of the donation and the exhibition of the Christoph Müller Collection in the State Museum Schwerin from October 11, 2013 to February 16, 2014 and in the Augustinermuseum in Freiburg from November 29, 2014 to April 12, 2015, Imhof, Petersberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86568-958-0 .
  3. ↑ Secured! Exhibition shows art from the ducal collection , Die Welt from December 4, 2014, accessed on June 28, 2014.
  4. ↑ Blübaum leaves the State Museum Schwerin , report by NDR from June 28, 2018, accessed on June 28, 2018.
  5. ↑ New management of the state office for non-state museums in Bavaria: Art Minister Bernd Sibler provides Dr. Dirk Blübaum .
personal data
SURNAME Blübbaum, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 4th 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold