Dorothee Hansen

Dorothee Hansen (born September 3, 1963 in Flensburg ) is a German art historian and curator as well as deputy director of the Kunsthalle Bremen .

Life

Dorothee Hansen studied art history , classical archeology and medieval history at the University of Munich . In 1992 she was there with the work The Image of the Order Teacher and the Allegory of Knowledge. A painted Program Augustine in the 14th century in Italy doctorate . From 1992 to 1994 she completed an academic traineeship at the Hamburger Kunsthalle .

Vincent van Gogh : Poppy Field (1889), Kunsthalle Bremen

Hansen has been the curator of the paintings from the 14th to 19th centuries at the Kunsthalle Bremen since February 1995 and has since been appointed deputy director. Curated to her at the Kunsthalle Bremen and nationally acclaimed art exhibitions include:

• Van Gogh : Fields - the poppy field and the artists' dispute (October 2002 – January 2003)
• Monet and Camille - Portraits of Women in Impressionism (October 2005 – February 2006)
• Edvard Munch - The Mystery Behind the Screen (October 2011 – February 2012)

The Van Gogh exhibition of 2002/03, in which Hansen focused on his late work Mohnfeld from 1889, which was in the possession of the Kunsthalle Bremen, as well as the Bremen artists' dispute that followed the purchase of the picture in 1911 , was the most successful exhibition to date with over 320,000 visitors the Bremen art gallery. In addition, it was the most visited exhibition in an art museum in 2002/2003 in German-speaking countries.

She published numerous publications on art history topics as well as artist monographs and exhibition catalogs .

Dorothee Hansen lives in Bremen.

Publications (selection)

• Edvard Munch. Puzzles behind the screen. DuMont , Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-8321-9413-0 (also publisher).
• From classicism to cubism. Inventory catalog of French painting in the Kunsthalle Bremen. Hirmer , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7774-2911-3 (with: Henrike Holsing).
• Gustave Caillebotte. Hatje Cantz , Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2191-2 (also editor; with: Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark).
• Monet and Camille. Women portraits in impressionism. Hirmer, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7774-2705-5 (also publisher; with: Wulf Herzogenrath ).
• Van Gogh: Fields - the poppy field and the artist dispute. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2002, ISBN 3-7757-1130-9 (also editor; with: Wulf Herzogenrath, Barbara Nierhoff).
• Fritz von Uhde. From realism to impressionism. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 1998, ISBN 3-7757-0789-1 (also publisher).
• Max Liebermann - the German impressionist. "Nothing is less deceptive than appearances". Hirmer, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7774-6910-6 (also publisher).
• The image of the religious teacher and the allegory of knowledge. A painted program of the Augustinians. Akademie-Verlag , Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002393-7 (also dissertation , LMU Munich 1992).

Web links

• Literature by and about Dorothee Hansen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography of Dr. Dorothee Hansen at the Kunsthalle Bremen
• Dorothee Hansen. Curator of the Munch exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bremen in the program series Talk time at Radio Bremen and NDR radio program Nordwestradio on October 13, 2011 (the program is available online as five podcast downloads; length: 36:11 minutes in total)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dr. Dorothee Hansen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Short biography at the Kunsthalle Bremen ; Retrieved November 19, 2011.  
2. ↑ See information on: Staff: Science on the website of the Kunsthalle Bremen ; Retrieved November 19, 2011.
3. ↑ Luminous poppy fields and long queues . On: website of the Kunsthalle Bremen ; Retrieved November 21, 2011.