Eike Schmidt (art historian)

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Eike Dieter Schmidt (born April 22, 1968 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German art historian and has been the museum director of the Uffizi in Florence since 2015 .

Life

Eike Schmidt studied modern and medieval art at the University of Heidelberg . In the nineties he lived and worked for several years as a fellow in Florence and Bologna . He then worked at the German Art History Institute in Florence until 2001 . In 1997 he received the Nicoletta Quinto Young Talent Award from the Galileo Galilei Foundation.

He went to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC as a curator in 2001 and to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles from 2006 to 2008 and was director of European sculpture at Sotheby’s auction house in London for a year . From 2009 he headed the sculpture department at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and during this time curated an exhibition of baroque ivory art in the Palazzo Pitti .

In 2009 Eike D. Schmidt received her doctorate in Heidelberg with a thesis on the ebony sculptures of the Medici .

In September 2015 he was appointed head of the Uffizi Gallery. He demanded the return of looted art , in particular a still life by Jan van Huysum , which German soldiers had stolen from Villa Bossi Pucci in 1944 . Since 2017 he has been an honorary professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

From November 2019 he should have taken over the management of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna from Sabine Haag , but canceled at short notice on October 1, 2019.

At the beginning of 2020, he caused a controversial discussion in the Uffizi Museum, of which he continues to lead, which led to the resignation of all four members of the scientific committee. The reason was a painting by Pope Leo X on loan to a Raphael show in Rome: the largest exhibition to date dedicated to this artist, jointly organized by the Uffizi Gallery and the Scuderie del Quirinale. However, this painting is on the blacklist, according to which it is not allowed to leave the collection. However, this blacklist only applies to loans abroad; Furthermore, it is at the discretion of the museum director to authorize exceptions, as the Italian Ministry of Culture made clear.

Fonts (selection)

  • Francis van Bossuit: the third dimension . Essay. Photogr. by Christian Mitko. Munich, ED Schmidt, 2014
  • with Giovanni Casini; Pietro Cipriani; Rita Balleri; David Ekserdjian; Dan Dennehy; Kaywin Feldman: The Hours of Night and Day: a rediscovered cycle of bronze reliefs by Giovanni Casini and Pietro Cipriani . Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2014
  • The ivory of the Medici: sculptures for the Florentine court by Giovanni Antonio Gualterio, the Fury Master, Leonhard Kern, Johann Balthasar Stockamer, Melchior Barthel, Lorenz Rues, Francis van Bossuit, Balthasar Griessmann and Balthasar Permoser . Munich, Hirmer, 2012
  • Fruits of desire: a seventeenth-century carved ivory cup . Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009
  • with Nicholas Penny (Ed.): Collecting sculpture in early modern Europe . New Haven, Yale University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-300-12160-5
  • with Roberta Panzanelli, Kenneth Lapatin (Eds.): The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present . Exhibition catalog. Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, 2008. ISBN 0-89236-918-3
  • Paul Heermann: (1673-1732). Master of baroque sculpture in Bohemia and Saxony. new aspects of his work . S. Mehringer, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-9809470-1-7 .
  • The tradition of Michelangelo's lost Samson model . Communications from the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Vol. 40, H. 1/2, 1996, pp. 78–147

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eike Schmidt ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Uffizi Gallery @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uffizi.org
  2. ↑ http://www.premiogalilei.it/html/premi/premi_quinto_cianci.php
  3. ↑ Eike D. Schmidt: The ivory of the Medici: Sculpture works for the Florentine court by Giovanni Antonio Gualterio, the master of the fury, Leonhard Kern, Johann Balthasar Stockamer, Melchior Barthel, Lorenz Rues, Francis van Bossuit, Balthasar Griessmann and Balthasar Permoser . Munich, Hirmer, 2012, p. 325 and p. 328.
  4. ^ Website of the Humboldt University. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Eike Schmidt: Director of the Uffizi will run the KHM . In: The press . ( diepresse.com [accessed September 1, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Eike Schmidt will head the Kunsthistorisches Museum from 2019. In: derStandard.at. September 1, 2017, accessed December 16, 2017 .
  7. ↑ apa: Eike Schmidt cancels one month before taking office as KHM boss. October 1, 2019, accessed October 1, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Raffaello | Format. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Uffizi director Schmidt causes a scandal with a loan on ORF from February 25, 2020, accessed on February 25, 2020
  10. ↑ Lo scontro sul "Leone X" di Raffaello a Roma? Chi decide è il direttore degli Uffizi. Retrieved March 1, 2020 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Eike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Eike D .; Schmidt, Eike Dieter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau