Felix Kramer

Felix Krämer (* 1971 in Cambridge ) is a German-British art historian and curator .

Life

Felix Kramer was the son of 1999 in Kosovo killed Stern - Reporters Volker Krämer born, his mother is British. He studied art history , classical archeology and folklore at the University of Hamburg from 1993 to 1999 and was assistant to the curator Christoph Geissmar-Brandi from 1996 to 1999 , before starting his freelance curatorial work for the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 2000 . In 2005 he was in Hamburg with Monika Wagner and Wolfgang Kemp with the work Das unheimliche Heim. Doctorate on interior painting around 1900 . From 2004 to 2006 he worked as a research assistant at the Hamburger Kunsthalle. He was then curator and advisor to the director Hubertus Gaßner until 2008 . At the same time he organized exhibitions for the Royal Academy of Arts , London and the National Museum of Western Art , Tokyo.

From 2008 to 2017, Krämer was the director of the Modern Art Collection at the Städel Museum , Frankfurt am Main. In 2011 he was responsible for the new presentation of the Modern Art Collection after the museum was expanded. In May 2013 he was awarded the Chevalier dans l ' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .

Since October 1, 2017, Krämer has been General Director and Artistic Director of the Museum Kunstpalast Foundation in Düsseldorf and thus the successor to the retired Beat Wismer .

Krämer lives in Düsseldorf, he is married and has three children.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2017/2018: Matisse - Bonnard. “Long live painting!” , Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main; Catalog: ISBN 978-3-7913-5631-0

• 2016/2017: Gender struggle. Franz von Stuck to Frida Kahlo , Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
• 2015: Monet and the Birth of Impressionism , Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main; Catalog: ISBN 978-3-7913-5414-9
• 2014: Emil Nolde. Retrospective , Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; Catalog: ISBN 978-3-7913-5336-4
• 2013: Hans Thoma. Favorite painter of the German people , Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main; Catalog: ISBN 978-3-86832-154-8
• 2013: L'ange du bizarre. Le romantisme noir de Goya à Max Ernst , Musée d'Orsay, Paris; Catalog: ISBN 978-2-35433-122-1
• 2012: Black romance. From Goya to Max Ernst , Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main; Catalog: ISBN 978-3-7757-3372-4
• 2010: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Retrospective , Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main; Catalog: ISBN 978-3-7757-2552-1
• 2008: Vilhelm Hammershøi. Poetry of Silence , The Royal Academy, London and National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; Catalog: ISBN 978-1-905711-28-4
• 2008: Félix Vallotton. Idylle am Abgrund , Hamburger Kunsthalle and Kunsthaus Zurich; Catalog: ISBN 978-3-85881-194-3
• 2007: Seascapes. From Max Beckmann to Gerhard Richter , Hamburger Kunsthalle; Catalog: ISBN 978-3-7774-3665-4
• 2007: The Black Square. Homage to Malevich , Hamburger Kunsthalle; Catalog: ISBN 978-3-7757-1948-3
• 2005: Seascapes. From Caspar David Friedrich to Emil Nolde , Hamburger Kunsthalle; Catalog: ISBN 3-7913-3486-7
• 2003: Vilhelm Hammershøi , Hamburger Kunsthalle; Catalog: ISBN 3-7672-1423-7

Fonts (selection)

• Felix Krämer: Claude Monet. (Beck'sche series), CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70642-4
• “The main thing is that it crunches. A conversation with Susanne Gaensheimer, from today director of the Kunstsammlung NRW, and with Felix Krämer, who will become general director of the Museum Kunstpalast in October ”, in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, features section, issue of September 1, 2017
• “Caravaggio was forgotten too. Does a canon for art have anything to do with quality at all? There are a lot of good reasons against it ”, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Feuilleton, edition of June 22, 2017
• “Vilhelm Hammershøi. Interior, Strandgade 30 “, in: At Home with Hammershøi , exhibition cat. Ordrupgaard, Esbjerg 2016, pp. 85-133, ISBN 978-87-88692-34-1
• "Frankfurt's Mona Lisa has two left feet", in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Feuilleton, issue of July 19, 2016
• "Les espaces de l'âme. Frères d'esprit - Pierre Bonnard et Odilon Redon ”, in: Pierre Bonnard. Peindre l'arcadie , ed. by Guy Cogeval and Isabelle Cahn, exhib.-cat. Musée d'Orsay, Paris 2015, pp. 92-105, ISBN 978-2-7541-0815-7

• "Adolph Menzel", in: Mind's Eye: Masterworks on Paper from David to Cézanne , exhib.-cat. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas 2014, pp. 94-95, ISBN 978-0-300-20721-7

• “A new art. Peder Severin Krøyer and Vilhelm Hammershøi ”, in: Denmark's departure into modernity. The Hirschsprung Collection from Eckersberg to Hammershøi , ed. by Jenns Howoldt and Hubertus Gaßner, exhib.-cat. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg 2013, pp. 36–43, ISBN 978-3-86218-056-1

• “Félix Vallotton. Painter, graphic artist, writer ”, in: Artists as scientists, art historians and writers. Series of publications for artist publications , ed. by Michael Glasmeier, Bremen 2012, pp. 187–204, ISBN 978-3-89770-331-5

• “'A lion who painted lions': Jean-Léon Gérôme's, St Jerome' rediscovered”, in: The Burlington Magazine , Vol. CLIV, No. 1309, April 2012, pp. 251-252, ISSN  0007-6287

• Felix Krämer and Max Hollein (eds.): Art of Modernism 1800–1945 in the Städel Museum , Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-3027-3 (new edition 2016, ISBN 978-3-7757 -4161-3 )

• “Édouard Vuillard. Kammerspiele ”, in: Édouard Vuillard , exhibition cat. Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Heidelberg 2008, pp. 138–144, ISBN 978-3-86828-030-2

• The eerie home. On interior painting around 1900. Böhlau, Cologne and Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-03506-8 (new edition 2012) Dissertation
• 'Mon tableau de genre': Degas's 'Le Viol' and Gavarni's 'Lorette' , in: The Burlington Magazine , Vol. CXLIX, No. 1250, May 2007, pp. 323-325, ISSN  0007-6287

Web links

• Literature by and about Felix Krämer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Johanna Pfund: Underestimated, interview with Felix Krämer , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 20, 2018, SZ-Spezial, p. 3

Individual evidence

1. ^ Felix Krämer: Memories: My father, the photographer . In: Rheinische Post . August 16, 2018 ( rp-online.de [accessed November 15, 2018]).
2. ↑ Städel receives two new curators. art - Das Kunstmagazin , April 7, 2008, archived from the original on August 23, 2016 ; accessed on August 22, 2016 . 
3. ↑ staedelmuseum: Collection movie "Modern Art". YouTube , April 26, 2012, accessed August 22, 2016 . 
4. ^ Matisse - Bonnard in the Städel Museum. Retrieved September 28, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Gender struggle - Franz von Stuck to Frida Kahlo in the Stäfel Museum, November 24, 2016 to March 19, 2017 , on staedelmuseum.de, accessed on November 26, 2016
6. ^ The painter's fear of the strong woman , Felix Krämer in conversation with Anke Schaefer, on Deutschland Radio Kultur, contribution from November 23, 2016
7. ↑ Sandra Danicke: The birth of an era. (No longer available online.) Art - Das Kunstmagazin , March 11, 2015, archived from the original on August 20, 2016 ; accessed on August 22, 2016 . 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.  
8. ↑ Franz Zelger: "That which lies between the motif and me". Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 27, 2015, accessed on August 22, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Monet exhibition breaks all records. Frankfurter Rundschau , June 29, 2015, accessed on August 22, 2016 . 
10. ^ "Nolde exhibition in Frankfurt. Perpetrator, victim, or both? Felix Krämer in conversation with Stefan Koldehoff ”, Deutschlandfunk, 05.03.2014. Retrieved August 22, 2016 . 
11. ^ Dieter Bartetzko: Frankfurt romantic exhibition. When reason sleeps. FAZ.net , September 26, 2012, accessed on August 22, 2016 . 
12. ^ Petra Kipphoff: Exhibition "Black Romanticism". Magic, miracles, night figures. Zeit online , September 27, 2012, accessed August 22, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Sandra Danicke: That was abuse! Felix Krämer on Kirchner, in: art Magazin, July 2010, p. 154. Archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on September 14, 2016 .