Frédéric Bussmann

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Frédéric Bußmann (born September 29, 1974 in Boulogne-Billancourt , France ) is an art historian and has been General Director of the Chemnitz Art Collections since 2018 .

Life

Frédéric Bußmann grew up in Münster . He studied art history and modern and contemporary history at the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Università degli studi Roma Trè in Rome . In 2006 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the Prince de Conti's art collections . He then worked until 2008 as a research assistant at the German Forum for Art History in Paris . He completed his academic traineeship at the State Graphic Collection in Munich and the Bavarian State Painting Collections . From 2010 to 2011 he was involved as a research assistant in the international exhibition The Art of Enlightenment in the Chinese National Museum in Beijing , a cooperation between the Bavarian State Painting Collections , the State Museums in Berlin and the State Art Collections in Dresden .

Since 2011 he has worked as a curator for painting and sculpture from the 19th century to the present at the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig . In Leipzig he worked scientifically on a variety of topics and curated exhibitions, such as 19th century landscape painting, Pop Art as well as GDR art, but also contemporary art such as the exhibition Displacements / Entortungen with Ayşe Erkmen and Mona Hatoum .

On May 1, 2018, Bußmann took over the management of the Chemnitz Art Collections, succeeding Ingrid Mössinger .

Publications (selection)

  • Collecting as a strategy. The art collections of the Prince de Conti in the Paris of the outgoing Ancien Régime. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-7861-2604-1 (Zugl .: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss .; also as a French edition, 2012).

Editorships (selection)

  • with Hans-Werner Schmidt : Living with Pop! Graphics from the 1960s from Warhol to Richter. Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-86060-024-5 (on the occasion of the exhibition "Living with Pop! Graphics of the 1960s from Warhol to Richter " in the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, September 30, 2012 to 13. January 2013).
  • with Alfred Weidinger : Ayşe Erkmen & Mona Hatoum, displacements = Ayşe Erkmen & Mona Hatoum, dislocations. VfmK, publishing house for modern art GmbH, Vienna; Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig [2017], ISBN 978-3-903153-79-0 (exhibition catalog, Museum of Fine Arts, November 18, 2017– February 18, 2018, Leipzig).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ LVZ-Online: Leipzig curator is to be Mössinger's successor in Chemnitz. In: lvz.de. December 3, 2017, accessed December 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Contact. In: kunstsammlungen-chemnitz.justexpertise.de. Chemnitz Art Collections, accessed on July 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bussmann, Frédéric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 29th September 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulogne-Billancourt , France