Gabriele Uelsberg

Gabriele Uelsberg (born January 1, 1955 in Bonn ) is a German art historian and has been the director of the LVR-LandesMuseum - Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn since 2004 .

Life

Uelsberg studied art history, classical archeology and prehistory and early history, from 1973 to 1975 at the University of Bonn and from 1975 to 1980 at the University of Bochum . In 1983 she received her doctorate from Max Imdahl with a dissertation on Willem de Kooning . Her professional positions took her from the building staff of the Foundation House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn to Aachen as custodian of the Ludwig Collection and deputy director of the Ludwig Forum for International Art and in 1994 to Mülheim an der Ruhr as director of the municipal museums. In 2004 she became director of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, as LVR-LandesMuseum a museum of the Rhineland Regional Association . In 2005/2006 she was also acting head of the Max-Ernst-Museum in Brühl for a year to furnish the house until the museum opened.

She is a member of advisory boards and boards of trustees, including the Ludwig Museum Budapest , the Alanus University of Art and Society , the K 20/21 art collection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Ziegler Foundation and the Hann Trier Foundation .

From 2008 to 2013 was Uelsberg high school superintendent of the University of Bonn, 2010-2019 board member of the German Museum Bunds . Since 2013 she has been chairwoman of the board of trustees of the Alanus University in Alfter, and since 2014 chairwoman of the community foundation for persecuted arts in Solingen.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gabriele Uelsberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography (PDF; 20 kB) on the website of the Archdiocese of Cologne