Gerhard Gerkens

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Gerhard Gerkens (born October 17, 1937 in Hamburg ; † March 4/5, 1999 ) was a German art historian and museum director.

Life

Gerkens studied art history in Hamburg and Göttingen, where he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Salzdahlum Castle . With a grant from the State of Lower Saxony , he worked at the Central Institute for Art History , Munich , in 1967/68 . After a traineeship at the Hamburger Kunsthalle , he became a research assistant at the Bremen Kunsthalle in 1969 , most recently from 1983 as its chief curator. In 1986 he was appointed director of the Museums for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck as the successor to Wulf Schadendorf . He expanded the collections of the Behnhaus and St. Annen Museum and was able to rearrange the ethnographic collection - which has now been closed again - in the armory . His successor in Lübeck was Thorsten Rodiek .

Gerkens was chairman of the Bremen Historical Society from 1974 to 1977 .

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His grave is in the historic cemetery at the St. Jürgen Chapel (Lübeck) .

Fonts (selection)

  • The princely pleasure palace Salzdahlum and its builder, Duke Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. (= Sources and research on the history of Braunschweig , Vol. 22). Self-published by the Braunschweigisches Geschichtsverein, Braunschweig 1974, also dissertation, University of Göttingen, 1967.
  • with Ursula Heiderich: Catalog of the paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries in the Kunsthalle Bremen. Two volumes, Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 1973.
  • with Günther Busch : Museum. Kunsthalle Bremen . Westermann Verlag, 1980.
  • with Andreas Blühm : Exhibition catalog: Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869). Paintings and drawings. Catalog of the exhibition in the Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck - Behnhaus, Lübeck 1989. Production: Wullenwever-Druck Heine KG, Lübeck ISBN 3-9800517-9-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum director Dr. Gerhard Gerkens died. Press release. In: Lübeck.de , March 5, 1999.
  2. ↑ Vita at the Central Institute.


personal data
SURNAME Gerkens, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1999