Harald Marx (art historian)

Harald Marx (born February 13, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German art historian .

life and work

Harald Marx studied art history from 1961 to 1966 at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1966 he worked as a research assistant at the Old Masters Picture Gallery of the Dresden State Art Collections , since 1980 as curator and since 1991 as its director. In 1971, Marx received his doctorate from the University of Halle with his dissertation on decorative painting in the 18th century in Saxony . In 1996 he became honorary professor for art history at the Technical University of Dresden . He retired in 2009.

From 2001 to 2004, Harald Marx was curator of the 2nd Saxon State Exhibition, which took place  in Torgau under the title Faith and Power - Saxony in Europe during the Reformation . He designed exhibitions such as “Louis de Silvestre”, “German Art of the Dürer period” or “Mining and Art in Saxony” and published books on art history and galleries, for example Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden: Collection, Construction, History .

In his last special exhibition “Ideal Images. Longing and Reality. Painting for Dresden in the 18th Century “2009 in Dresden, 217 works including 50 loans from St. Petersburg, Paris, Versailles, Budapest, Brussels, Graz, Vienna, Berlin and Potsdam, including vedutas, portraits, landscapes and History paintings that tell of civil and court life in Saxony in the 18th century and some of which have never been seen in Dresden or have not been seen for many decades.

Harald Marx is married and has two daughters.

Awards

• 1998: Officer's Cross of the French Legion of Honor
• 2014: Saxon Order of Merit

Publications (selection)

• On the decorative painting of the 18th century in Saxony . Dissertation University of Halle 1971.

literature

• Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 602 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Remarks

1. ↑ Birgit Grimm: Now the director turns blue . Harald Marx is retiring after 42 years at the Dresden Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. In parting, he shows his "ideal pictures". In: Saxon newspaper . February 14, 2009 ( SZ-Online.de [accessed December 25, 2014]).

Web links

• Literature by and about Harald Marx in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Harald Marx in the Saxon Bibliography