Harald Seven Morning

Harald Siebenmorgen (born October 2, 1949 in Koblenz ; † March 18, 2020 in Karlsruhe ) was a German art historian and museum director.

Life

Harald Siebenmorgen moved to Freiburg at the age of 18 and studied art history , German , classical archeology and sociology at the university there . He organized his first exhibition in 1976 in the Black Monastery in Freiburg. After receiving his doctorate in 1979 from the Beuron art school , he worked as a research assistant at the Mannheim Reiss Museum from 1979 . From 1981 to 1986 he was deputy director of the state exhibition "City in Transition" in Braunschweig , from 1986 to 1991 director of the Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum in Schwäbisch Hall and the municipal gallery. From 1991 to 1993 he was President of the Baden-Württemberg Museum Association. From 1992 until his retirement in 2014 he was director of the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe with its branches Museum near the market, Museum in der Majolika and branch offices etc. a. in Staufen. During his tenure in 2001 the branch museum in Schloss Neuenbürg was added. A special feature of this museum concept is the fairy tale The Cold Heart, based on the literary model by Wilhelm Hauff, which is staged in six rooms using multimedia .

Siebenmorgen was responsible for numerous large exhibitions, such as the Baden Revolution 1848/49, the Minoan Crete (“In the Labyrinth of Minos”), the Cyclades, the Carthaginians (“Hannibal ad Portas”), the Vandals and, most recently, the major national exhibition in 2014 for the Council of Constance . He has also worked extensively as an author and editor.

Harald Siebenmorgen died on March 18, 2020 at the age of 70 in Karlsruhe.

Works (selection)

• Harald Siebenmorgen, Theodor Leopold Weller (1802–1880). Drawings in the Reiss Museum, exhib. Cat. Mannheim, ed. from the Städtisches Reiss-Museum Mannheim, Mannheim 1981.
• Harald Siebenmorgen, The Beginnings of the Beuron Art School. Peter Lenz and Jakob Wüger 1850–1875. A contribution to the genesis of form abstraction in modern times, Sigmaringen 1983 (= Diss. Freiburg 1979).
• Harald Siebenmorgen, illustrations and picture commentaries on the French Revolution in the Mannheim graphics around 1800, in: Städel-Jahrbuch. New Series, Vol. 9, 1983, pp. 227-246.
• Harald Siebenmorgen, Albert Trachsel's “Les fetes reelles”. The subjective delimitation of architecture in symbolism, in: Albert Trachsel 1863–1929, Solothurn exhibition catalog 1984, pp. 13–29.
• Harald Siebenmorgen (Ed.), Leonhard Kern (1588–1662). Masterpieces of sculpture for the art chambers of Europe. Exhib. Cat.Schwäbisch Hall, Sigmaringen 1988.
• Manfred Akermann / Harald Siebenmorgen (eds.), Hall in the Napoleonic era. An imperial city becomes part of Württemberg. Exhib. Kat.Schwäbisch Hall, Sigmaringen 1987.
• Manfred Akermann / Elisabeth Schraut / Harald Siebenmorgen (eds.) Hall in the 19th century. Exhib. Cat.Schwäbisch Hall, Sigmaringen 1988.
• Harald Siebenmorgen (Ed.), Witches and the persecution of witches in the German southwest , Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 1994.
• Harald Siebenmorgen (ed.), Villain or hero? Historical robbers and bands of robbers . Sigmaringen 1995.
• Harald Siebenmorgen (Ed.), 750 years of the Cistercian Abbey of Lichtenthal. The fascination of a monastery, Sigmaringen 1995.
• Harald Siebenmorgen (Ed.), “Saved for Baden”. Acquisitions by the Baden State Museum in 1995 from the collections of the Margraves and Grand Dukes of Baden. Exhib. Cat. Karlsruhe 1996.
• Harald Siebenmorgen, The Art of Classical Modernism in the Würth Collection, in: Signs of Modernism. Contemporary art from the Würth Collection, exhib. Cat. Hamburg, ed. by Zdenek Felix, Hamburg 1998, pp. 1-17.
• Harald Siebenmorgen, The Weltanschauungsstreit about Impressionism in Germany, in: Max Liebermann. Poetry of the Simple Life, exhib. Kat. Schwäbisch Hall, ed. by C. Sylvia Weber, Künzelsau 2003, pp. 195–203.
• Harald Siebenmorgen: Symbolistic 'modern genre'. The season cycle of the Karlsruhe glass painter Hans Drinneberg . In: Art and Architecture in Karlsruhe. Festschrift for Norbert Schneider. Karlsruhe 2006, pp. 71-78.
• Harald Siebenmorgen / Schoole Mostafawy (Ed.), The Foreign Occident? Orient meets Occident from 1800 until today. Stuttgart 2010.
• Harald Siebenmorgen, Orientalism - Occidentialism. Intercultural fields of tension, in: The foreign West ?, pp. 12–26.
• Harald Siebenmorgen, The Testimony of Things, in: Simone Demandt, instrumenta sceleris. Evidence of crime. Exhib. Cat. Karlsruhe, ed. from the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Darmstadt 2013, pp. 439–450.
• Lust and passion. Catacomb Romance and Catacomb Propaganda, in: Empire of the Gods. Isis, Mithras, Christ. Cults and religions in the Roman Empire, exhib. Cat. Karlsruhe, ed. from the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Darmstadt 2013, pp. 439–450.
• Harald Siebenmorgen, Hermann Hesse and his garden secret, in: Baden! 900 years. Stories of a Country, Exhib. Cat. Karlsruhe, ed. from the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe 2012, pp. 213–215.
• Harald Siebenmorgen, A German Museum and the Common Cultural Heritage of the Mediterranean Area - Orient and Occident in the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, in: At the turn of the ages Europe, the Mediterranean and the Arab world, ed. by Bernd Thum on behalf of the Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart 2012, pp. 120–125.
• Harald Siebenmorgen, thoughts on "tradition culture", in: tradition culture. How much past does the present need? How much present does the future need? ed. by Harald Siebenmorgen, Karlsruhe 2010, pp. 12–25.
• Harald Siebenmorgen, "Carthage lives anew". Beginnings of early Christian archeology in Tunisia, in: The Kingdom of the Vandals. Legacy of the Empire in North Africa, exhib. Cat. Karlsruhe, ed. from the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Mainz 2009, pp. 427–434.
• Harald Siebenmorgen, farewell to illusions. The requirements of "Rethinking Museums", in: Rethinking Museums. Perspectives on cultural mediation and target group work, ed. by Hartmut John and Anja Dauschek, Bielefeld 2008. pp. 268–275.
• Harald Siebenmorgen, Axis shifts in the avant-garde. Lenz and Verkade 1893–1904, in: P. Willibrord Verkade. Artist and monk, exhib. Kat. Hausen o. V. / Beuron, ed. by Adolf Smitmans, Beuron 2007, pp. 93-100.
• Harald Siebenmorgen, The "Beuron Art School" and Vienna, in: Avant-gardist and painter monk - Peter Lenz and the Beuron Art School, exhib. Cat. Engen, ed. von Velten Wagner, Engen 2007, pp. 19–32.
• Harald Siebenmorgen, "With Different Eyes". Interculturality as a perception of difference, in: Art is alive! See the world with different eyes, exhibit. Cat. Stuttgart, ed. by Tilman Osterwold, Cologne 2006, pp. 71–78.
• Harald Siebenmorgen (Ed.), Hannibal ad portas. Power and wealth of Carthage. Exhib. Cat. Karlsruhe Stuttgart 2004.
• List of publications in: "Rethink museums!". Prof. Dr. Harald Seven Morning. Scientific articles and theses on museum policy 1992–2014, ed. from the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe 2014.
• Harald Siebenmorgen, The idea of ​​the 'artist monastery' in the 19th century, in: The Middle Ages of Historicism. Forms and functions in literature and art, film and technology, ed. by Mathias Herweg and Stefan Keppler-Tasahi, 2015
• Harald Siebenmorgen, Against Meat, World and Devil. Johannes Hus on the occasion of his 600th birthday, in: Südkurier No. 151, July 4, 2015
• Harald Siebenmorgen, Cooking and Eating for and Against Reason: The Culinary Crime, in: René Angelstein / Johann Bischoff (Eds.), Reason begins in the kitchen. Food and cultural history. Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Alfred Frei on his 65th birthday, Merseburg 2019, pp. 209–214

Honor

• 2009 honorary membership of the Federation of Craftsmen Baden - Württemberg eV
• 2011 Prize for International Understanding Karlsruhe
• 2014 honorary membership of the Friends of the Badisches Landesmuseum
• 2019 Gold Staufer Medal from the State of Baden-Württemberg.

literature

• A. Borchardt-Wenzel: What do you need a throne chair for? In: Sunday. June 22, 2014, p. 4.
• Seven Mornings, Prof. Dr. Harald. In: Ariane Lindemann: Karlsruhe heads. People you know in Karlsruhe. Info-Verlag, Karlsruhe 2004, ISBN 3-88190-371-2 , pp. 195–196 (with picture, digitized version )
• Kirsten Fast, Harald Siebenmorgen, director of the Badisches Landesmuseum, in: Museumskunde, 78th year, 2013, issue 2, pp. 118–120.
• Peter Weibel, Siebenmorgens Strategien, in: "Rethinking museums!". Prof. Dr. Harald Seven Morning. Scientific articles and theses on museum policy 1992 - 2014, Karlsruhe 2014, pp. 9–11.

Web links

• Seven mornings, Harald. In: Landesbibliographie Baden-Württemberg online
• Working on the story. A new form of presentation of contemporary art in Schwäbisch Hall. A conversation with Harald Siebenmorgen, in: Kunstforum international Vol. 108, 1990
• Harald Seven Morning. In: Südkurier. January 14, 2008
• Interview with alumni'aktuell, July 23, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://alumni-blog.uni-freiburg.de/archive/1284
2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Harald dies seven mornings. In: Landesmuseum.de. Retrieved March 20, 2020 . 
3. ^ Andreas Jüttner: Harald Siebenmorgen is dead - he shaped the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe. In: BNN.de. March 20, 2020, accessed March 20, 2020 .