Herbert Beck (art historian)
Herbert Beck (* 1941 in Hanau ) is a German art historian and museum director .
Life
Beck studied art history, classical archeology and modern German literature at the universities of Munich and Frankfurt am Main from 1961 . Here he received his doctorate in 1967 on a topic on baroque altars. In 1969 he took over the management of the Liebieghaus - Museum Alter Plastik in Frankfurt am Main , of which he became director in 1981.
In addition, Beck held regular lectures at the University of Marburg , the University of Tübingen and at the Art History Institute of the University of Frankfurt am Main , since 1991 as an honorary professor .
In 1994, at the instigation of the then chairman of the Städel administration, Hermann Abs , Beck was appointed director of the neighboring Städel Art Institute as successor to Klaus Gallwitz , but at the same time retained the management of the Liebieghaus. For reasons of age he resigned in 2006, and Max Hollein became his successor in both museums . In the same year he was appointed chairman of the Association for the Promotion of the Art History Institute in Florence , Munich.
During his tenure, he wrote numerous papers on medieval sculpture and expanded the collections of the houses to include important items, of which the alabaster relief of a trinity group by the sculptor Hans Multscher (around 1430) was one of the most artistically and historically most important.
From 1998 to 2004 Beck was the founding chairman of the RheinMain cultural initiative. From 2008 to 2012 he was founding managing director of the Frankfurt RheinMain cultural fund ; today he is a member of its board of trustees.
Awards
In 2005 Beck was awarded the Hessian Order of Merit , in the same year the German Language Association chose him as Sprachpanscher of the year , as he presented the museum program to the young audience with terms such as "Unfinished Print", "Art after Work", "Member's Night" and "Art Talk for Families “wanted to make palatable. In 2009 he received the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 2012 the Saalburg Prize of the Hochtaunuskreis .
Beck lives in Frankfurt am Main. He was married to the municipal clerk Karoline Beck-Krämer (1941–2015).
literature
- Peter C. Bol (Hrsg.): Städelscher Museums-Verein: The model in the fine arts of the Middle Ages and the modern age: Festschrift for Herbert Beck . Imhof, Petersberg 2006. ISBN 3-86568-113-1
Web links
- Literature by and about Herbert Beck in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dissertation: Medieval Sculptures in Baroque Altars - With special consideration of the immediate diocesan area of the Archdiocese of Salzburg before the archbishopric was secularized.
- ↑ http://kulturfonds-frm.de/kulturfonds/gremien
- ↑ Internet presence of the Association of German Language e. V. ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beck, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and museum director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanau |