Hermann Arnhold (art historian)

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Heinz-Hermann Arnhold (born February 4, 1962 in Rheine ) is a German art historian . He has been the director of the LWL Museum for Art and Culture in Münster since 2004 .

Life

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Hermann Arnhold studied art history, Romance studies and Catholic theology at the University of Freiburg from 1983 to 1986 . From 1986 to 1988 he continued his studies at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne , where he graduated with a Maîtrise (1988) and a DEA (1991). His interest in French sculpture at the turn of the epoch from the late Middle Ages to the early Renaissance led to research on sculpture in Troyes and in southern Champagne between 1480 and 1530 in 1989. In 1993 he was in Freiburg with a doctoral thesis on the master of Chaource and his surroundings Wilhelm Schlink is doing his doctorate.

He has been working in Münster since 1993. Here he was a volunteer at the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History until 1995 . His first exhibition at the museum was on the French artist Pierre Soulages , with whom he organized the exhibition Living Light in 1994 . Curated painting and the windows by Conques - at the center of which was an installation of several so-called “poliptyques” (multi-part paintings) in the atrium of the museum. From 1995 to 1999 he was project leader of the Council of Europe exhibition 1648 - War and Peace in Europe . In addition, he taught from 1994 to 1997 as a lecturer in art history in the architecture department of the Münster University of Applied Sciences . In 1996 he worked as a research assistant under the direction of the art historian Jacques Thuillier at the “Chaire d'Histoire de la création artistique en France” at the Collège de France in Paris on French art during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). Arnhold has been curator for medieval art since 1999.

Arnhold was appointed director of the Westphalian State Museum in 2004, which was renamed the LWL Museum for Art and Culture in 2013. In 2002 he curated the exhibition Collectibles. European art from five centuries , which for the first time showed one of the most important collections from Westphalian private ownership. The exhibitions Ways of the Middle Ages (2004/2005) and The Brabender followed. Sculpture at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance (2005) and 1945 - Im Blick der Fotografie (2005). On the occasion of the anniversary year 2008, in which the LWL Museum for Art and Culture celebrated its 100th anniversary, he headed the curatorial team for the exhibition Places of Longing. With artists on trips who dealt with the topic of the artist's trip . With the two curators Kasper König and Brigitte Franzen he was responsible for the sculpture projects 2007 in Münster. 10 years later, the Skulptur Projekte followed in 2017, again with Kasper König as artistic director and the two co-curators Britta Peters and Marianne Wagner.

In 2015 he curated the Otto Piene exhibition together with Joachim Jäger . Light . The artist first created the formative light work of art, Silver Frequency, for the southern exterior facade of the museum in 1972, which was largely further developed for the new building in 2014. In 2018 Arnhold was the spokesman for the interdisciplinary exhibition cooperation Peace. From antiquity to today from five museums in Münster and the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University and commissioner of the exhibition Paths to Peace in the LWL Museum for Art and Culture.

From the preliminary planning, the international architectural competition (2007) and the implementation up to its opening in autumn 2014, he was significantly involved in the new construction and renovation of the LWL Museum for Art and Culture according to the plans of the architect Volker Staab .

Publications (selection)

  • The sculpture in Troyes and in southern Champagne between 1480 and 1540. Critical observations on the master of Chaource and his circle . Dissertation Freiburg 1993 [2004] ( digitized , with curriculum vitae).
  • Living light. Painting and the windows of Conques. Catalog of the exhibition in the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster 1994.
  • with Jean-Marc Chatelain: War, Fame and Classical Aesthetics: 'Les Triomphes de Louis le Juste' by Jean Valdor (Paris, 1649) . In: 1648 - War and Peace in Europe . Volume 2: Art and Culture (edited by Klaus Bußmann and Heinz Schilling), text volume of the three-volume publication accompanying the exhibition, Münster 1998.
  • The Domlettner zu Münster - origin and art-historical classification. In: The Brabender. Catalog of the exhibition in the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History . Münster 2005, p. 102ff.
  • (Ed.): 1945 in the view of photography. Catalog of the exhibition in the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster 2005.
  • The Soest Antependium from an art historical point of view. In: Files of the scientific colloquium "The Soest Antependium and the early medieval panel painting", Münster, 5. – 7. December 2002, p. 83ff.
  • (Ed.): Places of longing. Traveling with artists. Catalog of the exhibition in the LWL Museum for Art and Culture, Münster 2008.
  • Otto Piene. Light. Catalog of the exhibition in the LWL Museum for Art and Culture, Münster 2015.
  • (Ed.): Paths to Peace. Catalog of the exhibition in the LWL Museum for Art and Culture (part of the 5-volume publication), Münster 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Arnhold, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnhold, Heinz-Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheine