Irene Geismeier

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Irene Geismeier (born Irene Kemmer in the 20th century ) is a German art historian with a doctorate .

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1951 FDJ member Irene Geismeier took part in the World Youth Games in East Berlin . From 1960 to 1990 she was the successor to Hans Werner Grohn as Museum Director of the Gemäldegalerie in East Berlin and from 1990 to 1999 deputy director there. In 1988 Geismeier researched the whereabouts of the painting "Saint Sebastian" by Giovanni Contarini (1549–1605), which was auctioned on June 23, 1982 at Sotheby’s in London. By the end of 1999, she organized a previously unique listing of the museum's third-party property. At the end of 1999/2000 she retired as director of the Bode Museum in Berlin. In 2008 she gave a lecture on Max J. Friedländer in the foyer of the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Irene Geismeier was the first wife of Willi Geismeier (1934-2007) and had three sons together with him.

Works (selection)

  • The picture gallery of the State Museums in Berlin , dissertation, 1972
  • Dutch landscape painting of the 17th century , Berlin: Staatliche Museen, 1967
  • European painting, 14.-18. Century, in the Bode Museum , Berlin: State Museums, Gemäldegalerie, 1963
  • Documentation of third-party ownership. List of pictures of unknown origin stored in the gallery , 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Günter Wermusch: The secret of the small bunker mountain . In: Die Zeit 11/1992 . March 6, 1992, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed November 9, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Rembrandt looked over his shoulder: On the death of Jan Kelch on September 25, 2017 , Berliner Woche , October 2, 2017
  3. ^ Eyewitness Part 2: Irene Geismeier , mdr.de , February 16, 2011
  4. ↑ a b With eye, mind and heart - Ceremonial event in honor of Irene Geismeier, January 18, 2000. Accessed November 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Cellar children are looking for their home , welt.de , December 18, 1999
  6. ↑ Max J. Friedländer
  7. ^ Willi Geismeier: Director of East Berlin's National Gallery who defended modern art against the GDR regime , The Times , August 30, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Geismeier, Irene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kämmer, Irene (former name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century