Isabella Fehle

Isabella Fehle (* 1954 in Augsburg ) is a German art historian . From 2010 to 2019 she was the director of the Munich City Museum .

Isabella error grew up in Munich and studied art history, Medieval and Bavarian history at the University of Munich and the University of Berlin and was in Munich in 1983 with a dissertation on the Moorish Kiosk of Linderhof doctorate. She then worked at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe , the Württemberg State Museum in Stuttgart and the city of Kornwestheim . From 1992 to 2001 she was director of the Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum in Schwäbisch Hall , 2001 to 2010 director of the Landesmuseum Mainz , from April 2010 to October 2019 she was director of the Munich City Museum .

An important concern of her tenure at the Münchner Stadtmuseum was the view of Munich residents with a migration background . In the exhibition Migration Moves the City , migration was presented as part of Munich's city history for the first time. It was integrated into the permanent exhibition Typically Munich . Other focal points were provenance research , the investigation of the history of the city museum in the Nazi era , as well as the planning of the extensive renovation of the city museum, which will then fall during the term of office of her successor.

Publications (selection)

• The Moorish Kiosk in Linderhof by Karl von Diebitsch. An example of the oriental fashion in the 19th century (= Miscellanea Bavarica Monacensia Bd. 130). Munich 1987 (= dissertation).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Evelyn Vogel, End without a Beginning, Interview with Isabella Fehle, October 30, 2019, Süddeutsche Zeitung, p. 34.
2. ↑ Frauke von der Haar