Jörn Grabowski

Jörn Grabowski (* 1949 ) is a German historian and archivist . He worked for the Nationalgalerie in Berlin and was in charge of the central archive of the National Museums in Berlin from 1992 to 2014 .

Life

Jörn Grabowski began working as a magazine manager at the Nationalgalerie in East Berlin in 1973 . At the same time he completed a distance learning course in history at the Humboldt University in Berlin , from which he graduated. After an unscheduled aspiration , he received his PhD thesis on the political and art-political conception of the Nationalgalerie in 1990 . Treats the doctorate based on the acquisition of historical representations in the period from 1861 to 1896 and their presentation in Berlin and Potsdam . The history of the Nationalgalerie also subsequently formed the focus of Grabowski's academic work, he submitted numerous essays on this subject, which lies between art history and history.

From 1988 onwards, Grabowski worked at the archive of the Nationalgalerie, which represented the core of the central archive of the Berlin State Museums, founded in 1989 . There he took over the department head for the files of the Nationalgalerie in 1989. After Annegret Janda retired due to old age and the subsequent head of the central archive , Friedrich Künzel , moved to a different post, Grabowski - deputy head since 1990 - was promoted to head of the archive on May 1, 1992. During this time he had a decisive influence on the future design of the central archive in terms of personnel and space. Under the direction of Grabowski, the central archive of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin developed a role model with the close connection between collections and files as well as other holdings. With reference to the Berlin model, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden were able to prevent their archive from being handed over. In 2012 the central archive moved under Grabowski's direction to the Archaeological Center in the immediate vicinity of Museum Island . Jörn Grabowski retired at the end of September 2014, and Petra Winter succeeded him as head of the central archives .

Publications

• Vote left! The political poster in Germany 1918–1933 (= Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, capital of the GDR, exhibition in the Otto-Nagel-Haus , July 10, 1985 to September 19, 1985) , Berlin: Otto-Nagel-Haus / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 1985.
• John Heartfield . Exile in the Czech Republic. Photo montages 1933–1983 (= exhibition in the Otto-Nagel-Haus from January 29 to April 24, 1986) , Berlin: Staatliche Museen, Nationalgalerie 1986.
• "And teaches them: memory!" An exhibition by the Ministry of Culture and the State Secretary for Church Affairs in cooperation with the Association of Jewish Communities in the GDR to commemorate the fascist November pogrom fifty years ago , published by Jörn Grabowski, Berlin: Staatliche Museen 1988.
• The lost collection of the National Gallery in the former Kronprinzen-Palais. Documentation , edited by Annegret Janda and Jörn Grabowski, Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz 1992.
• The new department of the National Gallery in the former Kronprinzen-Palais. Room views from the years 1932/1933 , in: Jahrbuch Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Volume 28 (1991), pp. 341–357.
• The National Gallery between the imperial family and art. Shown using the example of contemporary photographs , in: Jahrbuch Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Volume 29 (1992), pp. 302–318.
• The National Portrait Collection. On the history of the first subsidiary section of the Nationalgalerie , in: Jahrbuch Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Volume 31 (1994), pp. 297–322.
• National Gallery of pilgrimage. On the return of the Dresden paintings from the Soviet Union , in: Jahrbuch Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Volume 32 (1995), pp. 323–348.
• Eberhard Hanfstaengl as director of the National Gallery. On selected aspects of his work between 1933 and 1937 , in: Jahrbuch Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Volume 33 (1996), pp. 327–342.
• The files of the Nationalgalerie 1874–1945 . Findbuch (= inventory directories. Central archive, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Volume 2 ), Barbara Götze, Petra Ettinger and Jörn Grabowski, Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Zentralarchiv 2001, ISBN 3-88609-457-X .
• A case study in the context of provenance research : Johann Erdmann Hummel's "Bildnis Frau Luise Mila" , in: Jahrbuch Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Volume 38 (2001), pp. 249–262.
• Cultural property relocated and brought due to the war. The National Museums in Berlin 1933–1946 , in: Cultural assets in World War II. Relocation - Finding - Return , published by the Coordination Office for the Loss of Cultural Property Magdeburg, Magdeburg: Coordination Office for the Loss of Cultural Property 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811367-0-8 , pp. 105–129.
• Between everyday museum life and controlled collection policy. A study of the acquisition practice of the Berlin National Gallery between 1933 and 1945 , in: Works and Values. About trading and collecting art under National Socialism (= writings of the research center "Degenerate Art". Volume 5) , edited by Maike Steinkamp and Ute Haug , Berlin: Akademie 2010, ISBN 978-3-05-004497-2 , p. 191 -212.
• Research art. 50 Years of the Central Archives of the National Museums in Berlin , edited by Jörn Grabowski and Petra Winter , Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-422-07053-0 .
• Between politics and art. The National Museums in Berlin during the National Socialist era , edited by Jörn Grabowski and Petra Winter , Cologne [u. a.]: Böhlau 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-21047-2 .
  • The Berlin State Museums between politics and art. Introduction , in: Between Politics and Art. The National Museums in Berlin during the National Socialist era, pp. 11–27.
  • "Do not miss your Aryan proof!" The National Museums in Berlin and how they deal with citizens of Jewish descent 1933–1939 , in: Between Politics and Art. The National Museums in Berlin during the National Socialist era, pp. 29–51.
  • "A kind of war measure by the Berlin museums". The exhibition “1813 to 1815. Greater Germany's Struggle for Freedom” in the National Gallery , in: Between Politics and Art: The National Museums in Berlin during the National Socialist Period, pp. 197–213.
• Called up for military service. The Royal Museums in Berlin and the First World War , edited by Petra Winter and Jörn Grabowski, Cologne [u. a.]: Böhlau 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22361-8 .
  • In the shadow of war. The National Gallery between 1914 and 1918 , in: Called up for military service. The Royal Museums in Berlin and the First World War, pp. 52–72.
• Under the swastika. The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin between 1933 and 1945 , in: Jahrbuch Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Volume 49 (2013), pp. 308–327.
• Guiding principles of a nation. On the history of the Berlin National Gallery (= writings on the history of the Berlin museums. Volume 4 ), edited by Petra Winter , Cologne [u. a.]: Böhlau 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22443-1 .

literature

• Bernhard Maaz and Peter-Klaus Schuster , projects, perspectives and people. Jörn Grabowski and the history of the Nationalgalerie , in: Jörn Grabowski, Leitbilder einer Nation. On the history of the Berlin National Gallery , edited by Petra Winter , Cologne [u. a.]: Böhlau 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22443-1 , pp. 11-18.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernhard Maaz and Peter-Klaus Schuster, Projects, Perspectives and People. Jörn Grabowski and the history of the Nationalgalerie , in: Jörn Grabowski, Leitbilder einer Nation. On the history of the Berlin National Gallery , edited by Petra Winter, Cologne [u. a.]: Böhlau 2015, pp. 11–18, 12.
2. ↑ Bernhard Maaz and Peter-Klaus Schuster, Projects, Perspectives and People. Jörn Grabowski and the history of the Nationalgalerie , in: Jörn Grabowski, Leitbilder einer Nation. On the history of the Berlin National Gallery , edited by Petra Winter, Cologne [u. a.]: Böhlau 2015, pp. 11–18, 12 and 13.
3. ↑ Bernhard Maaz and Peter-Klaus Schuster, Projects, Perspectives and People. Jörn Grabowski and the history of the Nationalgalerie , in: Jörn Grabowski, Leitbilder einer Nation. On the history of the Berlin National Gallery , edited by Petra Winter, Cologne [u. a.]: Böhlau 2015, pp. 11–18, 13.
4. ↑ Bernhard Maaz and Peter-Klaus Schuster, Projects, Perspectives and People. Jörn Grabowski and the history of the Nationalgalerie , in: Jörn Grabowski, Leitbilder einer Nation. On the history of the Berlin National Gallery , edited by Petra Winter, Cologne [u. a.]: Böhlau 2015, pp. 11–18, 14.
5. ↑ Message from Dr. Jörn Grabowski, Head of the Central Archives, retired from smb.museum, October 7th, 2014, accessed on December 19, 2018.