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Jan Kelch (born May 22, 1939 in Berlin ; † September 25, 2017 there ) was a German art historian .

Kelch was director of the Gemäldegalerie Berlin from 1996 to 2004 . Kelch was best known as an expert in Flemish and Dutch painting. In 1998 Kelch was able to move into the new building at the Berlin Kulturforum with the Gemäldegalerie .

Life

Jan Kelch studied art history at the Free University of Berlin and in Munich . He did his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin. After completing his doctorate, he did research in the Netherlands, was an assistant professor at the Free University of Berlin and a visiting professor in Berkeley (California) . He then became curator and later chief curator for Flemish and Dutch painting at the Gemäldegalerie Berlin.

Kelch was the curator of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum Association , the Streit Foundation Berlin and the Saint Matthew Foundation Berlin .

Exhibitions

He was involved in the following exhibitions, among others:

• Peter Paul Rubens , Berlin 1978;
• Dutch painting from Berlin, private collections , Berlin 1984;
• Masterpieces of Dutch genre painting , Philadelphia, Berlin, London 1984;
• Images in focus: The man with the gold helmet , Berlin 1986;
• Rembrandt , The Master and His Workshop , Berlin, Amsterdam, London 1991/92;
• Dutch marine painting , Rotterdam, Berlin 1996/97.

literature

• Interview with Jan Kelch. In: Der Tagesspiegel
• Collection pictures at court . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 3, 2006; Conversation with Chalice
• And heaven wants to cry Jan Kelch's farewell to the picture gallery . In: Der Tagesspiegel , 2004; Farewell to Kelch as museum director
• Interview with Kelch. In: Der Tagesspiegel , 1998

Web links

• Literature by and about Jan Kelch in the catalog of the German National Library
• about the Kelch project "Art as Science"
• Conversation with Chalice. Kunstforum magazine
• The Rembrandt connoisseur. On the death of the Berlin museum director Jan Kelch. Berliner-Zeitung.de from September 29, 2017