Jens Christian Jensen

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Jens Christian Jensen (born May 11, 1928 in Lübeck ; † April 6, 2013 in Hamburg ) was a German art historian and museum director .

Life

After graduating from the Katharineum in Lübeck , Jensen studied art history, classical archeology , German and church history in Heidelberg and Mainz from 1949 . He received his doctorate in 1954 from Walter Paatz through Master Bertram as a carver . He then worked as a volunteer at the Museum of Art and Cultural History in Lübeck. From 1958 he was first a research assistant, later curator at the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg and from 1968 to 1970 head of the Heidelberger Kunstverein .

In 1971 he was appointed the first independent head and director of the Kunsthalle Kiel and executive chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein Art Association. In 1990 Jensen retired.

From 1972 to 2005 Jensen was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Georg Schäfer Collection in Schweinfurt. In 1979 he was awarded the honorary professorship of the State of Schleswig-Holstein “in recognition of his services to the activation of art life in Schleswig-Holstein and in recognition of his scientific achievements in the service of art” . Jensen was the author of numerous works on medieval sculpture, painting and drawing of the 19th and 20th centuries, and contemporary art. In 2008 he was curator of the exhibition Carl Spitzweg and Wilhelm Busch. Two artist anniversaries in the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hanover.

Jensen was awarded a knight of the Danish Dannebrogorden . He was a member of the Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab in Trondheim . He received an honorary doctorate. In 1991 he was honored with the culture prize of the city of Kiel .

Jens Christian Jensen was with Heidi Jensen, geb. Ruesch married, they had four children together, the marriage was divorced in 1973. In 1976 he married Angelika Jensen, b. Forwick, the couple lived in Hamburg .

Publications (selection)

  • Master Bertram as a picture carver. The relationship between the Doberan rood screen altar and the sculptures of the Hamburg Petrial tariff. Dissertation Heidelberg 1954 (machine-copied 1956).
  • Jens Christian Jensen (Ed.) 100 Years of the Kiel Week - Lyonel Feininger: paintings, watercolors and drawings, prints . Publisher: Kunsthalle zu Kiel of the Christian Albrechts University, Kiel 1982
  • American art from 1945 to the present day. Published together with Dieter Honisch . DuMont, Cologne 1976
  • Philipp Otto Runge . DuMont, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-7701-0907-4
  • Christian Rohlfs . Paintings - watercolors. Exhibition catalog. Kunsthalle, Kiel 1979
  • Paul Wunderlich . A monograph on works with contributions by Max Bense and Philippe Roberts-Jones. Volker Huber, Offenbach 1980
  • Günter Grass . One hundred drawings 1955–1987. Exhibition catalog of the Kunsthalle Kiel. Published by Jens Christian Jensen, Kiel 1987, ISBN 3-923701-23-3
  • Harald Duwe . Catalog raisonné of paintings and oil studies. Prestel, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-7913-0818-1
  • Carl Spitzweg . Between resignation and criticism of the times. DuMont, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7701-0815-9
  • Caspar David Friedrich . Life and work. (= dumont paperback books, vol. 14), 1st edition, DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1974, ISBN 3-7701-0758-6 (reprint 1995).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice Kieler Nachrichten / Segeberger Zeitung from April 13, 2013
  2. ↑ Honorary professors on the website of the State of Schleswig-Holstein ( Memento from March 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung FAZ, obituary notice, issue No. 86 of April 13, 2013, p. 39.
personal data
SURNAME Jensen, Jens Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, museum director and curator
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2013
Place of death Hamburg