Joachim Blüher

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Joachim Blüher 2018 in the garden of Villa Massimo

Joachim Blüher (* 1953 in Uelzen , Lower Saxony) is a German art historian and cultural manager . From 2002 to the end of June 2019 he was director of the Deutsche Akademie Rome Villa Massimo .

Life

At the age of six he came to Bavaria with his family and, according to his own statement, discovered his guiding principle there, the “beauty” of art. After graduating from high school in 1974, Joachim Blüher did his community service in the archaeological preservation department in Mainz . He then studied art history and archeology in Mainz , Vienna , Rome and Bonn . In 1989 he was at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn on the former Martin's Rotunda - The heavenly Jerusalem in Bonn of the 12th century doctorate . During his studies he worked as a restorer in the archaeological field in Germany and France. He was also active as a photographer and director of exhibitions for international jewelry design at the Birgitta Knauth gallery in Bonn.

The gallery owner and the gallery Joachim Blüher

From 1989 to 1993 Blüher worked at the Michael Werner Gallery in Cologne and New York. From 1993 he ran the Joachim Blüher Gallery in Gertrudenstrasse. 7 in Cologne . There he exhibited artists such as Georg Baselitz , Sigmar Polke , AR Penck , Jörg Immendorff and Per Kirkeby , but also represented younger artists such as Jean-Michel Alberola, Siegfried Anzinger , Saskia Niehaus, Peter Roesch, Dirk Sommer and Barbara Camilla Tucholski.

In 1994 Blüher showed a small selection of the drawings by Victor Hugo in his gallery . In “Intimate Protocols of Fantasy - The Novelist Victor Hugo as a Draftsman”, 27 small-format works from the little-known graphic work of the novelist, which is otherwise mainly kept in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris , were presented.

In 1994 and 1996 Benjamin Katz had exhibitions in the Blüher Gallery. In 1998 and 2001, Blüher exhibited photographs by Jaroslav Poncar . In 2001 pictures by reportage photographer Thomas Rabsch were shown.

Head of Villa Massimo

In 2002, Blüher was appointed head of the Villa Massimo, the German Academy in Rome, by the then Minister of State for Culture, Julian Nida-Rümelin , and was entrusted with the implementation of its new concept. a. to strengthen the reputation of the academy as an institution for the promotion of highly talented German artists and to network the house closely with the Roman cultural scene.

Blüher was among 160 competitors u. a. enforced due to his fluent knowledge of Italian. He had already lived in Rome in the early 1980s. It was his second attempt for the post; when he first applied in 1992, he was second. Now he moved there with his wife Birgitta Knauth, a Bonn jewelery gallery owner, and their two children to take over the management of the facility on September 1, 2002. At that time he found a construction site in Rome that was well behind plan. He managed to complete the renovation work within a good six months.

In the same year, the Blüher family in the Villa Massimo ran into a tomcat, "Rosso". This tomcat appears as a literary figure in texts by Sibylle Lewitscharoff , Katja Lange-Müller , Jan Wagner or Hanns-Josef Ortheil .

When he received the Villa Massimo scholarship holders for the first time in 2003, his motto was: "Put an end to the deep sleep". Blüher, who is considered a very good mediator and who masters staging, organized many events, such as B. Summer festivals, exhibitions, concerts and readings. The Globo d'oro film award ceremony also took place regularly in the Villa Massimo. In this way it was possible to attract more interest in the German institution in Rome.

The night of Villa Massimo

In 2007, Blüher invented the “Night of Villa Massimo”, which takes place annually in February: In the Gropius Building in Berlin , the works of the fellows created in Rome are presented in the form of readings, exhibitions and concerts.

Internship grant

Blüher also suggested opening the Villa Massimo through so-called “practical grants” for people who are not artists in the narrower sense, but whose professional fields “correspond to the arts”. The practical scholarship holders include Sasha Waltz , Jim Rakete and Till Brönner , Martin Helmchen and the organ builder Philipp Casper Andreas Klais . Next were z. For example, the stays of the typographer Friedrich Forssman , the opera director Valentina Simeonova, the art printer Till Verclas and the baker Josef Wagner were made possible. Even Konstantin Grcic , Barbara Klemm , Stefan Sagmeister and Peter Zizka had practice fellows of the Villa Massimo. Instead of a jury as usual, the decision on the selection for this tenth place of residence, i.e. for the practical scholarship holders, lay with the Massimo director.

To date, Blüher was the only manager of Villa Massimo to have regularly finished his duties after 17 years. In 2020 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon for his services to the institution .

family

Joachim Blüher comes from an old family of lawyers and politicians. His great-grandfather Carl Wilhelm Blüher (1790 - 1857) was a German lawyer and member of the Second Chamber of the City Assembly of the Kingdom of Saxony, his great-grandmother Jenny Blüher was married to Kurt Sorge . Bernhard Blüher (1864 - 1938), Lord Mayor of Dresden , was his great-uncle. Blüher is married to the Bonn jewelry gallery owner Birgitta Knauth and has two grown children. In retirement, he again lives in Bonn with his wife.

literature

  • Joachim Blüher: Ego collective - collective ego? Money or life! , in: Eg Kollektiv. Peter Zizka , ed. by Anna Duque y González and Matthias Wagner K , Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König , Cologne 2018, pp. 322–324, ISBN 978-3-96098-364-4 .
  • Joachim Blüher (Ed.): Villa Massimo: German Academy Rome 1910–2010. Wienand Verlag, Cologne, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86832-047-3 .
  • Joachim Blüher (Ed.): Villa Massimo: German Academy Rome. Photographs by Martin Claßen, texts by Friedrich Christian Delius, Ulla Hahn, Brigitte Kronauer, Michael Krüger, Jochen Missfeldt, Martin Mosebach, Cees Nooteboom, Arnold Stadler and Uwe Timm. Self-published, 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-030017-2 .
  • Joachim Blüher: My father looks out the window, drinker, orange eater. In: Georg Baselitz. Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-87439-438-7 .
  • Joachim Blüher: Georg Baselitz: Malelade. Michael Werner, Cologne 1990, OCLC 30308934 .
  • Joachim Blüher, German Academy Rome Villa Massimo (Ed.): Olevano: Casa Baldi / Villa Serpentara. , Publication by the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo, Rome 2017, 260 pages, order number 1568382 at the Walther König bookstore
  • Joachim Blüher in: Sara Moretti, (Ed.): Temporary Rome: Interview with Villa Massimo scholars , ISBN 978-3-939431-82-4

Web links

Commons : Joachim Blüher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e "If I leave the other person as he is, I am rich" , long interview in Deutschlandfunk Kultur on August 8, 2019, accessed on the same date
  2. ↑ The former Rotunda of Martin: The Heavenly Jerusalem in Bonn in the 12th century / Joachim Hans Heinz Blüher. 1989. - 201, 62 S., Ill. - Bonn, Univ., Diss., 1989. In: mgh.de. Monumenta Germaniae Historica, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Art historian Blüher new director of "Villa Massimo". In: FAZ Online. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, May 2, 2002, accessed on March 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Biography - Barbara Camilla Tucholski. In: Website of the Werner Klein gallery. Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne, accessed on March 19, 2019 .
  5. ^ Gallery Joachim Blüher, Cologne. In: kunstforum.de. KUNSTFORUM International, accessed on March 19, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Thomas Kliemann: Wonderfully chatty: The picture for the play, Dirk Sommers posters for the Bonner Schauspiel . In: Bonner General-Anzeiger . No. of March 7, 1998, September.
  7. ↑ Peter Roesch. In: Website of the gallery & edition Marlene Frei. Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, accessed on March 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Barbara Tucholski draws a beautiful apartment . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . No. of April 19, 2002, Culture, September.
  9. ↑ JPK: window, star, Madonna, angel . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . No. dated 06/02/2001, September.
  10. ↑ Thiele: Intimate protocols of the imagination - The novelist Victor Hugo as a draftsman . In: Bonner General-Anzeiger . No. of April 6, 1994, p. 13, April 1994.
  11. ^ "Exhibitions in September" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 27.08.1994, features section, September.
  12. ↑ "International Photo Scene" Cologne. Rheinische Heimspiele. " . In: Handelsblatt . No. 13.09.1996, Art Market, September 1996.
  13. ↑ Valley of the Loire " . In: Die Zeit . No. 08 of February 13, 1998, travel section, September.
  14. ↑ Jürgen Kister: When the borders blur - a plea for the inconspicuous: Photographs by Thomas Rabsch " . In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger ,. No. 22.02.2001, Kultur, February 2001.
  15. ↑ Press and Information Office of the Federal Government: Dr. Joachim Blüher becomes the new director of the 'Villa Massimo' - Nida-Rümelin presents the new concept of the German Academy in Rome. In: www.pressrelations.de. pressrelations GmbH, April 30, 2002, accessed on March 19, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Thomas Kliemann: It's time for a biographical refreshment. In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de. Bonner newspaper printer and publishing house H. Neusser GmbH, July 12, 2002, accessed on March 19, 2019 .
  17. ↑ a b David Baum: An Italian Affair . In: Stern . No. dated 09.08.2018, August 2018.
  18. ↑ a b Constanze Reuscher: Nobody can pass the moon over pine trees . In: world . No. of February 23, 2013, Culture, p. 26, February 2013.
  19. ↑ Globo d'oro 2008. In: Website of the Villa Massimo. German Academy Rome Villa Massimo, accessed on March 19, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Fabian Federl: Roman moments . In: Der Tagesspiegel . No. of January 5, 2017, Culture, p. 22, January 2017.
  21. ↑ Guerrillas in the Massimo . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. of April 8, 2016, features section, p. 11, April 2016.
  22. ↑ Peter von Becker: A farewell is not so quiet at all. In: Tagesspiegel Online. Der Tagesspiegel, February 21, 2019, accessed on March 19, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Scholarship holders details - VATMH (de). Retrieved April 7, 2019 .
  24. ↑ WORLD: Villa Massimo scholarship holders present their work . February 22, 2013 ( welt.de [accessed April 7, 2019]).
  25. ↑ Villa Massimo | Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and Martin Helmchen. Retrieved April 7, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Villa Massimo | Philipp Caspar Andreas Klais. Retrieved April 7, 2019 .
  27. ↑ Joachim Blüher: Bread rolls and games . In: Der Tagesspiegel . No. dated May 15, 2008, May 2008.
  28. ↑ Practice grant 2010. In: Website of the Villa Massimo. German Academy Rome Villa Massimo, accessed on April 12, 2019 .
  29. ↑ Practical scholarship 2013. In: Website of the Villa Massimo. German Academy Rome Villa Massimo, accessed on April 12, 2019 .
  30. ^ Alessandro Caruso: Gli artisti di Villa Massimo. In: Insideart website. Guido Talarico, June 20, 2014, accessed April 12, 2019 (Italian).
  31. ^ Villa Massimo in the Gropiusbau. In: Neues Deutschland Online. Villa Massimo im Gropiusbau, February 22, 2012, accessed on April 19, 2019 .
  32. ↑ Christiane Meixner: Roman views. In: Der Tagesspiegel. January 27, 2020, accessed July 12, 2020 .
  33. ↑ Announcement of the awards / announcement of June 1, 2020. In: Der Bundespräsident. June 20, 2020, accessed July 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bloomer, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Uelzen , Lower Saxony