Julien Chapuis

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Julien Chapuis (* 1968 in Lausanne ) is a Swiss art historian and director of the sculpture collection and the Museum of Byzantine Art in Berlin .

Julien Chapuis studied art history at the University of Groningen and Indiana University Bloomington with a focus on medieval art history, in particular painting and sculpture . There he received his doctorate in 1996 with a thesis on Stefan Lochner . In 1997 he went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City . First he was Assistant Curator, since 2001 Associate Curator and since 2006 Curator in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters , a branch of the Metropolitan Museum in northern Manhattan. Since January 2008 Chapuis has been director, since 2018 director, of the sculpture collection and the Museum of Byzantine Art in Berlin's Bode-Museum . He is an internationally recognized expert on the art of the 15th century and has participated in several international exhibitions, including an exhibition on Tilman Riemenschneider in the Metropolitan Museum in 1999/2000 and on “The disappeared Museum. The Berlin sculpture and painting collection 70 years after the end of the war ”in the Bode Museum.

Fonts

  • Stephan Lochner. Image-making in Fifteenth-Century Cologne . Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2004.
  • (Ed.), Tilman Riemenschneider. Master sculptor of the late Middle Ages. Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 3, 1999 - January 9, 2000 and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, February 7 - May 14, 2000. Yale University Press, New Haven-London 1999 ISBN 0-89468-244-X .
  • Beyond Compare. Art from Africa in the Bode Museum , ed. By Julien Chapuis, Jonathan Fine and Paola Ivanov. Exh. cat. Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art, Bode Museum, Berlin. Berlin, Edition Braus, 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Chapuis, Julien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne