Katja Schneider

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Katja Schneider (born May 22, 1953 in Hamburg ) is a German art historian and curator . From 1999 to 2013 she was director of the Moritzburg Art Museum in Halle (Saale) , after which she worked as a curator for the Luther Memorials Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt . She is married to Johann Stief, professor of interior design at Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle .

Life

Katja Schneider studied art history , archeology , oriental art history and English at the universities of Hamburg and Bonn with a study visit to Italy / Florence. In 1988 she did her doctorate at the University of Bonn under Tilmann Buddensieg with a dissertation on Giebichenstein Castle and the applied arts of the 1920s. She completed her traineeship at the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe .

In 1992 she came to the Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle (Saale) , where she became director of the museum in 1999, succeeding Peter Romanus, and in 2003 she became director of the newly established Moritzburg Foundation . By 2008 she consolidated the museum with an extension by the architects Nieto Sobejano , in which the holdings of classical modern art were shown together with the Hermann Gerlinger Brücke collection and post-war modern art . From 2013 to 2017 she worked as co-curator of the Luther Memorials Foundation on the development of the state exhibition on Lucas Cranach the Younger and the national special exhibition on the anniversary of the Reformation in the Augusteum Wittenberg . In 2018, together with Renate Luckner-Bien , she curated an exhibition on Marguerite Friedlaender and Gerhard Marcks for the “Talstrasse” art gallery in Halle and in 2019 an exhibition on the denominational devotion of Mary in the 16th century for the Luther Memorials Foundation.

Katja Schneider is the author and editor of numerous specialist publications.

Publications (selection)

  • ed. for the Luther Memorials Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt: Adored, loved, forgotten. Mary between denominations. Exhibition catalog. Petersberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7319-0823-4 .
  • with Renate Luckner-Bien: We're going to Halle. Marguerite Friedlaender and Gerhard Marcks. Exhibition catalog. Art gallery "Talstrasse", Halle (Saale) 2018, ISBN 978-3-932962-96-7 .
  • ed. with Roland Enke and Jutta Strehle: Lucas Cranach the Younger. Discovery of a Master. Luther Memorials Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7774-2349-4 .
  • Emil Nolde. Colors - hot and holy. Moritzburg Foundation, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-86105-070-4 .
  • ed. with Hermann Gerlinger: Word becomes image. Illustrations by the "Brücke" painters. (= Almanac of the bridge. 2). Moritzburg Foundation, Halle (Saale) 2012, ISBN 978-3-86105-064-1 .
  • ed. with Jürgen Tietz: eX – tention. Current museum and exhibition architecture in stock. Moritzburg Foundation Conference, Halle (Saale) 2010. Kerber-Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-86678-801-5 .
  • ed. with Stefan Lehmann (Ed.): Oskar Kokoschkas Antike. A European vision of modernity. Exhibition catalog Moritzburg Foundation. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7774-2581-8 .
  • ed. with Hermann Gerlinger: common goal and individual paths. The bridge and its aftermath. Moritzburg Foundation. (= Almanac of the bridge. 1). Halle (Saale) 2009, ISBN 978-3-7774-2621-1 .
  • Gerald Scarfe "Tear down the wall". Works for Pink Floyd, Political Caricatures and Satirical Portraits. Moritzburg Foundation, Halle (Saale) 2009.
  • ed. with Jürgen Tietz: Nieto Sobejano. The new art museum in Halle. Moritzburg Halle Foundation. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7774-5075-9 .
  • ed .: Modernism and the present - the art museum in Halle. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7774-5065-0 .
  • ed. with Andreas Tacke and Thomas Schauerte: Der Kardinal. Albrecht of Brandenburg. Renaissance prince and patron. Exhibition Moritzburg Foundation. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2006, ISBN 3-7954-1912-3 .
  • ed. Gertraud Möhwald. Ceramics. Moritzburg Foundation, Halle (Saale) 2005, ISBN 3-86105-113-3 .
  • ed .: Only for their wives. Jewelry by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Emil Nolde, Erich Heckel and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Moritzburg Foundation, Halle (Saale) 2003, ISBN 3-86105-137-0 .
  • ed. with Hermann Goltz: The saved treasure of the Armenians from Cilicia. Sacred art from the Antelias Kilikia Museum, Lebanon. Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle 2000, ISBN 3-89500-194-5 .
  • Vera Marie from Claer. Jewelry and enamel. Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle (Saale) 1998, ISBN 3-86105-022-6 .
  • Johanna Schütz-Wolff. Textile and graphics for the 100th birthday. Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle (Saale) 1996, ISBN 3-86105-131-1 .
  • Paul Thiersch and the stage - scenic visions of an architect. Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle (Saale) 1995, ISBN 3-86105-121-4 .
  • Charles Crodel: handicrafts. State Gallery Moritzburg, Halle (Saale) 1994.
  • Giebichenstein Castle. The School of Applied Arts under the direction of Paul Thiersch and Gerhard Marcks 1915 to 1933. VCH, Weinheim 1992, ISBN 3-527-17725-6 (= dissertation)

Lectures (selection)

  • Bauhaus ideas put to the test. The ceramist Marguerite Friedlaender, matinee on ceramics at Villa Ludwigshöhe Castle, Edenkoben September 1, 2019.
  • Cranach's Luther Pictures. On the Reformer's visual image strategy. On the occasion of the exhibition Cranach's Luther! Güstrow Castle, August 24, 2017.
  • Renate Heintze and her way to author jewelry / Her path to studio jewelry. Lecture in English Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum, Pinakothek der Moderne, Ernst von Siemens Auditorium, March 12, 2017.
  • The woman, an icon? The political power of the image. Lecture at the conference Women of the Reformation of the Evangelical Academy Saxony-Anhalt eV, Hartenfels Castle, Torgau May 20-22, 2016.
  • Burg Giebichenstein - Art College since 1915. The day before the symposium “1915! An arts and crafts school as an alternative world? From Halle to the world: ideas, impulses, models ”, Moritzburg Foundation, 26.11.2015.
  • Biblical Women in Modern Art: The Saint as Madonna and Seductress. Lecture as part of the Wittenberg Sunday Lectures, Evangelical Preachers' Seminar, June 27, 2015
  • "There still have to be pictures to Halle ..." Emil Nolde and his collector friend Max Sauerlandt. Lecture at the conference Emil Nolde and Max Sauerlandt. Aspects of a Friendship Foundation Moritzburg in cooperation with the Institute for Art History and Archeologies of Europe (IKARE) of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, February 14/15, 2013.
  • "... because only the very best was bought in Halle." Max Sauerlandt establishes modernism in Halle's municipal museum. Lecture in the series Brennpunkt Moderne - Halle and Art in the 20th Century by the Association for Halle City History, Franckesche Stiftungen, Englischer Saal, 8 April 2013.
  • Securing and relocation - the Moritzburg in Halle (Saale) as a reception and transit warehouse for expropriated art. Lecture at the conference on museum assets and property issues. The post-war period and its relevance today in the legal practice of museums in the new federal states. Organized by the Conference of National Cultural Institutions, State Museum Schwerin, Güstrow Castle, April 19, 2012.
  • Artwork as an instance. Alois Schardt's contribution to the museology of the 20th century. Lecture at the conference Alois J. Schardt - an art historian between the Weimar Republic, “Third Reich” and exile in America, IKARE of the MLU in cooperation with the Moritzburg Foundation, Hall June 27, 2009.
  • “There is a bigger home than that of the country.” Marguerite Friedlaender-Wildenhains Stations of emigration. Meeting limits. Women, Art, Exile in the State Gallery Moritzburg Halle, February 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dpa: “Discovery of a Master”: Wittenberg shows Lucas Cranach the Younger. Retrieved January 4, 2020 .
  2. ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Born 500 years ago: Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Younger | DW | 04/10/2015. Accessed January 4, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ We're going to Halle. Marguerite Friedlaender and Gerhard Marcks. In: Kunsthalle Talstrasse. Accessed January 4, 2020 (German).
  4. ^ Trailer for the exhibition "We're going to Halle. Marguerite Friedlaender and Gerhard Marcks". Retrieved January 4, 2020 .
  5. ^ Volksstimme Magdeburg: From the Bauhaus to the art school. Retrieved January 4, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Grit Warnat, Volksstimme Magdeburg: Maria allerorten. Retrieved January 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Katja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg