Klaus Schrenk
Klaus Schrenk (born July 6, 1949 in Hamburg ) is a German art historian .
Life
Klaus Schrenk studied art history , German and sociology in Hamburg , Berlin and Marburg . 1974–1975 he did a research stay in Paris . 1976 Schrenk at was University of Marburg in Heinrich Klotz and Martin Warnke on Democratic-Republican tendencies in French prints 1830-1852 doctorate . The dissertation deals with the French printmaking of the 19th century, with special emphasis on Honoré Daumier and his circle.
He then received the "Richard Hamann Scholarship of the State of Hesse" in 1976 and completed an internship at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin from 1978–1979 . From 1979 Klaus Schrenk was a research assistant, later deputy director, of the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf .
In 1986 he moved to the Kunstmuseum Bonn as deputy director . There, large overview exhibitions on Wolfgang Laib , Blinky Palermo , Markus Lüpertz , Brice Marden or Helmut Federle as well as the new building of the art museum by Axel Schultes were at the center of his activities.
On November 1, 1995, Schrenk became professor and director of the State Art Gallery in Karlsruhe . On March 1, 2009, he succeeded Reinhold Baumstark in the position of General Director of the Bavarian State Painting Collections .
Klaus Schrenk has published publications, primarily on art from the 19th and 20th centuries, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kulturstiftung der Länder , the Board of Trustees of the Hessian Cultural Foundation , the Advisory Board of the Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation, the Villa Massimo jury , Rome and the Board of Trustees of Akademie Schloss Solitude .
He has been married to the psychologist Anna Schrenk-Siafaka since 1976 and has two grown children.
On October 31, 2014, Klaus Schrenk divorced and retired from the position of General Director of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen.
Awards
- March 10, 2010 - Knights ( Chevalier ) des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres , France
- October 17, 2010 - Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite , France
Publications (selection)
- Honoré Daumier. The lithographic work . 2 volumes, Rogner & Bernhard, Munich 1977. ISBN 3-8077-0088-9
- Kaii Higashiyama . A master of Japanese landscape painting . ed. by Walter Raunig, Klaus Schrenk, Andreas Lüderwaldt , Pinguin-Verlag, Innsbruck 1983, ISBN 3-7016-2147-0
- Eugène Delacroix , exhibition catalog . Articles Cat. Nos. 92-113; 141-151; 182; 207-209; 211-223; Karlsruhe 2003, ISBN 3-936636-13-3
- Roma - Sao Paulo. Jürgen Partenheimer . Richter Verlag, Karlsruhe 2006, ISBN 3-937572-53-8
Web links
- Literature by and about Klaus Schrenk in the catalog of the German National Library
- Klaus Schrenk in the art magazine
- Klaus Schrenk in focus
- Klaus Schrenk in DIE WELT
- Klaus Schrenk in conversation with Stefan Koldehoff, Deutschlandfunk (DLF) on August 5, 2012: Why do we need art? within the summer series: Why do we need ...,
Individual evidence
- ↑ Le monde de la culture récompensé: Katrin Rabus and Klaus Schrenk nommés dans l'ordre national du mérite ( Memento of the original of February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , French Embassy Berlin 2010
Hugo von Tschudi (1909–1912) | Friedrich Dörnhöffer (1912–1933) | Ernst Buchner (1933–1945) | Eberhard Hanfstaengl (1945–1953) | Ernst Buchner (1953–1957) | Kurt Martin (1957–1964) | Halldor Soehner (1965–1969) | Erich Steingräber (1969–1987) | Hubertus Falkner von Sonnenburg (1987–1991) | Johann Georg von Hohenzollern (1991–1998) | Peter-Klaus Schuster (1998–1999) | Reinhold Baumstark (1999–2009) | Klaus Schrenk (2009–2014) | Bernhard Maaz (since 2015)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schrenk, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |