Lucius Grisebach

Lucius Grisebach (* 1942 in Marburg ) is a German art historian . He was the founding director of the New Museum in Nuremberg .

life and work

Lucius Grisebach was born as the son of Lothar Grisebach (1910–1989). The father spent his childhood up to the Abitur in 1928 with his grandparents Helene and Lucius Spengler in Davos . The Spenglers, Lucius Grisebach's great-grandparents, had a close friendship with the painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) in Davos at this time . Lucius Grisebach's grandfather was the philosopher Eberhard Grisebach (1880–1945).

With this in mind, Lucius Grisebach studied art history, classical archeology and philosophy at the University of Freiburg and the Free University of Berlin after graduating from high school in 1962 . In 1972 he received his doctorate there under Otto von Simson with a thesis on the Dutch painter Willem Kalf .

He gained his first professional experience as an assistant at the University of Göttingen before he worked from 1974 to 1988 as curator at the Neue Nationalgalerie , initially under Werner Haftmann and then under Dieter Honisch in Berlin. In 1988 Grisebach became director of the Kunsthalle Nürnberg and in 1997 founding director of the Neues Museum Nürnberg . In 2007 he retired.

Since 1999 he has been the spokesman for the art and cultural history museums in the German Museum Association . Grisebach is primarily interested in German Expressionism and contemporary art.

Grisebach lives as a freelance art historian in Rüschlikon near Zurich.

Lucius Grisebach is the father of the film director Valeska Grisebach and the actress Anna Grisebach .

Fonts (selection)

• Willem Kalf 1619-1693 . Mann, Berlin, 1974 (also dissertation)
• Werner Knaupp - Pictures 1977–1982 , National Gallery Berlin State Museums Prussian Art Collection, Berlin 1983
• Adolf Menzel. Drawings, prints and illustrated books , Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-88609137-6 (inventory catalog)
• Bridge - Dawn of Modernism in Dresden and Berlin , Piper, Munich 1991, ISBN 978-3-49211276-5
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Dumont, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-8321-9264-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Lucius Grisebach in the catalog of the German National Library