Magdalena M. Moeller

Magdalena Maria Moeller (* 1952 ) is a German art historian . From 1988 to 2017 she was director of the Brücke-Museum Berlin .

Live and act

Magdalena Moeller studied art history, classical archeology and East Asian art history at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn . She received her doctorate in 1981 under Eduard Trier's work on the subject of " Sonderbund Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler " ( Sonderbund Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler ). In 1982 she received the Paul Clemen grant for her dissertation . She worked in Zurich, at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and the Sprengel-Museum Hanover, before being appointed director of the Brücke-Museum in Berlin in 1988 as the successor to Leopold Reidemeister and Eberhard Roters , which is dedicated to the expressionist work of the artist group Brücke , founded in 1905 . At the end of September 2017, Moeller retired; Her successor at the Brücke Museum was the art historian Lisa Marei Schmidt on October 1, 2017 .

Act

At the Sprengel Museum Hannover, donated by the factory owner and art collector Bernhard Sprengel and opened in 1979, Moeller has not only held exhibitions on contemporary art but also large-scale exhibitions on classical modernism, including the first futurism exhibition in Germany in 1983 ' Boccioni and Milan' and 'Picasso im Sprengel Museum Hannover 'with over 160,000 visitors and in 1987' the abstract hannover '.

Her main work, however, lies in the management of the Brücke Museum. The museum, which was based on extensive donations from Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich Heckel and opened in 1967, is today, as conceived by Reidemeister, as the "center of special art-historical research in this area of ​​German Expressionism". Moeller consistently continued the work of Reidemeister. The collection was completed with well over 400 acquired works of art, so that the work of the bridge can now be fully documented. In particular, the work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was the focus of the acquisitions. The painting 'Artist - Marcella' from 1910, which Moeller bought in 1995, is outstanding. The work of the bridge was scientifically processed in over 100 exhibition and inventory catalogs. With exhibitions such as ' Franz Marc - Aquarelle', 'Der Früh Kandinsky ', 'Der Blaue Reiter' or ' August Macke and the Rhenish Expressionists', contemporary artists were also presented. In addition to the in-house exhibitions, Moeller organized numerous Brücke exhibitions, especially abroad, including in Japan, Finland, Rome, Brussels, Luxembourg, Madrid, Vienna, London, Grenoble, Bergen, Venice, Milan and Genoa, as well as exhibition collaborations with international ones Museums in Montreal, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Oslo, Barcelona, ​​Verona or Zurich.

Moeller was also a member of the board of trustees of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, a board member of the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation and a temporary member of the board of trustees of the Kunstforum Foundation of the Berliner Volksbank .

In 2015, Moeller was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for her committed completion of the Brücke Museum's collection to a high and highest quality level and for her extensive exhibition activities, which also gave German Expressionism a strong international reputation . The then State Secretary for Cultural Affairs, Tim Renner, put it in his press release: "It is the lasting merit of Ms. Moeller to have developed the Brücke-Museum through her great commitment to its current importance and international charisma (...) yours Systematic scientific processing, indexing and documentation of the collection and its lively publication activities have given this Berlin institution its international reputation and high recognition as an important research center on the art of the 20th century ".

Publications (selection)

• The Sonderbund. His prerequisites and beginnings in Düsseldorf. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7927-0798-5 (dissertation).
• The blue Rider. DuMont, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-7701-2128-7 .
• August Macke. DuMont, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-7701-2209-7 .
• Franz Marc. Watercolors. Hatje, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-7757-0278-4 .
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: The street scenes: 1913-1915. Hirmer, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7774-6190-3 .
• The great expressionists. Masterpieces and artist life. DuMont, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7701-5348-0 .
• Artist group Brücke. Prestel, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7913-3306-2 .
• Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. A monograph. Hirmer, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7774-3021-8 .
• End of times - turn of times. Expressionist poetry and the artists of the bridge. Kehrer, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86828-572-7 .
• Max Pechstein. Pioneer of modernity. Hirmer, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7774-2546-7 .
• Emil Nolde. The painter. Hirmer, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7774-2676-1 .
• Bridge highlights. 50 years of the Brücke Museum Berlin. Hirmer, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7774-2916-8 .

Editor (selection)

• Franz M. Jansen. From then until now. Life memories. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-7927-0565-6 .
• The early Kandinsky. Hirmer, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7774-6480-5 .
• Max Pechstein. His pictorial work. Hirmer, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7774-7070-8 .
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints. An exhibition on the 60th anniversary of his death. Hirmer, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7774-7970-5 .
• The Blue Rider and its artists. Hirmer, Munich 1998, ISBN The Blue Rider and its Artists.
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner New acquisitions since 1988. DuMont, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7701-5915-2 .
• Immediate and unadulterated. Watercolors, drawings and prints of the bridge. Hirmer, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7774-9940-4 .
• Kirchner in Berlin. Hirmer, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7774-4485-7 .
• Erich Heckel. New beginnings and tradition. A retrospective. Hirmer, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7774-2191-9 .
• Kirchner: Peter Schlemihl's wondrous story. Prestel, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7913-5375-3 .
• A world break: the artists of the bridge in World War I. Prestel, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7913-5376-0 .
• Max Kaus. Erich Heckel. An artist friendship. Hirmer, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7774-2474-3 .
• Exotic worlds. Cacti and non-European flowering plants in the work of Nolde and Schmidt-Rottluff. Hirmer, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7774-2672-3 .
• The work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner by Will Grohmann . Facsimile and scientific companion volume, Hirmer, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7774-2677-8 .
• 50 years of the Brücke Museum Berlin. Anniversary ribbon. Hirmer, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7774-2919-9 .
• Marcella roams through Berlin. Klinkhardt and Biermann, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-943616-43-9 .
• Leopold Reidemeister. A German museum man. Hirmer, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7774-2914-4 .

literature

• André Schmitz (ed.): In the center of expressionism. Acquisitions and exhibitions at the Brücke-Museum Berlin 1988–2013. An anniversary volume for Magdalena M. Moeller. Hirmer, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7774-9061-8 .
• Bernadette Schoog: Kirchner, Nolde and the others. Magdalena M. Moeller and the Brücke Museum Berlin. Klinkhardt and Biermann, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-943616-44-6 .
• Christian Ring: To say goodbye to Magdalena M. Moeller. In: Museum journal. Issue 4, 2017, pp. 12-13, ISSN  0933-0593 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Leopold Reidemeister: Foreword . In: Brücke Archive . Issue 1. Brücke-Museum, Berlin 1967.
2. ^ Senate Department for Culture: press release . Berlin January 21, 2015.