Marcus Dekiert

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Marcus Dekiert (2012)

Marcus Dekiert (born January 1970 in Bergisch Gladbach ) is a German art historian and former director of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. From March 1, 2013, he took over the management of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud in Cologne .

Life

Marcus Dekiert grew up in Cologne and attended the Apostelgymnasium in Cologne, which he graduated with a high school diploma. He studied art history at the University of Würzburg and at the University of Bonn . In 2000 he received his doctorate in Bonn with a dissertation on Dutch painting of the 16th and 17th centuries. As a scientific volunteer and employee, he worked at the State Art Gallery in Karlsruhe .

Dekiert has worked for the Alte Pinakothek in Munich since 2003; initially as a consultant for Dutch and German baroque painting, later as senior curator and since 2010 as responsible consultant. In 2007 he opened the branch gallery of the State Painting Collection in Bayreuth . The exhibitions he has curated since 2004 included u. a. the anniversary exhibition on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the Alte Pinakothek Golden Age : Dutch group portraits from the Amsterdam Historical Museum in 2010/11. Since 2013 he has succeeded Andreas Blühm as director of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne.

Fonts (selection)

  • Musicians in painting by the Dutch successor to Caravaggio : preliminary stages, iconography and the significance of the music scene in Dutch visual art of the 16th and 17th centuries . (= Bonn Studies on Art History Volume 17), ISBN 3-8258-6351-4 , Münster / Hamburg / Berlin / London: 2003; also dissertation, 2000
  • From new stars: Adam Elsheimer's Flight to Egypt , (on the occasion of the exhibition Von Neuen Sternen. Adam Elsheimer's Flight to Egypt, Alte Pinakothek, Munich, December 17, 2005 to February 26, 2006), DuMont-Literatur-und-Kunst-Verlag, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8321-7583-2
  • Vermeer in Munich: King Max I Joseph of Bavaria as a collector of old masters (on the occasion of the special exhibition Vermeer in Munich - King Max I Joseph of Bavaria as a collector of old masters , Alte Pinakothek, Munich, March 17 to June 19, 2011), Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811414-6-7

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Praise of the Old Masters. Marcus Dekiert, head of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, takes over the traditional house -  Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (print edition), October 19, 2012, p. 26.
  2. ↑ Data on the career according to Dr. Marcus Dekiert is to head the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. Head of Culture Professor Quander introduces the designated director . Press release from the Office for Press and Public Relations of the City of Cologne, October 18, 2012, accessed on October 18, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Dekiert, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergisch Gladbach