Margret Stuffmann
Margret Stuffmann (born November 24, 1936 in Berlin ; † February 17, 2020 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German art historian . She was the director of the graphic collection of the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt am Main.
life and work
After the war, Stuffmann moved to Frankfurt with her parents. She studied art history , archeology and Romance studies at the universities in Frankfurt am Main, Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich and Paris. She received her doctorate from Harald Keller in 1962 with a thesis on the French artist Charles de La Fosse . This was followed by a study visit to the French capital of several years. Further research stays took her to London, Venice and Leningrad.
In 1966 Stuffmann came to the Städel Museum, first as a trainee, then as a curator. She looked after the inventory of European painting from the 16th to 18th centuries. In addition, she wrote features for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in the 1960s . In 1974, as the successor to the late Kurt Schwarzweller , she became head of the museum's graphic collection . At the same time she taught at the Art History Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University . During her service, she expanded the museum's holdings mainly with French drawings and prints from the 19th century, as well as works of American art after 1945. In 1995 she was awarded the Hessian Culture Prize. Stuffmann retired in 2001, her successor as head of the collection was Jutta Schütt .
Stuffmann's main interests and research areas were French painting from the 17th to 19th centuries, as well as printmaking and hand drawing up to the present day. Stuffmann curated numerous exhibitions at the Städel Museum and significantly expanded the house's graphic collection.
Fonts (selection)
- Max Klinger 1857-1920. One glove - dream and artistic reality . Municipal gallery in the Städelsche Kunstinstitut and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main 1992.
- (together with Colta Ives): Honoré Daumier . Drawings . Hatje Cantz, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 978-3-77570390-1 .
- (Ed.): Drawing in Rome 1790–1830 . König, Cologne 2001, ISBN 978-3-88375520-5 .
- (Ed.): As in a dream. Odilon Redon . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3775718936 (English edition: ISBN 978-3-77571894-3 ).
- Eugène Delacroix : Reflections - Tasso in the madhouse . Hirmer, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-77744515-1 .
- (together with Colta Ives): Daumier Drawing s. Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-30019966-6 .
literature
- Hildegard Bauereisen and Martin Sonnabend (eds.): Correspondances: Festschrift for Margret Stuffmann on November 24, 1996 , Hermann Schmidt, Mainz, 1996 ISBN 3-87439-412-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Margret Stuffmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Hierholzer: Grand Dame of the museum landscape . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 19, 2020, p. 42
- ↑ Title of the dissertation: Charles de la Fosse and his position in French painting at the end of the 17th century . Published as: Charles de la Fosse et sa position dans la peinture française à la fin du XVIIe siècle. In: Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris), Volume 64 (July – August 1964), pp. 1–121.
- ↑ Hessian State Prize . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Munich October 30, 1995, p. 11 .
- ↑ Bernhard Graf, Astrid B. Müller (ed.): Perspectives: On the changed perception of objects in museums , Volume 19 of Berliner Schriften zur Museumskunde, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015 ISBN 978-3-32280678-9 , p 189
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stuffmann, Margret |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and curator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th February 2020 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |