Mario Kramp

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Mario Kramp, 2017

Mario Kramp (born May 7, 1961 in Euskirchen ) is a German art historian with a focus on German and French art history. Since June 15, 2010 he has been director of the Cologne City Museum .

Career

Kramp completed a teaching degree in history and art at RWTH Aachen from 1980 to 1987 , followed by a doctoral degree in Middle and New History , Art History and Ancient History until 1993. In his dissertation in 1993, he dealt with the relationship between politics and church building in early French Gothic in the Capetian Empire. From 1992 to 1993 he carried out a research project at the Center for Gay History in Cologne. After staying in Paris in 1994 as a research fellow from the German Historical Institute and the French Ministry of Science ( Maison des Sciences de l'Homme ), he received his doctorate in 1995 at RWTH Aachen University. For his dissertation he received the Borchers plaque from RWTH Aachen University in 1996 for special scientific achievements.

From 1994 to 1997 Kramp was a research assistant at the Cologne City Museum , during which he was responsible for the exhibition and publication Chlodwig and the Battle of Zülpich , among other things .

Mario Kramp on a guided tour of the Cologne City Museum in 2012

From 1998 to 2001, Kramp organized the exhibition Coronations as a curator . Kings in Aachen - history and myth in Aachen and was a scientific employee of the Aachen Department of Culture from 2001 to 2002. In 2000 he also developed a concept for the Carnival Museum in Cologne and then worked as a research assistant for the city of Aachen in the planning group for the Center for European History in the Department of Culture. From 2002 to 2010, Kramp was director of the Middle Rhine Museum in Koblenz. There he organized exhibitions on Rhenish art and cultural history with a focus on the city of Koblenz and the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley . Topics included the Middle Ages , Baroque , Rhine romanticism , the Loreley , the end of the war in 1945 and the 60th birthday of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . He is also a lecturer in art studies at the University of Koblenz-Landau .

As the successor to Werner Schäfke , Mario Kramp took up his post as director of the Cologne City Museum on June 15, 2010. Since then he has been campaigning for a new staging of the permanent exhibition and in 2011 presented a feasibility and concept study based on an extension.

In addition to organizing numerous exhibitions on the Rhenish cultural history from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, Kramp is the author and editor of books, catalogs and scientific articles on Rhenish art and cultural history, the reception of the Middle Ages in the 19th century and German-French cultural transfer.

Publications

Authorship

  • Church, art and the image of the king. On the connection between politics and church building in Capetian France in the 12th century using the example of the three abbeys of Saint-Denis, Saint-Germain-des-Prés and Saint-Remi / Reims. Dissertation. Aachen 1993, ISBN 3-929742-26-8 . (Review by Michael Kiene , In: architectura. 26, 1996, pp. 215–216)
  • Heinrich Heine's Cologne Cathedral. The “poor rascals from the Cathedral Association” in exile in Paris 1842–1848. (= Passerelles. Volume 2). Berlin / Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-06373-0 .
  • Cologne / Nile - The adventurous expedition to the Orient by Franz Christian Gau from Cologne 1818–1820. Wienand Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86832-158-6 .
  • 1914: From dream to nightmare, Cologne and the beginning of the bombing war in Europe. leseZeichen, Greven-Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-7743-0652-3 .
  • Cologne and its Agrippina. From monster to mother. For the 2000th birthday of the Roman Empress. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-95451-900-2 .
  • Cologne on the Seine. The Cologne Pavilion at the Paris World Exhibition in 1937. With photographs by Hugo and Karl Hugo Schmölz. Greven Verlag Cologne 2019. ISBN 978-3-7743-0902-9

Editing

  • with Kristof Balser, Jürgen Müller and Joanna Gotzmann (eds.): Heaven and Hell. The life of Cologne homosexuals 1945–1969. Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-924491-54-2 .
  • Pierre Seel: Me, Pierre Seel, deported and forgotten. Calmann-Levy, Paris 1994, German edition with notes and an afterword by Mario Kramp, Cologne (Jackwerth) 1996, ISBN 3-932117-20-4 .
  • Coronations. Kings in Aachen - history and myth. Exhibition catalog manual. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-8053-2617-3 . (Review: Peter Dittmar, In: Weltkunst. 70, September 1, 2000)
  • with Anneli Karrenbrock (Ed.): Gina Sensazionale. Legend Gina Lollobrigida. For the 75th birthday of the film diva. Catalog for the exhibition in the Middle Rhine Museum. (= Small series. Volume 1). Görres Verlag, Koblenz 2002, ISBN 3-935690-06-1 .
  • One last shine. The Elector's residence in Koblenz. For the 200th year of death of the court painter Heinrich Foelix (1732–1803). Catalog for the exhibition in the Middle Rhine Museum. (= Small series. Volume 2). Görres Verlag, Koblenz 2003, ISBN 3-928377-25-6 .
  • with Matthias Schmandt (ed.): The Loreley - A rock in the Rhine. A German dream. Exhibition catalog manual. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-8053-3369-2 .
  • with Bernard Chevallier and Hans J. Schmidt (eds.): Napoleon: The Kaiser is coming! Adoration and myth in Koblenz. Catalog for the exhibition in the Middle Rhine Museum. (= Small series. Volume 4). Koblenz 2004, ISBN 3-928377-26-4 .
  • A picture gallery for Koblenz - 170 years of the Middle Rhine Museum, 250th birthday of the founder Joseph Gregor Lang. Catalog for the exhibition in the Middle Rhine Museum Koblenz and in the Cologne City Museum. Görres Verlag, Koblenz 2005, ISBN 3-928377-29-9 .
  • with Rolf Lauer and Werner Schäfke (eds.): August Reichensperger. Koblenz - Cologne - Europe . Exhibition catalog. (= Small series. Volume 7). Koblenz 2005, ISBN 3-928377-29-9 .
  • with Heinz-Günther Borck, Beate Dorfey and Hans Josef Schmidt (eds.): 60 years ago. War and peace on the Rhine and Moselle 1944–1946. Catalog for the exhibition of the State Main Archives Koblenz, the Middle Rhine Museum and City Archives Koblenz. (= Publications of the State Archives Administration Rhineland-Palatinate. 105). Koblenz 2005, ISBN 3-928377-27-2 .
  • with Beate Dorfey (Ed.): The Turks are coming! Exotic and erotic: Mozart in Koblenz and the longing for the Orient in art. Catalog for the exhibition in the Middle Rhine Museum. (= Publications of the State Archives Administration Rhineland-Palatinate. 107). Koblenz 2006, ISBN 3-931014-70-3 .
  • with Cécile Michaud and Anneli Karrenbrock-Berger (eds.): The divine Jette. A world star from Koblenz: the singer Henriette Sontag on her 200th birthday. Catalog for the exhibition in the Middle Rhine Museum. (= Small row). Koblenz 2006, ISBN 3-928377-30-2 .
  • with Beate Dorfey and Christine Goebel (eds.): Murder in the Museum - 100 Years of Death in the Rhineland . Mysterious objects and spectacular murders on the Middle Rhine. An exhibition of the Middle Rhine Museum and the State Main Archive Koblenz on the "Criminale 2006 Koblenz". Koblenz 2006.
  • with Michael Euler-Schmidt and Barbara Schock-Werner (eds.): The Colossal Journeyman - Views of the Cologne Cathedral before 1842 from the holdings of the Cologne City Museum . Greven-Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7743-0475-8 .
  • with Ulrich S. Soénius (Ed.): Made in Cologne - Cologne brands for the world . Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Cologne City Museum. JP Bachem, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-7616-2544-6 .
  • with Marcus Trier (ed.): The Waidmarkt - Above and Above. (= Location of Cologne history. 1). Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Cologne City Museum. JP Bachem, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-7616-2545-3 .
  • Ralf König: The Ursula Project, Eleven Thousand Virgins. Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Cologne City Museum. Cologne 2012.
  • 125 years of the Cologne City Museum - 125 times bought, given, donated. Accompanying volume for the anniversary exhibition. Emons-Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-95451-236-2 .
  • with Marcus Trier (Ed.): The Eigelstein - Above and Above. (= Location of Cologne history. 2). Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Cologne City Museum. JP Bachem, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-7616-2706-8 .
  • with Petra Hesse and Ulrich S. Soénius: Cologne 1914: Metropolis in the West. Accompanying volume for the joint exhibition of the Cologne City Museum, the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne and the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Cologne foundation. JP Bachem, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-7616-2867-6 .
  • with Ulrich S. Soénius (Ed.): Made in Cologne - Cologne brands for the world . 2nd updated and greatly expanded new edition. JP Bachem, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-7616-2750-1 .
  • with Rita Wagner: Cologne unadorned. Wilhelm Scheiner as a photographer. Nünnerich-Asmus Verlag, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-945751-29-9 . For the exhibition of the same name in the Cologne City Museum .
  • Guild and order - 700 years of Cologne craft history. Guild objects from the Cologne City Museum (= the holdings of the Cologne City Museum), Cologne 2016
  • with Marcus Trier (Ed.): The Heumarkt - Above and Above (= scene of Cologne history 3). Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Cologne City Museum. JP Bachem, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-7616-3099-0 .

Scientific contributions

  • in compilations (including: France friends. Mediators of Franco-German cultural transfer (1750–1850), Leipzig 1996; Gothic Revival. Religion, Architecture and Style in Western Europe 1815–1914. Leuven 2000; Gottfried Semper - Dresden and Europe: The modern Renaissance of the arts. Dresden 2007; Susanne Krell attigit.projekt. Cologne 2008; Markus Lüpertz - Sankt Martin, the art window in the chapel of the Mittelrhein Foundation Clinic. Koblenz 2011)
  • in exhibition catalogs (including Das Neue Köln 1945–1995. Cologne 1995; Marianne and Germania . France and Germany 1789–1889 - Zwei Welten - Eine Revue, Berlin 1995 and Paris 1996; Clovis and the “Battle of Zülpich” - history and myth 496 -1996, Euskirchen 1996; With Napoleon in Egypt. Catalog exhibition Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Mainz 2009)
  • and specialist journals, including in the journal Geschichte in Cologne. In: Kölner Domblatt . in the Cologne Museum Bulletin. in the yearbook for West German national history. in the journal for art history. and in the series Stadtspuren - Monuments in Cologne.

selection

  • Egypt after Napoleon. Franz Christian Gau's Nubia expedition from Cologne. In: Françoise Labrique, Uwe Westfehling (ed.): With Napoleon in Egypt. The drawings of Jean-Baptiste Lepère. Catalog exhibition Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud Cologne, October 2, 2009 - January 10, 2010. Mainz 2009.
  • A museum on the move - from the old building to the new building: inventory inspection, conception and depot works shows in the Middle Rhine Museum in Koblenz. Lecture at the Museum Day Rhineland-Palatinate “Museums on the move”, April 27, 2009, In: Museumsverband Rheinland-Pfalz (Ed.): Reports. 2010, pp. 11-20.
  • with Beate Dorfey: Think optically! Smart entertainment and clear education - national history in museums. In: Johannes Dillinger (Ed.): The mediation of national history, contributions to the practice of historical didactics. Regional culture publishing house, Heidelberg / Ubstadt-Weiher / Basel / Neustadt adW 2010, pp. 86–100.

Web links

Commons : Mario Kramp  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Oehlen: The dream of stepping out of the shadows; CITY MUSEUM director Mario Kramp presents his plan for the future on the occasion of the traditional "Gentlemen's Dinner" . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . Cologne April 9, 2011, p. 30 .
personal data
SURNAME Kramp, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Euskirchen