Martin Faass

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Martin Faass (* 1963 in Karlsruhe ) is a German art historian . From 2006 to 2018 he was director of the Liebermann-Villa Museum am Wannsee in Berlin and has been director of the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt since January 2019 .

Life

Martin Faass studied art history and German studies in Marburg and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1998 from  Eberhard König with a thesis on the subject of Lyonel Feininger and Cubism  . From 1996 to 2007 he realized numerous exhibitions as a curator, including a. for the Hamburger Kunsthalle , the Museum Kurhaus Kleve , the Kunsthaus Apolda and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg . Since 2000 he has been curator of the Finkenwerder Art Prize , Hamburg, donated by Airbus Deutschland GmbH . From 2001 to 2003 he completed an academic traineeship at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, where he was responsible for the inventory catalog of the "Art Nouveau Collection Volume III". As a research assistant , he curated the exhibition Nature for Art , which opened in 2004 at the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg. In September 2006 he became director of the Liebermann-Villa Museum on Wannsee in Berlin. In 2012 he was elected to the board of the State Association of Museums in Berlin (LMB). Since January 1, 2019, Faass has been director of the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Lyonel Feininger. The drawings and watercolors, with Dr. Ulrich Luckhardt, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1998
  • Feininger in the Weimarer Land , Kunsthaus Apolda, 1999
  • In the port of Peppermint - Lyonel Feininger's ships , Wolgast City Museum, Flensburg Maritime Museum, 1999
  • From Nolde to Schumacher - From Knock to Kumrow, with Prof. Heinz Spielmann, Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, Free Academy of the Arts, 2000
  • Almut Heise. Paintings 1968–1999 , Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, 2000
  • Alberto Giacometti. Portraits, with Frauke Mankartz, Kunsthaus Apolda, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, 2001/02
  • George Rickey. Kinetic sculptures , Museum for Art and Industry Hamburg, 2003
  • Nature all art - positions of contemporary design , Museum of Art and Industry, 2004/05
  • Max Ernst. Dream landscapes, with Andrea Fromm, Kunsthaus Apolda, Ernst Barlach Haus Hamburg, 2004
  • Seascapes - From Caspar David Friedrich to Emil Nolde , with Felix Krämer, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2005
  • The fifties - everyday culture and design , Museum for Art and Crafts Hamburg, 2005
  • Max Liebermann. The flower terrace , Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee, 2007
  • Seascapes - From Max Beckmann to Gerhard Richter , with Felix Krämer, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2007
  • Candida Höfer . Kunsthaus Hamburg, 2007
  • Martha Liebermann (1857-1943). Life pictures , with Margreet Nouwen, Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee, 2007/08
  • Max Liebermann. The Parrot Alley at Wannsee - The Liebermann Collection of the Kunsthalle Bremen as a guest , Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee, 2009
  • The Jesus scandal. A Liebermann picture in the crossfire of criticism , Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2009/10
  • Max Liebermann am Meer , Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee, Museum Art of the West Coast, Alkersum, 2011/12
  • Max Liebermann and Emil Nolde. Garden pictures , Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee, 2012
  • Max Liebermann and France, Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee, 2013
  • Lost treasure. The art collection of Max Liebermann , Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee, 2013/14
  • Liebermann and Van Gogh, Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee, 2015
  • Max Liebermann. Beer gardens and café terraces , Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee, 2016
  • Max Liebermann. From civil leisure time to modern sport , with Dorothee Hansen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee, 2016/17
  • Max Liebermann - Dispute at the Wannsee. From noble villas and lido delights , Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee, 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Metropol News of October 23, 2018: Darmstadt: Dr. Martin Faass is the new director of the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt , accessed on October 24, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Faass, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art history, director of the Liebermann-Villa museum
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe