Matthias Frehner

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Matthias Frehner (* 1955 in Winterthur , Switzerland ) is a Swiss art historian , curator and publicist.

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Frehner comes from an art-loving family. His father Willy Frehner is a sculptor, his mother Doris Frehner-Schurtenberger is a painter and paper artist. After completing a commercial apprenticeship, he attended the cantonal maturity school for adults. Matthias Frehner then studied art history, German literature and classical archeology at the University of Zurich , where he worked as an assistant at the art history seminar from 1986 to 1988. In 1992 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the "History of Swiss Iron Plastic". Since 1984 he has been writing art reviews for the as a freelancerNeue Zürcher Zeitung .

From 1988 to 1996 he was curator of the Oskar Reinhart collection “Am Römerholz” in Winterthur and from 1990 to 1996 secretary of the Swiss commission of the Gottfried Keller Foundation . From 1990 he was in charge of the St. Georgen Monastery Museum in Stein am Rhein as a curator . In 1993 he was a founding member of the Giovanni Segantini Foundation and its first president. From 1996 to 2002 he worked as an art editor for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and journalistically accompanied the development of contemporary art. He also wrote numerous articles and catalog entries on Swiss artists.

In 2002 Frehner became director of the Kunstmuseum Bern, succeeding Toni Stooss . A new extension favored by Frehner and referred to as “Scala”, which was supposed to house contemporary art, was canceled by the Board of Trustees in 2009 due to significant cost overruns. The Kunstmuseum Bern Foundation came into public focus in May 2014 as the sole heir to the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt . Frehner is considered an expert in looted art . In August 2016, the art historian Nina Zimmer took over the management of the museum as his successor, while Zimmer also became director of the Zentrum Paul Klee . Frehner took early retirement in 2018.

Fonts

  • Josef Staub - Concrete Organics. Sculptures, drawings, paintings . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2001, ISBN 978-3-85823-912-9
  • The business with looted art , Neue Zürcher Zeitung publishing house, Zurich 1998, ISBN 978-3-85823705-7
  • (with Christina Frehner) Oskar Reinhart collection "Am Römerholz", Winterthur , Swiss Institute for Art Research / Banque Paribas, Zurich / Geneva, 1993. ISBN 3-908 1 84-13-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Frehner , kunstmuseumbern.ch, accessed on May 8, 2014
  2. ↑ Giovanni Segantini Foundation , monetas.ch, accessed on May 9, 2014
  3. ↑ «I don't want to stop with defeat». In: Der Bund of August 25, 2009
  4. ↑ Bern Art Museum facing a difficult task ( Memento from May 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Neue Luzerner Zeitung from May 8, 2014
  5. ↑ Nina Zimmer becomes the new Super Director , tagesanzeiger.ch, March 22, 2016
  6. ↑ Frehner is leaving . In: bernerzeitung.ch/ . ( bernerzeitung.ch [accessed on November 6, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Frehner, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art historian, curator and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur