Moritz Woelk
Moritz Woelk (born January 21, 1963 in Stuttgart ) is a German art historian and has been director of the Museum Schnütgen in Cologne since January 2012 .
Career
Woelk studied art history , classical archeology and history in Würzburg and Braunschweig . In 1992 he received his doctorate in Würzburg . His dissertation is entitled Benedetto Antelami : the works in Parma and Fidenza.
Woelk worked at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main , at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt and from 1999 to 2001 as part of a project of the German Research Foundation at the University of Münster .
Since September 2001 he has headed the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ; he was officially introduced to the office in March 2002. In July 2011 the city of Cologne appointed him director of the Schnütgen Museum, succeeding Hiltrud Westermann-Angerhausen, who retired at the beginning of 2010 .
Publications
- Benedetto Antelami. The works in Parma and Fidenza (contributions to the art history of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Volume 2) , Rhema, Münster 1995, ISBN 3-930454-01-7 (also Würzburg, University, modified dissertation, 1992)
- From the hereafter to this world - sacred images of the late Middle Ages from the holdings of the Hessian State Museum and from private collections; Catalog for the exhibition September 16, 1995 to November 12, 1995 in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt; Darmstadt 1995, ISBN 3-926527-41-2
- Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (Ed.): Images from the 9th to the 16th century made of stone, wood and clay in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-496-01204-8
- (with Astrid Nielsen): After the flood - the Dresden sculpture collection in Berlin. Book accompanying the exhibition After the Flood - The Dresden Sculpture Collection in Berlin in the Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin from November 22, 2002 to February 10, 2003. Berlin 2002/2003, ISBN 3-88226-880-8
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SURNAME | Woelk, Moritz |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian, museum director |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |