Ortrud Westheider

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Ortrud Westheider (* 1964 in Versmold ) is a German art historian and has been director of the Museum Barberini in Potsdam since April 2016 , which opened on January 21, 2017.

Life

Ortrud Westheider studied art history, history and German in Münster and Hamburg and received her doctorate in 1993 from Monika Wagner with a thesis on the color black in Max Beckmann's painting . From 1994 to 1996 she completed an academic traineeship at the Hamburger Kunsthalle , where she worked as a research assistant for the establishment of the Contemporary Gallery until it opened in 1997. In 1997 and 1999 she represented the scientific advisor for the Alte Meister gallery at the Kunsthalle Bremen , where she was responsible for the refurbishment after the renovation. From 1999 to 2002 she worked as a scientific advisor for contemporary art at the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Münster . In 2002 she switched to the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg as a curator , and in 2006 she became director. Here she realized numerous exhibitions with scientifically innovative questions and at the same time aimed at the public in an exhibition house without her own collection. Since 2013 she has been a member of the University Council of the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . Since April 2016 she has been the director of the Barberini Museum in the Palais Barberini in Potsdam, which was rebuilt by Hasso Plattner after its destruction at the end of the Second World War . The museum has made a name for itself with large-audience exhibitions in international collaborations from antiquity to contemporary art and was able to welcome its 1,000,000th visitor in the early summer of 2019. Together with Michael Philipp, Westheider edits the publications of the Museum Barberini. In addition to her museum and exhibition work, she has held teaching positions at the University of Hamburg .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Max Beckmann. Landscape as a Stranger, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kunsthalle Bielefeld and Kunstforum der Bank Austria, Vienna, 1997/98
  • Hanne Darboven. The early work, with Elke Bippus, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1998
  • Reiner Ruthenbeck. Drawings, with Hanna Hohl, Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History Münster, 2000
  • Roman Signer. Drawings, with Christoph Vögele, Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster, 2001
  • Plug in. Unity and mobility, with Markus Heinzelmann, Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster, 2001
  • Hanne Darboven. The books, with Elke Bippus, Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster, 2002
  • Max Beckmann. People by the sea, with Klaus Gallwitz, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2003
  • Cloud images. The discovery of the sky, with Inés Richter-Musso, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2004
  • Frida Kahlo, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2006
  • Conception of the exhibition trilogy 150 Years of American Art. 1800–1950 with the consequences New World. The Invention of American Painting (2007), High Society. American portraits of the Gilded Age (2008) and Modern Life. Edward Hopper and His Time (2009).
  • Matisse. People, masks, models, with Ina Conzen, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2009
  • Marc Chagall. Lifelines, with Meria Perry-Lehmann Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2010
  • William Turner. Painter of the elements, with Inés Richter-Musso, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2011
  • Ferdinand Hodler and Cuno Amiet. An artist friendship between Art Nouveau and Modernism, with Christoph Vögele, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2012
  • New York Photography 1890–1950. From Stieglitz to Man Ray, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2012
  • Rodchenko. A new time, with Alla Chilova, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2013
  • Mondrian. Color, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2014
  • Above water. Painting and photography from William Turner to Olafur Eliasson , with Ulrich Pohlmann, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2015
  • Miró. Painting as poetry , with Marion Ackermann and Michael Peppiatt, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2015
  • Picasso. Window to the World , Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 2016
  • Impressionism. The Art of Landscape , Museum Barberini, Potsdam 2017
  • Max Beckmann. Welttheater , with Eva Fischer-Hausdorf, Museum Barberini, Potsdam 2018
  • Gerhard Richter. Abstraction, with Dietmar Elger, Museum Barberini, Potsdam 2018
  • Baroque paths. The National Galleries Barberini Corsini in Rome , with Maurizia Cicconi, Michele Di Monte and Inés Richter-Musso, Museum Barberini, Potsdam 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Katharina Wiechers: New director of the Barberini Museum in Potsdam: Westheider: “The situation in Potsdam is unique” . In: Potsdam's latest news . August 20, 2015 ( pnn.de [accessed August 20, 2015]).
  2. Peter Richter: A and Double-O . In: sueddeutsche.de . July 14, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 29, 2019]).
  3. With the knife through the paint. July 2, 2018, accessed July 29, 2019 .