Peter Friess

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Peter Frieß (born June 5, 1959 ) is a German watchmaker , art historian and museum director.

Life

Friess gained after studying art history at the University of Munich the Promotion . He was u. a. advisor to the J. Paul Getty Museum , where he cataloged the watch collection, and at the Smithsonian Institution . He then became a co-founder and founding director of the Deutsches Museum Bonn (1995–2001). From 2001 to May 2003 Frieß was managing director of the Bavarian location marketing agency gotoBavaria. From 2006 to 2011 he was President of the Tech Museum in San José, California .

He has been the director of the Patek Philippe Museum since 2014. The trained master watchmaker deals there with the presentation of the artistic and cultural fund of the museum.

Publications (selection)

  • The Emergence of the Portable Watch. Volume 3, 4 and index volume. Geneva 2015 (English).
  • LUCEUM - traces of time. Geneva 2006 (English, French, German).
  • The Ahrens pocket watch collection. 2 volumes. Munich 2006.
  • It is the object that gives the museum the right "drive". In: Writings of the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring Foundation. No. 20, 2002.
  • with Ralph Burmester, Wolf-Peter Fehlhammer, Helmuth Trischler: Science at first hand - 50 years of meetings of the Nobel Prize winners in Lindau / Bodensee. Self-published, [Bonn] 2000.
  • with Manuela Schütze: Measuring - historical maps and measuring instruments (with contributions by Mirjam Kasperl, Jürgen Küster and Max Seeberger). Bonn 2000.
  • with Franz Danecker, Rita Haub, Julius Oswald SJ: Discovering the Sun - Christoph Scheiner 1575–1650. Ingolstadt 2000.
  • Oskar Sala - pioneer of electronic music. Hamburg 2000.
  • with Susanne Witzgall: La Specola - anatomy in wax in contrast to images of modern medicine. Bonn 2000.
  • with Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, Dieter Meschede: h-heute - catalog for the exhibition quantum physics. Bonn 2000.
  • Never trust a restored clock to show the right time. In: The Restoration of Scientific Instruments. Ed .: Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienca, Florence / Opificio delle Pietre Dure. Florence 1998 (English).
  • with Eva Langenstein (arrangement): Mechanics from the Wunderkammer. The forerunners of the computer. Exhibition catalog Deutsches Museum Bonn, Munich 1996.
  • with Dieter Hoffmann, Hubert Laitko: Hermann von Helmholtz - classics at the turn of the epoch. Bonn 1996.
  • with Gillian Wilson, David Harris Cohen, Jean Nérée Ronfort, Jean-Dominique Augard: European Clocks in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles 1996 (English).
  • with Peter Steiner: Research and Technology in Germany after 1945. Munich 1995.
  • with Adelheid Riolini-Unger, J. Hügin: Friedberger Uhren. Accompanying volume for the exhibition »Friedberger Uhren, 17. – 19. Century «(May 16 to October 17, 1993). Friedberg 1993.
  • with Klaus Maurice: A table clock by Wilhelm Pepfenhauser. In: Patrimonia 68; Ed .: Kulturstiftung der Länder. Berlin 1993.
  • Art and machine - 500 years of machine lines in images and sculpture. Munich 1993.
  • Mechanically moved sculptures by Erasmus Grasser. In: Upper Bavarian Archive , Volume 115; Ed .: City Archives Munich, Munich 1991.
  • with Ingrid Seeger: watches. In: Inventory catalog of the Museum for Art and Cultural History Kempten - Allgäuer Heimatmuseum, Volume 1; Ed .: Thomas Weiß. Kempten (Allgäu) 1991.
  • with Klaus Maurice: Clocks and Automatic Machines - Werner Brüggemann's Legacy. [Exhibition in the Deutsches Museum]. Munich, 1986.
  • with Klaus Maurice: Clocks and Automatic Machines - Werner Brüggemann's Legacy [2. Part]. In: Watches - Old and Modern Timepieces , Issue 3; Munich 1986.
  • with Klaus Maurice: Clocks and Automatic Machines - Werner Brüggemann's Legacy [1. Part]. In: Watches - Old and Modern Timepieces , Issue 1; Munich 1986.
  • Pocket watches in the Bavarian National Museum - cataloging and scientific evaluation with the computer. In: Catalogs of the Bavarian National Museum. Munich 1984.
  • with Hans-Peter Trenschl: clocks by Franconian masters of the 18th and 19th centuries. Wurzburg 1982.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gotoBavaria under new management . IHK Nuremberg and Middle Franconia, 2003. Retrieved on February 10, 2019
  2. ^ The Tech Announces Friess as New President. ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 3, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / legacy.www.thetech.org
  3. ^ Peter Friess, president of The Tech Museum, resigns. ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 3, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / legacy.www.thetech.org
  4. ↑ Meet the curator of the best watch collection in the world | Christie's. Accessed August 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Friess, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH 5th June 1959