Peter Weinhäupl

Peter Weinhäupl  (* 1962  in  Vöcklabruck ) is an Austrian  cultural manager and chairman of the Klimt Foundation .

Life

Weinhäupl studied at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Mag. Rer. Soc. Oec.), At the same time he completed a partial course in art history at the University of Vienna . After working as a regional planner (areas of expertise: EU regional studies, funding areas, tourism and regional museum projects), he was appointed cultural manager at the Leopold Museum Vienna in 2000 , where he and Christian Meyer (Arnold Schönberg Center) did the final organizational planning of the museum was responsible. From 2003 he was Managing Director and Head of Marketing together with Rudolf Leopold (Museological Director) of the Leopold Museum, which quickly developed into one of the most important international museums. The London Times ranked the Leopold Museum among the most important museums in the world as early as 2013 (40th place). After 15 years of running a museum, Weinhäupl moved to the Klimt Foundation, which he co-founded, as chairman of the board and operational director .

Cultural activities

In 2001 Weinhäupl acquired and saved an industrial monument, the “ coal crushing and sorting plant ” built in 1922/23 in the market town of Wolfsegg am Hausruck (district Kohlgrube), from deterioration. Wolfsegg is known, among other things, as the literary setting for world-famous novels by Thomas Bernhard (including "The Italian", 1967 and "Auslöschung. Ein Zerfall", 1986). As part of the newly founded "Kunstraum Kohlgrube", the art project "Grow", submitted jointly with the architect Wolfgang Weinhäupl, was the focus of the opening event of the Festival of Regions 2003. As a result, the Franzobel pieces "Hunt" and "Zipf" were presented on the historic industrial site of the »Theater Hausruck«, in which Weinhäupl was temporarily a member of the board, premiered (double " Nestroy Prize " directed by Georg Schmidleitner ).

From 2008-2014 Weinhäupl was a board member of the Austrian National Committee of the International Museum Council ICOM . As director of the Leopold Museum, he was curator and co-curator of numerous exhibitions at the Leopold Museum , a. a. the permanent presentation »Vienna 1900« / Joseph Maria Olbrich / Art Nouveau Pur! Josef Maria Auchentaller / Alberto Giacometti. Pioneer of modernity and "Klimt-personal".

As a co-founder and board member of the " Gustav Klimt Memorial " association, he played a key role in saving the artist's last studio. In 2003 he was in charge of designing the Gustav Klimt themed trail on the Attersee. In 2005, on his initiative and planning, the reconstruction of the Klimt faculty pictures, which still exists today, was carried out in the ballroom of the University of Vienna . This was followed by the conceptual design and implementation of the Gustav Klimt Center on Lake Attersee (2012). a. was funded by the Federal Ministry of Tourism and the EU's LEADER program. The seasonal operation of this Klimt documentation center (around 12,000 visitors annually) has been made possible by the Vienna Klimt Foundation since 2015 .

Weinhäupl is also an expert on the former Austrian coastal region , he is the editor of numerous cultural-historical volumes, including a. the first major German-language monographs on the port city of Trieste (2018) or the seaside resort of Grado (2017).

Fonts (selection)

• Gustav Klimt, Florale Welten, ed .: Peter Weinhäupl / Sandra Tretter, Klimt Foundation, Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2nd
• Trieste - The Port of Central Europe, Ed .: Peter Weinhäupl, Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2018
• Grado - The Central European Beach, Ed .: Peter Weinhäupl, Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2017
• Gustav Klimt, Emilie Flöge, ed .: Peter Weinhäupl / Sandra Tretter, Klimt Foundation, Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2016
• Gustav Klimt, Sommerfrische am Attersee, ed .: Peter Weinhäupl / Sandra Tretter, Klimt Foundation, Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2015
• Gustav Klimt, Atelier Feldmühlgasse 1911-18, ed .: Peter Weinhäupl / Sandra Tretter / Georg Becker / Felizitas Schreier, Klimt Foundation, Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2014
• Code: Sehnsucht - 25, Gustav Klimt's correspondence to Maria Ucicka 1899-1916, ed .: Peter Weinhäupl / Sandra Tretter, Klimt Foundation, Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2014
• Nevertheless art: Austria 1914-1918, exhibition catalog, edited by: Peter Weinhäupl / Elisabeth Leopold / Ivan Ristic / Franz Smola, Leopold Museum - Vienna 2014
• Klimt personally. Pictures - Letters - Insights, exhibition catalog, eds: Peter Weinhäupl / Tobias Natter / Franz Smola, Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2012
• Vienna 1900 in the Leopold Collection, edited by: Peter Weinhäupl / Diethard Leopold, Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2009