Rüdiger Joppien

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Rüdiger Joppien (born March 3, 1946 in Barkhausen ) is a German art historian . From 1987 to 2011 he worked as a curator for the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg .

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Joppien grew up in Hanover , where he graduated from the Lutherschule in 1966 . Since the summer semester of 1966 he studied theater studies as a major as well as art history and German, later English, as a minor at the University of Cologne . From winter semester 1968 to summer semester 1970 he studied at the Slade School of Fine Art of the University College in London art and film history as well as sets and costumes being. In May 1972, Rolf Badenhausen and Heinz Ladendorf did his doctorate in Cologne with a dissertation on an Anglo-French stage designer of the 18th century, Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg . After completing his doctorate, he went to Australia , because he was interested in images of expeditions such as that of James Cook . In 1975/76 he was a “Visiting Fellow” at the Australian National University in Canberra .

From 1977 to 1986 Joppien was a research assistant at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Cologne , then from 1987 until his retirement in March 2011, curator for Art Nouveau and Modernism at the Museum for Art and Crafts in Hamburg . Joppien has been teaching at the Art History Institute of the University of Hamburg since 2011 . In 2009 Joppien, who was previously a private lecturer, was awarded the title of professor .

His fields of work were arts and crafts and design as well as the Hamburg art scene of the 1920s. The exhibitions he curated included Tiffany , Lalique , Naum Slutzky , Friedrich Adler and 2006 Unleashed: Expressionism in Hamburg around 1920 .

The art historian is married to the jewelry artist Kathrin Joppien, with whom he has several daughters, and lives in Hamburg.

Publications (selection)

  • The scenes of Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg. An investigation into their position between painting and theater. Dissertation Cologne 1972 (with curriculum vitae p. 544 [unpaginated]).
  • Jewellery. Decorative Arts Museum of the City of Cologne, Cologne 1981
  • with Anna Beatriz Chadour: jewelry. Decorative Arts Museum of the City of Cologne . (= Catalogs of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Cologne, Vol. 10). 2 volumes. Decorative Arts Museum of the City of Cologne, Cologne 1985
  • with Bernard Smith : The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages . Four volumes, Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1985–1988
  • Naum Slutzky. A Bauhaus artist in Hamburg. 1894-1965. Museum of Arts and Crafts, Hamburg 1995
  • Hermann and Richard Mutz . Art Nouveau ceramics , foreword by Wilhelm Hornbostel . Catalog for the exhibition in the Museum of Art and Industry, Hamburg 2002
  • Arts and crafts. 125 years of the trade fair in the Museum of Art and Industry Hamburg . Museum for Arts and Crafts, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-923859-61-9
  • with Ina Ewers-Schulz and Nils Jockel: Unleashed. Expressionism in Hamburg around 1920 . Museum for Arts and Crafts, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-923859-64-1
  • with Nora von Achenbach and Frank Hildebrandt: Seduce to collect. Hamburg treasures . Wienand, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86832-009-1

literature

  • Charlotte Joppien, Lutz Becker (Ed.): 30 articles on the trail of Rüdiger Joppien. ConferencePoint-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-936406-31-3 (p. 127 ff. Publications Rüdiger Joppien 1973-2010).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personalia , UHH Newsletter, May 2009, No. 2, accessed on January 28, 2014.
  2. ↑ A visit to Rüdiger Joppien , designreport, 3/2011
  3. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Joppien, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum curator
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Barkhausen