Rainer Stamm

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Rainer Stamm (born March 16, 1967 in Hagen / Westphalia) is a German art historian , literary scholar , journalist and museum director.

Life

Rainer Stamm studied German , art education and general literary studies in Wuppertal and received his doctorate on “The Folkwang-Verlag. On the way to an imaginary museum ” . He later taught at the universities of Wuppertal and Bremen . He is the editor of the collected "speeches and writings" of the collector and museum founder Karl Ernst Osthaus (2002) as well as the correspondence between Paula Modersohn-Becker and Rainer Maria Rilke (2003).

From 2000 to April 2010 he headed the art collections Böttcherstraße in Bremen with the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum and the Museum in the Roselius House (today: Ludwig Roselius Museum ). Among other things, he curated the exhibition “Paula Modersohn-Becker and the Egyptian Mummy Portraits” (2007). Since 2006 he has been honorary professor for art history at the University of Bremen. On May 1, 2010, Rainer Stamm took over the management of the Lower Saxony State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Oldenburg . In 2016 he was a guest researcher at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

His main research interests include the art of classical modernism , the history of photography and the history of art dealers and museums.

Since 2004 Stamm has been writing regularly for the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Publications (selection)

As an author:

  • The world of the plant. Photographs by Albert Renger-Patzsch and from Auriga-Verlag. Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1998.
  • The Folkwang publishing house. On the way to an imaginary museum. Booksellers Association, Frankfurt am Main, 1999.
  • A short intense feast. Paula Modersohn-Becker . A biography. Reclam, Stuttgart, 2007.
  • with Gloria Köpnick : Art of the 19th and 20th centuries. State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg, New Masters Gallery. Imhof, Petersberg, 2015

As editor:

  • with Kai Uwe Schierz: The language of plants. A classic in plant photography in the early 20th century. Kunsthalle, Erfurt, 2000.
  • with Sabine Fehlemann: The Von der Heydts . Wuppertal: Müller + Busmann, 2001
  • Karl Ernst Osthaus : speeches and writings. Folkwang - Werkbund - Labor Council. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2002.
  • with Frank-Manuel Peter : The Sacharoffs. Two dancers from the Blue Rider's circle. Two Dancers within the Blaue Reiter Circle. Wienand, Cologne, 2002
  • with Daniel Schreiber: building a new world. Architectural Visions of Expressionism. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2003.
  • Paula Modersohn-Becker: Correspondence with Rainer Maria Rilke (= Insel-Bücherei. Vol. 1242). Insel, Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig, 2003; 8th, extended new edition: Insel, Berlin 2011
  • The museum's collection of paintings in the Roselius House. Art collections Böttcherstraße, Bremen, 2003
  • Rineke Dijkstra : Paula Modersohn-Becker. Portraits. Art collections Böttcherstraße, Bremen, 2003.
  • Jenny Holzer : For Paula Modersohn-Becker. Art collections Böttcherstraße, Bremen, 2005.
  • with Birgit Schulte: works of classical modernism from the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen. Hagen, 2006.
  • Paula Modersohn-Becker and the Egyptian mummy portraits. Art collections Böttcherstraße / Hirmer, Bremen / Munich, 2007
  • Katharina Mayer - Paula Modersohn-Becker. An encounter. Art collections Böttcherstraße, Bremen, 2008.
  • Lucas Cranach the fastest. Art collections Böttcherstraße, Bremen, 2009.
  • Color worlds. From Monet to Yves Klein. Works of classical modernism from the Krefeld art museums. Art collections Böttcherstraße, Bremen, 2009.
  • with Hans-Peter Wipplinger : Paula Modersohn-Becker. Pioneer of modernity. Hirmer, Munich, 2010.
  • with Mamoun Fansa : Boris Becker : deserts and fields. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz, 2010.
  • The second departure into the modern age. Expressionism - Bauhaus - New Objectivity. Walter Müller-Wulckow and the State Museum Oldenburg 1921-1937. Kerber, Bielefeld, 2011.
  • with Claudia Quiring, Andreas Rothaus: Neue Baukunst. Modern architecture in pictures and books. The New Architecture collection from the Müller-Wulckow estate in the Oldenburg State Museum. Kerber, Bielefeld, 2013.
  • with Thomas Röske: The other miller from the Siel. Kerber, Bielefeld, 2014.
  • with Anna Heckötter: From Rembrandt to Richter. Master sheets of the graphic collection from the Landesmuseum Oldenburg. Imhof, Petersberg, 2014.
  • Rainer Maria Rilke : At first. Viewing images . Insel, Berlin, 2015, ISBN 978-3-458-19407-1 .
  • with Magdalena M. Moeller: … the world in these glittering colors. Masterpieces from the Brücke-Museum Berlin, Hirmer, Munich, 2016.
  • with Andreas von Seggern: Heinz Liers (1905-1985). Rhythm and variation, Imhof, Petersberg, 2016.
  • with Sebastian Dohe and Malve Anna Falk: Die Gemäldegalerie Oldenburg. A European collection of old masters , Imhof, Petersberg 2017.
  • Rainer Maria Rilke: "These perfect miracles" . Rodin's watercolors. Insel, Berlin 2017.
  • with Gloria Köpnick: Low German Contributions to Art History, New Series, Volume 3, Imhof , Petersberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7319-0758-9 .
  • with Gloria Köpnick : The Bauhaus postcards . Insel, Berlin, 2019.
  • with Gloria Köpnick: Between utopia and adaptation. The Bauhaus in Oldenburg. Imhof, Petersberg, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Rainer Stamm  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Stamm nach Oldenburg ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on www.art-magazin.de from February 1, 2010, accessed on January 19, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Stamm, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, literary scholar and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen , Westphalia