Reinhold Baumstark (art historian)
Reinhold Michael Baumstark (born February 19, 1944 in Hahnenklee-Bockswiese ) is a German art historian . From 1999 to 2009 he was General Director of the Bavarian State Painting Collections .
Life
Baumstark attended the Ratsgymnasium in Münster from 1955 to 1962 . After graduating from high school in Detmold in 1965 , he began studying art history, archeology and ancient church history at the University of Münster . 1966/67 took him to study at the University of Munich . In 1969/70 he was a fellow at the Warburg Institute at the University of London . Finally he received his doctorate in 1971 in Münster under Georg Kauffmann with a thesis on The Allegories of War and Peace by Peter Paul Rubens and his workshop .
A grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia enabled him to do research at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich. After a brief employment as a scientific volunteer at the art collections in Augsburg , he worked from 1974 to 1976 as secretary for the exhibition Elector Max Emanuel - Bavaria and Europe around 1700 at the Bavarian National Museum . In 1976 he went to Liechtenstein to head the private art collection of Prince Franz Josef II at Vaduz Castle . In 1991 he returned to Munich and took over the management of the Bavarian National Museum as General Director. In August 1999 he succeeded Peter-Klaus Schuster as General Director of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen.
Baumstark has repeatedly taken on teaching positions, for example from 1982 to 1984 at the University of Münster, 1987 at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, 1988 at the University of Bern and 1989 at the University of Zurich.
Baumstark has been a corresponding member of the humanities class at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2003 .
Baumstark retired on February 28, 2009.
Baumstark is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Eugen Biser Foundation .
Awards and honors
- 2005 Bavarian Order of Merit
- 2008 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art . The Maximilian Order is awarded in recognition of outstanding achievements in the fields of science and art and is the highest state honor of the Free State of Bavaria .
- 2011: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Publications (selection)
- Editor: Flemish Baroque Painting - Staatsgalerie Neuburg an der Donau , DuMont Buchverlag , Cologne 2005, ISBN 9783832175764
- Publisher: Alte Pinakothek. The masterpieces , DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-8321-7592-4
- Editor: Johann Wilhelm's Pictures. The collector and patron , 2 volumes, Hirmer, Munich 2009; Catalog book for the exhibition. ISBN 978-3-7774-6075-8 ; ISBN 978-3-7774-6085-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Reinhold Baumstark in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.awk.nrw.de/akademie/klassen/geisteswissenschaften/korrespondierende-verbindungen.html
- ↑ Announcement of the awards of the Federal Cross of Merit on May 1, 2011 .
Karl Maria von Aretin (1855–1868) | Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck (1868–1885) | Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (1885–1897) | Hugo Graf (1897–1907) | Georg Hager (1907–1908) | Hans Stegmann (1909–1914) | Philipp Maria Halm (1916–1931) | Hans Buchheit (1932–1947) | Theodor Müller (1948–1968) | Hans R. Weihrauch (1968–1974) | Lenz Kriss-Rettenbeck (1974–1985) | Johann Georg von Hohenzollern (1985–1991) | Reinhold Baumstark (1991–1999) | Renate Eikelmann (1999–2018) | Frank Matthias Kammel (since 2018)
Hugo von Tschudi (1909–1912) | Friedrich Dörnhöffer (1912–1933) | Ernst Buchner (1933–1945) | Eberhard Hanfstaengl (1945–1953) | Ernst Buchner (1953–1957) | Kurt Martin (1957–1964) | Halldor Soehner (1965–1969) | Erich Steingräber (1969–1987) | Hubertus Falkner von Sonnenburg (1987–1991) | Johann Georg von Hohenzollern (1991–1998) | Peter-Klaus Schuster (1998–1999) | Reinhold Baumstark (1999–2009) | Klaus Schrenk (2009–2014) | Bernhard Maaz (since 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strong as a tree, Reinhold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baumstark, Reinhold Michael (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hahnenklee-Bockswiese |