Renate Eikelmann

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Renate Eikelmann (born August 6, 1949 in Gütersloh ) is a German art historian . From 1999 to 2018 she was General Director of the Bavarian National Museum in Munich .

Professional background

Renate Eikelmann attended elementary and secondary school in Gütersloh. From 1966 to 1969 she trained as a medical-technical assistant at the University of Münster. She then worked in this profession until 1975 and also acquired the general university entrance qualification at the Munich College . From 1975 she studied art history , classical archeology and prehistory at the University of Munich . The topic of her master's thesis was Medieval Crowns in the Treasury of the Munich Residence . Renate Eikelmann worked as a research assistant in the department for handicrafts and sculpture in the Munich City Museum and received her doctorate in 1984 from Willibald Sauerländer on Franco-Flemish enamel sculpture of the late Middle Ages .

A six-month scholarship then took her to the Metropolitan Museum in New York . She then worked there as curator for medieval art, later for three years at the Cleveland Museum of Art as curator for sculpture and handicrafts from 800 to 1600 .

After her return from the US in 1991, she was director of the Maximilian Museum in Augsburg and 1995 Head of the Department of Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages and the modern era and Deputy Director General in the German National Museum in Nuremberg . In 1999 she took over as general director of the Bavarian National Museum in Munich .

She was succeeded on July 1, 2018 by Frank Matthias Kammel , who previously worked as Deputy General Director at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg .

Worked at the Bavarian National Museum

Redevelopment

West wing of the Bavarian National Museum

Eikelmann had the forecourt (2005) and the garden (2011) redesigned outside. Shortly after taking office, the west wing of the museum, which was badly damaged in the Second World War and which took up a third of the exhibition space, was closed. The restoration and refurbishment of this part of the building took fifteen years to complete. A light coat of paint and a new lighting concept highlighted the facade. In the interior, a new lighting system was used to make the works more perceptible, for example in the ivory cabinets. For the first time, industrial clean room technology was used in the museum area, which established new conservation standards: objects made of silver are prevented from tarnishing, which makes cleaning the surfaces largely superfluous.

Exhibitions

Numerous exhibitions were organized under Renate Eikelmann's direction.

Gertrudis portable altar by Countess Gertrud von Braunschweig, Cleveland Museum of Art, part of the Welfenschatz, exhibited in the Bavarian National Museum in 2007

This included the exhibition The Cleveland Museum of Art, mediated through her contacts to her previous place of work. Masterpieces from 300 to 1550 in 2007. with a selection of pieces that corresponded to and complemented works from the collection of the Bavarian National Museum, including five exhibits from the so-called Welfenschatz .

The Wittelsbachers and the Middle Kingdom followed in 2009 . 400 years of China and Bavaria , which documented the knowledge transfer carried out in Bavaria over several centuries, which was fed by the kings' passion for collecting as well as the activities of the Jesuits . The exhibits included, among other things, five strips of silk wallpaper that were manufactured in Canton or Beijing around 1800 and were only found in 2003 in the holdings of the former courtyard papering of the Munich Residenz .

The theme of the exhibitions also included arts and crafts and design, such as the 2013 exhibition Bags - A European Cultural History from the 16th to the 21st Century . In 2015, Italian art was the focus of the exhibition Bella Figura with 80 master bronzes and 25 drawings.

Work with sponsors

Eikelmann suggested activities of the Friends and Sponsors. With the financial means of the patrons gathered there, valuable works of art could be acquired for the museum. Eikelmann won the Rotary Club as a supporter for the establishment of the Max Emanuel Room , and the Bauer Baroque Foundation as sponsor for the restoration of the numerous exhibits .

Stock expansion

The Bollert Collection in the Bavarian National Museum

In 2004, Eikelmann succeeded in arranging for the museum to purchase Gerhart Bollert's sculpture collection, one of the last major German art collections from the pre-war period. Under Renate Eikelmann's direction, the museum also acquired the Mohrenkopf Cup from Christoph Jamnitzer . After a relief of Saint Anna and her three spouses by Tilman Riemenschneider , which had been on permanent loan to the Bavarian National Museum for a long time , had been sold by the owner under controversial circumstances, Eikelmann campaigned to challenge the sale so that the work could be used for the sculpture collection in the Bode Museum Berlin could be acquired.

Memberships

Renate Eikelmann was and is a member of numerous committees: In 2005 she sat on the committee for the selection of the management of the Landesmuseum Württemberg . From 2009 to 2011 she was a member of the scientific advisory board that advised the House of Bavarian History in developing the concept for the Museum of Bavarian History .

Today she is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kulturstiftung der Länder , the Administrative Council of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Foundation in Nuremberg and the Bavarian State Monument Council .

She is also on the board of trustees of numerous foundations, namely the non-profit Reuschel Foundation, the Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation , the Schloss Friedenstein Gotha Foundation and the Eleonora Schamberger Foundation.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Franco-Flemish enamel from the late Middle Ages . Dissertation Munich 1984 (published 1995).
  • On the history of the image of Mary, called the Goldenes Rößl. In: Reinhold Baumstark (Ed.): Das goldene Roessl. A masterpiece of Parisian court art around 1400. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Bavarian National Museum, Munich, March 3 to April 20, 1995. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7774-6700-6 , pp. 52–57.
Editing
  • Bavarian National Museum. Handbook of art and cultural history collections. Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7774-8800-3 .
  • The Mohrenkopf Cup by Christoph Jamnitzer. Exhibition catalog. Bavarian National Museum, Munich 2002.
  • with Ingolf Bauer: The Bavarian National Museum 1855–2005. 150 years of collecting, researching, exhibiting. Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7774-2885-X .
  • Conrat Meit: Renaissance sculptor; 'likewise I have not seen any'. for the exhibition of the same name in the Bavarian National Museum, Munich, December 1, 2006 to March 18, 2007. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7774-3385-3 .
  • Castle Trausnitz Chamber of Art and Curiosities, branch museum of the Bavarian National Museum. edited by Sigrid Sangl. Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-925058-60-8 .
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterpieces from 300 to 1550. For the exhibition of the same name in the Bavarian National Museum, Munich, May 11 to September 16, 2007; October 30, 2007 to January 20, 2008 under the title Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7774-3565-7 .
  • Michael Koch: Masterpieces of Art Nouveau in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich. Anoldsche Art Publ., Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-89790-333-3 .
  • Baroque and Rococo. Masterpieces of the 17th and 18th centuries. Sieveking-Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-944874-36-4 .
  • Bella Figura. European bronze art in southern Germany around 1600. on the occasion of the exhibition Bella Figura. European bronze art in southern Germany around 1600 from February 6th to May 25th 2015 in the Bavarian National Museum, Munich. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7774-2358-6 .

Renate Eikelmann wrote forewords to numerous other catalogs and anthologies.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Mayer: "Giving up was out of the question". In: sueddeutsche.de . June 29, 2018, accessed July 1, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Christoph Wiedemann: Fighting spirit: Renate Eikelmann and the Bavarian National Museum. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. No. 267, November 19, 2015, p. R4, accessed December 19, 2015.
  3. ^ A b c d Jeannette Neustadt: The most beautiful old Europeans. In: The world . June 6, 2007, accessed December 19, 2015.
  4. ↑ Susanne Hermanski: Kammel replaces Eikelmann. Bavarian National Museum receives new director in July. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 55, March 7, 2018, p. R14.
  5. ^ Bavarian National Museum - From the GNM to the BNM. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b c Evelyn Vogel in conversation with Renate Eikelmann: It gives me great pleasure now. The General Director of the National Museum knows how to give large houses a new look. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. July 9, 2015.
  7. ↑ Evelyn Vogel: Ready for the stage. After 15 years of renovation, the treasure chest on Prinzregentenstrasse shines in new splendor. Sophisticated lighting puts the presentation of the baroque and rococo exhibition in the right light. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. July 8, 2015, accessed December 20, 2015.
  8. ^ Bavarian National Museum: Cleveland Museum shows European masterpieces. May 24, 2007, accessed December 19, 2015.
  9. ↑ Barbara Reitter-Welter: Bavaria and the Middle Kingdom. www.welt.de, March 22, 2009, accessed on March 18, 2016.
  10. ↑ Harald Eggebrecht: Full of curiosity about luxury and fashions. Imperial chinoiserie in exotic colors: The Bavarian National Museum is showing the exhibition 'The Wittelsbachers and the Middle Kingdom'. www.sueddeutsche.de, May 17, 2010, accessed on March 18, 2016.
  11. ↑ Bags make the man. According to sociologists, a handbag should be able to trigger short attacks of hatred and violent love. A Munich exhibition is now showing 250 leather bags, clutches and Kelly bags from six centuries. Because not only women are addicted to bags: a Bavarian elector never went hunting without them. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. April 11, 2013, accessed December 20, 2015.
  12. ↑ 80 master bronzes and 25 drawings. World art in Munich: 'Bella Figura' delights art lovers. www.focus.de, May 13, 2015, accessed December 20, 2015.
  13. ↑ Acquisitions for the museum by the Friends and Sponsors of the Bavarian National Museum , accessed on December 19, 2015.
  14. ↑ The Bollert Collection goes to Munich - and Berlin sulks . In: Welt am Sonntag . January 25, 2004, accessed December 19, 2015.
  15. ↑ Sebastian Preuss: Today the Bode-Museum receives Riemenschneider's relief of Saint Anna and her husbands: scene of three marriages. In: Berliner Zeitung . February 19, 2007, accessed December 19, 2015.
  16. ↑ Press Office Ministry for Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg: Württembergisches Landesmuseum under new management: Dr. Cornelia Ewigleben becomes director on May 1st. www.idw-online.de, January 20, 2005, accessed December 18, 2015.
  17. ^ Announcement from the House of Bavarian History on the composition of the scientific advisory board , www.hdbg.de, accessed on December 18, 2015.
  18. ↑ Communication from the Kulturstiftung der Länder on the composition of the Board of Trustees , www.kulturstiftung.de, accessed on December 20, 2015.
  19. ^ Announcement from the Germanisches Nationalmuseum on the composition of the Foundation's administrative board , www. gnm.de, accessed on December 18, 2015.
  20. ↑ Communication on the composition of the Board of Trustees of the Reuschel Foundation , www.sammlung-reuschel.de, accessed on December 18, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Eikelmann, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Gutersloh