Stefan Gronert
Stefan Gronert (* 1964 ) is a German art historian and exhibition curator .
life and work
Gronert studied art history , education , German literature and philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum. In 1990 he completed his studies with an MA and a thesis on "Black Paintings" by Frank Stella . In 1993 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the Erasmus portraits of Hans Holbein the Younger in Bochum. Gronert examines a group of painted portraits of Erasmus of Rotterdam from 1523 and around 1532, which are in Basel, Paris and New York.
In the same year he joined the Kunstmuseum Bonn as a volunteer . Since 1996 he has headed the graphic collection there, which also includes an extensive photographic inventory. From 2009 to 2016 Gronert was also curator for contemporary art at the Kunstmuseum Bonn and specialist editor of sehepunkte . Since 2001 he has been a lecturer at the art history institutes of the Universities of Bonn and Cologne with a focus on modern and contemporary photography .
Since May 2016 Gronert has been working as a curator for photography and media art at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover. In 2017 he initiated a photo theory blog financed by the Lower Saxony Foundation .
He is currently a lecturer at the art history institutes of the University of Osnabrück and the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig .
Curated exhibitions (selection)
- 2019: Fiona Tan: Goraiko (Sprengel Museum Hannover)
- 2019: Targeted settings: Overpainted photography in contemporary art (Sprengel Museum Hannover)
- 2019: Louisa Clement: Remote Control (Sprengel Museum Hannover / Ludwig Forum for international art, Aachen)
- 2018: Anne Collier: Photographic (Sprengel Museum Hannover / Fotomuseum Winterthur)
- 2018: Short story (s) of photography, # 1 (Sprengel Museum Hannover)
- 2018: Figures: Rineke Dijkstra and the collection of the Sprengel Museum Hannover. SPECTRUM - International Prize for Photography from the Lower Saxony Foundation (Sprengel Museum Hannover)
- 2016: With different eyes: The portrait in contemporary photography (Kunstmuseum Bonn)
- 2015: Ceal Floyer (Kunstmuseum Bonn)
- 2014 Andreas Schulze - Window to the courtyard (Kunstmuseum Bonn)
- 2013: Mary Heilmann and Blinky Palermo (Kunstmuseum Bonn)
- 2012: Lewis Baltz , photographs (Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kestnergesellschaft Hannover)
- 2011: Laura Owens (Kunstmuseum Bonn)
- 2010: the west shines! (Bonn Art Museum)
- 2009: Franz Ackermann (Kunstmuseum Bonn)
- 2008: Gert & Uwe Tobias (Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunstverein Heilbronn)
- 2007: John Baldessari : Music (Kunstmuseum + Kunstverein Bonn)
- 2006: Gerhard Richter: Portraits , Museumsberg Flensburg
- 2005 Jörg Sasse (Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunstverein Hannover)
- 2004: Gerhard Richter. Printed! Prints, photo editions and artist books (with Hubertus Butin ), (Kunstmuseum Bonn, then Kunstmuseum Luzern and other locations)
- 1999: Great Illusions: Demand, Gursky, Ruscha (Kunstmuseum Bonn, MoCA Miami)
- 1997–2007: Drawing today I-IV (Kunstmuseum Bonn), exhibition series
Fonts (selection)
- (Ed.) Fiona Tan: Goraiko, Van Zoetendaal Publishers, Amsterdam 2019, ISBN 978-90-72532-41-1
- (Ed. :) Rineke Dijkstra: Figurines / Figures , Sprengel Museum Hannover 2018, ISBN 978-3-89169-241-7
- Sigmar Polke: Girlfriends , London: Afterall 2017, ISBN 978-1-84638-182-9
- Jeff Wall: Specific Pictures , Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-8296-0705-6
- with Hubertus Butin : Gerhard Richter, Editions 1965–2013: Catalog Raisonné. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-7757-3519-3 .
- The Düsseldorf Photo School. Photographs 1961–2008. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8296-0803-9 . (The first edition appeared in 2009)
- Territories. Photography. Boris Becker. Wienand, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-87909-612-0 .
- Jawlensky. Great Meditation: An Art Monograph. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-458-33683-4 .
- Image individuality: The "Erasmus" images by Hans Holbein the Younger. Schwabe, Basel 1996, ISBN 3-7965-0999-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Stefan Gronert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Stefan Gronert at Perlentaucher
Individual evidence
- ^ Stefan Gronert: Image Individuality. The "Erasmus" pictures by Hans Holbein the Younger. Schwabe, Basel 1996, ISBN 3-7965-0999-1 .
- ↑ photography talks - Contemporary photography in conversation. Art History Institute, Bonn.
- ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany: Sprengel Museum in Hanover: Appreciation for photography - HAZ - Hannoversche Allgemeine. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved December 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Photo Art Theory - The Sprengel FOTO blog
- ^ Exhibition website
- ↑ Burkhard Maus: Andreas Schulz - Window to the Courtyard ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: art - the art magazine . Blog from December 10, 2014.
- ↑ Andrea Gnam: Quality Seal of Photography . In: Deutschlandfunk . October 14, 2014.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gronert, Stefan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian, exhibition curator and non-fiction author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |