Stefan Kraus
Stefan Kraus (* 1960 in Cologne ) is a German art historian and since 2008 director of the Kolumba Museum , the art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne .
Act
Kraus studied art history, German and pedagogy. From 1982 to 1989 he was a freelancer at the Kölnischer Kunstverein . In 1991 he received his doctorate in art history with a thesis on Walter Ophey and in the same year he became curator at the Kolumba in 1991 , the direction of which he was appointed to succeed Joachim M. Plotzek in 2008 .
The Archdiocese of Cologne's art museum, which has already won many architectural awards, was voted “ Museum of the Year ” in 2013. Kraus has been helping to develop the concept of the museum since 1991 and, together with his team, stands for "the extraordinary care with which it is played". On November 14, 2017, he received the Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge Prize for unconventional art mediation from the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation in Berlin , endowed with 10,000 euros. The juror was Matthias Flügge .
Fonts
Monographs:
- Walter Ophey 1882–1930. Life and work with a catalog raisonné of paintings and prints. [zugl. Diss. Univ. Cologne 1991] Hatje Cantz Verlag , Stuttgart 1993 [1. Ed.], ISBN 978-3-77570-403-8 .
- Formats determine the content. Art business, art and art education. From: Wewerka Archive , Magdeburg and Alexander Verlag , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-89581-405-1 .
Selected contributions, editorships, curations:
- (Collaborator): Bauhaus utopias. Edited by Wulf Herzogenrath . Cantz, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-922608-97-3 .
- (Ed. With Wulf Herzogenrath ): Erich Consemüller. Photographs Bauhaus-Dessau. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-88814-310-1 .
- (Ed.): Thinking. Artist books collection Missmahl. Kolumba, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813182-6-5 .
- (Ed.): Paul Thek, Shrine. Kolumba, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813182-7-2 .
- (Ed.): Choice two. Kolumba, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813182-4-1 .
- (Contributor): You see more than you know. In: Monika Bartholomé - the fullness of life. Drawings in the new praise of God. Academy Franz-Wärme-Haus, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-930322-62-6 , pp. 11–56.
- (Ed.): Pas de deux. Roman-Germanic Kolumba. Kolumba, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819975-0-7 .
- (Ed.): Mythical landscapes. Kolumba, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-9818008-7-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Stefan Kraus in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Andreas Main: Art is a necessary enrichment Interview with Stefan Kraus on Deutschlandfunk on September 5, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ Roland Schappert: Stefan Kraus. Museum director. In: Kunstforum International , Volume 239 (2016), p. 302.
- ↑ Dr. Stefan Kraus director of Kolumba. stadtzauber Kulturmagazin, December 2008.
- ↑ Uta Winterhager: playing by heart. Happiness experiences in Kolumba. In: Bauwelt , 2015, 17–18, pp. 2–3 [accessed on January 18, 2019].
- ^ German Foundation Center: Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge Prizes for Unconventional Art Education , accessed on November 14, 2017
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SURNAME | Kraus, Stefan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and museum director |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |