Tayfun Belgin

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Tayfun Belgin (born August 3, 1956 in Zonguldak , Turkey ) is a German museum director and art historian.

Life

Belgin came to Germany in 1961 from his native Turkey. From 1967 to 1971 he attended the German-Turkish boarding school in Istanbul and graduated from high school in 1979 in Wuppertal . For a short time he played drums in a rock band and then studied art history, philosophy and history at the Ruhr University in Bochum , among others with Max Imdahl . In 1991 he received his doctorate in Bochum with a thesis on Rolf-Gunter Dienst .

From 1985 to 1988 he headed the Kunstverein Ruhr e. V. in Essen and then worked in the renowned Essen gallery Neher. From 1990 to 2003, Belgin was curator of the collection and, since 1999, also head of department at the Museum Ostwall in Dortmund . From 2003 to 2007 he directed the Kunsthalle Krems . In 2007 he was appointed director of the Osthaus Museum Hagen , which was founded in 1902 as Museum Folkwang and the world's first museum for contemporary art by Karl Ernst Osthaus . Belgin has headed the newly formed department of culture in the city of Hagen since 2012.

Tayfun Belgin curated numerous nationally and internationally important exhibitions, for example Von der Brücke zum Blauer Reiter , Alexej von Jawlensky - Reise, Freunde, Wandlungen and retrospectives on Miró, Immendorff, Lüpertz and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, among others.

Publications (selection)

  • Rolf-Gunter service. Painting and Interpretation, Bochum 1992
  • Art of Informel. Painting and sculpture after 1952. Cologne, 1997
  • Alexej von Jawlensky. Travels, Friends, Changes, Heidelberg 1998
  • Joan Miró. Works from Mallorca; Paintings, sculptures and works on paper from 1966 to 1981, Bad Breisig 1999
  • Turkey. A country in search of the present, Vienna 2006
  • Triumph of beauty. The era of salon painting from Makart to Rossetti; (Catalog for the exhibition Triumph of Beauty: The Age of Salon Painting from Makart to Rossetti), Krems 2006
  • Jörg Immendorff - What painting can mean to us, Klosterneuburg 2008
  • (Ed.) The Folkwang Impulse. The museum from 1902 until today, Lüdenscheid 2012
  • (Eds.) From Berlin: Pavel Feinstein, Johannes Grützke, Johannes Heisig, Lilli Hill, Torsten Holtz, Andreas Leißner, Bettina Moras, Heike Ruschmeyer, Michael Sowa, Volker Stelzmann, Lüdenscheid 2012
  • (Ed.) Markus Lüpertz - The painted horizon, Düsseldorf 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New artistic director of the Kunsthalle Krems ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.redaktionsbuero.at
  2. ↑ Brief CV and interview with Tayfun Belgin
  3. ^ Culture in Hagen - Interview with Tayfun Belgin
personal data
SURNAME Belgin, Tayfun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Zonguldak