Thomas Deecke

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Thomas Deecke (born February 14, 1940 in Lübeck ; † July 4, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German art historian and founding director of the Weserburg Museum in Bremen .

Life

Deecke studied art history, classical archeology and modern history at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München , as well as at the Free University of Berlin . At the FU he received his doctorate in 1973 on The Drawings of Lovis Corinth - Studies on Style Development with Otto von Simson .

In 1966 he married his wife Hilda Peill and had their son Kaspar with her in 1969 and daughter Sophia in 1973.

From 1973 to 1978 he was assistant to director Karl Ruhrberg at the Berlin artist program of the German Academic Exchange Service (BKP / DAAD) in Berlin. 1977 Organization and implementation of the three-part exhibition Berlin Now in New York on behalf of the Senator for Cultural Affairs in the Goethe House NY, the New School for Social Research and a loft in SoHo. From 1978 to 1985 he was managing director and artistic director of the Westphalian Art Association in Münster. He then worked as a freelance art historian, art exhibitor, art critic (das kunstwerk) a. a. active for the Goethe-Institut Munich. In 2000 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Bremen .

In 1991 he was instrumental in founding the Weserburg Museum in Bremen and became its founding director. In 2005 he was replaced by Carsten Ahrens . After the sale of the Ludwig Roselius Museum collection in 2012, which was donated to the Weserburg in 2005, Deecke turned against his successor and a. in open letters after waiting six years against Ahrens and his policy in the Weserburg. Carsten Ahrens resigned on June 10, 2013.

2001 Curator of the Fellbach Triennial for Small Sculpture. 2006/2007 curator of the European Triennial for Small-Scale Sculpture in Murska Sobota / Slovenia. 2016 curator of the exhibition 'Where to go with beauty?' the visual arts class of the Saxon Academy of the Arts Dresden.

From around 2000 he was an appraiser for the artistic work of Lovis Corinth (1858–1925) and until 2015 he was an advisor to the archive for artists' bequests , Brauweiler Abbey , the Kunstfonds Foundation , Bonn, and until 2016 as a member of the Triennale for Small Sculpture Fellbach , the Board of Trustees of the Center for Light Art Unna and the Archives Council of the Akademie der Künste Berlin (resigned November 2015).

Act

In 1995, Thomas Deecke and Peter Friese , the then curator of the New Weserburg Museum in Bremen, set up its first real exhibition with the imaginary Museum of Modern Art Munich founded by Hans-Peter Porzner . As a result, there was a whole series of exhibitions on the subject of the art world and institutional criticism . In this context, the exhibition Originals in particular is real / false. Imitation, copy, quotation, appropriation, forgery in contemporary art in the Weserburg (1999) and product: art - where is the original together with Katerina Vatsella, 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kreiszeitung from July 6, 2017 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Entry at prabook.com , accessed on July 7, 2017
  3. ↑ Goya exhibition . November 25, 1995 - January 29, 1996. Entry on the online portal of kunstaspekte. Retrieved March 10, 2016
  4. ↑ Porzner - Exhibitions until 1997 Osthaus Museum Hagen, (see material before the museum was renamed in 2009: Michael Fehr, KEOM 0.2 .) Retrieved on March 10, 2016
  5. ^ Klaus von Beyme: Cultural Policy and National Identity. Footnote 69. Thomas Deecke: Against the entertainment business. Where is the foresight of cultural policy? In: FAZ, November 8, 1995, p. 37. March 2016
  6. ↑ Originals real / false. Imitation, copy, quotation, appropriation, forgery in contemporary art. Curator Thomas Deecke. Exhibition catalog with texts by: Mike Bidlo, Ernst Caramelle, Thomas Deecke, Peter Niemann, Sturtevant, Emmet Williams. August 25 - October 24, 1999. Entry on the website of the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved March 10, 2016
  7. ↑ Product: Art - where is the original. Curator Katerina Vatsella, Thomas Deecke. Exhibition catalog with texts by Katerina Vatsella, Thomas Deecke, Danièle Perrier, Ina Conzen, Guy Schraenen, Hanne Zech, Dieter Daniels, Peter Friese, Bremen 1997
personal data
SURNAME Deecke, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 2017
Place of death Berlin