Thorsten Rodiek

Thorsten Rodiek (* 1954 in Bremen ) is a German art historian and museum director.

Life

Rodiek studied art history, classical archeology and Romance studies at the University of Göttingen and the Courtauld Institute of Art . In 1981 he was at the University of Stuttgart with a dissertation on the Altare della Patria Dr. phil. PhD. In 1982 he volunteered at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart , in 1985/86 he became a research assistant at the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg and then director of the Kunsthalle Emden . In 1991 he became director of the Osnabrück Cultural History Museum , which was expanded to include the Felix Nussbaum House during his tenure . From April 2000 Rodiek succeeded Gerhard Gerkens as director of the museums for art and cultural history in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck . During his tenure, the St. Annen Museum was expanded to include the St. Annen Art Gallery with a museum shop and bistro. The architecture of the Kunsthalle , built in a modern way in 2004, including the remains of the former church of St. Annen's monastery that burned down in 1843, is a gift from the Possehl Foundation to the Hanseatic City of Lübeck.

He was retired in June 2016. His successor was Dagmar Täube .

Fonts

• The Monumento nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II in Rome. (European university publications series 28 art history volume 30), P. Lang, Frankfurt / Main - New York - Paris 1983. Zugl .: Stuttgart, Univ., Diss., 1981 ISBN 3-8204-5418-7
• James Stirling, the new Staatsgalerie Stuttgart , Hatje, Stuttgart 1984
• Daniel Libeskind - Museum without an exit: the Felix Nussbaum House of the Cultural History Museum Osnabrück , 2nd edition, Wasmuth, Tübingen 1999
• St. Annen Art Gallery in Lübeck . Edited by Herbert Perl, Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-88506-537-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Thorsten Rodiek in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]
2. ^ Farewell to Dr. Thorsten Rodiek , accessed December 9, 2017