Thorsten Smidt

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Thorsten Smidt, Exhibition Director of the House of History Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany

Thorsten Smidt (born June 20, 1971 in Lemgo , Lippe district ) is a German art historian and has been the exhibition director of the House of History Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany since 2016 .

Life

Smidt studied art history, modern German literature, philosophy and Polish studies at the University of Cologne , the University of Vienna and the University of Hamburg . In his doctoral thesis, funded by the German Historical Institute in Warsaw , he examined the relationship between art and politics in the People's Republic of Poland . After graduating as Dr. phil. In 2002 he started an academic traineeship at the Staatliche Museen Kassel (today: Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel ). There he was curator of the exhibition Johannes Vermeer: ​​The Geographer. The science of painting . In 2004, Smidt moved to the Städelsche Kunstinstitut (today: Städel Museum) as a research assistant . From 2005 he was a research associate at the Hessen Kassel Museum Landscape, project manager and curator of the Hessian State Exhibition 2008. King Lustik !? Jérôme Bonaparte and the model state Kingdom of Westphalia . He then headed the exhibition conception and design division at projekt2508 GmbH in Bonn . In this function he was the curator of cultural-historical and technical-historical exhibitions such as the Hessian State Exhibition 2013 Expedition Grimm , the Lower Saxony State Exhibition 2014 When the Royals came from Hanover , the permanent exhibitions of Drachenburg Castle in Königswinter, the Spohr Museum in Kassel, the Hammer Museum in Hasloch , the adventure elevator Altena , the decentralized local history museum MonChronik in Monheim am Rhein . Since 2016 he has been Exhibition Director of the House of History Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany. In this function, he is responsible for the permanent and temporary exhibitions at all four locations of the foundation, the loan exhibition program as well as fundamental questions about exhibition conception and design.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • State Museums of Kassel. A tour . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-422-06540-6 .
  • Johannes Vermeer: ​​The Geographer. The science of painting (= monographic series , volume 10). Staatliche Museen Kassel, Kassel 2003, ISBN 978-3-931787-23-3 .
  • Art alongside martial law. The group “Gruppa” in Warsaw in the 1980s , Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-89825-740-4 .

As editor

  • Expedition Grimm. Hessian State Exhibition 2013 (exhibition cat. Documenta-Halle, Kassel 2013). Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-95498-029-1 .

Articles (selection)

  • From contemporary witnesses and service robots. The renewed permanent exhibition in the Bonn House of History. In: Gregor Isenbort (Ed.): Postref Preref. Exhibit the future. Scenography colloquia. (2018), pp. 60–79
  • The arts in the service of the new rule. The Empire style as the “corporate design” of the Kingdom of Westphalia . In: Andreas Hedwig (Hrsg.): Napoleon and the Kingdom of Westphalia. System of rule and model state policy . Elwert Verlag, Marburg 2008, pp. 211-22, ISBN 978-3-7708-1324-7 .
  • Le style Empire. The formes mobilisées au service du nouveau royaume . In: Jérôme Napoléon. Roi de Westphalie (exhibition cat. Musée national du château de Fontainebleau 2008). Paris 2008, pp. 77-84, ISBN 978-2-71185-463-9 .
  • The art theft in Kassel. The downside and consequence of the Napoleonic modernization project . In: Maike Bartsch (Ed.): King Lustik !? Jérôme Bonaparte and the model state Kingdom of Westphalia (exhibition cat. Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel 2008). Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2008, pp. 38–45, ISBN 978-3-7774-3955-6 .
  • Art and cartography. Vermeer's “Geographer” as a paradigm . In: Lutz Hieber (ed.): The cartographic view (= culture. Research and science , Volume 6). LIT Verlag, Hamburg 2006, pp. 86-112, ISBN 978-3-8258-9879-3 .
  • "Krakow - the Mönchengladbach of the East". “New Wilde” in Poland and Germany . In: Małgorzata Omilanowska (Ed.): Walks: Artist - Artwork - Motif - Donors , Warsaw 2005, pp. 149–161, [1] .
  • Fine arts in Hessen . In: Hessian State Chancellery (Ed.): Hessen. Middle Country . Gauweiler Verlags GmbH, Heidelberg 2004, pp. 106-113, ISBN 978-3-933600-11-0 .
  • Transience and longing for eternity. Age in the artist's (self) view . In: Thomas Richter (Ed.): Age culture !? Reflections, caricature images, visions (exhib.-cat. Franckesche Stiftungen Halle). Franckesche Stiftungen, Halle 2003, pp. 131-136, ISBN 978-3-447-06329-6 .
  • Painted over walls. Cultural self-assertion as a form of resistance under Polish martial law . In: Journal for East Central Europe Research 51, Herder Institute, Marburg 2002, pp. 75–90, [2] .
  • About the history of an image. The Polish work hero in the mirror of art . In: Rainer Gries, Silke Satjukow (ed.): Socialist heroes. A cultural history of propaganda figures in Eastern Europe and the GDR . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2002, pp. 183-192, ISBN 978-3-86153-271-2 .
  • Hans Holleins Museum Abteiberg. A museum concept consisting of a city model and a mine . In: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (ed.): Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 62 , DuMont, Cologne 2001, pp. 293–308.
  • Hans Hollein. In: Andreas Beyer, Bénédicte Savoy, Wolf Tegethoff (Hrsg.): General artist lexicon. International artist database. De Gruyter Saur, undated

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.projekt2508.de/expo2508/
  2. ↑ Expedition Grimm: Taking the Right in Hand . In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine . July 25, 2013 ( hna.de [accessed June 14, 2018]).
  3. ^ WORLD: Exhibition: British Crown Jewels come to Hanover . In: THE WORLD . May 16, 2013 ( welt.de [accessed June 11, 2018]).
  4. ↑ exhibitions. Accessed June 11, 2018 (German).
  5. ^ Spohr - Spohr Museum. Retrieved June 11, 2018 .
  6. ↑ PresseBox (c) 2002–2018: Kurtz Ersa opens Hammer Museum in Hasloch. Accessed June 11, 2018 (German).
  7. ↑ The new adventure elevator to Altena Castle - Märkischer Kreis. Retrieved June 11, 2018 .
  8. ^ RP ONLINE: Monheim: Single file through history. Retrieved June 11, 2018 .
  9. ↑ a b Contact person for the House of History Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany. Retrieved June 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Smidt, Thorsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Lemgo , Lippe district