Ulrich Schmidt (art historian)

Ulrich Schmidt (born October 16, 1930 in Berlin ) is a German art historian .

He first studied law, then from 1955 art history, classical archeology and history in Frankfurt , Münster and Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 1963. From 1972 to 1982 he was director of the Wiesbaden Museum . At the beginning of his term of office, the state of Hesse took over the museum on January 1, 1973. From 1982 until his retirement in 1995 he was director of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel .

Publications (selection)

• The private art collections in Frankfurt am Main from their beginnings to the formation of the pure art collection . Dissertation Göttingen 1963.

literature

• Jürgen M. Lehmann: Biographies of the scientific staff at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Kassel 1913–1988 . In: Art in Hessen and am Mittelrhein 28, 1988, p. 165.
• Alexander Klar: The Wiesbaden Museum 1825–1915 . In: Museum Wiesbaden. The art collections . Hirmer, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-774-2464-4, pp. 31–32.