Ulrike Lorenz

Ulrike Lorenz (* 1963 in Gera ), at times Ulrike Rüdiger , is a German art historian and museum director. She has been President of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar since August 2019 .

Life

Ulrike Lorenz grew up in a family of goldsmiths in the GDR and studied art science and archeology at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig from 1983 to 1988 . She graduated with honors. In 2000 she did her doctorate at the Bauhaus University Weimar on the German-Norwegian avant-garde architect Thilo Schoder .

In 1989 she was commissioned to design the new Otto-Dix-Haus museum in Gera. Half a year after its opening, she took over the management of the Gera art collection . In addition to working through the history of art and architecture in Gera and Thuringia in the 20th century, Lorenz established the Gera art collection as the center of Otto Dix research and built up one of the largest publicly owned Dix collections. In 2003 she also took over the management of the Gera City Museum , for which she was responsible for a general renovation and the first redesign of the permanent exhibition after the end of the GDR.

From 2004 to 2008 Lorenz was director of the Ostdeutsche Galerie art forum in Regensburg, and since 2007 she has also been chairwoman of the foundation of the same name, supported by the federal government, the Free State of Bavaria and the city of Regensburg. In 2008 she received the Friedrich Baur Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich for the new conception of the Art Forum .

From January 2009 until she moved to the Klassik Stiftung Weimar in 2019, Ulrike Lorenz was director of the Kunsthalle Mannheim , one of the first modern citizen collections in the world. Under her leadership, a new building for the Kunsthalle was completed on time and on budget and opened in 2018.

From 2007 to 2009 she was a member of the jury of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes , from 2010 to 2018 a member of the board of the German Museum Association . In May 2014 she was elected a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

In 2018 she was awarded the Frauenbrücke Prize for the internal unity of Germany .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• with Wolfgang Ullrich : What does the museum have to do? What can the museum do? A dispute. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-96098-288-3 .
• Otto Dix. Violencia y Pasión. Mexico City 2016, ISBN 978-607-97210-0-8 ; ISBN 978-3-945048-19-1 .
• with Stefanie Patruno, Christoph Wagner: pure sculpture. Kunsthalle Mannheim. Kehrer, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86828-487-4 .
• with Beatrice von Bormann: Dix / Beckmann. Myth world. Hirmer, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7774-2009-7 .
• with Inge Herold, Stefanie Patruno: Masterpieces. Painting and sculpture. Kunsthalle Mannheim. Wienand, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86832-164-7 .
• with Bogomir Ecker , Stefanie Patruno: Only sculpture! The Mannheim sculpture project. Kehrer, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86828-385-3 .
• Bruce Nauman . The real artist. Mannheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-89165-222-0 .
• Magdalena Jetelová . Landscapeof Transformation. Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86832-030-5 .
• Foreign home. Art in Baden-Württemberg. Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-88423-344-3 .
• Tobias Rehberger . Public 1997-2009. Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86832-016-9 .
• Bridge. Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-8228-5471-6 .
• with Marie-Amélie zu Salm-Salm, Hans-Werner Schmidt: Lovis Corinth and the birth of modernity. Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-86678-177-1 , ISBN 978-3-89188-117-0 (museum edition).
• Otto Dix. World & sensuality. Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-89188-109-6 .
• Otto Dix dessinateur. In: Otto Dix. Designs d'une guerre à l'autre. Gallimard 2003, ISBN 2-07-011733-2 ; ISBN 2-84426-167-1 .
• Thilo Schoder . An architect in the field of tension of modernity. Jena 2001 [= dissertation, catalog raisonné], ISBN 3-931743-40-3 .
• Inside views. Art in Thuringia: 1945 to today. Ed .: Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen, Frankfurt / Main 1999, ISBN 3-910051-27-8 .
• Thilo Schoder. Life and work in Germany. Jena 1997, ISBN 3-931743-13-6 .
• Between. Contemporary art in Germany. Catalog for the exhibition on the occasion of the German Presidency in the Council of the EU in Brussels. Ed .: Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart 1994.
• Wolf Vostell . Life = art = life. Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-363-00605-5 ; ISBN 3-910051-09-X .
• Testigo de su época, contra el espíritu de su época. In: Museo Vostell Malpartida , Cáceres. (Ed.): Junta de Extremadura, Merida 1994, ISBN 84-7671-991-4 .
• Greetings from the war. The field postcards from the Otto Dix collection. Gera 1991, ISBN 3-910051-03-0 .
• The Bauhaus student Kurt Schmidt . Life and work. Art collection Gera 1990 [= catalog of works], ISBN 978-3-910051-02-7 .

Editorships

• City within the city. The new Kunsthalle Mannheim. Mannheim 2018, ISBN 978-3-89823-565-5 .
• Fritz Schwegler . Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7757-4203-0 (museum edition) ISBN 978-3-89165-230-5 .
• with Christine Hopfengart: Forays through the modern age. The graphic collection of the Kunsthalle Mannheim. Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-86832-257-6 .
• New spaces for art. International architectural competition at the Kunsthalle Mannheim. Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86828-461-4 .
• Otto Dix. Letters. Edited v. Gudrun Schmidt, Wienand, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86832-163-0 .
• Thomas Hirschhorn. It's Burning Everywhere. Kehrer, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86828-214-6 .
• Discovered! Rebel artists in the GDR. Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-89165-221-3 .
• Dix avant Dix. The youth and early work (1903–1914). Jena 2000, ISBN 3-931743-36-5 .
• Franz Erhard Walther. See with the body. Work development, work examples 1957–1997. Art collection Gera, Gera 1997, ISBN 3-910051-19-7 .
• Thilo Schoder. Architecture and design 1888-1979. Glaux, Jena 1997, ISBN 3-931743-14-4 .

Web links

• CV on the website of the city of Mannheim
• President of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar
• Deutschlandfunk cultural issues. Debates and documents of October 6, 2019: “Enjoy the differences between East and West”. Ulrike Lorenz, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, about positive images of Germany 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall in conversation with Änne Seidel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Weimar Classic Foundation: Dr. Ulrike Lorenz: President of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Retrieved August 2, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Ulrike Lorenz: Thilo Schoder. An architect in the field of tension of modernity. Life and work in Germany (1888–1936). Glaux, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-931743-40-3
3. ↑ Jens-Uwe Sommerschuh: She lives in the house where the artist was born - in: art. Das Kunstmagazin, No. 5, May 1997, p. 44.
4. ↑ Ulrike Rüdiger (Lorenz): Götzendämmerung at the Gauforum - in: Weimar Kultur Journal, Vol. 8, No. 7/1999, pp. 12-14.
5. ↑ Jürgen Hohmeyer, Hinan ins rousende Leben - in: DER SPIEGEL 46/2000, p. 276.
6. ↑ Andreas Hergeth: The only chance is to show profile, in: HANDELSBLATT 21/22 September 2001, No. 183, p. 50; Susanne Altmann: Otto Dix in Gera and other fortunes, in: art special. Art & Career, 2002, p. 16.
7. ↑ Annika Wind: Departure in front of colorful walls, in: Mannheimer Morgen, October 21, 2008.
8. ^ Konstanze Crüwell: Hochform in Mannheim - in: FAZ, November 10, 2008; art 10/2010, p. 57.
9. ↑ Biography from: Website of the Berlin Academy of the Arts
10. ↑ Manfred Stolpe honored with the German Internal Unity Award. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .