Ursel Berger

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Ursel Berger (born 1947 ) is a German art historian and museum director.

Life

Berger began studying art history in 1967; she received her doctorate in 1975 with a thesis on Andrea Palladio's early work at Munich University under Norbert Huse . She is co-author of the Braunschweig bronze catalog and published on the Dutch Renaissance sculptors Johan Gregor van der Schardt and Willem van Tetrode . In 1977 she began a traineeship at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin . When she took over the management of the Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin in 1978, her main field of work became 20th century sculpture and in particular the work of Georg Kolbe . She was the director of the Georg Kolbe Museum until the end of 2012.

Berger has organized well over 100 exhibitions with the associated publications. The catalog for the exhibition on Aristide Maillol is a major work on the French sculptor. Berger doubts the authenticity of the foundry signatures on around 200 casts of Maillol's sculptures that Dina Vierny claims to have discovered in 1978/79, and generally deals with the problem of replicas, so she was also consulted in the Arp case .

Berger received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 2008 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Verena Dollenmaier (Ed.): Glamor! The girl becomes a fine lady: depictions of women in the late Weimar Republic. Seemann Henschel, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-86502-178-6 .
  • (Ed.): Colloquium expressive sculpture - sculpture in the 1st half of the 20th century. Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-929542-19-6 .
  • Aristide Maillol. Prestel, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7913-1641-9 .
  • Light and shadow: Rodin photographs by Eugène Druet . Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin 1994.
  • with Volker Krahn: Bronzes of the Renaissance and the Baroque: Catalog of the collection. Das Museum, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-922279-29-5 .
  • Georg Kolbe - life and work. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-7861-1589-3 .
  • From Begas to Barlach . Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin 1984, DNB 850459044 .
  • The crown prince silver. Arenhövel, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-922912-03-6 .
  • Palladio's early work: buildings and drawings. Böhlau, Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-412-00157-8 . (see also: Univ. Diss., Munich 1975)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willem van Tetrode in the Dutch Wikipedia nl: Willem van Tetrode
  2. ↑ Hans Arp. Late escape from the gray area. In: Kölnische Rundschau . September 8, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Ursel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH 1947