Ursula Zeller
Ursula Zeller (* 1958 in Ehingen (Danube) ) is a German art historian , curator and museum director.
Live and act
Ursula Zeller studied German , history and art history from 1977 to 1982 at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . She then worked for the Museum Education Service in Stuttgart and for the museum education department of the State Gallery in Stuttgart . For 1984 to 1986 she was awarded a scholarship of studienstiftung and in 1987 with the work of the early days of the political picture poster in Germany from 1848 to 1918 at the University of Tübingen doctorate . In 1987/1988 she was a postdoc at the Getty Foundation at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University .
From 1988 to 1990 she completed a traineeship at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and was deputy director of the gallery of the city of Stuttgart from 1990 to 1995 . Since 1990 she and Ruth Frehner have been in charge of the James Joyce Foundation in Zurich , headed by Fritz Senn . In 1995 she became head of the art department at the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations in Stuttgart, from 2008 to 2014 she was Wolfgang Meighörner's successor and head of the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, her successor being Claudia Emmert . Since 2014 she has been director of the “Alimentarium” nutrition museum in Vevey , Switzerland.
Ursula Zeller designs and organizes exhibitions and symposia on the subjects of art and art education, art exchanges and biennials, including for the Goethe Institute . She publishes articles on contemporary art and is the editor or co-editor of catalogs and compilations.
Ursula Zeller lives in La Tour-de-Peilz .
Fonts
- The early days of the political picture poster in Germany (1848–1918). Dissertation. University of Tübingen 1987. Ed. co., Ed. Cordeliers, Ed. Cadre, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-89216-015-5 .
- Christoph Freimann . Sculptures 1990–1995. Text by Ursula Zeller. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 1996, ISBN 3-89322-809-8 .
- The image of reality as the revealed. In: Barbara Klemm . Chiaroscuro. Photographs from Germany. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86984-031-4 , pp. 10–15.
Editing
- with Johann-Karl Schmidt , Tijs Visser: Jan Fabre : Der Leimrutenmann. Cantz, Ostfildern 1995, ISBN 3-89322-751-2 .
- with Ruth Frehner: A Collideorscape of Joyce. Festschrift for Fritz Senn . Lilliput, Dublin 1998, ISBN 1-901866-10-6 .
- Art and art education in Central and Eastern Europe. Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart 1999.
- James Joyce . Thought through my eyes. Schwabe, Basel 2000, ISBN 3-7965-1593-2 .
- The German contributions to the Venice Biennale 1895–2007. DuMont, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-8321-9016-3 .
- with Dirk Blübaum , Rainer Stamm: Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler . 1899–1940 Wasmuth, Tübingen / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8030-3328-4 .
- Johann Heinrich Schönfeld . World of gods, saints and heroic myths. DuMont, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-8321-9243-3 .
- with Frank-Thorsten Moll: Anton Stankowski . Photography. Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-88423-420-4 .
- Graf Zeppelin on his 175th birthday. Gessler, Friedrichshafen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86136-180-0 .
- with Claudio Hils: Greser & Lenz . This is probably a joke! Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-88423-468-6 .
- Zero . Between heaven and earth. Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-88423-502-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ursula Zeller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Ursula Zeller at perlentaucher.de
- Short biography of Ursula Zeller on universes-in-universe.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in arttheses.net
- ↑ Ursula Zeller goes to Switzerland. In: Südkurier . 20th December 2013
- ↑ Team on alimentarium.ch
- ↑ Ursula Zeller on moneyhouse.ch (entry "Ursula Zeller - Alimentarium")
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zeller, Ursula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian, curator and museum director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ehingen (Danube) |