Michael Eissenhauer

Michael Eissenhauer (born November 28, 1956 in Stuttgart) is a German art historian and director-general of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Michael Eissenhauer in the Gemäldegalerie

Biography

After gaining his Abitur (school-leaving certificate) in 1975, Michael Eissenhauer completed two years of training as a cabinetmaker before going on to study art history, classical archaeology and German literature in Tübingen and Hamburg. He received both a master's degree (1983) and a PhD (1985) from the University of Hamburg. After working as a research trainee at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg (1987–1989), he became a researcher at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin (1989–1990), returning to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum as a curator from 1991 to 1995.[1]

From 1995 to 2001 he was director of the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, and then, until 2008, director of the Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel,[1][2] which was restructured and considerably expanded under his leadership.[3]

From 2002 to 2007, Michael Eissenhauer was a member of the Committee of ICOM Deutschland and from 2003 to 2010, president of the Deutscher Museumsbundes. Since 2009 he has been a member of the Commission for Arts and Culture of the Federal Foreign Office,[4] of the board of trustees of the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain[5] as well as of the programme commission of the Martin-Gropius-Bau.[4]

In December 2007, the Board of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz appointed Michael Eissenhauer to succeed Peter-Klaus Schuster as director-general of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. He officially assumed this position on 31 October 2008.[3][6] On 1 August 2016 he also took over the post of director of the Gemäldegalerie and Skulpturensammlung at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.[7] During his tenure, on the one hand, he is perceived as a "cultural manager"[8], but on the other hand, it has been repeatedly stated that the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin need "a creative manager, not an administrator"[9].

Since the winter semester of 2012/2013, Michael Eissenhauer has been teaching at the Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte (IKB) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.[10] The university made him an honorary professor in 2016.[11]

Major works
  • Die Hamburger Wohnstiftungen des 19. Jahrhunderts : "Ein Denkmal, welches theilnehmende Liebe gestiftet hat ..." (in German), Hamburg: Christians, 1987, ISBN 3-7672-1010-X
  • "Das Humboldt-Forum im Schloss: Konzept und Ansatz", Museumskunde (in German), Berlin, 75 (2), pp. 20-24, 2010, ISSN 0027-4178
  • Eissenhauer, Michael, ed. (2019), Gemäldegalerie: 200 Masterpieces of European Painting, Leipzig: E.A. Seemann Henschel, ISBN 978-3-86502-416-9

References
  1. cf. Lebenslauf (Kulturstiftung des Bundes)
  2. cf. Museen in Kassel
  3. "Neuer Generaldirektor der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin und neuer Direktor der Nationalgalerie gewählt". Archived from the original on October 22, 2013. Retrieved 2016-06-08.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  4. Interview mit Michael Eissenhauer “Das goldene Zeitalter. Die Ära Velázquez”
  5. Der Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain: Gremien
  6. Das Fremde gehört in die Mitte. In: Der Tagesspiegel, 22. Dezember 2007; Wechsel im Amt des Generaldirektors der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin und des Direktors der Nationalgalerie Archived 2016-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Personalien im Stiftungsrat: ... Michael Eissenhauer übernimmt zusätzlich die Gemäldegalerie (Press Release dated June 25, 2015) Archived August 2, 2016, at the Wayback Machine; Generaldirektor Michael Eissenhauer übernimmt Direktion von Gemäldegalerie sowie Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst (August 1, 2016) Archived August 2, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
  8. Kerstin Krupp: Herr der staatlichen Museen in Berlin: Michael Eissenhauer, der Kulturmanager. 2. Oktober 2016, abgerufen am 10. Februar 2020 (deutsch).
  9. Boris Pofalla: Michael Eissenhauer: Eine Bilanz nach 10 Jahren. In: welt.de. 21. Oktober 2018, abgerufen am 14. Oktober 2019
  10. Vorlesungsverzeichnis Wintersemester 2012/13
  11. Honorarprofessur für Michael Eissenhauer (11.02.2016)
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