Wolf-Dieter Dube
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Wolf-Dieter Dube (13 July 1934 – 9 September 2015)[1] was a German art historian.
Life and career[]
Born in Schwerin, Dube studied art history and received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen in 1963. From 1969 on he was director of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, from 1976 on also deputy director general of the Bavarian State Painting Collections. From 1983 to 1999 he was General Director of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.[2]
After 1990, together with , he led the reunification of those collections of the National Museums that had been separated by the to whom?] and at the same time to the German museum landscape. He gave the decisive impulse for the construction of the Gemäldegalerie am Kulturforum, and the opening of the Hamburger Bahnhof as a museum for contemporary art is also associated with his name.[citation needed] Dube was author of numerous specialist publications.
. He made a historic contribution to the Berlin[Dube died in Berlin at the age of 81.
Honours[]
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- 1986: Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- 1989: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1st class
- 1993: Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit
- 1999: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Prize
- 1999: Order of Merit of Berlin
Publications (selection)[]
- Süddeutsche Bronzemörser. Dissertation Universität Göttingen 1963, DNB-IDN 481907157.
- with Annemarie Dube: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Das graphische Werk. 2 volumes, Prestel, Munich 1967, 2nd edition 1980, 3rd edition 1991, ISBN 3-7913-0479-8 (Münchner Forschungen zur Kunstgeschichte).
- Les expressionnistes.[3]
References[]
- ^ Jens Bisky: Nachruf: Wolf-Dieter Dube ist tot, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 10 September 2015.
- ^ Wolf-Dieter Dube on Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- ^ Les expressionnistes on halldulivre.com
Further reading[]
- Internationales Biographisches Archiv 14/1999, 29 March 1999.
External links[]
- Literature by and about Wolf-Dieter Dube in the German National Library catalogue
- Archives of Culture: Conversation with Wolf-Dieter Dube, Getty-Institute Newsletter, 1993
- German art historians
- Directors of museums in Germany
- Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Recipients of the Order of Merit of Berlin
- Commanders of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- 1934 births
- 2015 deaths
- People from Schwerin