Nationality German Occupation Art historian | Name Hartwig Fischer | |
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Born 1962 (age 52–53) Hamburg, West Germany Known for Director of the British Museum Alma mater Munich University of Applied Sciences, University of Bonn | ||
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Hartwig Fischer (born 14 December 1962) is a German art historian and museum director. Since April 2016, he has been Director of the British Museum; he is the first non-British head of the museum since 1866. From 2012 to 2016, he was Director of the Dresden State Art Collections.
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- Supermarket of the dead er ffnungsrede des generaldirektors hartwig fischer
- Hartwig fischer confirmed as british museum director
- Early life and education
- Career
- Selected works
- References
Hartwig fischer confirmed as british museum director
Early life and education
Fischer was born on 14 December 1962 in Hamburg, West Germany. His father came from Mecklenburg, and as a child Fischer was able on occasion to glimpse the art galleries while visiting relatives further to the south, in Dresden in the then (from 1949 till 1989) separate East German state. He undertook postgraduate research on Hermann Prell, for which he received a doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1994. He is fluent in four languages: German, French, Italian and English.
Career
Fischer began his career at the Kunstmuseum Basel, an art museum in Basel, Switzerland. There, between 2001 and 2006, he was curator of 19th-Century and Modern art. He became director of the Museum Folkwang in Essen in 2006, and presided over a period of expansion. In December 2011, he was appointed director of the Dresden State Art Collections. He succeeded Martin Roth, after Roth left to take charge at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
On 25 September 2015, the Trustees announced that Fischer would be the next Director of the British Museum. He is the first non-British head of the museum since the Italian Sir Anthony Panizzi stood down in 1866. He took up the appointment on 4 May 2016.