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Michael Eissenhauer (born 1956 in Stuttgart) is a German art historian and director-general of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
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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 volunteer 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.
From 1995 to 2001 he was director of the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, and then, until 2008, director of the mhk Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel (formerly the Staatliche Museen Kassel), which was restructured and considerably expanded under his leadership.
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, of the board of trustees of the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain as well as of the programme commission of the Martin-Gropius-Bau.
In December 2007, the Board of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz appointed Michael Eissenhauer to succeed Peter-Klaus Schuster as director-general of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. He officially assumed this position on 31 October 2008. On 1 August 2016 he also took over the post of director of the Gemäldegalerie and Skulpturensammlung at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
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. The university made him an honorary professor in 2016.