Birgit Dahlenburg
Birgit Dahlenburg, née Handschel[1] (16 April 1959 – 29 January 2017) was a German art historian. She worked as custodian for the art collections of the University of Greifswald and was instrumental in digitalising art.
Life[edit]
Born in Heldburg, Dahlenburg studied German studies, art history and art didactics at the University of Greifswald.[2] She received her doctorate in art history there in 1986 with a dissertation on the history of romantic art in Northern Germany.[3] She worked as a research assistant for the Chair of Contemporary Art History from 1987.[3]
From 1988 to 1989 Dahlenburg was head of the graphics department at the Kunstsammlungen Zwickau.[2] In 1989 she was appointed university curator and director of the Academic Art Collection of the university, where she was also a research assistant for the university's chair of Neuere Kunstgeschichte des Caspar-David-Friedrich-Instituts für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft.[3] She organised exhibitions and published books about treasures of the collection, such as the Croÿ-Teppich (Croy carpet) and the Pommersche Fischerteppiche (Fishers' carpets). The Croÿ-Teppich was included in the list of National wertvolles Kulturgut (Cultural heritage of national value), due to her efforts.[4]
From 2013 Dahlenburg was a member of the board of the Digicult-Verbund eG, a cooperative society which has set itself the goal of long-term safeguarding cultural heritage through digital recording and distribution.[5] In addition, she was an active member of the German Museum Association, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and the Coordination Office for Scientific Collections in Germany.[5]
Dahlenburg died in Greifswald at age 57.[2][4]
Publications[edit]
- Kunstbesitz und Sammlungen der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald. Edit.: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1995.
- Der Croÿ-Teppich der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald. Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2000.
- with Dirk Alvermann: Greifswalder Köpfe. Gelehrtenporträts und Lebensbilder des 16.–18. Jahrhunderts aus der pommerschen Landesuniversität. Hinstorff, Rostock 2006, ISBN 3-356-01139-1 Search this book on
.. - with Kurt Feltkamp: Pommersche Fischerteppiche der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald. Greifswald 2008.
- Künstlerisch bewundert und von der Staatssicherheit verfolgt – der Surrealist Manfred Kastner (1943–1988). Greifswald 2008.
References[edit]
- ↑ Birgit Dahlenburg thueringen-gedenkt.de
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Birgit Dahlenburg". Hinstorff Verlag (in Deutsch). Retrieved 20 March 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Birgit Dahlenburg". Lukas Verlag (in Deutsch). Retrieved 20 March 2020.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Trauer um Birgit Dahlenburg / Die engagierte Universitätskustodin verstarb am Sonntag nach schwerer Krankheit". Ostsee-Zeitung (in Deutsch). 1 February 2017. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Birgit Dahlenburg (1959–2017)". University of Greifswald (in Deutsch). Retrieved 20 March 2020.
Further reading[edit]
- Haik Thomas Porada, Rita Kerstin Sauer, Caroline Weihrauch: Birgit Dahlenburg (1959–2017). Nachruf auf eine leidenschaftliche Streiterin für das pommersche Kulturgut. In Baltische Studien. New instalment, volume 103 (2017), Kiel 2018, pp. 15–22.
External links[edit]
- Literature by and about Birgit Dahlenburg in the German National Library catalogue
- Publikationen der Kustodie (in German) University of Greifswald 2016
- Ausstellungskataloge (in German) University of Greifswald
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