http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/hartwig-fischer-to-lead-british-museum/?_r=0
Hartwig Fischer to Lead British Museum
Hartwig Fischer, the current director of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen in Dresden, Germany, is set to become the new director of the British Museum, one of the most prominent museum leadership roles in the world, The Times of London reported on Friday.
He will be the first non-Briton to hold the museum’s top role since the 19th century.
The newspaper broke
the news of Mr. Fischer’s appointment early on Friday morning. The
museum has still not confirmed the appointment: A spokeswoman reached by
phone said that the museum could not officially confirm the news until
the appointment process had been completed, a process that requires
several further steps, including approval from Prime Minister David
Cameron.
Dr. Fischer currently
serves as the director of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, a
group of prominent state-run galleries in the city. The museum group
includes the Grüne Gewölbe, a collection of rare treasures collected
from across the world; and the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, a prominent
painting collection that includes artworks by Rembrandt, Rubens and
other major European names.
Dr. Fischer, who was
born in 1962, earned a doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1994. He
served as the director of the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, before
moving to Dresden. He co-curated a Kandinsky exhibition at Tate Modern
in 2006, but has few other British credits to his name.
In April, the British Museum announced
that Neil MacGregor, who oversaw a transformation of the museum into
the second most-visited museum in the world after the Louvre, would
retire from his post of museum director in December. Mr. MacGregor will
lead the board of the Humboldt Forum, a major cultural center planned
for Berlin’s Mitte district.
Correction: September 28, 2015
An earlier version of this post misspelled the name of a museum in Essen, Germany, where Dr. Hartwig served as director. It is the Museum Folkwang, not Folwang.
An earlier version of this post misspelled the name of a museum in Essen, Germany, where Dr. Hartwig served as director. It is the Museum Folkwang, not Folwang.
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