G. Ulrich Großmann Explained

Georg Ulrich Großmann (29 November 1953) is a German art historian. He was general director of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.

Life

Born in Marburg, Großmann studied art history, European ethnology and Christian archaeology at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and Philipps-Universität Marburg.[1] In 1979 he received his doctorate in Marburg,[2] with a dissertation Der Schlossbau 1530–1630 in Hessen. At the Detmold Open-air Museum he worked as an architectural historian from 1980 to 1986. In 1986 he was the founding director of the at Schloss Brake in Lemgo. Großmann was general director of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg from 1994 until 2019, when he retired.[3]

In 1994, he was habilitated at the University of Hanover in the Department of Architecture with a topic on historical building research, and in 1997 he was re-habilitated at the University of Bamberg in the history of art and architecture. He was initially a private lecturer in Bamberg; in 2001 he was appointed Außerplanmäßiger Professor there. The focus of his teaching is medieval art history.

Großmann has published works on historical building research, architecture, painting, book art and graphic art, writes art-historical travel guides and is active as an editor. He was chairman of the international working group for house research from 1982 to 2006, has been founding chairman of the Wartburg-Gesellschaft zur Erforschung von Burgen und Schlössern (Wartburg society for the research of castles and palaces) since 1992, serving until 2017. He has been vice president of the supporting association of the Deutsches Burgenmuseum Veste Heldburg from 2005.[4] Since 1997, Großmann has been a member of the . From 2012 to 2016, he was president of the Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art (CIHA).

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Notes and References

  1. News: Prof. Dr. G. Ulrich Großmann . 5 October 2021 . University of Bamberg . 2016 . de.
  2. News: Prof. Dr. G. Ulrich Großmann . 5 October 2021 . Bundeswehruniversität München . 2021 . de.
  3. News: Germanisches Nationalmuseum: Generaldirektor Prof. Dr. G. Ulrich Großmann geht in den Ruhestand . 27 September 2021 . Marktspiegel . 18 June 2019 . de.
  4. Web site: Dem "Vater" des Freilandmuseums . www.nordbayern.de . 27 September 2021.
  5. Book: Grossmann . G. Ulrich . Einführung in die historische und kunsthistorische Bauforschung . WorldCat . 27 September 2021 . German . 2010. 803985760 .