Bernd Ebert, the curator in command of Dutch and German Baroque portray on the Bavarian State Portray Collections since 2013, has been named the brand new director common of the Dresden State Artwork Collections, considered one of Germany’s greatest museum roles. He succeeds Marion Ackermann, who’s leaving to run Berlin’s state museums.
Born in Berlin in 1972, Ebert has labored at museums together with the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York, Newtown Galleries in Johannesburg, the Nationwide Gallery of South Africa and the Berlin Gemäldegalerie. In Bavaria, he was additionally liable for the state galleries in Bayreuth and Bamberg. He started his profession in Dresden as a clerk at Deutsche Financial institution.
“He is a wonderful artwork historian with a world repute as a scholar,” Neil McGregor, a former director of the British Museum and a member of the discovering committee, mentioned in an announcement issued by the state of Saxony. “However he’s far more than that. He brings a uncommon mixture of authorized, monetary and administrative talents and has direct expertise in dealing with the mental, sensible and political complexities of a big encyclopaedic assortment like Dresden’s.”
Ebert mentioned his targets in Dresden embrace boosting analysis and communications on the 15 museums he’ll oversee. “Different priorities are to widen choices to a broad public and improve the standard of visits to Dresden’s establishments,” he mentioned.
Bernhard Maaz, the director common of the Bavarian State Portray Collections, mentioned he regretted the lack of “a devoted colleague” whose “work has gained recognition far past the borders of Germany.”
The exhibitions Ebert has curated in Munich embrace Rachel Ruysch. Nature into Artwork on the Alte Pinakothek, which opened final yr. The present of the Seventeenth- and 18th-century Dutch still-life painter strikes on to Boston and Toledo this yr.
Ackermann succeeds Hermann Parzinger as president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Basis on 1 June. Ebert takes up his new put up on 1 Could.
