As the first foreign director soon introduces German art collection Uffizi in Florence. The art historian Eike Schmidt will in the coming weeks anterten his new post at the prestigious art gallery.
The Italian Culture Ministry had selected the 47-year-old native Freiburg in an international application process. Two other German to dust prestigious cultural institutions in Italy.
Schmidt is working still Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Previously, he was among other things, curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
“The Uffizi Gallery is one of the most famous museums in the world because it dares not to think about it so to get a job, “he told Deutsche Presse-Agentur. “I have trembled hands with joy when me the Italian culture minister has called.” The new post was a “dream job”, but a major challenge. He wanted the Uffizi – where works by Michelangelo, Leonardo can be seen da Vinci and Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” – make more visitor-friendly mainly and shorten the queues in front of the Museum
In addition to Schmidt, the German Cecilie was. Hollberg selected for management posts in Italy, such as the Ministry of Culture in Rome announced on Tuesday. You should lead the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Florence, among other things, Michelangelo’s David sculpture can be seen. The 48-year-old from Soltau in Lower Saxony leads since 2010 the Municipal Museum in Braunschweig.
The 34-year-old archaeologist Gabriel Zuchtriegel, a native of Weingarten in Baden-Württemberg is the future for the Unesco World Heritage Site, the ruins be in Paestum, responsible.
The three Germans are among the winners of a new tender procedure, with the Italian Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini will dust off the previous leadership respected public museums. This 20 management positions were advertised internationally earlier this year. Among the chosen ones are 13 Italians and 7 foreigners from Germany, Austria, Great Britain and France.
“It is a historic step for Italy and its museums, the catching up decades of delay,” Franceschini said. The foundation for the modernization of museums is now set.
A new guide will also get the Galleria Borghese in Rome and the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice.
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