MMK-founding director: Museum maker Jean-Christophe Ammann died – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

      

 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         

 
 
 
 
 
          “If the works of today world-famous artists already in its early years issued “: Jean-Christophe Ammann, 1999 in Oberursel
     

 
                                              

 
 
     
     
     
         
         
                                                             

The founding director of the Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art (MMK) is dead. Jean-Christophe Ammann died Sunday at the age of 76 years in Frankfurt after a long illness, such as MMK on Friday announced. The Swiss art historian in charge of the house opened in 1991, from the planning phase from 1989 to 2001. ‘/ P>
                         
         
         
                                                             
                                 

“With Jean-Christophe Ammann one of the great, groundbreaking exhibition and museum creators of presence is deceased. He has laid the intellectual foundations of the MMK and made it one to this day all over the world highly respected Museum, “said Museum Director Susanne Gaensheimer. They paid tribute to Ammann as one of the most important European museum directors and curators of his generation.

                         
         
         
                                                             

Ammann was not only the first director of the Frankfurt MMK, he built his collection also instrumental with out. “He created the foundation for a unique museum that breathes his spirit until today, and led it to international renown”, informed the museum. To him the idea of ​​went “scene change” back – every six months rotating exhibitions of the hotel’s own collection, which dared each new perspectives on the international contemporary art

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Even the Frankfurt Cultural Affairs Felix Semmelroth (CDU) praised Ammann. “With great care and considerable empathy the Museum maker has exhibited the works of world-famous artists today in their early years and so young artists achieve a breakthrough,” he said.

                         
         
         
                                                             

From 1968 to 1977 Ammann was director of the Museum of Art Lucerne, then in 1978 moved to Basel, where he headed the Kunsthalle until 1988th In 1972, he helped in the conception of the “documenta 5″ in Kassel, 1995, he was responsible for the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale. After retiring in 2001 Ammann gave the MMK his collected correspondence and works from his private collection. He worked until recently as a curator, writer and art theorist.

                                 

 
  

 
 
 
                       

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