Margarethe Jochimsen, née Müller, (14 August 1931 - 15 September 2016)[1] was a German curator, art critic and museum director.

Life and career

Müller studied political science and art history. In 1961 she married the politician Reimut Jochimsen [de] (1933-1999), with whom she had a daughter and a son.[2] From 1978 to 1986 Jochimsen was director of the Bonner Kunstverein [de] as an art historian with a doctorate and its chairman until 1996. In 1988 she was the initiator for the rescue of the house of August Macke in Bonn; subsequently she was the founding director of the August-Macke-Haus in 1991 and headed it until 2002. Among other things she was editor of the series of publications of the association August Macke Haus.[3]

Müller died in Freiburg im Breisgau at age 85.

Honours

• 2004: Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse.[4]
• 2017: Honour for life and work by the Bonner Kunstverein on 29 January 2017.[5]

References

External links

• Literature by and about Margarethe Jochimsen in the German National Library catalogue
• Thomas Kliemann: Nachruf auf Margarethe Jochimsen. Sie rettete das Macke Haus, general-anzeiger-bonn.de, 21 September 2016
• Gudrun von Schoenebeck: Kunstvereins-Jubiläum. Margarethe Jochimsen, Annelie Pohlen und Christina Végh reden über Kunst und Feminismus, general-anzeiger-bonn.de, 8 July 2013

На других языках

[de] Margarethe Jochimsen