Margarethe Jochimsen, née Müller, (14 August 1931 - 15 September 2016) 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. 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.
Müller died in Freiburg im Breisgau at age 85.
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Honours
- 2004: Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse.
- 2017: Honour for life and work by the Bonner Kunstverein on 29 January 2017.
References
- Obituary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- Reimut Jochimsen, uni-siegen.de
- Margarethe Jochimsen, wachsman.com
- Thomas Kliemann: Meine Devise: Nicht warten, sondern anpacken. Verdienstkreuz für Margarethe Jochimsen, Gründungsdirektorin des Bonner Macke Hauses, general-anzeiger-bonn.de, 23 January 2004
- Kunst ist sowieso immer ein Wagnis – für Margarethe Jochimsen, wherevent.com
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
