Decision in favour of new management of the art library
Press release from 12/04/2006
The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, today unanimously appointed Dr Moritz Wullen, currently Director of Exhibitions at the Nationalgalerie Berlin, as Director of the Art Library. He will succeed Prof. Dr Bernd Evers, who retired at the end of May 2006.
Moritz Wullen, 40 years old, studied art history and history. As Head of the Exhibitions and Events Department at the Directorate General of the National Museums in Berlin, he has been responsible for numerous highly successful exhibitions with an international profile. Important milestones on his career path are the interdisciplinary and cross-collection exhibitions and publications he has produced on major art and cultural history themes such as "Nature as Vision" (2004), "Goya" (2005), "Hieroglyphics" (2005) and "Circle, Sphere, Cosmos" (2006). Moritz Wullen has demonstrated outstanding scientific and organisational skills. He is an imaginative museum manager and a proven team leader. Under his leadership, the Art Library will sharpen its profile as an institute at the interface of visual and textual culture. New perspectives can arise from co-operation with disciplines such as media studies.
Since its foundation in 1867, the Art Library has been an inspiring centre of applied art with its outstanding museum collections on architecture, photography, fashion and costume studies as well as graphic art. Today, it is one of the most important international research centres for image and text culture. With its comprehensive specialist library of around 450,000 books on art and art history, it is an indispensable service centre for science and research with state-of-the-art cultural technology. Strengthening this fusion of library and museum will be the primary task of the new director.