Joachim Jäger appointed Deputy Director of the National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin. Andreas Richter becomes the new Head of the Collection Development Department of the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage
Press release from 12/12/2011
At its meeting on 9 December 2011, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously elected Dr Joachim Jäger as the new Deputy Director of the Nationalgalerie and Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Jäger, born in Munich in 1963, holds a doctorate in art history and has worked for the Staatliche Museen since 1998. He is a recognised expert on international art after 1960 and was most recently responsible for the concept of the collection presentation "Der geteilte Himmel. The Collection. 1945-1968". Jäger has published on Robert Rauschenberg, Wolfgang Tillmans and Michel Majerus, among others. In 2008, he took over the provisional management of the Neue Nationalgalerie, the Museum Berggruen and the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection.
Joachim Jäger takes up the post of Deputy Director of the Nationalgalerie with immediate effect; he succeeds Dr Bernhard Maaz, who moved to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden in 2010, in this role, which he had previously held on an interim basis.
The Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin includes the Alte and Neue Nationalgalerie, the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin, the Museum Berggruen, the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection and the Friedrichswerdersche Kirche. The director of the Nationalgalerie is Udo Kittelmann.
On 9 December 2011, the Board of Trustees also unanimously approved the appointment of Andreas Richter as the new Head of the Collection Development Department of the Berlin State Library. The law graduate and librarian is currently Library Director at the Technical University of Berlin and, thanks to his dual qualification, has proven expertise in the areas of library design and organisation.
Andreas Richter, born in 1969, will take up his post shortly. He succeeds Dr Gerhard Kanthak, who retired in May of this year. The Collection Development Department acquires and catalogues publications in all media forms. The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, with its buildings at Potsdamer Platz and Unter den Linden, is the largest academic universal library in Germany with a collection of over 11 million volumes and a further 2.2 million printed works, 10 million microforms and a constantly growing number of databases and other electronic resources .