Stephanie Buck new director of the Dresden Print Room

9 October 2015 | London-Dresden

Directors and curators of the world’s main museums are not only pursuing careers in their native countries, they are increasingly internationally orientated. A German curator of an American Museum (Eike Schmidt) was recently appointed director of the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence (one of many new appointments of foreign candidates to directorships of Italian museums), the present general director of the Dresden Staatliche Kunstsammlungen (Hartwig Fischer) appointed successor to Neil MacGregor in the British Museum, just to name the two most spectacular ones. 

In the P&D world we are already accustomed to curators moving to and fro within the EU and between the two Western continents, but now one makes a particularly significant move from the (also prestigious) curatorship in the Courtauld Gallery in London to the directorship of the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett, one of the major printrooms in the world: German born Stephanie Buck, author of the collection catalogue of the fifteenth-century Netherlandish drawings in the Berlin printroom (just one of many catalogues), will shortly move back east to succeed Prof. Bernhard Maaz, who has been appointed general director of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen in München.

For more information see the Dresden website and the Codart website