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G. Ulrich Großmann

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Georg Ulrich Großmann (29 November 1953) is a German art historian. He was general director of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. Born in Marburg, Großmann studied art history, European ethnology and Christian archaeology at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and Philipps-Universität Marburg. In 1979 he received his doctorate in Marburg, with a dissertation Der Schlossbau 1530–1630 in Hessen. At the Detmold Open-air Museum he worked as an architectural historian from 1980 to 1986. In 1986 he was the founding director of the Weserrenaissance-Museum at Schloss Brake in Lemgo. Großmann was general director of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg from 1994 until 2019, when he retired. In 1994, he was habilitated at the University of Hanover in the Department of Architecture with a topic on historical building research, and in 1997 he was re-habilitated at the University of Bamberg in the history of art and architecture. He was initially a private lecturer in Bamberg; in 2001 he was appointed Außerplanmäßiger Professor there. The focus of his teaching is medieval art history. Großmann has published works on historical building research, architecture, painting, book art and graphic art, writes art-historical travel guides and is active as an editor. He was chairman of the international working group for house research from 1982 to 2006, has been founding chairman of the Wartburg-Gesellschaft zur Erforschung von Burgen und Schlössern (Wartburg society for the research of castles and palaces) since 1992, serving until 2017. He has been vice president of the supporting association of the Deutsches Burgenmuseum Veste Heldburg from 2005. Since 1997, Großmann has been a member of the Historische Kommission für Hessen. From 2012 to 2016, he was president of the Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art (CIHA). Der Schlossbau in Hessen 1530–1630, Marburg 1979, (dissertation for the University of Marburg 1980, 267 pages). Östliches Westfalen: vom Hellweg zur Weser : Kunst und Kultur zwischen Soest und Paderborn, Minden und Warburg.
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