After New York, Berlin, Paris - now Penzberg: new museum director found

Created: 10/01/2022 16:02

By: Wolfgang Schörner

Art historian Annette Vogel has been the new director of the “Museum Penzberg – Campendonk Collection” and the mine museum since the beginning of September.

She was introduced by Mayor Stefan Korpan (right) and Thomas Sendl (left), Head of the City Hall Department for Communication, Culture and Economy © Wolfgang Schörner

The art historian Annette Vogel is the new director of the “Museum Penzberg – Campendonk Collection”.

She has a name in the art scene.

It even has an entry on Wikipedia.

The 58-year-old was once in charge of the collection at the Serge Sabarsky Gallery in New York.

It also has a connection to mining - important for the mine museum.

Penzberg – The Penzberg Museum was without management for almost six months after the departure of Diana Oesterle and Freia Oliv.

Now the city has a successor in Annette Vogel.

"She has many good ideas and can take us a step further," said Mayor Stefan Korpan (CSU) at the presentation.

"We can herald a new era." There were almost 30 applications for the 30-hour position.

New museum director has already worked in New York, Paris and Madrid

Born in Heilbronn and living in Munich, she has international experience and has worked as a curator at various museums, including in Paris and Madrid, most recently in the small Swedish town of Skärhamn at an exhibition on the early Hundertwasser.

But she also curated in Germany, for example eight years ago at the Buchheim Museum in Bernried.

From 1998 the Expressionism expert worked in New York for the Serge Sabarsky Gallery, whose collection includes works by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Wassily Kandinsky and other famous artists.

After the attacks of September 11, 2001, she returned to Germany, from where she continued to work for the Sabarsky Gallery.

At that time, Annette Vogel also had a gallery for contemporary art in Berlin.

She is also the author and editor of many catalogs and essays on Expressionism.

The Penzberg Museum “scores with quality and charm”

The Penzberger Museum, she says, is very well run.

You can feel that in him.

"It scores with quality and charm." And with Campendonk it has something special.

For her, it is a "job on the doorstep" and it is also about expressionism.

"That fitted into my focus." According to her, the fact that she applied for a museum management position also has something to do with the corona pandemic and the restrictions.

At her exhibition in Sweden, she realized that she missed the exchange.

She thought how nice it would be to work on a museum and see how the public reacted, she says.

The inhibition threshold for going to the museum should be low, and people should visit it more often, she says.

It is important to her that an exhibition has an arc of tension.

“Visitors should go home smiling.

“Young people and children are also important to her.

"The foundation has been laid, we want to promote and intensify it."

Annette Vogel has visited the Penzberg Museum before

The Penzberg Museum has known Annette Vogel, who has curated the ADAC art collection in Munich since 2009 and has extensive contact with collectors, for a long time.

She had been there a few times, mainly because of Campendonk and most recently at the Kunstzeche exhibition "Koffer im Kopf".

She also finds the house itself exciting, as she says, the exhibition on Penzberg's history and the miners' apartment.

"You can see how spartan the people were accommodated."

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Personal connection to mining - important for the mine museum

In the future, Annette Vogel will also be in charge of the Penzberg Mining Museum.

It's an exciting experience, especially for children, she says.

And it now has a special position - with its true-to-life route extension - after the Deutsches Museum in Munich closed its mining department.

The art historian even has a personal connection to mining - which was not unimportant for the city of Penzberg when looking for a new museum management.

There is a large salt mine near her birthplace Heilbronn, where her father was a mining engineer and other relatives also worked.

Annette Vogel smiles: "I am familiar with the tradition of mining."