Justus Lange
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Justus Lange (born 1968) is a German art historian and curator, known for his work with Old Masters, and a curator at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Kassel, Germany.[1][2]
Justus Lange was born in Kempen, near the Dutch border. His family moved to Stuttgart, where he was raised and attended school. He developed an interest in modern and contemporary art at a young age, frequently visiting the State Gallery in Stuttgart. A tour of the Beuys Room inspired him to pursue a career in art history.[3]
Lange studied art history at the University of Würzburg, focusing on the art of the Old Masters. During a year of study in Salamanca in 1993/94, he developed a passion for Spanish art.[3]
In 1998, Lange organized an exhibition on Dostoevsky and German Expressionism at the University of Würzburg. He completed his PhD on the Spanish-Italian baroque artist Jusepe de Ribera.[3]
Career
In early 2001, Lange was appointed assistant curator at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Kassel. He assisted in the major exhibition "The Mystery of the Young Rembrandt," in collaboration with Museum Het Rembrandthuis and the Rembrandt Research Project in Amsterdam. Lange also curated exhibitions on Martin Schaffner (2002) and "Pan and Syrinx" by Rubens and Brueghel (2004).[citation needed]
In 2004, Lange became the curator of paintings, graphic art, and sculpture at the Municipal Museum of Braunschweig. He curated numerous exhibitions and collaborated on a general catalogue of the museum's paintings, published in 2009.[3]
In December 2009, Lange returned to Kassel as Head of the Old Masters at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister). This role included overseeing the gallery's extensive collection and organizing significant exhibitions, such as those focused on the role of light in Dutch Old Master paintings, as by Rembrandt and the works of Jacob Jordaens.[4][5]
