Thomas M. Messer
Thomas Maria diameter ( born February 9, 1920 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, † May 15, 2013 in New York City ) was an American museum director and director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
Life
Thomas Messer grew up in a family professor in Prague and began to study chemistry at the city's Charles University. After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, he strove for an exchange scholarship to the United States. In crossing the Atlantic, he survived the torpedoing of the Athenia. He first came to the Thiel College, Mercer County and then studied languages at Boston University. In 1944 he became an American citizen as a soldier in the U.S. Army, which put him after the war in the Office of Military Government for Germany in Munich. After his release in 1947 he took another Cours de civilization française at the Sorbonne. Back in the U.S. he married Remedio Garcia Villa and was from 1949 to 1952 director of the company founded in 1935 the Regional Museum in the town of Roswell in the southwest. During this time he made a Master of Arts in Art History and Museum Studies at Harvard University. He then took up a position at the 1956 American Federation of Arts, and from 1957 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. The Harvard University employed him alongside members are teaching in art history.
In 1961, Messer took over the leadership of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, which he expanded to 1986. From 1981 to 1988 he was also the Guggenheim Foundation and thereby increased global influence on the development of museum operation. He managed to win the majority of the collection Justin Thannhauser to the house, built the Peggy Guggenheim Collection with the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice in the Foundation and provided with the takeover of the American pavilion for a commitment of the museum at the Biennale di Venezia.
Thomas Krens inherited him two years before his Zurruhesetzung, and knife was still active at the Schirn in Frankfurt and the Czech National Gallery.
Writings (selection )
- Edvard Munch. Transmit from Engl d of Herbert Schuldt. Cologne: DuMont 1976