Dr. Jonathan Fine with Peter Trippi : the Kuntshistorisches Museum
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About the Event
Join us for an evening with Jonathan Fine, Director General of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, as he presents an overview of the collection. The Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Art History) is one of the world’s most prestigious museums, home to the former Hapsburg Imperial Collections, which include masterpieces from five millennia – from ancient Egypt to 1800.
Among the highlights of the collection are works by Albrecht Dürer, Velazquez, Caravaggio, Rubens and the world’s largest and most important collection of paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, as well as the Gemma Augustea, Cellini’s celebrated Saliera, the coronation robes, insignia and crown of the Holy Roman Empire, a unique series of 16th century cartoons of tapestries celebrating a victory of Emperor Charles V, and the spectacular vestments of the order of the Golden Fleece, the finest embroidery to have survived from the 15th century.
Dr. Fine will be joined by Peter Trippi, Editor-in-Chief of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine in an engaging conversation about the collection and Jonathan’s role as Director General.
About the Speaker
Jonathan Fine is Director General of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. On 1 January 2025 he took over the general management and scientific management of the KHM-Museumsverband, which includes the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Weltmuseum Wien, the Theatermuseum and Ambras Castle in Tyrol. Before being appointed Director of the Weltmuseum Wien in 2021, he was Head of Collections at the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
His most successful exhibition projects include Beyond Compare: Art from Africa in the Bode Museum (2017-2019), and at the Weltmuseum Wien George Nuku: Oceans. Collections. Reflections (2022-2023) and Science Fiction(s): If there were a tomorrow (2023-2024).
Dr Fine received his PhD in Art History from Princeton University with a thesis on the courtly art of the kingdoms of West Cameroon. He specializes in the art history of West and Central Africa, as well as provenance research on artworks from colonial contexts. Dr Fine also holds degrees from the University of Chicago, Cambridge University (UK), and Yale Law School. He has worked in the United States as an attorney in New York and Washington, D.C.
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Ticketed attendees may reserve for dinner in the dining room (a normally member-exclusive benefit) via our Reservations page with the message “Fine talk”. Reservations must be made in advance after RSVP-ing.