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06.11.2009
DENVER ART MUSEUM APPOINTS CHRISTOPH HEINRICH AS NEW DIRECTOR
The Denver Art Museum has announced that Christoph Heinrich will be the institution´s next director beginning January 1, 2010. Heinrich has been deputy director of the DAM since January 2009 and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art since October 2007. He will replace Lewis I. Sharp following Sharp’s December 31, 2009, retirement after 20 years as director.
Heinrich came to Denver from Hamburg Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Germany, where he spent the last seven of his 13-year tenure as Chief Curator for Contemporary Art, Collections and Exhibitions. He attended the Universitat Wien in Vienna, where he studied Art History and Dramatics. He later attended Ludwig-Maximilian-Universitat München, where he earned both his M.A. and Ph.D.
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