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Dr. Gero Seelig Curator, Staatliches Museum Schwerin in Schwerin, Germany

Information

Member of CODART since 2001

Areas of specialization

  • 17th- and 18th-century Dutch, Flemish and German paintings, drawings and prints
  • Printmaking in the period 1400-1800
  • 19th- and early 20th-century German paintings and drawings
  • Provenance research

Exhibitions curated since 1999

CODART publications

Dr. Gero Seelig, “The Staatliches Museum Schwerin”, CODARTfeatures, October 2013.

Selected publications

2019

‘Moretus’ Punch Boxes – Woodcuts by Jost Amman in Antwerp’
Gero Seelig
Essay in Crossroads: Frankfurt am Main as Market for Northern Art 1500-1800 edited by Miriam Hall Kirch, Birgit Ulrike MĂŒnch, Alison G. Stewart, pp. 52-65
Petersberg (Michael Imhof Verlag) 2019

2017

Medusa’s Menagerie: Otto Marseus van Schrieck and the Scholars
Gero Seelig, with contributions by E. Jorink, B. van de Roemer and K. Leonhard
Catalogue of an exhibition held in 2017 in Schwerin
MĂŒnchen (Hirmer Verlag) 2017

‘Because the Night. Paintings by Schalcken for Schwerin’
Gero Seelig
Article in Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 77, 2017, pp. 187-204

2016

‘Dutch Mannerism’
Gero Seelig
Essay in The Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century edited by Wayne Franits, pp 252-264
London (Routledge) 2016

2015

‘Schwerin und seine Sammlung niederlĂ€ndischer GemĂ€lde’
Essay
in Nie tylko tulipany/Nicht nur Tulpen. Das Staatliche Museum Schwerin zu Gast im Nationalmuseum, pp. 31-59
Catalogue of an exhibition held in Szczecin in 2015

2013

“Jan van Huysum und der Hof von Mecklenburg-Schwerin”
Gero Seelig
Article in Oud Holland 126 (2013), pp. 136-161

‘Watteau in Hamburg. Zur TĂ€tigkeit des KunsthĂ€ndlers Pieter Boetens’
Gero Seelig
Article in Zeitschrift fĂŒr Kunstgeschichte 76, 2013, pp. 107-118

Kosmos der NiederlĂ€nder. Die Sammlung Christoph MĂŒller
Gero Seelig
Collection catalogue of the Staatliches Museum Schwerin
Petersberg (Michael Imhof Verlag) 2013

‘Curator’s Collection. The Staatliches Museum Schwerin’
Gero Seelig
Article in CODART eZine, Autumn 2013

2012

Gerhard Morell and the Last Acquisitions of Christian Ludwig of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Gero Seelig
Article in Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, www.jhna.org, 4:1 (2012).

2010

Die HollÀndische Genremalerei in Schwerin
Gero Seelig
Collection Catalogue of the Staatliches Museum Schwerin Petersberg (Michael Imhof Verlag) 2010

2006

“Berchems werken in FrankrÄłk in de achttiende eeuw”
Gero Seelig
Essay in catalogue, edited by Pieter Biesboer, of exhibition Nicolaes Berchem: in het licht van ItaliĂ«, held in 2006-07 in Haarlem (Frans Hals Museum), 2007 in ZĂŒrich (Kunsthaus ZĂŒrich) and in 2007-08 in Schwerin (Staatliches Museum), pp. 59-72, 163
176 pp., 29 cm.
Haarlem (Frans Hals Museum) and Ghent (Ludion) 2006
ISBN 90-5544-637-8 (paperbound)
ISBN 978-90-5544-637-7

“Privatsammlungen und fĂŒrstlicher Kunstbesitz”
Gero Seelig
Essay in catalogue of exhibition Im Licht der Zeit: niederlÀndische GemÀlde aus einer Privatsammlung held in 2006 in Schwerin (Staatliche Museum Schwerin)
127 pp.
Schwerin (Staatliche Museum Schwerin) 2006
ISBN 3-86106-090-6

“The dating of Fabritius’s stay in Amsterdam”
Gero Seelig
Article in Oud Holland 119 (2006), pp. 93-98

2005

“Carel Fabritius, Ausstellung und Tagung im Staatlichen Museum Schwerin
Gero Seelig
Article in Mitteilungen des Museumsverbandes in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e.V. 14 (2005), pp. 46-49

“Review of symposium on Carel Fabritius, The Hague, December 1 and 2, 2004”
Gero Seelig
Article in Kunstchronik 58 (2005), pp. 6-11

2004

Carel Fabritius, 1622-1654: das Werk
Frederik J. Duparc, with contributions by Gero Seelig and Ariane van Suchtelen
Catalogue of an exhibition held in 2004-05 in The Hague (Mauritshuis) and in 2005 in Schwerin (Staatliches Museum)
173 pp., 29 cm.
The Hague (Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis), Schwerin (Staatliches Museum) and Zwolle (Waanders Publishers) 2004
ISBN 90-400-9897-6 (Dutch hardbound edition)
ISBN 90-400-8989-2 (English hardbound edition)
ISBN 90-400-9029-7 (German softbound edition)
ISBN 90-400-8968-8 (Dutch softbound edition)

“Review of exhibition catalogue Pan und Syrinx: Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Brueghel und ihre Zeitgenossen, Kassel 2004”
Gero Seelig
Article in Kunstform (www.kunstform.historicum.net/2005/03/5729.html)

Review of E. Korthals Altes, De verovering van de internationale kunstmarkt door de zeventiende-eeuwse schilderkunst, Leiden 2003
Gero Seelig
Article in Sehepunkte (http://www.sehepunkte.historicum.net/2004/09/5726.html)

“Review of M. Dekiert, Musikanten in der Malerei der niederlĂ€ndischen Caravaggio-Nachfolge, Weimar 2003
Gero Seelig
Article in Kunstform (http://www.kunstform.historicum.net/2004/04/3363.html)

2003

Jan Brueghels Antwerpen: die flÀmischen GemÀlde in Schwerin
Edited by Kornelia von Berswordt-Wallrabe and Gero Seelig
Catalogue of an exhibition held in 2003 in Schwerin (Staatliches Museum)
175 pp., 28 cm.
Schwerin (Staatliches Museum Schwerin) 2003
ISBN 3-86106-083-3

1998

“Review of H. Mielke, Pieter Breughel: die Zeichnungen, Turnhout 1996”
Gero Seelig
Article in Zeitschrift fĂŒr Kunstgeschichte 61 (1998), pp. 422-25

1997

Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651): Studien zur Utrechter Malerei um 1620
Gero Seelig
Monograph, trade publication of doctoral dissertation at the Freie UniversitÀt Berlin, 1995
415 pp., 25 cm.
Berlin (Mann) 1997
ISBN 3-7861-1933-3

“Hendrick Bloemaert in Italy”
Gero Seelig
Article in Master Drawings 25 (1997), pp. 380-91

1996

“Review of M. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and his Sons, Doornspijk 1993”
Gero Seelig
Article in Kunstchronik 49 (1996), pp. 97-105

1994

“Ter Brugghens Lazarus-GemĂ€lde: eine Bassano-Adaption”
Gero Seelig
Article in Oud Holland 108 (1994), pp. 14-16