Konrad Renger, former Curator at the Alte Pinakothek and former CODART member, passed away on Wednesday, 19 November, in Berlin. The sad news was shared with us by Holm Bevers, former Curator of the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin, who writes the following about Konrad Renger:

Born in 1940, Konrad Renger served for several years as a research fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin before taking up curatorial positions: first with the collection of the Universität Göttingen, subsequently with the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, and finally, from 1983, as Chief Curator at the Alte Pinakothek, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen in Munich.

He was a renowned expert on Flemish art, particularly Rubens, and on the iconography of Dutch secular art. Less well-known, perhaps, was his expertise in nineteenth-century German art. He was also a fine colleague and a wonderful person.