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{{short description|German art historian}}

'''Wolf-Dieter Dube''' (13 July 1934 – 9 September 2015)<ref>Jens Bisky: ''[http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/nachruf-wolf-dieter-dube-ist-tot-1.2642025 Nachruf: Wolf-Dieter Dube ist tot]'', ''[[Süddeutsche Zeitung]]'', 10 September 2015.</ref> was a German [[art historian]].

== Life and career ==
Born in [[Schwerin]], Dube studied art history, and received his doctorate from the [[University of Göttingen]] in 1963. From 1969 on he was director of the [[Pinakothek der Moderne]] in Munich, from 1976 on also deputy director general of the [[Bavarian State Painting Collections]]. From 1983 to 1999 he was General Director of the [[Staatliche Museen zu Berlin]]/[[Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation]].<ref>[https://www.smb.museum/en/whats-new/detail/the-staatliche-museen-zu-berlin-mourns-the-death-of-wolf-dieter-dube-for-many-years-the-general-director-of-the-staatliche-museen-zu-berlin-wolf-dieter-dube-has-died-at-the-age-of-81/ Wolf-Dieter Dube] on [[Berlin State Museums|Staatliche Museen zu Berlin]]</ref>

After 1990, together with [[Günter Schade]], he led the reunification of those collections of the National Museums that had been separated by the {{Ill|German division|de}}. He made a historic contribution to the Berlin{{To whom?|date=March 2021}} and at the same time to the German museum landscape. He gave the decisive impulse for the construction of the [[Gemäldegalerie, Berlin|Gemäldegalerie am Kulturforum]], and the opening of the [[Hamburger Bahnhof]] as a museum for contemporary art is also associated with his name.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}} Dube was author of numerous specialist publications.

Dube died in Berlin at the age of 81.

== Honours ==
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* 1986: [[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic]]
* 1989: [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]] 1st class
* 1993: Commander of the [[Royal Norwegian Order of Merit]]
* 1999: [[Ernst Ludwig Kirchner]] Prize
* 1999: [[Order of Merit of Berlin]]

== Publications (selection) ==
* ''Süddeutsche Bronzemörser''. Dissertation Universität Göttingen 1963, {{DNB-IDN|481907157}}.
* with Annemarie Dube: ''[[Ernst Ludwig Kirchner]]. Das graphische Werk''. 2 volumes, Prestel, Munich 1967, 2nd edition 1980, 3rd edition 1991, {{ISBN|3-7913-0479-8}} (''Münchner Forschungen zur Kunstgeschichte'').
* ''Les expressionnistes''.<ref>[https://halldulivre.com/livre/9782878110708-les-expressionnistes-wolf-dieter-dube/ ''Les expressionnistes''] on halldulivre.com</ref>

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* ''Internationales Biographisches Archiv 14/1999'', 29 March 1999.

== External links ==
* {{DNB portal|121881253}}
* [http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/newsletters/8_1/archives.html Archives of Culture: Conversation with Wolf-Dieter Dube, Getty-Institute Newsletter, 1993]

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