172 actors, designers and theatre employees have penned an open letter to the city senate and
German culture minister Monika Grütters stating «deep concern» over the change - over at the cultural institution.
Late last week
the German Culture Minister, Monika Gütter, announced a plan that would aim to preserve the country's artistic heritage through restricted circulation of German art — requiring that artifacts valued at $ 150,000 ($ 165,900) or more or that are more than 50 years old receive an export license before leaving the country.
The protest by the famous German painters has been backed by German private art gallery owners — the total of 259 members of the association of galleries and art dealers in Germany wrote an open letter to
the German culture minister Monika Grütters, where they stated that the adoption of this law would «regulate art to death» and «end international art sales in Germany».
Not exact matches
More than 100
German dealers, led by Berlin - based dealer Michael Haas, have signed an open letter they plan to send to
Minister of
Culture, saying that the bill could destroy their businesses.
In an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
German Minister of
Culture Monika Grütters told that all the controversy raised about the bill is an exaggeration.
Director of Vienna's Belvedere Museum to step down Austrian
culture minister Thomas Drozda has announced that Belvedere Museum director Agnes Husslein - Arco's contract will not be renewed due to the director's misconduct in the post (
German language article).
From left to right: Fan Di'an, president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Sigmar Gabriel,
German federal
minister for foreign affairs; Walter Smerling, co-curator and chairman of the Foundation for Art and
Culture, Bonn.
Other esteemed speakers include Nicola Beer (Secretary General of the FDP), Dr. Eva Kühne - Hörmann (Hessian
Minister of Justice), Prof. Dr. Alexander Lorz (law professor in Düsseldorf and Hessian
Minister of
Culture), Dr. Thomas Remmers (Vice-President of the
German Bar Association), Prof. Dr. Christoph von der Malsburg (Neuroscientist and recipient of the Körber - Prize), Dr. Carsten Linz (Global Head, SAP Center for Digital Leadership and Author of «Radical Business Model Transformation») and Kalle Palling (Chairman of the EU Affairs Committee of the Parliament of «the digital role model» Estonia).