Giulia Bartrum (born 1954) is an art historian and museum professional who was Curator of German prints and drawings at the

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between 1991 and 2019.

Career

Bartrum joined the British Museum's Department of Prints and Drawings in 1979. She became Curator of German prints and drawings in 1991. In the latter role she was also responsible for coordinating between departments, research into the

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history of items held in the British Museum collections which may relate to the

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. Bartrum's first book was ''German renaissance prints 1490–1550'', which was the catalogue of an exhibition held at the museum during 1995. She is an authority on the art of

Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer (; ; hu, Ajtósi Adalbert; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528),Müller, Peter O. (1993) ''Substantiv-Derivation in Den Schriften Albrecht Dürers'', Walter de Gruyter. . sometimes spelled in English as Durer (without an umlaut) or Due ...

and her catalogue for the 2002-03 exhibition ''Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy'', published jointly by the British Museum Press and

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in 2002, won the 2003 ''Art Newspaper''/AXA Exhibition Catalogue of the Year Prize. She edited a work on Edward Munch's prints in to accompany a 2019 exhibition ''Edvard Munch: love and angst'', published by Thames & Hudson in collaboration with the British Museum. Bartrum retired from the British Museum in November 2019. Along with other Dürer experts, Bartrum helped identify the rediscovered drawing '' The Virgin and Child With a Flower on a Grassy Bench'' as attributable to the artist in 2021.

Selected publications

*''German renaissance prints 1490-1550''.

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, London, 1995. *''Albrecht Dürer and his legacy: The graphic work of a renaissance artist''. British Museum Press, London, 2002. (editor) *''German romantic prints and drawings from an English private collection''. British Museum Press, London, 2011. (editor) *''Edvard Munch: love and angst,'' Thames & Hudson, London, 2019. (editor)

References

German art historians People associated with the British Museum German curators Albrecht Dürer Nationality missing 1954 births Living people German women curators {{Germany-art-historian-stub