Hartwig Fischer

Hartwig Fischer took up the post of Director of the British Museum in Spring 2016. He gained his PhD in Art History at the University of Bonn in 1993 after studying in Berlin, Rome and Paris. He began his career in museums as a Research Assistant and then Curator of 19th Century and Modern Art at the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland before becoming Director of the Folkwang Museum, Essen in 2006. In 2012 Hartwig Fischer was appointed Director General of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, with responsibility for 14 museums and associated libraries, archives and research centres.