Advisory Board & Steering Committee
ADVISORY BOARD
The Advisory Board for Provenance Research advises the Kunstmuseum Bern Foundation in fundamental matters of provenance research and may give recommendations to the Board of Dachstiftung Kunstmuseum Bern – Zentrum Paul Klee.
Primary focus is the orientation and development of the Provenance-Research Department regarding research on the museum’s collection and the collections of associated foundations. The Advisory Board oversees the integration of the Cornelius Gurlitt Legacy into the museum’s collections.
The Advisory Board meets with the Steering Committee for Provenance Research.
Advisory Board Members
Professor Emeritus Dr. Georg Kreis, Historian, Basel
Esther Tisa Francini, lic. phil., Provenance Researcher, Museum Rietberg, Zurich
Dr. Herbert Winter, Lawyer, former President of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, Zurich
STEERING COMMITTEE
The Steering Committee determines the strategic direction and ensures freedom in decision-making. Members of the Steering Committee define the fields of work and determine the middle- and long-term orientation, and thereby the further development, of the Provenance-Research Department. The decisions of the Steering Committee require the consent of the Board of Trustees for the Dachstiftung Kunstmuseum Bern – Zentrum Paul Klee.
Members
Dr. Marcel Brülhart, Representative of the Canton Bern in the Board of Trustees of the Dachstiftung Kunstmuseum Bern – Zentrum Paul Klee
Dr. Nina Zimmer, Director, Kunstmuseum Bern – Zentrum Paul Klee