Jens Christian Jensen

Jens Christian Jensen (11 May 1928 – 6 April 2013) was a German art historian and curator.

Born in Lübeck, after the Abitur passed at the Katharineum, Jensen studied art history, classical archaeology, Germanistics and history of Christianity in Heidelberg and Mainz from 1949.

He received his doctorate in 1954 with Walter Paatz on Master Bertram as a picture carver.

He then worked as a volunteer at the Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte in Lübeck.

From 1958, he was first a research assistant, later curator at the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg and from 1968 to 1970 director of the Heidelberger Kunstverein.

In 1971, he was appointed the first independent director of the Kunsthalle Kiel and executive chairman of the Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein.

From 1972 to 2005, Jensen was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Museum Georg Schäfer in Schweinfurt.

In 1979, he was awarded the Honorary Professorship of the State of Schleswig-Holstein "in recognition of his services to the activation of art life in Schleswig-Holstein and in appreciation of his scholarly achievements in the service of art".

Jensen retired in 1990.

In 1991, he was honoured with the Kultur- und Wissenschaftspreis der Stadt Kiel.

Jensen died in Hamburg at the age of 84.

In 2008, he was curator of the exhibition ''Carl Spitzweg and Wilhelm Busch.

Two Artists' Anniversaries'' in the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hanover.

Jensen was decorated as a knight of the Danish Order of the Dannebrog.

He was a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in Trondheim.

He received an honorary doctorate.

Jensen was the author of numerous writings on medieval sculpture, on 19th and 20th century painting and drawing, and on contemporary art.