Thomas Schauerte

Thomas Schauerte is a German art historian and Dürer scholar. From 2009 to 2019, he headed the Albrecht Dürer House and the municipal art collections in Nuremberg; in April 2019, he became director of the museums of Aschaffenburg. He previously taught in Berlin, Heidelberg, and Trier, and worked as a research curator in Osnabrück and Halle an der Saale. Since 1997, he has published numerous books and essays on Albrecht Dürer and his contemporaries. His curatorial projects include the exhibition “Albrecht Dürer: Das große Glück. Kunst im Zeichen des geistigen Aufbruchs.” His research also covers medieval and Baroque art.