Matthias Waschek

Matthias Waschek was appointed Director of the Worcester Art Museum in November 2011. Originally from Germany, he has a Ph.D in art history from Bonn University. Throughout his 20-year international career in the museum world, he has worked to connect the broader public with new thinking about art history and archeology—as Head of Academic Programs at the Louvre Museum in Paris from 1992 to 2003, as Executive Director of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation St. Louis, Missouri from 2003 - 2011, and now at the Worcester Art Museum. In addition, he has published extensively on French art of the 19th century, as well as on 20th-century and contemporary art.