Richard Dorment
The Daily Telegraph, 2005
Fierce Friends
The show [Fierce Friends. Artists an Animals, Van Gogh Museum 2005] was
organised by Louise Lippincott and Andreas Blühm, who also wrote the endlessly
fascinating catalogue.
This is their second collaboration, and for my money they
are the most interesting art historians working anywhere in the world today.
James N. Wood
Director, Art Institute of Chicago, 2008
A Bold Vision
Your transformation of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum was a revelation to
experience first hand.
I truly felt that I was seeing the collection for the first time and
that your bold, but tasteful, use of color and design elements allowed the building
to enhance rather than smother the art.
Bertram Müller
Rheinische Post, 2009
Delivering on Bold Promises
Many a museum director has trumpeted lofty goals upon taking office, only to later prefer that these ambitions not be revisited.
Andreas Blühm, however, the director of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, has come remarkably close to fulfilling the bold promises he made two and a half years ago. The number of visitors to his institution has, in fact, doubled.
Alessandro and Francesco Mendini
2014
Timeless Beauty
We found the [Groninger] museum’s displays very beautiful and it is miraculous how the building is renewed continuously with such freshness, energy and quality.
Festkomitee des Kölner Karnevals
2007
A Museum Reimagined
Dr. Andreas Blühm and his team have, so to speak, “awakened” the Wallraf. They have lowered the threshold for visiting this museum and sparked people's curiosity.
Hans-Heinrich Grosse-Brockhoff
2009
New Horizons
The Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne, under its new director Dr. Andreas Blühm, has quietly and calmly set an exemplary example of how to lead an old, renowned museum to new horizons and, incidentally, double its visitor numbers!
