Katrin Henkel Joins Getty Board of Trustees
Henkel will contribute leadership and expertise to Getty’s board
Katrin Henkel. Courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Trust
Photo: Alixe Lay
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The J. Paul Getty Trust announced today the appointment of Katrin Henkel to the Getty Board of Trustees.
She joins a 12-member group that includes leaders in art, education, and business who volunteer their time and talent on behalf of Getty.
“A collector and specialist in Old Master drawings, as well as an accomplished former art dealer, Katrin brings deep area expertise, while her current and previous board experiences also bring to Getty a wealth of knowledge and experience. We enthusiastically welcome her to Getty’s Board of Trustees,” said Katherine E. Fleming, president and CEO of Getty.
Henkel was a dealer in Old Master drawings for 30 years (under her maiden name Katrin Bellinger) and a partner at Colnaghi until the gallery was sold in 2015. She began her personal art collection on the theme of ‘The Artists at Work’ in parallel to her career as a dealer, focusing on artistic processes. The collection includes examples in a range of media, including drawings, paintings, prints, photographs and sculpture from the Renaissance to the present day. Works are regularly lent to institutions as well as displayed in exhibitions initiated and curated by the collection’s curators.
“I am very pleased to be joining the Getty Board of Trustees and look forward to supporting its mission, both locally and internationally, to bring art and arts education to all,” said Henkel. “I have long been an admirer of the Getty Museum’s collections and the expertise of its curatorial teams, and it will be a pleasure to become more closely involved in the work of this remarkable institution.”
Henkel is a Trustee of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Chatsworth House Trust and previously served as Deputy Chair of the National Gallery, London and as Liaison Trustee to the Tate. She still chairs the National Gallery Trust. She also founded the Tavolozza Foundation in 2001, which focuses on making works on paper more accessible to the public by helping to fund exhibitions, publications, and digitization.
Henkel resides in Austria and London, England and spends time in New York as well as Dunton Hot Springs, Colorado. She is married to Christoph Henkel, a businessman. They have two sons.