Eike Schmidt will leave the Uffizi. The direction of the Kunsthistorisches in Vienna is ready for him.

There are three years left until the end of his term, but it is safe to say that Eike Schmidt, the director of the Uffizi Gallery, has already bid farewell to the museum and to Florence. Indeed, yesterday, Austria’s culture minister announced at a press conference that the current director of the Uffizi will, as of 2020, be the new director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, currently headed by Sabine Haag. Schmidt will then wait until the end of his current term.

The news spread quickly in Florence and in Italian cultural circles: the first comments are already being recorded, starting with that of the mayor of Florence, Dario Nardella, who hopes that the decision to move to Vienna will not affect the collaboration started with the city of Florence. Schmidt has been at the Uffizi since 2015, when he was appointed director following the now-famous international competition announced by MiBACT and strongly supported by Minister Dario Franceschini: it covered twenty of Italy’s most important museums, which in no fewer than nineteen cases saw changes at their top.

Eike Schmidt will leave the Uffizi. The direction of the Kunsthistorisches in Vienna is ready for him.

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