Eike Schmidt

Eike Schmidt is director of the Uffizi in Florence since 2015. He directed the Department of Sculpture, Decorative Arts and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (2009–2015) and created a sub-department of Jewish Art. He curated Diafane passioni on Baroque sculpture at Florence's Palazzo Pitti in 2013, was a curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles (2006–2008) and a member of the valuation commission for the Maastricht International Antiques Fair (2010–2015).

As of January 2021