Art historian – Publicist – Art Critic – Curator
Modern and contemporary visual arts
Principal Themes
Art in public spaces: Mural painting, graffiti, monuments and memorials
German exile art after the year 1933
Post-war art in Berlin
Art in Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean
Vita
Born on the 12th of April 1950 in Darmstadt, Germany.
Since 1956 Elementary School and High School in Ludwigshafen am Rhein.
1968 Final High School examination at the Max Planck Gymnasium in Ludwigshafen am Rhein.
1968–70 Studies of art history, archaeology and German philology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University at Frankfurt am Main.
1970–73 Studies of art history, modern history and modern German philology at the Free University of Berlin, West Berlin.
1973–77 Studies of art history at the Technical University of Berlin, West Berlin.
1977 Master of Arts at the Technical University of Berlin.
Since 1972 various investigation travels, including to France, Great Britain, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Nicaragua and the United States.
Since 1980 contributor of many magazines, for example Die Kunst und das Schöne Heim, Tendenzen, Berliner Kunstblatt, Tranvía, Kunstforum International, Kritische Berichte, Humboldt, Kunst/Stadt-Stadt/Kunst and ZITTY, aside from newspapers like Tagesspiegel, Berliner Zeitung, taz, Main-Echo and Mannheimer Morgen. Also many laudations in openings of individual or collective exhibitions.
Since 1996 freelance collaborator of the General Encyclopedia of Artists (Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon / Editorial De Gruyter, Berlin / Editorial office: Leipzig) in the section for Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Member of the German section of AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d´Art - International Association of Art Critics - Asociación Internacional de Críticos de Arte).
Research projects (selection)
1984–85 Academy of the Arts, Archives, West Berlin
Archivist of documents of the former institutions
1986–87 Municipal administration of the district Kreuzberg, West Berlin
History of the monument on the Kreuzberg (exhibition and catalogue)
1987–89 Art Library, Graphic Collection, Foundation of the Prussian Cultural Possessions, West Berlin
Archivist of the architectonical drawings of the XIXth century
1991–94 Art Library, Berlin
Archivist of the art manuals, ornamental pattern and sample books of the XIXth century (book)
1998–99 Museum of Kreuzberg, Berlin
Artistic estate of Willi Hoffmann (exhibition and catalogue)
2000–2001 Museum of Kreuzberg, Berlin
History of the Kreuzberg Bohemia during the Sixties
2001–02 Cultural Department of the district Mitte, Berlin
History of the exhibitions of the communal galleries of the district Wedding (book)
Curator or conceptual collaborator of exhibitions (selection)
1974 Art of the Mexican Revolution - Legend and Reality New Society of Visual Arts, West Berlin
1978 Clément Moreau / Carl Meffert. Graphics for the Fellow Human Being. Germany - Suisse - Argentina
Cultural Office of Kreuzberg, West Berlin
1980 America – Dream and Depression
New Society of Visual Arts, West Berlin
1981 José Clemente Orozco 1883-1949
Great Orangerie / Charlottenburg Palace, West Berlin
1982 Berlin – Home of Foreign Artists
Society of Galleries in Berlin, West Berlin
1983 Heinrich Vogeler – Retrospective
New Society of Visual Arts, West Berlin
1987 The monument on the Kreuzberg by Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Cultural Office of Kreuzberg, West Berlin
1987 Coming from Outside – Turkish Artists in Berlin
Department of Cultural Affairs and Academy of the Arts, West Berlin
1991 Spain – Tradition and Renewal
New Society of Visual Arts, Berlin
2002 mimesis et inventio. The Contemporary European Still Life
Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen
2004 Hugo Brehme – Photographer. Mexico between Revolution and Romanticism
Martin Gropius Building, Berlin
2007 In the Light of Reality. Contemporary Realism in Spain
Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen