Beate Söntgen

Beate Söntgen (* 1963 in Stolberg ) is a German art historian and professor of art history at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg .

Life

Söntgen studied art history, philosophy and modern German literature in Marburg and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1996 from the Free University of Berlin . After a postdoctoral fellowship in Frankfurt an der Oder , she worked as an assistant at the Institute for Art History at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts . 2002–2003 she was the first Laurenz professor for contemporary art at the University of Basel. From 2003–2011 she was Professor of Art History at the Ruhr University in Bochum and 2005–2008 Managing Director of the Institute of Art History. She has been Professor of Art History at Leuphana University Lüneburg since 2011. Together with Susanne Leeb, she is the scientific director of the dual training program “PriMus - Doctorate in the Museum”, which aims to improve curator training.

Söntgen's main research interests are French and German painting of the 18th and 19th centuries as well as contemporary art.

Works (selection)

Monographs

Seeing is everything: Wilhelm Leibl and the perception of realism , Munich (Wilhelm Fink Verlag) 2000. ISBN 3-7705-3433-6
Manet's pathos . Flaubert Lectures, Cologne 2012. ISBN 978-3-941360-22-8

Editor

with Hannes Böhringer: Wilhelm Worringers Art History, Munich (Wilhelm Fink Verlag) 2002.
with Hannes Böhringer and Helga Grebing: Wilhelm Worringer. Writings, 2 volumes, Munich (Wilhelm Fink Verlag) 2004.
with Theodora Vischer: About Dieter Roth. Contributions and essays from the symposium, Schaulager 2003, Basel and Cologne 2004.
with Geraldine Spiekermann: Tränen, Munich (Wilhelm Fink Verlag) 2008.
with Susanne Märtens and Viola Vahrson: Walking. Festschrift for Hannes Böhringer, Cologne (Salon Verlag) 2012.
with Gabrielle Brandstetter: Renaissance of the Passion. (Flaubert Lectures; Volume 4), (Small Edition; Volume 11). Cologne: August Verlag 2012.
with Ewa Lajer-Burcharth: Interiors and Interiority. Berlin (de Gruyter Verlag) 2016.

Web links

Literature by and about Beate Söntgen in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Beate Söntgen at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Short biography and reviews of works by Beate Söntgen at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

↑ Beate Söntgen first Laurenz professor for contemporary art. University of Basel , September 26, 2002, accessed on October 22, 2018 .
↑ Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen, Professor of Art History. Leuphana University of Lüneburg , accessed on October 22, 2018 .
↑ Doing a doctorate in a museum: Leuphana University trains curators in practice. Deutschlandfunk , January 22, 2018, accessed on October 22, 2018 .
↑ Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen: Research & Projects. Retrieved October 22, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Söntgen, Beate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH	1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stolberg (Rhineland)

[unibas-1] Beate Söntgen first Laurenz professor for contemporary art. University of Basel , September 26, 2002, accessed on October 22, 2018 .

[2] Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen, Professor of Art History. Leuphana University of Lüneburg , accessed on October 22, 2018 .

[3] Doing a doctorate in a museum: Leuphana University trains curators in practice. Deutschlandfunk , January 22, 2018, accessed on October 22, 2018 .

[4] Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen: Research & Projects. Retrieved October 22, 2018 .