Benjamin Buchloh

Benjamin Buchloh (born November 13, 1941 in Cologne ) is a German art historian , publicist and exhibition curator . He teaches history of art at Harvard University in Cambridge , Massachusetts .

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Benjamin H. D. (Heinz Dieter) Buchloh spent the first years of his life in Switzerland and returned to Cologne in 1946. As a young man he moved to Berlin and studied German literature at the Free University . He was active in the student movement from 1968, in 1969 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1974/1975 he was the editor of the last two issues of the avant-garde magazine Interfunktion, which appeared between 1968 and 1975 . In 1976 he was, as successor to Kasper König , visiting professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax and editor of the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design . In 1978 he taught for a short time at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf .

From 1989 to 1994 Buchloh was Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and from 1991 to 1993 Director of Critical and Curatorial Studies in the Whitney Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Since 1994, Buchloh has been Professor of 20th Century Art, Critique and Critical Theory at Barnard College , New York.

In 2005 he was appointed Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of Modern Art at Harvard University . In 2007 he received the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, which was awarded for the first time to an outstanding art historian . In 2008 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; In 2009 he was a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin .

Buchloh is the author of numerous monographs on contemporary artists, including Gerhard Richter , Marcel Broodthaers , Carl Andre and Dan Graham . His work on the Pop Art artist Andy Warhol is considered fundamental. In his writings Buchloh deals primarily with the relationships between the historical avant-gardes of the twentieth century and the so-called neo-avant-gardes of the post-war period. He is considered to be the mediator of American and European art production from the 1960s to the present and investigates the interaction of transatlantic artistic practices during this period.

Works (selection)

• Andy Warhol . MIT-Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2001, ISBN 978-0-262-63242-3 (October Files; Vol. 2).
• Gerhard Richter . MIT-Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2009, ISBN 978-0-262-51312-8 (October Files; Vol. 8).
• Gerhard Richter. Eight gray . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2002, ISBN 978-3-7757-1274-3 (catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the German Guggenheim Museum, Berlin from October 11, 2002 to January 5, 2003).
• Neo-Avant-Garde and Culture Industry. Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 . 2nd ed. MIT-Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2003, ISBN 978-0-262-52347-9 (October Books).

Web links

• Literature by and about Benjamin Buchloh in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Benjamin Buchloh  in the German Digital Library
• Search for Benjamin Buchloh in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietmar Elger: Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting , University of Chicago Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-226-20323-2 , p. 193
2. ^ Fridericianum (Kassel) - website ( Memento from May 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Columbia University website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Internet site of Harvard University ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.