Carla Schulz-Hoffmann

Carla Schulz-Hoffmann (born August 28, 1946 in Burscheid ) is a German art historian.

Live and act

Carla Schulz-Hoffmann studied art history , philosophy and archeology in Cologne and Munich . In 1974 she did her doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich under Norbert Huse on the subject of “Reception of German Romantic Painting in Art Literature and Art History”. The dissertation consists the example of German Romanticism with the different valuation of historical phenomena on the basis of changed temporal and social issues apart.

After a traineeship at the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen in Munich, she became a scientific advisor for the art of the 20th century in 1975. From 1991 to 2011 she was deputy general director of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung and from 2002 advisor for the Pinakothek der Moderne and the Museum Brandhorst .

At the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, large overview exhibitions on Georg Baselitz , Andy Warhol and Cy Twombly , presentations of the Udo and Anette Brandhorst and Michael and Eleonore Stoffel collections as well as the planning and new construction of the Pinakothek der Moderne and the Brandhorst Museum were the focus of their activities. In 2012 she curated the exhibition "Women. Pablo Picasso , Max Beckmann , Willem de Kooning ".

Carla Schulz-Hoffmann has mainly published publications on the art of the twentieth century. Since 1981 she has been teaching at the Ludwig Maximilians University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where she received an honorary professorship in 1993. She was a member of numerous juries and boards of trustees, currently on the scientific advisory board and on the governing body of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria. Carla Schulz-Hoffmann retired on August 31, 2011.

Private

Carla Schulz-Hoffmann has been married to Hans-Dieter Schulz, a business graduate and regional planner, since 1972.

Honors

• 2012: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

Publications (selection)

• Georg Baselitz. Cat. Exhib. Munich 1976
• Lucio Fontana. Cat. Exhib. Munich, Darmstadt, Bielefeld 1983, Prestel, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7913-0662-6
• Max Beckmann, retrospective. Cat. Exhib. Munich, Berlin, St. Louis, Los Angeles 1983/84, ed. by Carla Schulz-Hoffmann and Judith C. Weiss, Prestel, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7913-0607-3 .
• Myth of Italy - winter fairy tale Germany, Italian modernism and its dialogue with Germany. Cat. Exhib. Munich 1988, ed. by Carla Schulz-Hoffmann, Prestel, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7913-0852-1 .
• Max Beckmann, the painter. Monograph, Bruckmann, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7654-2432-3 .
• Andy Warhol, The Last Supper. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 1998, ISBN 978-3-89322-952-9
• Baselitz remix. Kat.-Ausst., Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7757-1846-X .
• Max Beckmann - Exile in Amsterdam. Cat. Exhib. Amsterdam / Munich 2007/08, ISBN 978-3-7757-1837-0 (German) ISBN 978-3-7757-1838-7 (English).
• Women. Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, Willem de Kooning. Cat. Exhib. Munich, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3266-6