Christian Saehrendt

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Christian Saehrendt (born January 29, 1968 in Kassel ) is a German art historian and publicist.

Life

Christian Saehrendt studied fine art at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts , then contemporary history and European art history at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg . In 2002 he received his doctorate there with a thesis on the expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner . He lives in Thun today . Since 1989 he has been working with Steen T. Kittl , among others . Since 2007, both have written seven popular science monographs together . In addition to popular science literature, Saehrendt also writes art studies. His work focuses on the cultural history of the 20th century, art sociology , political art and popular science art education in the field of contemporary art . Independently and in cooperation with universities and research institutions, he worked on foreign cultural policy , political monuments (sculpture and architecture) and on the artist group “Die Brücke” .

Works

Popular scientific monographs

  • Snow White and the Headless Curator. The travel guide for documenta visitors, romantics and horror fans . DuMont, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-8321-6308-2 .
  • with Steen T. Kittl: Is that art or can it go away? The true value of art . DuMont, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-8321-9772-8 .
  • Emotional times. The compulsive longing for the real . DuMont, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-8321-9790-2 .
  • with Steen T. Kittl: You have beautiful hair. Freshly coined wisdom for him and her . DuMont, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-8321-9706-3 .
  • Kassel. Is that art - or can it go away? Documenta stories, fairy tales and myths . DuMont, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-8321-9344-7 .
  • Embarrassment! Story of embarrassment . Bloomsbury, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8270-1064-3 .
  • with Steen T. Kittl: It's all bluff !: How we become impostors without wanting to. Or maybe yes? Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-17813-7 (also published in Korean).
  • with Steen T. Kittl: Vultures at van Gogh's grave. And other ugly stories from the world of fine arts . DuMont, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-8321-9093-4 .
  • with Steen T. Kittl: What does art want? Campus, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-38646-1 (also published in South Korea, PR China and Taiwan).
  • with Steen T. Kittl: That tells me something: Art phrasebook: German phrasebook - Art / Art - German . DuMont, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-8321-9094-1 .
  • with Steen T. Kittl: I can do that too !: Instructions for modern art . DuMont, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-8321-7759-1 (non-fiction bestseller 2007. Also published in Turkish, Korean, Chinese (Taiwan and People's Republic) and Spanish (Spain), updated German editions 2009 and 2013 (paperback)).

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Scientific monographs

  • Art in the struggle for the socialist world system. Foreign cultural policy of the GDR in Africa and the Middle East . Steiner Franz Verlag, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-515-11722-7 , pp. 164 .
  • Art as an ambassador of an artificial nation: studies on the role of the visual arts in the foreign cultural policy of the GDR . Steiner Franz Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-515-09227-2 , pp. 197 (In the Pallas Athene series. Contributions to the history of universities and science, edited by Rüdiger vom Bruch and Eckart Henning, vol. 27).
  • The trench warfare of the monuments. War memorials in Berlin in the interwar period (1919-1939) . Dietz, Bonn 2004, ISBN 978-3-8012-4150-6 , pp. 205 (edited by Michael Schneider and Dieter Dowe in the Political and Social History series of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung).
  • “The bridge” between statecraft and ostracism: Expressionist art as a political issue in the Weimar Republic, the “Third Reich” and the Cold War . Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-515-08614-1 , p. 124 (Published in the Pallas Athene series. Contributions to the history of universities and science, edited by Rüdiger vom Bruch and Eckart Henning, vol. 13.).
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Bohème identity and national mission . Lang, Peter, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 978-3-631-50128-3 , pp. 241 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lori Waxman : Lori Waxman's art criticism: Christian Saehrendt. August 12, 2012, accessed May 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ http://www.derbund.ch/kultur/kunst/ein-crash-koennte-heilsam-sein/story/22532190
  3. ↑ Author portrait of C. Saehrendt and S. Kittl In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger 28./29. April 2007.
  4. ^ The Peter Lustig of the art business. Interview / author portrait C. Saehrendt. In: Galore , June 2008.
  5. ↑ http://www.hna.de/kultur/welt-schreit-nach-romantik-5414702.html
  6. ↑ http://www.cicero.de/stil/die-macht-des-haarschnitts-merkel-und-die-gefoehnte-krone/57872
  7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0jd82TQPyk
  8. ↑ Johan Dehoust: Get the adrenaline rush. February 27, 2012, accessed May 2, 2017 .
  9. ^ Johanna Bruckner: Deceiving - a basic principle of life. Süddeutsche.de, June 4, 2011, accessed on May 2, 2017 .
  10. ↑ A wonderful, half-serious help in life for the art business In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 25, 2008.
  11. ^ Christian Saehrendt: The Radical Absence of Ronny Läpplinger, Walde & Graf 2012. Portal Art History, p. 2 , accessed on May 2, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 1/2018, p. 101 (Ulrich van der Heyden review).
  13. ↑ Benita Blessing: Christian Saehrendt. Art as an ambassador of an artificial nation: studies on the role of the visual arts in the foreign cultural policy of the GDR. Accessed May 2, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Saehrendt, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel