Herta Wolf

Herta Wolf (born 1954 ) is an art historian and professor of art history at the University of Cologne .

Life

Wolf studied philology, theater studies and philosophy at the University of Vienna. After receiving her doctorate in 1988, she worked as a research assistant at the Austrian Photo Archive in the Museum of Modern Art and at the University of Mannheim . From 1993 to 1994 she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the graduate college “Theory of Literature and Media” at the University of Konstanz . From 1994 to 2010 she was professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen and since 2010 professor for the history and theory of photography at the Art History Institute of the University of Cologne. Her main focus is the early history of photography and photo history in the context of the history of science. In particular, she deals with scientific presentation and recording processes. From 2012 to 2016 she headed the DFG project photography as applied science

Works (selection)

Monographs

Make believe. About German travel reports from the Soviet Union (1918-1932) . Special number publisher, Vienna 1992.

Editor

Point out and / or prove? Photography as a cultural technique and a medium of knowledge . De Gruyter, Berlin 2015
Discourses of Photography. Photo criticism at the end of the photographic age. Vol. 2. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a. M. 2003.
Paradigm photography. Photo criticism at the end of the photographic age. Vol. 1. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a. M. 2002.
with Rosalind Krauss: The originality of the avant-garde and other myths of modernity . From the American by Jörg Heininger, reviewed and reworked by Wilfried Prantner. Verlag der Kunst, Amsterdam and Dresden 2000.
with Philippe Dubois: The photographic act. An attempt on a theoretical dispositive . Verlag der Kunst, Amsterdam and Dresden 1998.
with Michael Wetzel: The withdrawal of images - visual realities . Fink-Verlag, Munich 1994.
with Michael Wetzel: Written pictures. The theater of representation . Frag.mente, No. 41/1993.
with Timm Starl: Foreign home. Germans in East Asia. 1910-1940 . Photo history, No. 50/1993.
Sculptures - fragments. International photographic works from the 1990s . Parkett Verlag, Vienna 1992.

Web links

Literature by and about Herta Wolf in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Prof. Dr. Herta Wolf at the University of Cologne

Individual evidence

↑ Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Herta Wolf. Art History Institute of the University of Zurich , accessed on October 9, 2018 .
↑ CV of Prof. Dr. Herta Wolf. University of Cologne, accessed on October 9, 2018 .
↑ Herta Wolf: Communication and dissemination of photographic knowledge after 1839. Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz , accessed on October 11, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wolf, Herta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH	1954

[1] Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Herta Wolf. Art History Institute of the University of Zurich , accessed on October 9, 2018 .

[2] CV of Prof. Dr. Herta Wolf. University of Cologne, accessed on October 9, 2018 .

[3] Herta Wolf: Communication and dissemination of photographic knowledge after 1839. Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz , accessed on October 11, 2018 .