Olaf Peters (art historian)
Olaf Peters (* 1964 in Hagen ) is a German art historian and university professor.
Life
Olaf Peters studied art history, philosophy and modern history at the Ruhr University Bochum from 1987 to 1992 and graduated in 1992 with a Magister Artium in art history. As a scholarship holder of the Graduate Funding of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1993 to 1996 he received his doctorate in Bochum in 1996 and in 1997 received another scholarship from the German Research Foundation . From 1998 he was an assistant at the Art History Institute of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , from 2002 to 2003 also a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (New Jersey) and then completed his habilitation in Bonn in 2004. From 2004 to 2006 he was senior assistant at the Art History Institute in Bonn. Since 2006 he has been Professor of Modern Art History and Art Theory at the Institute for Art History and Archeologies in Europe at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) in Halle (Saale).
Peters authored four books, numerous scientific articles and edited several publications. Since 2005 he has been the specialist editor of the online review journal sehepunkte / KUNSTFORM and since 2007 KUNSTFORM co-editor.
He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Neue Galerie New York since 2006 and was a founding member and board member of the Society for the Promotion of Modern Art Historiography in 2007, where he is also co-editor of the series of the same name, which is now published by Walter de Gruyter . From 2010 he was Chairman of the Scientific and Artistic Advisory Board of the Moritzburg Foundation in 2014 , where he was also a member of the Board of Trustees and, since the end of 2014, Chairman of the Foundation Board. He is also a member of the Cultural Heritage Network at MLU.
Since 2010 he has curated several exhibitions.
Peters is married to the art historian Carina Plath .
Publications (selection)
- Rudolf Vombek , drawings 1974–1989. Catalog and catalog raisonné, ed. from the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum , Hagen 1989.
- New objectivity and National Socialism . Affirmation and Criticism 1931–1947 (also Diss. Ruhr University Bochum, 1996). Reimer, Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-496-01182-8 .
- From the black tightrope walker. Max Beckmann between Weimar Republic and exile (also Hab.schr. Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn). Reimer, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-496-01333-4 .
- Otto Dix . The intrepid look. A biography. Reclam, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-010938-0 .
- Leonhard Helten / Hans W. Hubert / Olaf Peters / Guido Siebert (ed.): Continents of art history. The art historian Wilhelm Vöge (1868–1952) , Halle (Saale): mdv, 2019.
Web links
- Literature by and about Olaf Peters in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Olaf Peters in the German Digital Library
- Prof. Dr. Olaf Peters , Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Olaf Peters, Halle. Lenbachhaus , Munich 2016.
- ↑ Johanna Di Blasi: Carina Plath is the new curator at the Sprengel Museum. Hannoversche Allgemeine, March 23, 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peters, Olaf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hagen |