Renate Berger (art historian)

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Renate Berger (* 1947 ) is a German art historian and curator . She was a professor of art and cultural studies and lives as a freelance writer in Berlin.

Life

She studied art history, classical archeology, psychology and sociology at the University of Hamburg . Research stays in Paris, London, Vienna, Rome, Florence, Amsterdam and New York followed. After completing her doctorate , she received a scholarship at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich, research assistant at the Institute for Literary Studies at the University of Hamburg and research assistant at the Art History Institute at the Philipps University in Marburg . Until 2012 she was professor for art and cultural studies at the Berlin University of the Arts .

She is one of the pioneers of female artist research in Germany.

In her research she deals with art, film and cultural history of the 1920s, artists from the 18th to 21st centuries. Century, concepts of masculinity in the modern age, women and gender studies, contemporary Japanese painting, artist couples in the 20th century, the Russian avant-garde, the Russian ballet, expressive dance and biography.

Renate Berger was chairman of the funding committee for women's and gender studies of the Berlin Senate , a member of the committee for graduate funding of the Berlin universities and the advisory board of the magazine " Querelles ".

Fonts

Monographs

  • Dance on the volcano. Gustaf Gründgens and Klaus Mann. Lambert Schneider, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-650-40128-1
  • Paula Modersohn-Becker: Paris - life as if in a frenzy Biography. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-7857-2308-1 .
  • Rodolfo Valentino, masculinity as a passion. Biography. European Publishing House, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-434-50549-0 .
  • Women painters on the way to the 20th century. Art history as social history. DuMont, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-7701-1395-0 .

Editor

  • with Anja Herrmann : Paris, Paris! Paula Modersohn-Becker and the artists around 1900. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-17-020714-1 .
  • Love makes art. Artist couples in the 20th century. Böhlau, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-412-08400-X .
  • Camille Claudel (1864–1943) - sculptures, paintings, drawings. Edition Stadtbaukunst, Berlin / Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-927469-09-2 .
  • “And I see nothing, nothing but painting” - autobiographical texts by female artists from the 18th to the 20th century. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-596-23722-X .
  • with Inge Stephan: Femininity and Death in Literature. Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-412-03087-2 .
  • with Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat : The Garden of Earthly Delights. On the interpretation of the erotic and sexual in artists and their interpreters. DuMont, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7701-1627-5 .

literature

  • Linda Hentschel, Anja Herrmann, Carola Muysers (eds.): Fragments of an art of living. Freiburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-939348-12-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carola Muysers: Introduction to: Fragments of an Art of Life. (PDF; 67 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1947