Tobias Hoffmann (art historian)

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Tobias Hoffmann in front of the Bröhan Museum 2013

Tobias Hoffmann (* 1970 in Munich ) is a German art historian , curator and, since 2013, director of the Bröhan Museum in Berlin.

Life

Tobias Hoffmann studied art history and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received his doctorate in 2007 with a dissertation on Willi Baumeister's work "The Unknown in Art" at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart.

After graduating, he first worked as a research assistant at the Neue Sammlung in Munich, then at the Museum for Concrete Art in Ingolstadt, which he headed from 2002 to 2012. During this time he realized numerous exhibitions on concrete art and design of the 20th century. In 2013 he was appointed director of the Bröhan Museum.

Since then, he has modernized the museum's program and opened it up to exhibitions that combine the historical collection of Art Nouveau , Art Deco and paintings from the Berlin Secession with topics from art and design up to the present day. Exhibitions such as "Schrill Bizarr Brachial. New German Design of the 80s" (2014), "Do It Yourself Design" (2016) and "Kuss. From Rodin to Bob Dylan" (2017) are a result of this reorientation.

Publications (selection)

  • Tobias Hoffmann (Ed.): Bauhaus style or constructivism? The dawn of modernity in the centers of Berlin - Bauhaus - Hanover - Stuttgart - Frankfurt. Cologne 2008
  • Tobias Hoffmann (Ed.): The Idea Concrete: Concrete Art as a Development of the History of Ideas. Cologne 2012
  • Tobias Hoffmann, Markus Zehentbauer (Ed.): Schrill Bizarr Brachial. The new German design of the 80s. Berlin 2014
  • Tobias Hoffmann (Ed.): Turn of Time. From the Berlin Secession to the November Group. Berlin 2015
  • Tobias Hoffmann (Ed.): Germany versus France. The battle for style 1900–1930. Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Functionalism. Berlin 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tobias Hoffmann: Art Form and Constructivism: Willi Baumeister's book The Unknown in Art as a Self-Positioning of a Modern Artist in Inner Emigration , Diss. Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart 2007
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, curator and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich