Ole Wittmann | |
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Born | Henstedt-Ulzburg, West Germany (now Germany) | 31 August 1977
Occupation(s) | art historian and curator |
Ole Wittmann (born 31 August 1977) is a German art historian, curator and publisher. He is specialized in the role of tattooing in art. His research on the German tattoo history of the late 19th and 20th century is considered pioneering. [1] [2] He has written the first German doctoral thesis on tattooing and art and his research has generated considerable media interest. [3]
Wittmann was born in Henstedt-Ulzburg. He studied art history at the University of Hamburg and has been a visiting lecturer there. He worked for the Arno Schmidt Stiftung from 2009 to 2012 and was involved in the conception of the exhibition 'Tattoo' [4] (2015) at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.
His doctoral thesis Tattoos in der Kunst [5] is concerned with material specific aspects and the iconology of tattoos, he received his Ph.D. in 2017. [6] [7]
Since December 2015 Wittmann is a postdoctoral scholarship holder of the Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur (Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture) working on a research project on the estate of the German tattooist Christian Warlich (1891–1964) in cooperation with the Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg/Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte. [8]
Wittmann is the founder and owner of the company Nachlass Warlich. [9] He is an executive board member and research director of the nonprofit organisation Institut für deutsche Tattoo-Geschichte e.V. (IDTG) since 2018. Wittmann is the curator of the exhibition "Tattoo-Legenden. Christian Warlich auf St. Pauli" (2019/20) at the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte. [10]
The book Karl Finke: Buch No. 3' was edited and published by Wittmann in 2019 and was awarded bronze by the Art Directors Club für Deutschland e.V. (ADC) [11] and won the German Design Award. [12] [13] [14]
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