Peter Betthausen

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Peter Betthausen (born 27 June 1941) is a German art historian.

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Born in Harzgerode, in Anhalt, Germany, Betthausen studied history of art, history and aesthetic at the Humboldt University of Berlin. From 1966 to 1986 he worked there and at the Leipzig University. In 1971 he received his doctorate at the University of Berlin with a thesis on Hypothesen zu einer kunstwissenschaftlichen Stiltheorie (Hypotheses on a theory of style in art studies) and in 1986 he habilitated on Künstlergemeinschaften der deutschen Romantik (Artist communities of German Romanticism). From 1974 to 1986 he was also a member of staff at the Institute for Aesthetics and Art Studies at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. From 1986 he was director of the National Gallery of the GDR. During his term of office, which lasted until January 1991, he showed a series of exhibitions on artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Wolfgang Mattheuer, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Werner Tübke, Gerhard Altenbourg and Bernhard Heisig. In addition, he organized exhibitions from the holdings of the National Gallery in Vienna and various locations in the United States. Later Betthausen worked as a freelance art historian in Berlin. In his numerous publications, he devoted himself mainly to the art of the 19th century and the history of art historiography.

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