Wulf Herzogenrath

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Wulf Herzogenrath (born 23 March 1944, Rathenow, Province of Brandenburg), Germany is a German art historian and art curator. He is a leading expert in the fields of Video art, New Media Art and the Bauhaus. He has assembled a large collection of artist's books. [1]

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Early life and education

Herzogenrath studied art history, archaeology und ethnology in Kiel, Berlin and Bonn. 1967 - 1968 he edited the exhibition catalog "50 Jahre Bauhaus". He received his doctorate in 1970 with a thesis on Oskar Schlemmer's murals. [2]

In 1973 the 28-year-old Herzogenrath was hired to be director of a German Kunstverein (Art Society) in Cologne, Germany.

From 1989 he was the chief curator of the National Gallery (Berlin), entrusted with the Hamburger Bahnhof division for contemporary art. Herzogenrath left in 1994 to lead the Kunsthalle Bremen until his retirement in 2011. He relocated to Berlin in 2013.

Since 2012 he is the director of the visual arts section of the German Academy of Arts, Berlin. [3]

Curatorial work

Honors

Publications

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