Horst Bredekamp

Horst Bredekamp received his PhD in art history at the University of Marburg (1974). After working at the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt am Main as a curator (1974-1976) he became Assistant Professor at the University of Hamburg, where he tenured as Professor of Art History in 1982. Since 1993 he is Professor of Art History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In addition he has been a permanent fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study/Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin (2003-2012). Since 2012 he is co-director of the Cluster Image Knowledge Gestaltung, Humboldt University of Berlin (with Wolfgang Schäffner) and since 2015 member of the steering committee of the Humboldt Forum, Berlin. He is member of several academies, among them the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina, Halle (since 2004) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2016). He has received numerous awards, among them the Sigmund Freud Award (2001) and the Max Planck Award (2006), and he became a member of the Ordre pour le mérite (2014). In November 2017, he will be awarded with the Schiller Award. He published 26 books and close to 600 articles. His research foci are Iconoclasm, sculpture of the Romanesque, art of the Renaissance and Mannerism, political iconology, art and technology with Galileo, Hobbes and Leibniz, history of collecting, history of soccer and new media.