Hans Belting

Hans Belting (born 1935) is a German art historian and theorist of medieval and Renaissance art, as well as contemporary art and image theory.

Background

Belting studied at the universities of Mainz and Rome, and took his doctorate in art history at the University of Mainz. Subsequently he has held a fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University), Washington.

Belting taught as a professor at the University of Hamburg in 1966. [ [http://hosting.zkm.de/icon/stories/storyReader$75 IconClash - Hans Belting page] ] He taught as a professor of art history at the University of Heidelberg, and from 1980 to 1992 as a professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität at Munich. From 1992 until his retirement in 2002, he was professor at the Institute for Art History and Media Theory at the State College of Design in Karlsruhe. [ [http://csmt.uchicago.edu/membersbelting.htm Chicago School of Media] ] From October 2004 until the end of September 2007, Belting served as Director of the Internationalen Forschungszentrums Kulturwissenschaften (International Research Centre for Cultural Studies) in Vienna.

Honours

Hans Belting is a member of various scientific academies in Germany and the USA, including the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, a member of the Order pour le Mérite of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna (MUMOK).

References

"This article incorporates translated material from the German Wikipedia article."

External Links

* [http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/beltingh.htm DictionaryOfArtHistorians.org entry - Hans Belting]
* [http://csmt.uchicago.edu/membersbelting.htm Chicago School of Media]
* [http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/arthistory/faculty/belting.htm Northwestern University - Faculty]