by Jon Lackman | 12 September 2007 | Uncategorized
From the L.A. Times:
Gaehtgens, 67, a native of Germany who has art history degrees from the universities of Bonn, Freiburg, Vienna and Paris, is expected to arrive in Los Angeles in November. He will take charge of the Getty’s program for interdisciplinary scholarship in the arts and humanities, founded in 1984 as a branch of the J. Paul Getty Trust … A sort of Renaissance man of art history, Gaehtgens has specialized in 18th and 19th century German and French art and delved deeply into many other subjects, including the history of museums and U.S. modern art.
He also has extensive experience at several institutions of higher education. He founded the German Center for the History of Art in Paris in 1997, after spending several years as head of the Art History Institute at the Free University of Berlin. He was a visiting scholar at the Art Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University from 1979 to 1980 and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 2004.
(Second L.A. Times article here.)
