The Art History Newsletter

Obit: Petrus Schaesberg

by | 29 September 2008 | Uncategorized

According to the (soon to be defunct?) New York Sun,

An art history professor at Columbia University jumped to his death from his Morningside Heights apartment. Petrus Schaesberg, an adjunct professor … began teaching in the art history department in 2005 but was not teaching this semester. The German native was also a photographer.

According to Wikipedia, he compeleted his PhD at “Munich’s Institute of Art History, Ludwig Maximilian University in 2004″ and had published on Louise Bourgeois, David Salle, Andy Warhol, and Ed Ruscha.