Christoph Wagner is Professor and Chair at the Department of Art History at the University of Regensburg (since 2007). He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea in London. In 2008, he was visiting professor at the École pratique des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne, Paris, in 2010, visiting professor at the Institute of Advanced Study in Bern, and in 2012 and 2013, visiting professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Wagner’s main areas of focus lie in art, art theory, and the aesthetics of the 20th century. Wagner authored the books Das Bauhaus und die Esoterik: Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky (2005), Esoterik am Bauhaus: Eine Revision der Moderne? (2009) and Itten – Klee. Kosmos Farbe (2012, accompanying the exhibition in the Kunstmuseum Bern and in the Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, respectively). He has recently completed a book Itten, Gropius, Klee am Bauhaus in Weimar. Utopie und historischer Kontext. Prof. Wagner is co-Editor of numerous books, including Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies. Approaches, Perspectives, Case Studies from Europe and America (Berlin 2011), Bilder Sehen. Perspektiven der Bildwissenschaft (Regensburg 2013), Aisthesis. Wahrnehmungsprozesse und Visualisierungsformen in Kunst und Technik (Regensburg 2013). Wagner is the General Editor of Regensburger Studien zur Kunstgeschichte and the co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Art History. The International Periodical of Reviews.
Position: University professor (W3 Professor), Chair at the Department of Art History at the University of Regensburg
Date of birth: 15th of June 1964, Ottweiler
Work address: Department of Art History, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstrasse 31, 93053 Regensburg Tel.: 0941 943 3752 /3624, FAX: 0941 943 3844 Email: christoph.wagner@ur.de http://www-kunstgeschichte.uni-r.de
Home address: Lehrstuhl für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 31, D-93053 Regensburg
Education: History of Art, Musicology, General and Comparative Literature Studies 1983–1985: Saarland University, Saarbrücken 1986–1987: Ludwig Maximilians University Munich 1988: University of Vienna 1989–1992: Saarland University, Saarbrücken
1993: Dr. phil. (PhD), Faculty of Humanities, Saarland University.
2004: Habilitation (qualification to teach at university) “Utopie und historischer Kontext. Beiträge zu Johannes Itten am Bauhaus in Weimar und seinen Beziehungen zu Walter Gropius und Paul Klee”. Faculty of Humanities, Saarland University.
Vocational experience: • 1988–1989: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich. • 1989: Max Beckmann Archiv, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich. • 1992–1999: Research associate, Saarland University, Saarbrücken. • 1995: Lectureship at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt. • 1999–2005: Assistant Professor, Saarland University, Saarbrücken. • 2006: Apl.-Professor. • 2006: Deputy Professorship in the Department of Art History at the University Bern (Chair Prof. Dr. Oskar Bätschmann).
2007–present: Professor (full, tenured) for Art History, Chair at the Department of Art History at the University of Regensburg.
2011–2013: Dean, Faculty of Philosophy, Art History, History and Humanities, University of Regensburg.
2013–2017: Vice President of the University of Regensburg.
Service, further duties: • 2008–present: General Editor of Regensburger Studien zur Kunstgeschichte • 2011–2013: President of the Gesellschaft für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft e.V.
Research interests: Art, art theory, and the aesthetics from Renaissance to 20th century.
Reviewer: • 2013–present: Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Art History. The International Periodical of Reviews.
Grant Reviewer for Funding Organisations: Ad hoc reviewer: German Research Council (DFG); Swiss National Foundation (SNF); Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH); German Academic Exchange Council (DAAD); Verwertungsgesellschaft VG Wort.
Membership in Academic Societies: • 2004–present: Member of the Stiftungsrat Johannes-Itten-Stiftung, Kunstmuseum Bern • 2011–present: Member of the Bavarian American Academy • 2012–present: Member of the Stiftungsrat der Adolf Hölzel-Stiftung • 2015–present: Member of the Board of Trustees of the German Colour Centre (Deutsches Farbenzentrum) • Member of Verband Deutscher Kunsthistoriker
Honorary Appointments: • 2009–present: Elected member of the Academia Europaea in London. • 2008: Visiting professor at the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, Section des Sciences historiques et philologiques (Sorbonne), Paris. • 2008–2016: Member of the Elite-Masterstudies-Program of Bavaria’s elite-networking • 2010 Visiting professor at the Graduate School, Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, Bern. 2012–2013: Visiting professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM, México.
