Studies

Born on the 12th of April 1950 in Darmstadt, Germany.

Since 1956 Elementary School and High School in Ludwigshafen on the Rhine.

1968 Final high-school examination at the Max Planck Gymnasium in Ludwigshafen on the Rhine.

1968-70 Studies of art history, archaeology and German philology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University at Frankfort on the Main.

1970-73 Studies of art history, modern history and modern German philology at the Free University of Berlin, West Berlin.

1973-77 Studies of art history at the Technical University of Berlin, West Berlin.

1977 Master of Arts at the Technical University of Berlin.

Since 1972 various travels, including to Argentina, Brazil, France, Mexico, Spain, the United States and Venezuela.

1984-85 Academy of the Arts, Archives, West Berlin
Archivist of documents of the former institutions

1986-87 Municipal administration of the district Kreuzberg, West Berlin
History of the monument on the Kreuzberg

1987-89 Art Library, Graphic Collection, Foundation of the Prussian Cultural Possessions, West Berlin
Archivist of the architectonical drawings of the XIXth century

1991-94 Art Library, Berlin
Archivist of the art manuals, ornamental pattern and sample books of the XIXth century

1998-99 Museum of Kreuzberg, Berlin
Artistic estate of Willi Hoffmann

2000-01 Museum of Kreuzberg, Berlin
Geschichte der Kreuzberger Boheme der sechziger Jahre

2001-02 Cultural Department of the district Mitte, Berlin
History of the exhibitions of the communal galleries of the district Wedding

1980 America - Dream and Depression
New Society of Visual Arts, West Berlin

1982 Berlin - Home of Foreign Artists
Society of Galleries in Berlin, West Berlin

1983 Heinrich Vogeler - Retrospective
New Society of Visual Arts, West Berlin

1987 Coming from Outside - Turkish Artists in Berlin
Department of Cultural Affairs and Academy of the Arts, West Berlin

1991 Spain - Tradition and Renewal
New Society of Visual Arts, West Berlin

2004 Hugo Brehme - Photographer.
Mexico between revolution and romanticism
Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut / Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

Kunstforum International
Kunst-Stadt/Stadt-Kunst

Der Tagesspiegel
Die Tageszeitung (taz)
Tranvía - Revue der Iberischen Halbinsel

Since 1996 freelance collaborator of the General Encyclopedia of Artists (Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon) with the Editorial K.G. Saur, Leipzig (section for Spain and Latin America).

Member of the AICA: Association Internationale des Critiques d´Art - International Association of Art Critics - Asociación Internacional de Críticos de Arte.