Christian Saehrendt

Christian Saehrendt ( born January 29, 1968 in Kassel, Germany ) is a German art historian and publicist.

Life

Saehrendt studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg, then Recent History and Art History at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg. He was there his doctorate with a thesis on the Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 2002. Since 1989 he works together with Steen T. Kittl, between 1994 and 2000 both led the producers and artists gallery group New decency in Berlin. Since 2007 Saehrendt Kittl and co-authored six popular science monographs. Christian Saehrendt written popular science books in addition to art scientific studies and technical papers in journals, catalogs and anthologies. He is a columnist at the Swiss monthly and writes for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

His themes and work focuses on the cultural history of the 20th century, sociology of art, political art and popular science art education in the field of contemporary art. Independently and in cooperation with universities and research institutions, he worked on projects about foreign cultural policy, political monuments ( sculpture and architecture ) of the artist group "Die Brücke".

Works

Science and monographs

• Christian Saehrendt, Steen T. Kittl: You have the hair beautifully. Freshly coiffed wisdom for him and her. DuMont, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-8321-9706-3, p 240
• Christian Saehrendt: Kassel. Is it art - or can that away? Documentation stories, fairy tales and myths. DuMont, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3832193447, p 240
• Christian Saehrendt: disgrace! History of embarrassment. Bloomsbury, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3827010643, p 200
• Christian Saehrendt, Steen T. Kittl: Everything Bluff: How are we going to impostors, without meaning to. Or is it?. Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3453178137, p 304 ( also published in Korean ).
• Christian Saehrendt, Steen T. Kittl: Vulture on Grabe van Gogh. And other ugly stories from the world of fine arts. DuMont, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3832190934, p 304
• Christian Saehrendt, Steen T. Kittl: What does art?. Campus, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3593386461, pp. 200 ( Also published in Korean ( South Korea) and Chinese (Taiwan) ).
• Christian Saehrendt, Steen T. Kittl: That tells me what: Talking Art: Phrasebook German - Arts / Art - German. DuMont, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3832190941, p 248
• Christian Saehrendt, Steen T. Kittl: I can also: Instructions for Modern Art. DuMont, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3832177591, p 248 ( non-fiction best sellers of 2007. Appeared also in Turkish, Korean, Chinese (Taiwan and People's Republic ) and in Spanish (Spain ), updated German editions of 2009 and 2013 ( Paperback ) ).

Novel

• Christian Saehrendt: The radical absence of Ronny Läpplinger. Walde Graf, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3037740415, p 270

Scientific Monographs

• Christian Saehrendt: Art as an ambassador of an artificial nation: studies on the role of visual art in the foreign cultural policy of the GDR. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 9783515092272, pp. 197 ( In the series Pallas Athene. Contributions to the university and the History of Science, edited by Rüdiger vom Bruch and Eckart Henning Vol 27).
• Christian Saehrendt: The war of position of the monuments. War memorials in Berlin during the interwar period ( 1919-1939 ). Dietz, Bonn 2004, ISBN 978-3801241506, pp. 205 ( herausgeg. by Michael Schneider and Dieter Dowe in the series Political and Social History of the Friedrich -Ebert -Stiftung ).
• Christian Saehrendt: "The Bridge " between statecraft and ostracism: Expressionist art as a political issue during the Weimar Republic, in the "Third Reich" and the Cold War. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 9783515086141, pp. 124 (released in the series Pallas Athene. Contributions to the university and the History of Science, edited by Rüdiger vom Bruch and Eckart Henning Vol 13 ).
• Christian Saehrendt: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: bohemian identity and national broadcast. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 978-3631501283, p 241