Thomas Gaehtgens

Frei Universität, Berlin

November–November 1999

Thomas Gaehtgens is professor of art history and American studies at Berlin's Free University, and a scholar whose work has devoted itself to gaps in understanding created by the fact that many Europeans have remained largely unfamiliar with American art that was produced from the eighteenth century until World War II. He has also published widely on Rudolf Menzel and on anti-academicism in French art.