Thomas Wolfgang Gaehtgens#
| Membership Number: | 4876 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MUSICOLOGY & ART HISTORY |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since November 2007 Director, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
- 1997 - 2007 Founder and Director, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte/ Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, Paris
- 1998 - 1999 European Chair of the Collège de France
- 1995 Lecturer at the Collège de France
- 1980 - 2006 Professor of Art History, Freie Universität Berlin
- 1985 - 1986 Visiting Scholar, J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica
- 1979 - 1980 Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University1963–1964 Research Fellow of the French Government
- 1974 - 1975 Professor, University of Hamburg
- 1972 - 1978 Professor, University of Göttingen
- 1970 - 1972 Lecturer, University of Göttingen
- 1966 - 1972 Lecturer, University of Bonn
Fields of Scholarship
- XVIIIth - XIXth Century Art History (Painting, Sculpture)
- Kunstliteratur (Art Criticism)
- Heritage studies
- History of Display
- American Art and Transatlantic German Relations
- Artistic Institutions (Museum History, History of collecting)
- Cultural Exchange and Artistic Relations between Germany and France
Honours and Awards
- 1983 Member Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
- 1995 Lecturer at the Collège de France
- 1998 - 1999 European Chair of the Collège de France
- 2004 Honorary Doctorate from the Courtauld Institute of Art
- 2009 Grand Prix de l'Académie Française pour la Francophonie
- 2011 Honorary Doctorate from the Université Paris-Sorbonne
- 2011 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2015 Prix Mondial Cino del Duca by the Institut de France
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur
- Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
