Art Historian Tobias Vogt appointed

Dr. Tobias Vogt has taken the post of Professor of Art History: History and Theory of Visual Culture at the Institute for Art and Visual Culture. Before coming to Oldenburg, he held deputy professorships in Bochum, Tübingen, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Munich.

Vogt studied art history, journalism, literature and theatre studies in Mainz and Berlin, where he received his PhD in 2004. After working as assistant curator at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart he took a research post at the Free University of Berlin’s Institute of Cultural History. During this period, he was awarded a fellowship by the German Forum for Art History in Paris, and went on to complete his habilitation in 2015 in Berlin. Research stays took him to Paris, New York and Washington D.C. (USA).

 Vogt is especially interested in the relation between word and image as well as works of art and commodities, recently focussing on the authentication of art.