Education
He studied Roman, German, and Art History at Marburg and Paris and finished his Doctor of Philosophy in Roman Studies at the University of Mannheim.
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Hubertus Amelunxen
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Career
Amelunxen authored and published several books focusing on the history and theory of photography. Hubertus von Amelunxen lectured in Basel and became a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. From 1995 to 2000 he was a professor at the Muthesius Hochschule for Art and Design in Kiel where he founded the Center for Interdisciplinary Project Studies.
In 2000 he taught at the University of Düsseldorf and at the Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerpen.
Since 2001 he is working as a Senior Curator at the Centre Canadien d‘Architecture in Montréal. From 2005 to 2009 he served as rector of the École européenne supérieure de l"image in Angoulême/Poitiers in France.
He curated several international exhibitions, including Tomorrow Foreign Ever – Photographie als Ruine, Krems/Duisburg (2000). "Tomorrow Foreign Ever", Krems, Duisburg 1999/2000.
"Le territoire en deuil", Arles 1998
"Les lieux du Non-Lieu", Munich 1997
"Photography after Photography", Munich / Praterinsel, Philadelphia / International Cooperation Administration, 1995/96
"Die aufgehobene Zeit.
Die Erfindung der Photographie durch Henry Fox Talbot", Berlin / Neue Nationalgalerie, Paris / Palais Tokyo, 1989/1990;
"Denis Roche – plus de lumière", Vienna / Palais Liechtenstein 1987.
Membership
Akademie der Künste Berlin]
In the same year Amelunxen became a faculty member of the European Graduate School and founding director at the International School of New Media in Lübeck.
