Hans Dieter Huber
Born 1953, lives in Berlin. He studied painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1973-1977, as well as history of art, philosophy and psychology at the University of Heidelberg. 1986 dissertation in history of art. Then assistant for contemporary art history at the department of art history at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and scientific coworker at the Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim. 1994 Habilitation on Paolo Veronese. Art as a Social System. From October 1997 until September 1999 professor for history of art at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig; from October 1999 to September 2019 professor for contemporary art history, aesthetics and art theory at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. From March to June 2007 Senior Fellow at the International Cultural Research Center in Vienna. From May 2006 to September 2011 Head of the International Master Program "Conservation of New Media and Digital Information" at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.

Among its most important publications are: System und Wirkung. Interpretation und Bedeutung zeitgenössischer Kunst, 1989; Dan Graham. Interviews. 1997; Kunst des Ausstellens, 2002; Bild Medien Wissen, 2002; Bild, Beobachter, Milieu. Entwurf einer allgemeinen Bildwissenschaft, 2004; Paolo Veronese. Kunst als soziales System, 2005; Kunst als soziale Konstruktion 2007, Das Jahrhundert der Extreme, 2010; Das Ende der Avantgarde, 2011; Edvard Munch. Tanz des Lebens. Eine Biographie. 2013.