Belting, Hans

Professor for Art History and Media Theory, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany. Belting studied Art History, Archaeology and History at the universities of Mainz and Rome. He completing his dissertation in 1959 in Mainz. He was a Visiting Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, Washgington, D. C. where he studied under Ernst Kitzinger. Belting returned to Germany where he taught as assistant professor at the University of Hamburg in 1966. He was promoted to Professor for Art History at Heidelberg in 1970. He remained there until 1980 when he moved to accept the chair in art history at Munich, a position once occupied by Heinrich Wölfflin and Hans Sedlmayr. Belting was again at Harvard in 1984 as a Visiting Professor and then the Meyer Schapiro Visiting Professor at Columbia University for the academic year 1989-90. He left Munich in 1992 to launch the Kunstwissenschaft and Medientheorie Ph.D. program for the newly-founded Hochschule für Gestaltung (School for New Media) at Karlsruhe, in association with the Center for Art and Media Technologies (ZKM) also in Karlsruhe. In 2002 he was a Getty Institute Visiting Professor in Buenos Aires. Belting was the European Chair of the Collège de France at Paris for 2002-2003 and an Honorary Chair at the University of Heidelberg. He joined Northwestern University as the Mary Jane Crowe professor in retirement. Belting was awarded an Honorary Degree (D.lit.) from the Courtauld Institute, University of London, in 2003. Although trained as a Byzaninist, Belting has recently written on art methodology, employing his approach to a range of art topics including Max Beckmann.