Christian Saehrendt

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Christian Saehrendt (born 1968 in Kassel) is a German art historian.

Saehrendt studied Fine Arts at Hamburger Hochschule für bildende Künste, History and Art History (focused on 19th and 20th centuries) at Humboldt-Universität Berlin and at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. In Heidelberg he also received his Ph.D. in 2002 with a work about the Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Since 1989, Christian is cooperating with his friend Steen T. Kittl. Since 2007, they wrote seven monographs about Art and recent cultural phenomena. In 2020, they launched the Art Blog "kingkunst.de" (in German Language). Since 2002, Christian Saehrendt is continuing his work as a scholar, regarding the issues Art history and culture of the 20th century (specially Expressionism, political monuments, art in GDR); Art and sociology, Art as a political tool or weapon (politics of collecting, cultural exchange and art exhibitions as parts of diplomatic strategies, Art as tool of nation building).

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