Uwe Fleckner
Project Partner
Uwe Fleckner is professor of art history at the University of Hamburg and at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where he directs the Advanced School of Art and Humanities. He is one of the directors of the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg and co-editor of Carl Einstein’s and Aby Warburg’s complete works. Fleckner was vice-director of the Centre allemand d’histoire de l‘art in Paris, worked as guest professor at Stanford University and at Peking University and was a fellow at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, as well as a co-director of the Bilderfahrzeuge – Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology international research network. Fleckner is founder and director of the Research Center on “Degenerate Art” at the University of Hamburg and author of numerous books and articles on 18th to 21st century art history, with French and German art and art theory and political iconography as his main fields.