Prof. Dr. Peter Krieger, 1996 PhD University of Hamburg (Graduate Program Political Iconography), since 1998 Research-Professor at the Institute for Aesthetic Research at the Mexican National University (Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM); 2004-2012 Vice-President of the International Committee of Art History (CIHA/UNESCO); 2007-2014 academic collaborator at the project ‘Transcultural and Transhistoric Efficiencies of the Baroque Paradigm’, University of Western Ontario, London/ON; 2010-2014 member of the scientific board of the Ministry of urban development of Mexico City (Comisión de Publicidad Exterior, Seduvi / GDF); concept and organization of conferences, e.g. about the relationship between city-scapes and nature; September 2016 chair of the section “Landscape and Spectacle” of the 34th World Congress of Art History (CIHA) in Beijing, China. 2016 Aby Warburg Visiting Professor at the Warburg-Haus, Hamburg.

Research and Publications include the image and history of Cities and landscape in the 20th and 21st century; aesthetics and ecology of Mega-Cities; Political Iconography of City-Scapes and Architecture; Art and Sciences.

Peter Kriegers research project at the Warburg-Haus is the political Iconography of the contemporary landscape.

Lecture

Tuesday, 31. May 2016, 19.00
„Politische Ikonografie und Ökologie der Mega-Stadt-Landschaft“
Lecture on Lecture2go, Universität Hamburg

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