Brief Biography

Wolfgang Brückle studied art history and German philology at the Universities of Marburg, Dijon, and Hamburg where he passed his exams and, in 2001, received his PhD degree with a study on art in the service of the representation of power in fourteenth-century France. He was an assistent curator at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, and an assistent professor and senior research fellow at the universities of Stuttgart, Bern, Essex, and Zurich. Curatorial activities related to, and research on, medieval art, art theory, museum history, contemporary art, and media history, with a special focus on photography-related topics. Since 2013, he has been a senior lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences & Arts. He also teaches frequently at the universities of Zurich and other Swiss universities. With Rachel Mader, he co-edits the scholarly HSLU book series »745«. From 2018 and 2019, he has been the head of two SNSF-funded research projects on post-photography.