The Wisdom of Crowds

Hubertus Kohle studied art history, Italian, and philosophy in Bonn, Florence and Paris. He wrote his dissertation on Diderot’s art theory (1987). After journalistic work for the Italian newspaper “LaRepubblica”, he became assistant teacher in Bochum, where he wrote his habilitation on Adolph Menzel’s Frederician paintings (1996); afterwards he became assistant professor at the university of Cologne, and then full professor for art history at the university of Munich in 2000; he published on German and French 18th to 20th century painting, mainly on problems of political iconography and the social history of art and was one of the early adopters of digital methods in the field.