Person Joseph Imorde

Joseph Imorde was a professor of art history at Universität Siegen until 2021 and is a principal investigator in the research program (SFB) »Transformationen des Populären«. Since 2022 he has been a professor of art history and vice president at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee in Berlin. His research centers on the historiography of art history, archaeology, anthropology, and ethnography.

Joseph Imorde studied Art History, Philosophy and Musicology in Bochum, Rome and Berlin. He was editor of the architectural magazine Daidalos. In 1996 he founded the publishing house Edition Imorde. After his PhD on ephemeral architecture in the Roman Baroque he became assistant professor at the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture at the Federal Technical University (ETH) in Zurich. 2001 he joined the research group Kultbild at the University of Muenster. He finished his habilitation Michelangelo Deutsch! at the Technical University Dresden in 2008 and got a full professorship for Art History at the University of Siegen in the same year. From 2009–2011 he was Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the University of Michigan, 2012 and 2017 Scholar at the Getty Research Institute. In 2021 he was appointed professor for Art History at the kunsthochschule weissensee berlin.