Peter Chametzky is Professor of Art History in the School of Visual Art and Design at the University of South Carolina. His PhD in Art History (1991) is from the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he wrote a dissertation of the German artist Willi Baumeister (1889-1955). His research focuses on 20 th and 21 st century German art and culture. He is the author of Objects as History in twentieth-Century Germany Art: Beckmann to Beuys (University of California Press, 2010) and Turks, Jews, and Other Germans in Contemporary Art (MIT Press, 2021). This more recent book received the art history honorable mention for the 2021 Hans and Lea Grundig Prize, administered by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Recent exhibition catalogue essays have been published by the Akademie der Künste Berlin and the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M. Essays on the Mexican careers and influences of the German Jewish art critic, Paul Westheim, and writer, Anna Seghers, are forthcoming from the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid.

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