Prof. Dr Hubertus Kohle holds the Chair of Middle and Modern Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. His main areas of work are the visual arts of the 18th and 19th centuries up to Classical Modernism, especially in France and Germany, as well as media problems, theory history and digital art history. 

Hubertus Kohle studied art history, philosophy, Roman studies, history and urban studies in Bonn, Paris and Florence. In 1986 he received his doctorate on Denis Diderot's concept of art. In 1996 he completed his habilitation on Adolph Menzel's Friedrichbilder. He was one of the first scholars to address the significance of digitisation for art history. 

He is co-editor of the online review journal sehepunkte since 2001 and published the volume Computer, Kunst und Kunstgeschichte (Computers, Art and Art History) together with Katja Kwastek in 2003. His more recent publications include: Museen digital: Eine Gedächtnisinstitution sucht den Anschluss an die Zukunft (Digital Museums: A Memory Institution Seeks to Connect to the Future; 2018) and Digitale Bildwissenschaft (Digital Image Science; 2013).