Since 2008, Prof. Dr. Hubert Locher is Professor of History and Theory of Visual Media at the Philipps University of Marburg and Director of the German Documentation Centre for Art History – Bildarchiv Foto Marburg.

From 1982 to 1987, Hubert Locher studied art history and German language and literature at the universities of Fribourg, Berlin (FU) and Stuttgart. In 1992 he completed his doctorate on “Raphael and the Renaissance Altarpiece” in Bern. Locher also completed his habilitation on “Art History as a Historical Theory of Art 1700–1950” there and was appointed Privatdozent in January 1999.

From 1991 to 1993 Hubert Locher worked as an editor at the Swiss Institute for Art Research. From 1992 to 1995, he was chief assistant at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zürich. Locher was a schloarship holder of both the Schweizerischer Nationalfonds and the Janggen-Pöhn Foundation in St. Gallen.

After substitute teaching at the University of Bern, Hubert Locher taught at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1999 to 2008 and was head of the academy’s art collection archive. In 2013, Locher was a guest scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, and in 2015 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University (UK). In 2019, he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.

Hubert Locher’s research interests include art literature and theory of the modern and contemporary era, the history of art history and its methodology, word-image relations since the early modern era, reception aesthetics and history, museum and exhibition history, theory and history of photography as a medium of documentation and art, theory and use of the digital image.

The list of publications can be found at https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb09/khi/institut/lehrende-seiten-und-bilder/prof-dr-hubert-locher.