Chapters: Heiko Daxl, Wilhelm Von Bode, Otto Bettmann, Karl Wilhelm Von Kupffer, Alfons Hug, Bruno Hofer, Agricola de Cologne, Wilhelm Valentiner, Walter Andrae, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Richard Hanitsch, Johann Andreas Wagner, Georg Johann Pfeffer, Wilhelm Kobelt, Jorn Koblitz. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 46. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Heiko Daxl (born 1957 in Oldenburg, Germany) is a German media artist and exhibition curator. He lives and works in Berlin and Zagreb. Until 1976 he grew up in Varel, Dangast and Neuenburg next to Jadebusen in the (Friesland (district)). During his education at the Lothar Meyer High-School he learned about the medium film. He first studied architecture and urbanism at the Technical University Braunschweig (1978), but changed to the University of Osnabruck, which offered at that time in Germany a unique course of studies in communication and aesthetics. There he studied art history with Franz Joachim Verspohl, Walter Grasskamp, Lothar Knapp and Jutta Held as well as media studies with Joachim Paech, Werner Faulstich, Walter Fahnders, Peter von Rueden, Ingo Petzke and Wolfgang Becker, . Here he was conferred his Magister Artium degree in 1985. He also studied German Language and Literature at the Technical University Berlin and Art History at the University of Zurich. In 1980 he founded, with others under the guidance of Ingo Petzke, the Experimental Film Workshop Osnabruck, an annual festival for experimental film art, which in 1988 became the European Media Art Festival (EMAF). Daxl was till 1992 considerably involved in the shaping of this worldwide important forum for media art. From 1987 he has participated in Goethe-Institut cultural exchange programmes, visiting more than 20 countries in Europe, America, Asia and Australia. Together wi...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=127885