Christian Drobe studied Art History, German Literature and History at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, dissertation on “Verdächtige Ambivalenz. Klassizismus in der Moderne 1920-1960” (published 2022, VDG Weimar); 2024 curator of the exhibition project “Nach den Maschinen. Industriefotografie aus Sachsen-Anhalt”, from 2019-2024 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Art History at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, as part of the ERC Project ‘Continuity / Rupture: Art and Architecture in Central Europe, 1918-1939 (CRAACE)’ (until March 2024). Main research interests: Figurative painting, New Objectivity, art during the Nazi era and modernism in Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Publications on Emil Nolde, Karl Sterrer and Magic Realism, and Central and Eastern Europe.