Friedrich Weltzien

Friedrich Weltzien (born 1967) is an art historian and cultural studies scholar. He studied art history, philosophy and classical archaeology in Freiburg, Vienna, Cologne and Berlin. In 2002, he received his doctorate from Freie Universität Berlin for a study of Ernst Wilhelm Nay in the context of body discourses in the 1940s. In 2011, he completed his habilitation on the spot as an aesthetic phenomenon in Romanticism. In 2013, he was appointed professor of creativity and perception psychology at Hochschule Hannover. His research and teaching focus on contemporary creative practices, production aesthetics and theories of creativity.