Sasa Hanten-Schmidt is a

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and court expert on contemporary visual art. She is head of Angela Glajcar's studio and is responsible for her

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. She runs the law firm Hanten-Schmidt

Education

Hanten-Schmidt studied

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

international law International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards generally recognized as binding between states. It establishes normative guidelines and a common conceptual framework for ...

and

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at the Christian Albrechts University in

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in 1991 and studied

law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...

at the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

from 1992 to 1995. After that, she further studied law at

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) (german: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) was founded in 1965 as the successor organisation to Düsseldorf's Medical Academy of 1907 and was named after German poet Heinrich Heine. Followi ...

and the Fernuniversität Hagen till 1999.

Career

Since 2003, Hanten-Schmidt has been practicing law at her own law firm in Cologne. She has been a

Curator A curator (from la, cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the parti ...

of a large private collection fine art in Cologne between 2004 and 2014. During this period, she published Martin Willing's catalog raisonné in 2010 ("Eigenwert Eigenvalue", Darling-Publications, Cologne). Since 2011, she has been head of studio of sculptor Angela Glajcar, and is the editor and publisher of her catalogue raisonné, and since 2012, she has been publicly appointed and sworn expert for contemporary fine arts with a focus on Europe. Since 2021, she has been a member of the examination board for experts in the field of art and antiques in Germany.

Works

Hanten-Schmidt has written and contributed to books and essays, and has given many lectures on the best practices on the generational transition related to art. She also has written monographic publications and essays on contemporary artists Nan Hoover/Bill Viola, Bettina Blohm, Martin Willing, Angela Glajcar, Hans Hartung, Eduard Micus,

Emil Schumacher Emil Schumacher (29 August 1912 in Hagen, Westfalen – 4 October 1999 in San José, Ibiza) was a German painter. He was an important representative of abstract expressionism in post-war Germany. In 2009 the Kunstquartier Hagen was inaugurat ...

and topics in contemporary day art (photographic positions, spatial experience, painting). Hanten-Schmidt also writes about what to consider when inheriting art. Hanten-Schmidt authored the book ''Look At Me! Key Moments in the History of a Collection/Checkpoints of an Art Collection'' in which she derived the emergence and generational transition in a contemporary entrepreneurial collection. She also contributed to the book ''The Human Factor: How Does Art Make the Generational Transition Succeed?'', in which the central subject of the symposium was the generational transition with reference to art.

Publications

*''Look At Me!: Checkpoints of An Art Collection'' (2017) ISBN 978-3959051613

References

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