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Leonhard Emmerling


Leonhard Emmerling is an art historian and author, and has served as director of the Goethe-Institut Chicago from 2021 through 2026. His recent publications include Erlösungsmaschinen. Moraldiskurse in der Kunst (Salvation machines: Moral Discourses in Art; 2020) and Idioten. Eine Kulturgeschichte des Homo Nullus (Idiots: A Cultural History of Homo Nullus; 2022), both published by Turia+Kant, Vienna Berlin. 

Contributions by Leonhard Emmerling