Ertl, Tobias

Tobias Ertl is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the SNSF-funded project “Real Abstractions: Reconsidering Realism’s Role for the Present”. In 2022, he completed his PhD thesis on the representation of capitalism in the work of Melanie Gilligan at the art history department of Fribourg University (Switzerland). In his current book project, he focuses on materialist aesthetics and communist artist groups during the Weimar Republic. His essays and art criticism have appeared in Brand New Life, Berlin Review, Texte zur Kunst, among others.