Dr Dorothea Schöne studied art history, political science, sociology and philosophy at Leipzig University. She was a Fulbright exchange student at the University of California, Riverside (2005–6), later assisting at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Art of Two Germanys: Cold War Cultures (touring, Nuremberg and Berlin, 2010). In 2014 she became director and chief curator of Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin. Her publications focus especially on mid-20th century German art.
