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Alexander Braun
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Biography
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Alexander Braun is an artist, art historian and curator whose work has helped establish comics within museum and scholarly contexts. Born in 1966, he studied art history in Bochum and Berlin and completed a doctorate on American artist Robert Gober in 1998.
He has curated exhibitions on the history of comics, including a major Winsor McCay retrospective in 2012–2013, and founded the German Academy of Comic Art in 2011. His publications include historical studies accompanying TASCHEN editions of newspaper strips, including George Herriman’s Krazy Kat.
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- TASCHEN — Krazy Kat and Alexander Braun biographyArt history, doctorate, curatorial work, academy and Krazy Kat study.