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Manuela Well-Off-Man

Pending Member

American Society of Appraisers (ASA)

Identification number 93048

Ph.+Fax (479) 268 4081 or Email jmwelloffman@cox.net


Manuela Well-Off-Man is an art historian and fine art appraiser with office in Missoula. She worked as a curator of art at the Montana Museum of Art and Culture at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana for more than six years. She has authored exhibition catalogues, designed and supervised the organization and installation of art exhibits. She has a background in preparing international art exhibits. In 1999 she curated an exhibition of contemporary American Indian art for the Westphalian State Museum of Natural History in Münster, Germany. She also translated catalogue texts and other texts from German into English for the Museum of Natural History in Münster.

Manuela Well-Off-Man received a Ph.D. degree in Art History from the Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany in 1997. She graduated from University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany with and M.A. degree in Art History, Archaeology, and Pedagogy in 1994. She earned a B.B. degree in Art History, Archaeology, and Pedagogy at the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany in 1990.

Publications:

  • Interview with Corwin Clairmont, in: Corwin Clairmont. Halfway Between Here and There, exhibition catalog published by The Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula MT 2002, ISBN #0-9720003-9
  • Photogaphy, An Image of Each Other. A Cross Cultural Youth Program, catalogue published by Images on Paper, Missoula, Montana, 2001
  • Indian Reality Today. Contemporary Indian Art of North America, exhibition catalgue, edited by Alfred Hendricks, Westphalian State Museum of Natural History, Münster, Germany, 1999, ISBN #3-932959-12-4
  • Contemporary Native American paintings, in: Magazin für Amerikanistik, Wyk auf Foehr, Germany, edition 4/4 1998 and 1/1 1999
  • Artist biographies and bibliographies, in: "Expresionismo Aleman", Gran Canaria, 1995

  • photo catalogue photo catalogue Indian Reality Today

    Ph.+Fax (406) 829 1685 or Email welloffman@bresnan.net



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