Kurt Rahmlow

Principal Lecturer, Art History

About

Kurt Rahmlow teaches introductory and advanced undergraduate art history courses, including art appreciation, 19th-century art, modern art, and contemporary art. He also teaches more focused courses treating topics in the history of modern and contemporary art history.

Areas of Expertise: European art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Symbolism, utopian artists' communities, intersections of art and literature, pictorial photography.

Kurt Rahmlow holds an M.A. in English from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. His research interests span European art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, utopian artists' communities, the intersections of art and literature, and pictorial photography. Rahmlow has published multiple articles in peer-reviewed interdisciplinary and art historical journals and has presented his research at prominent conferences, including the College Art Association, the Midwest Art History Society, the Modernist Studies Association, and the Society for Utopian Studies.

In 2008, he received the Arthur O. Lewis Award from the Society for Utopian Studies for the best paper presented by a junior scholar. He is working on a book-length study of Symbolist decorative painting in France during the Belle Époque. Rahmlow teaches both introductory art history classes and advanced undergraduate courses on modern and contemporary art. Before joining UNT, he taught modern and contemporary art history at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, and at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. His research endeavors have been supported by several fellowships and awards, including the Seashore Dissertation-Year Fellowship at the University of Iowa.