CURRICULUM VITAE Hans Abbing

1946 Born in Utrecht, The Netherlands

1964 Diploma gymnasium (B)

1970 Master degree (cum laude) in economics at the university of Groningen.

1971-1976 Works as researcher for the Institute for Economic Research at the Economics Faculty of the University in Groningen.

1976-1978 Works for the Culture Department of the Ministry of CRM.

1978 Writes Economie en cultuur, De subsidieproblematiek in de economische theorie, alsmede aanzetten tot een economie van de kunsten, Staatsuitgeverij, Den Haag, 1978, 225 pagina's.

1983 Diploma of the visual art department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.

1983-present Works as visual artist (mainly as draughtsman and photographer).

1989 Publishes: Een Economie van de Kunsten, Beschouwingen over kunst en kunstbeleid, Groningen: Historische Uitgeverij Groningen, 1989, 273 pages (reprint 1993)

1990-2005 Works as part-time lecturer (with 3/10 assignment) at the Arts and Culture Department of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

1996 `Visiting professor’ at the Institut für Finanzwissenshaft of the Karl Franszen Universitat in Graz, Austra.

2002 Publishes: Why are Artists Poor? The Exceptional Economy of the Arts Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2002, 367 pages (Fourth print 2008; translations in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.)

2002 Receives a PhD-degree at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

2005–2008 Extraordinary Professor in Art-Sociology at the University of Amsterdam: the Boekman-chair. (At the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities )

From 2008 Professor Emeritus in Art-Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. (at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences ). Teaches and supervises theses in the Sociology Apartment of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences of the University of Amsterdam and in the Cultural Studies Apartment of the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

2009 Publishes Van Hoge naar Nieuwe Kunst, Historische Uitgeverij, Groningen, 2009, 142 pages.

From 2010 Writes the forthcoming book Value of Art, A sociological Study of Art and the Art-Economy, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2012.