Christoph Martin Vogtherr was born in 1965 and studied art history, medieval history and classical archaeology at Berlin, Heidelberg and Cambridge. In 1996 he received his Ph. D. at Berlin Free University with a thesis on the foundation of the Berlin museums (1797–1835).
In 1998 he became curator of French and Italian paintings at the Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg. Among his research projects was the catalogue raisonné of paintings by Watteau, Pater, Lancret and Lajoüe in the Prussian Royal collection, published in 2011.
From 2007 Vogtherr worked as a curator at the Wallace Collection in London and became its director in 2011. He was subsequently director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle between 2016 and 2019. On 7 February 2019 he took office as the general director of the Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg.
Vogtherr’s main research interests have been the history of the Prussian Royal palaces, French eighteenth-century painting and the history of art collecting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was a lecturer at Free University and Humboldt University in Berlin, at Hamburg University and is now teaching at Berlin Technical University.
