He received his PhD with a book on the British 18th Century portrait painter George Romney in 1972.
In 1986/7 he was curator of monuments for the city of Wesel (Germany), but joined the computer printer manufacturer Mannesmann Tally (now TallyDascom) in 1987 as corporate communications manager to become the company’s marketing director a few years later.
[4] In 2009 he contributed to Konstantin Akinsha's article on Russian avant garde which won the Association for Women in Communications' "Clarion Award".
[5] In 2010 he finally left “Die Welt” in order to forcus on his activities as university teacher and essayist, as art journalist and curator.
[6] In 2011 Catrin Rothe, Bernhard Ailinger and Gerhard Charles Rump founded the now only virtual art project and producers’ "RAR Gallery" — Berlin, New York (NY) and Palo Alto (CA).