After the Second World War, he helped his parents work on a farm near Leipzig, where the family had been evacuated after a heavy Air Raids on Wuppertal.
Therefore, Hütt followed the call of the rector, Professor Johannes Jahn [de], to the Institute for Art History at the University of Leipzig and continued his academic work there as a senior assistant from 1959 to 1961.
Because of his art-theoretical views - which the leadership of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as "revisionist" - he was increasingly defamed by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).
After his public criticism of the construction of the Berlin Wall and his opposition to initial plans in the context of urban redevelopment to sacrifice the Paulinerkirche, he was expelled from the SED in 1961 and dismissed from Leipzig University.
After his commitment to formalism" and his opposition to the sale of works of art from the gallery's depot, Hütt had to give up this position in 1971.
After the Peaceful Revolution, Hütt conducted extensive research for years in the bequeathed archives of the SED, the Stasi and in the Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt [de].