BERLIN.- The art historian Philipp Demandt will be taking charge of the Old National Gallery at the beginning of next year. Born in 1971, Philipp Demandt studied art history, classical archaeology and media studies, gaining his doctorate in 2001 at the Freie Universität’s Institute of Historical and Cultural Sciences, here in Berlin, with a thesis on the portraits of the Prussian Queen Luise by Johann Gottfried Schadow and Christian Daniel Rauch. His thesis examined the history of their making and subsequent impact, and the mythology of the Prussian state as reflected in the cult of Queen Luise. After serving as an exhibition assistant in the Bröhan Museum in 2002, in 2004 Demandt was made departmental head at the Kulturstiftung der Länder, a foundation of the arts, financed by the various states in Germany. One