Professorship for Art History
Organisational unit: Professoship
Organisation profile
Research and teaching at the Professorship for Art History focuses on the history and theory of art from the Renaissance through Modernism and Postmodernism to the contemporary period. The art of the 20th and 21st centuries is in the foreground. Beyond the classical objects of art history – painting, graphics, sculpture – diverse forms of visual culture are also the subject of study, such as object art, arts and crafts, design, photography, video, installation, performance and new media.
Topics
Die Professur für Kunstgeschichte beschäftigt sich mit Kunst des 18.-21. Jahrhunderts, vor allem französische und deutsche Malerei des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts sowie zeitgenössische Kunst, Theorie und Kulturgeschichte des Bildes, Rezeptionsästhetik, Geschichte und Theorie der Wahrnehmung und der Affekte, Kunsttheorie der Moderne sowie Geschichte, Theorie und Praxis der Kunstkrititk.
- 2014
„A ‘Brotherhood of Nations’: Weimar Cosmopolitanism and Max Reinhardt’s Post-Dramatic Concept of the Festive Play”
Mimmi Woisnitza (Speaker)
18.09.2014 → 21.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Buster Keaton. Iconic Turn im Stummfilm
Holger Kuhn (Speaker) & Franziska Brons (Speaker)
09.01.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Iconic Turn: Wissen und Eigensinn der Bilder
Franziska Brons (Lecturer)
09.01.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (External organisation)
Beate Söntgen (Member)
2014 → 2019Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Transfer
German Research Foundation (External organisation)
Beate Söntgen (Member)
2014 → 2017Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Research
- 2013
Bilder im Prozess: Sachverständige Systeme um 1900
Franziska Brons (Lecturer)
29.11.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Der technische Grund der Bilder: Eindrücke von der Internationalen Photographischen Ausstellung Dresden 1909
Franziska Brons (Lecturer)
01.11.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
„‚The Revenge of the Giant Face’ - On the Cinematic Means of Historical Revenge in Inlgourious Basterds”.
Mimmi Woisnitza (Speaker)
05.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
„‚Die Leiter aber ist das Mitleid’ - The Theatrical Media Logic of Lessing’s Concept of Mitleid”
Mimmi Woisnitza (Speaker)
02.04.2013 → 07.04.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
„‚Zur Sache Jetzt!’ Theatrical Techniques of Political Mobilisation in Heinrich von Kleist’s Der Zerbrochene Krug (1806)”.
Mimmi Woisnitza (Speaker)
29.03.2013 → 30.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research