Editorial Board

Art-Hist is refereed and edited by an independent board of editors, which may also commission contributions. 

List editors

Carolin Behrmann (Berlin)
Livia Cárdenas (Berlin)
Steffen Haug (Berlin)
Elsje van Kessel (Paris)
Caroline Philipp (Berlin)
Nadine Söll (Rostock/Berlin)
Tim Urban (Berlin)

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Review Editors

Rainer Donandt (Hamburg)
Robert Felfe (Berlin)
Hans Georg Hiller von Gaertringen (Berlin)
Godehard Janzing (Paris)
Karin Leonhard (Eichstätt)
Philipp Zitzlsperger (Berlin)

Webmaster
Wolfgang Sarges (Hamburg)

 

About the Editors

Carolin Behrmann M.A. has studied art history, european ethnology and philosophy in Tuebingen, Bologna and Berlin. Issues on political iconology, roman art and politics in the 16th and 17th centuries and art as social strategy. 2001-2005 collaborator of the project “Requiem” (DFG-project) . Since 2005 lecturer at the Institute of Art and Visual History at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. 2008/2009 Fellow at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Her dissertation project explores the iconology of martyrdom and theories of art and law in the 16th and 17th centuries. [E-mail]

Livia Cárdenas M.A. studied art history, cultural studies and french in Berlin and in Tours (France), editor for the news department of the Berlin-Brandenburg television (online-board), collaboration in a publishing company for history and art history. 2006-08 scientific collaborator at the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen. 2008-09 scientific collaborator at the Institute of Art and Visual History at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. Lecturer at University of Basel. Her dissertation explores late medieval relic books. [E-mail]   

Rainer Donandt M. A. has studied history and art history at the University of Hamburg and was fellow of the Graduate Studies Program on Political Iconography (Graduiertenkolleg Politische Ikonographie), University of Hamburg. He is currently writing his doctoral dissertation on Filippo Brunelleschi. [E-mail]

Dr. Robert] Felfe, History of Art and Cultural Studies; dissertation 2000 on book illustration and natural sciences in publications by the Swiss scholar and polyhistor Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733); following different jobs in scientific research as well as editorial work, since 2002 research position in the „Research Center on Performing Cultures“ at the Free University Berlin with a focus on: the history of collections in the early modern period, practice and theory of printmaking, images and natural sciences 16th – 18th century, as well as photography. [E-mail] 

Steffen Haug M.A. Studied art history and philosophy in Berlin. Graduated with a study on the denial of images in the Oeuvre of Alfredo Jaar in 2003. Collaboration in several exhibitions. 2006-2007 Scholarship at the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (German Center for Art History) in Paris. Currently writing a doctoral dissertation on the role of the visual sources in Walter Benjamin's Arcades-Project. [E-mail]

Hans Georg Hiller von Gaertringen, born in 1972, has studied Art History, Russian Literature and History in Dresden, Naples and Berlin. In 2009 he has finished his dissertation on "De-Decoration. On the Removal of Historicist Ornament in the 20th Century". He has published several books on the history of photography, architecture and museum history.

Dr. Godehard Janzing is an art historian. Since 2008 Directeur de recherche, Centre allemande de l’histoire de l’art, Paris. 2004-2007 he worked at the German Historical Museum in Berlin. 2001-2002 he was fellow at the Centre allemande de l’histoire de l’art (German Center for Art History) in Paris. His dissertation explores the relation of military reforms and the reception of antiquity in the work of Schadow, David and Goya. His recent publications have focused and the visual politics of the military, from early modern time to our own. [E-mail]

Dr. Elsje van Kessel studied art history at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. After completing her M.A. in 2006, she started her tenure at Leiden University as a Ph.D. candidate, where she was a collaborator of the project Art, Agency, and Living Presence Response in Early Modern Italy, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). In 2011, she finished her dissertation, titled The Social Lives of Paintings in Sixteenth-Century Venice. In 2011/12 she has a fellowship at the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris where she works on a project concerning the changing interactions between artworks and viewers in early museums around 1800. [E-Mail]

Dr. Karin Leonhard art historian. Doctoral thesis “Zur Interieurmalerei Jan Vermeers“ („The painted room. Jan Vermeer’s interior paintings”); since 2004 assistant professor at the institute for art history, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany; at present Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. Major interests: Theories on space and perception in the Early Modern Period; history of science and history of art in 17th-century Netherlands and Britain; history and methods of art history/Bildwissenschaften; Baroque and Postmodernism. [E-mail]

Caroline Philipp M.A. has studied art history and cultural studies in Freiburg i. Br., Madrid and Berlin. Her MA thesis examined the early work with video “(Absolution) Pipilotti’s Mistakes” by Pipilotti Rist. Collaboration and research for the catalogue and the exhibition project “Berlin-Moskau/Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000”, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. Specific interest in contemporary art and new media. She is currently preparing a doctoral dissertation on the films of Gordon Matta-Clark. [E-mail]

Nadine Söll M.A. studied Art History, Religious Studies and Publishing- and Communication Studies at the Free University Berlin. She is a research fellow at the Graduate School „Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship“ at Rostock University and is currently working on a dissertation project in cooperation with the Free University Berlin, exploring representations of music culture(s) in contemporary art and film. Her fields of interest are the relationship between art and society and the potential of art in communication processes and cultural encounters. Nadine Soell is an editor for H-Arthist and the section on contemporary culture at the E-Journal kunsttexte.de. [E-mail]

Dr. des. Tim Urban has studied art history, classical archeology and business administration in Tuebingen, Trier and Berlin. 2010-2012 assistent at the German Historical Museum in Berlin. 2007-2009 Fellow of the Research Training Group „Bild - Körper - Medium. Eine anthropologische Perspektive“ at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. 2004-2006 assistent at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut and collaborator of the Collaborative Research Centre „Fremdheit und Armut. Wandel von Inklusions- und Exklusionsformen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart“ at the University of Trier. Doctoral thesis: „Weg. Ort. Raum. Hans Memlings ‚Passion Christi’ und die Translokation einer Sakraltopographie Jerusalems“ at the Institute of Art and Visual History at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. [E-Mail]

Prof. Dr. Philipp Zitzlsperger. Doctorate thesis 2000 (Munich) on "Gianlorenzo Bernini. The portaits of popes and kings" [Gianlorenzo Bernini. Die Papst- und Herrscherporträts. Zum Verhältnis von Bildnis und Macht], publ. Munich 2002. Researcher at the Seminar for Art History, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, in the Research Program REQUIEM. - Roman Papal- and Cardinal Tombs”. Habilitation 2007, which concentrates mainly on Renaissance painting of the Quattro and Cinquecento. Investigations on a method designed to strengthen the relevance of history of costume as an essential component of art history. [E-mail]

 

Founding Members of H-ArtHist

ArtHist.net was launched in Hamburg (Germany) in 2001 by 

Dr. Matthias Bruhn (Berlin)
Rainer Donandt M.A. (Hamburg)
Dr. Joachim Homann (Brunswick, ME)
Iris Mahnke M.A. (Berlin)
Dr. Claudia Sedlarz (Berlin)

Former Board Members

Jonas Beyer M.A. (Berlin)
Dr. Jan von Brevern (Berlin)
Dr. Matthias Bruhn (Berlin)
Dr. Joachim Homann (Brunswick, ME)
Iris Mahnke M.A. (Berlin)
Dr. Claudia Sedlarz (Berlin)
Dr. Achim Timmermann (Ann Arbor, MI)