Bénédicte Savoy

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Bénédicte Savoy (2018)

Bénédicte Savoy (born May 22, 1972 in Paris ) is a French art historian . She is Professor of Modern Art History at the Technical University of Berlin and Professor of the Cultural History of European Art Heritage from the 18th to the 20th Century at the Collège de France . As an expert on the “translocation” of works of art (including art theft and looted art ), she worked with Felwine Sarr in 2018 on a report on the restitution of African cultural assets for the French President .

Life

Savoy attended the Beethoven High School in Berlin in 1988/89 . She then studied German at the École Normale Supérieure in Fontenay , which she completed in 1994 with a master's thesis on Anselm Kiefer . In 1996 she received the Agrégation (license to teach in higher schools). From 1998 to 2001 she was a research assistant at the Center Marc Bloch in Berlin and a lecturer at the Technical University (TUB) and the Free University (FUB) in Berlin. In 2000 she received her doctorate from the University of Paris VIII with a dissertation on French art theft in Germany around 1800.

From 2003 to 2009, Savoy was a junior professor at the Institute for History and Art History at TUB. Since 2009 she has been professor of modern art history there. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Cultural Foundation . After a series of lectures as a guest lecturer in June 2015, Savoy was appointed professor at the Collège de France in 2016 : She holds the chair of Histoire culturelle du patrimoine artistique en Europe, XVIIIᵉ-XXᵉ siècles .

On behalf of French President Emmanuel Macron , she and the Senegalese scientist Felwine Sarr investigated the possibility of returning cultural goods from French museums to African countries. In November 2018, this resulted in a report on the restitution of African cultural assets, which provides a presentation of this topic in France and in some African countries as well as recommendations and a schedule for the planned restitutions. A shortened and revised version of this report was also published in German six months later. Savoy is internationally recognized as an expert in the transfer of cultural goods and art theft, especially from former colonies, to European museums. She was on the Advisory Board of the Humboldt Forum until she left in 2017 due to professional differences . (In addition, she made the comparison that the forum would be covered with a "lead cover like the nuclear waste in Chernobyl")

Since 2019, Savoy has been a council member of the newly founded Junge Akademie for three years , which is jointly supported by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Honors

Savoy received the Prix Pierre Grappin in 2001 , the Walter de Gruyter Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in 2009, the Richard Hamann Prize of the Philipps University of Marburg for outstanding academic achievements in art history in 2011 and the Prix ​​de l'Académie de in 2015 Berlin and the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises of the Académie française . In 2016 she was awarded a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize , and in the same year she was elected to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • Museums. A childhood memory and the consequences. Greven, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-7743-0904-3 .
  • The provenance of the culture. From grief of loss to universal human heritage. (= Happy Science. Volume 135). Translation by Hanns Zischler and Philippa Sissis. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95757-568-5 .
  • with Nikolaus Bernau and Hans-Dieter Nägelke (eds.): Museum visions . The competition for the expansion of the Berlin Museum Island in 1883/84. Ludwig, Kiel 2015.
  • with France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. 2 vols. De Gruyter, Berlin 2012/2015.
  • From hand ax to hand grenade: film propaganda for the Berlin museums 1934–1939. Böhlau, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22295-6 .
  • with Philippa Sissis (Ed.): The Berlin Museum Island: Impressions of International Visitors (1830–1990); an anthology . Böhlau, Cologne 2013
  • (Ed.): Nefertiti. A Franco-German affair 1912–1931. Böhlau, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20811-0 .
  • Michel Espagne, Bénédicte Savoy (ed.): Dictionnaire des historiens d'art allemands. CNRS éditions, Paris 2010.
  • Art theft. Napoleon's Confiscations in Germany and the European Consequences. With a catalog of works of art from German collections in the Musée Napoléon (CD-ROM). Böhlau, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78427-2 .
  • with Kristina Kratz-Kessemeier, Andrea Meyer (Hrsg.): Museum history. Annotated source texts 1750–1950. Reimer, Berlin 2010.
  • Helmina von Chézy, Life and Art in Paris since Napoleon I, Weimar 1805–1807, annotated edition. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2009.
  • Temple of Art. The creation of the public museum in Germany. 1701-1815. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2006.
  • Patrimoine annexé. Les saisies de biens culturels pratiquées par la France en Allemagne around 1800. Foreword by Pierre Rosenberg, 2 volumes. German Forum for Art History / Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7351-0988-7 .
  • Co-editor of the General Artist Lexicon
  • Translator: Arno Bertina: Mona Lisa in Bangoulap. The fable of the world museum. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95757-346-9 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Bénédicte Savoy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Department of Modern Art History: Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy. Retrieved May 28, 2019 .
  2. ^ Bénédicte Savoy , at Kulturstiftung
  3. ^ Accueil , Collège de France. Accessed January 20, 2017
  4. ↑ Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy: Rapport sur la restitution du patrimoine culturel africain. Vers une nouvelle éthique relationnelle. November 23, 2018, accessed May 14, 2019 (French, English).
  5. ↑ Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy: returning. About the restitution of African cultural assets . Matthes & Seitz Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95757-763-4 .
  6. ↑ The golden, the dark . Interview with Savoy, Der Spiegel, No. 29, July 14, 2018
  7. ^ New council of the Junge Akademie appointed. In: diejungeakademie.de. July 10, 2019, accessed on July 11, 2019 (press release).
  8. ^ Gisela Lerch: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences elects five new members. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, press release from June 10, 2016 from the Science Information Service (idw-online.de), accessed on June 10, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Savoy, Bénédicte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris