German Forum for Art History
| German Forum for Art History Paris | |
|---|---|
| Category: | Scientific institution |
| Carrier: | Max Weber Foundation - German humanities institutes abroad |
| Legal form of the carrier: | Federal direct foundation |
| Seat of the wearer: | Bonn |
| Facility location: | 45, rue des Petits Champs, 75001 Paris, France |
| Type of research: | German-speaking French research |
| Subjects: | Art history |
| Areas of expertise: | Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Basic funding: | Federal Ministry of Education and Research |
| Management: | Thomas Kirchner |
| Employee: | approx 35 |
| Homepage: | http://www.DFK-Paris.org/ |
The German Forum for Art History Paris - DFK Paris (in French Center allemand d'histoire de l'art Paris ) is an independent art-historical research institute. Located in the international art metropolis Paris, it sees itself programmatically as a »forum« and place for international professional exchange.
The scientific traditions of France and the German-speaking area are combined with international positions. Building on this, innovative and interdisciplinary research on the art of both countries is carried out in a global context. In the context of research projects, scholarship programs and specialist conferences, topics relating to art from the Middle Ages to the present are developed and published in the forum's publication series.
Together with its partner institutes in Rome, London, Washington, Moscow, Istanbul, Tokyo and Beirut, the DFK Paris is part of the federally direct foundation under public law Max Weber Foundation - German humanities institutes abroad . It is financed through them with funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research .
history
DFK Paris was initially founded as a project in 1997 with funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research . It fulfilled a long-standing wish of art historical research to provide an institutional framework for the academic discussion of French art and its worldwide reception. An important goal was to concentrate German-language research on France in the field of art history and at the same time to promote the interest of the French humanities in art in Germany and in German-language art history. In this sense, the DFK Paris has developed over the years as a non-university, academically independent research institute into a place for the exchange of international art history.
Following a recommendation by the Science Council, the DFK Paris was integrated into the federal foundation of German Humanities Institutes Abroad in 2006. Since 2012 the foundation has been called the Max Weber Foundation - German Humanities Institutes Abroad . Located on the Place des Victoires for the first years of its activity , the institute has been housed in the Hôtel Lully since October 2011. It is in close proximity to the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA), one of the most important partners of DFK Paris, and the large French central library for art history ( Bibliothèque de l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art )
Directors
- 1997 to 2007 Thomas W. Gaehtgens (founding director)
- 2007 to 2009 Julia Drost (interim director)
- 2009 to 2014 Andreas Beyer (under whose directorate the institute moved from the Place des Victoires to the Hôtel Lully and the research program was internationalized)
- On February 1, 2014 Thomas Kirchner (inter alia an expert on French art of the 17th and 18th centuries) took over the management of the institute.
Promotion of young talent and scholarships
The promotion of young scientists is one of the core tasks of the DFK Paris. To this end, it maintains an extensive and differentiated scholarship program and other funding formats. In addition to study trips, study days and colloquia for young researchers, this also includes internships for students. The DFK Paris also sees itself as a point of contact for the mediation of scientific contacts in Germany and France and promotes the networking of international young talent.
The extensive scholarship program of the DFK Paris enables young scientists to carry out their own research in France and to discuss them with the scientists working at the institute. Research grants with a term of one to three months as well as annual grants are offered.
With its annual topics, the institute specifically builds on current discussions in the discipline, which are negotiated by an international group of scholarship holders as part of a study program. The results of the research projects are made available to a broader audience at specialist conferences and scientific lectures, as well as in the forum's publication series.
Research projects
At DFK Paris, individual research on art history projects is central. Research is also carried out in long-term projects and international research teams. Regular cooperation with institutions in the host country and on an international level is important.
- ARCHITRAVE - Art and architecture in Paris and Versailles as reflected in German travelogues from the Baroque era
- Misplaced pictures. Modern arenas of art
- Surrealism and money. Dealers, collectors and intermediaries
- OwnReality. Each his own reality
- Traveling Art Histories
- Scientific processing of the Palais Beauharnais
- Between art, science and occupation policy
- Digital humanities
Publications
DFK Paris publishes the scientific work of the researchers working at the institute as well as essays and monographs by international art historians. While the profile of the publications departments was initially shaped by the respective annual topics and long-term projects of the institute, further methodological and historiographical approaches are now increasingly being dealt with. Today the publications of the DFK Paris cover a wide range of topics: artistic transfer phenomena, art collectors and their collections, studies of architectural history, political iconography, art and image theory, etc. a.
In parallel to the series Passages / Passages, Passerelles and Monographs, which are published for France in the Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme (MSH) and for Germany in the Deutsche Kunstverlag (DKV), the DFK Paris recently has the series Passages launched online, which appears on the open access publication platform arthistoricum.net - ARTBooks of the Heidelberg University Library. Numerous edition projects in cooperation with partner institutions complete the institute's publication program.
- Passages / Passages
In the Passagen series , only anthologies on the annual topics of the DFK Paris were initially published. Later, more extensive research was started that arose from dissertations and habilitation theses.
- Passerelles
The Passerelles series publishes essays on special areas and issues in art history, e. B. on the history of reception and style, anthropological topics, work analyzes, etc.
- Passages online
DFK Paris uses the Open Access option to publish its research results. The publication series Passages / Passages and Passerelles have been supplemented by Passages online since 2017 , in which the results of scientific colloquia and annual topics are made available digitally. These publications are accessible as Open Access online resources at arthistoricum.net - ART-Books. Individual volumes can also be purchased as a printed edition.
Library
The German Forum for Art History has a special library on German-language art and cultural history on its premises. It also provides an overview of the art-historical research literature on France and on Franco-German art relations.
With a thematic focus on questions of method, the history of the collection, the Bauhaus and provenance research, the library covers a range of research that extends from the Middle Ages to the present day.
A collection of art theory and aesthetic writings, numerous rarities and original editions from the 17th to 20th centuries, as well as digital collections and databases can be viewed in the reading room in the Hôtel Lully. In 2018, 80% of the approximately 96,000 resources and 193 current, predominantly German-language magazines were placed in the open access area. The INHA library, with which the library is linked by a cooperation agreement, is located near the Hôtel Lully. Also not far away are the special collections of the BnF , the Louvre and the Center Pompidou .
The library of the DFK Paris is a cooperation partner of the Bavarian Library Association (BVB) and a partner of the research libraries of the four university- independent research institutes, the Art History Institute in Florence - Max Planck Institute, the Central Institute for Art History in Munich, which is part of the Art Library Association [kubikat] DFK Paris and the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome. The online catalog kubikat , used worldwide, is the most extensive library database on art history. It currently contains more than 1.7 million title references, including more than 900,000 articles from specialist journals, edited volumes and online publications. The data from the kubikat are also contained in the "Art Discovery Group Catalog", the WorldCat-based open-access discovery tool of the network of over sixty art libraries worldwide.
The Hôtel Lully
DFK Paris has been based on the Place des Victoires since it was founded. Since October 2011 it has been housed in the Hôtel Lully, which was built in the 17th century for the composer Jean-Baptiste Lully . Molière is said to have supported him for the purchase of the land and the construction of the building with 11,000 livres . In addition to the listed facade with its Bachanten masks and a relief with musical symbols, the ceiling fresco in Salon Lully has been preserved from the time it was built.
The modernized interior houses a publicly accessible library with reading room and the “Salle Julius Meier-Graefe” lecture room in the basement , a conference room, the atelier of the scholarship holders and offices of the employees.
literature
- Andreas Beyer : “From the place of victories to the artist house”, in Carolin Behrmann u. a. (Ed.): Intuition and Institution. Course book by Horst Bredekamp. Akademie Verlag Berlin, 2012, pp. 141–146. ISBN 978-3-05-006094-1 .
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Scholarships. In: DFK-Paris.org. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
- ↑ ARCHITRAVE - Art and architecture in Paris and Versailles in the mirror of German travelogues of the Baroque. In: DFK-Paris.org. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Misplaced pictures. Modern arenas of art. In: DFK-Paris.org. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Surrealism and Money. Dealers, collectors and intermediaries. In: DFK-Paris.org. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
- ↑ OwnReality. Each his own reality. In: DFK-Paris.org. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
- ^ Traveling Art Histories. In: DFK-Paris.org. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
- ^ Palais Beauharnais. In: DFK-Paris.org. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
- ^ Between art, science and occupation policy. In: DFK-Paris.org. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Digital Humanities. In: DFK-Paris.org. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Publications. In: DFK-Paris.org. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
- ↑ passages. In: DFK-Paris.org. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Passerelles. In: DFK-Paris.org. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Passages online. In: DFK-Paris.org. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
- ^ Publisher = Aleph online catalogs of the Max Planck Society . Retrieved March 11, 2019.
- ^ The Hôtel Lully. In: DFK-Paris.org. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .