Charlotte Klonk

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Charlotte Klonk (* 1965 in Kassel ) is a German art historian .

biography

Charlotte Klonk studied art history at the University of Hamburg (1985–88) and at the University of Cambridge (1988–89). She was a Ph.D. from 1989 to 1992. Student at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. There she did her PhD in 1993 with John Gage on Science and the Perception of Nature: British Landscape Art in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1992/93 she worked at the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst under Jan Hoet in Gent . From 1993 to 1995 she was a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church College, University of Oxford and from 1995 to 2005 Lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Warwick .

From 2005 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Art and Visual History at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where she completed her habilitation in 2007. Her habilitation thesis “Spaces of Experience: Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 to 2000” was reviewed by Horst Bredekamp and Lorraine Daston . In 2010 Klonk received a call to the Leuphana University of Lüneburg (W 3 professorship) and a call to the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (W 3 professorship). On April 15, 2010 she was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Schering Foundation . In 2011 Klonk was offered a professorship at the Humboldt University of Berlin (W 3 professorship).

Scholarships and Awards

From 1986 to 1990 Klonk was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and from 1989 to 1992 the British Academy. In 1990/91 she was funded by the DAAD, in 1991/92 she received a doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation. In April 1998 she received the Influential Book Award from the American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies.

In 2001/02 Charlotte Klonk was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and in 2005 and 2006 a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. In 2009/10 she was a selected participant in the inter-university ProFil program for executive development in science.

In 2019, Charlotte Klonk was accepted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the Cultural Studies section .

Publications

Books

  • 1996 Science and the Perception of Nature: British Landscape Art in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, New Haven and London, Yale University Press (reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement, Gazette de Beaux Arts and Art History 1997)
  • 2006 (with Michael Hatt), Art History: A Critical Introduction to Its Methods, Manchester, Manchester University Press (among others reviewed in Times Literary Supplement, September 1, 2006, and by Regine Prange in sehepunkte, 7 (2007), no.3 [March 15, 2007], http://www.sehepunkte.de/2007/03/11116.html .)
  • 2009 Spaces of Experience: Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 - 2000, New Haven and London, Yale University Press (reviewed in: Frieze, November 1, 2009)
  • Terror. When pictures become weapons . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-397233-7 (320 pages).

Editorial activity

  • Charlotte Klonk, Conny Becker, Friederike Schäfer, Franziska Solte (eds.): Metropolitan Views: The art scenes in Berlin and London . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-06822-3 (224 pages, including a review in TAZ, July 30, 2008, Berliner Morgenpost, August 13, 2008, Deutschlandradio Kultur, August 21, 2008).

Essays

  • 1991 "Towards the Problem of an Aesthetic of Nature in Contemporary Art: Nicky Hirst and Rebecca Salter", in Scroope: Cambridge Architectural Journal, June 3, 11-14.
  • 1997 "From Picturesque Travel to Scientific Observation: Artists 'and Geologists' Voyages to Staffa", in Michael Rosenthal, Christiana Payne (ed.), Prospects for the Nation: Recent Essays in British Landscape, 1750-1880, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 205-229.
  • 1999 “The National Gallery in London and Its Public”, in Maxine Berg, Helen Clifford (ed.), Consumers and Luxury: Consumer Culture in Europe 1650-1850, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 228-250.
  • 2000 "Mounting Vision: Charles Eastlake and the National Gallery of London", in Art Bulletin, June 82, 331-347.
  • 2001 “In the eye of the beholder: The National Gallery in London in the 19th century”, in Gabriele Dürbeck, Bettina Gockel, Susanne B. Keller et al. (Ed.), Perception of Nature - Nature of Perception, Dresden, Verlag der Kunst, 179-198.
  • 2002 "Interdisciplinarity and Visual Culture", in Paul Smith, Carolyn Wilde (eds.), A Companion to Art Theory, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 467 - 476.
  • 2003 "Science, Art and the Representation of the Natural World", in Roy Porter (ed.), The Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 4: "The Eighteenth Century", Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 665 - 702.
  • 2005 "Patterns of Absorption: From Shop Windows to Galleries in Early Twentieth-Century Berlin", Art History, August 28, 468 - 496.
  • 2007 “Theoretical Change and Visual Depiction”, in Erna Fiorentini (ed.), Observing Nature - Representing Experience, Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, 43 - 55.
  • 2008 "Image terrorism: From Meins to Schleyer", in Inge Stephan, Alexandra Tacke (ed.), After-images of the RAF, Cologne, Böhlau Verlag, 197-215.
  • 2008 "The kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer or the discovery of the medium of the face in the terrorist image battle", in Kritischeberichte, June 36, 49 - 59.
  • 2009 "Artful Display", in Art Quarterly, Winter 2009, pp. 52-55.
  • 2010 “Making visible and becoming visible in the art museum”, in Gottfried Boehm (ed.), Show. The rhetoric of the visible, Munich, Wilhelm Fink.
  • 2010 “Tense conditions. University professors and their colleagues at Berlin museums around 1900 ”, in Horst Bredekamp and Adam Labuda (eds.), 200 years of art history at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
  • 2010 “The phantasmagoric world of the first documenta and its legacy”, in Dorothea von Hantelmann and Carolin Meister, The Rise of the Exhibition, Berlin, Diaphanes.
  • 2013 The distant echo of a dark act. One of the most enigmatic pictures in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie is Lorrain's “Landscape with Cephalus and Procris”. FAZ of February 13, 2013, page 30.

Newer newspaper articles

  • 2007 "From the Film and Television Academy Holger Meins", Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 18, December 15
  • 2007 "Liegen mit Lorca", exhibition review, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 6th, 36th
  • 2008 "Bruce Nauman ´Walk with Contrapposto´", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 10, Z5
  • 2009 "Charlotte Klonk visits Katja Strunz in her studio", Tate Magazin, January 7th, August 38th
  • 2009 "How one sits, so one sees", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 2nd, N3

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personal data
SURNAME Klonk, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel