Damian Dombrowski

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Damian Dombrowski (* 1966 in Münster ) is a German art historian . He teaches art history at the University of Würzburg .

Career

Dombrowski studied art history from 1987 to 1993 with the minor subjects Romance studies and political science at the universities of Würzburg and Münster . From 1988 to 1989 he was an editor at Vatican Radio , Rome. From 1990 to 2008 he wrote as a freelancer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and from 2008 for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Munich.

Act

1996 Dombrowski was in Münster at Jürg Meyer zur Capellen with summa cum laude doctorate. In 2000 he received the Hans Janssen Prize for European Art History from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences for his dissertation . From 1997 to 1998 he was a research assistant in the special research area 537 at the TU Dresden and from 1998 to 2004 research assistant at the University of Würzburg. In 2004 he completed his habilitation at the University of Würzburg with the subject “The religious paintings of Sandro Botticelli”.

From March to August 2008 he was the Rudolf Wittkower Professorship at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, and in 2008/2009 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton (New Jersey) . Since 2009 he has been professor for art history at the chair for medium and modern art history in Würzburg. Since October 1st, 2014 he has been director of the modern department of the Martin von Wagner Museum at the University of Würzburg.

His main research interests are medieval grave sculpture, Renaissance painting and the art and architecture of the late Renaissance in Germany, Italian baroque sculpture and American painting (1650–1950).

Fonts (selection)

  • Botticelli. A Florentine painter about God, the world and himself , Volume 171 by Salto, Wagenbach, Berlin, 2010
  • Sandro Botticelli's religious paintings. Painting as pia philosophia , Volume 7 of Italian Research by the Art History Institute in Florence, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-422-06945-9
  • Damian Dombrowski (ed.): Between the worlds. Contributions to art history for Jürg Meyer zur Capellen . Festschrift for the 60th birthday, Weimar 2001,
  • Giuliano Finelli. Sculptor between Naples and Rome , Volume 7 of writings on the fine arts, P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, ISBN 978-3-631-32692-3 (dissertation)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Topic of the dissertation: “Giuliano Finelli. Sculptor between Naples and Rome ”.
  2. ↑ Collaborative Research Center 537: “Institutionality and Historicity” of the Philosophical Faculty of the Technical University of Dresden.
personal data
SURNAME Dombrowski, Damian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster