David Ganz

David Ganz (born April 30, 1970 in Stuttgart ) is a German art historian specializing in medieval art. He is a professor at the University of Zurich .

From 1990 onwards, Ganz studied art history, philosophy and classical archeology in Heidelberg and Marburg (as well as in 1993/94 in Bologna) with a degree in 1996. He conducted research at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence in 1997/98 and received a doctoral scholarship from the Max- Planck Society at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome. In 2000 he received his doctorate in Hamburg and was then coordinator of the VW research group Cultural History and Theology of the Image in Christianity at the University of Münster until 2005 . From 2005 he was a research assistant at the University of Bamberg and completed his habilitation in 2006 at the University of Konstanz in art history ( Visio depicta. On image and media concepts of medieval visions ). In 2006/07 he was a deputy professor in Bochum (and junior visiting professor in Jena), in 2010/11 he was a deputy professor in Basel and from 2011 to 2013 he was a deputy professor in Heidelberg. In 2013 he was a visiting scholar at Yale University and has been Professor of Medieval Art History at the University of Zurich since 2013.

Among other things, he dealt with visions of the apocalypse, with the language of images and image perception in medieval art and book art in the Middle Ages. In 2015 he was a Senior Fellow at the International College for Cultural Technology Research and Media Philosophy in Weimar. From 2007 to 2013 he was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation .

He should not be confused with the British palaeographer David Ganz (* 1952).

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Baroque picture buildings. Narrative, Illusion, and Institution in Roman Churches. 1580-1700. Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2003.
• Media of revelation. Vision representations in the Middle Ages. Reimer, Berlin 2008
• Book robes. Magnificent bindings in the Middle Ages. Reimer, Berlin 2015.
• (with Ulrike Ganz): Visions of the end times. The Apocalypse in Medieval Book Art. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2016.
• Spaces of Revelation. Visions in Medieval Art ( Studies in the Visual Culture of the Middle Ages ). Brepols, Turnhout 2017.

Editorships

• (together with Felix Thürlemann ): The picture in the plural. Multi-part picture forms between the Middle Ages and the present. Reimer, Berlin 2010.
• Seeing and sacred in the premodern. Reimer, Berlin 2011.
• (together with Marius Rimmele): flap effects. Foldable picture carriers in the pre-modern era. Reimer, Berlin 2016.

Web links

• Page from Ganz at the University of Zurich