Hans Janssen Prize
The Hans Janssen Prize has been awarded every two years since 1992 by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences for modern European art history, especially Italy.
The award-winning work can also be dissertations or habilitation theses. The deans of the German-speaking art history faculties will be informed of the competition. -The winner should not be older than 40 years.
The prize was donated by the art historian Hans Janssen (died 1989).
Award winners
- 1992 Georg Satzinger for Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and the Madonna di San Biagio near Montepulciano .
- 1994 Werner Jacobsen for The Painters of Florence at the Beginning of the Renaissance .
- 1996 Robert Stalla for Borromini and Sapienza. Architecture-Science-Politics in the Roman Seicento , Frank Fehrenbach for light and water. On the dynamics of natural philosophical models in Leonardo da Vinci's work .
- 1998 Nicole Riegel for Santa Maria presso San Celso in Milan .
- 2000 Damian Dombrowski for Giuliano Finelli. Sculptor between Naples and Rome . Valeska von Rosen for Artistic Mimesis in Titian's History Paintings. Studies on the theory and practice of Venetian Renaissance painting .
- 2002 Anna Schreurs-Morét for antiques and art views by the Neapolitan painter, architect and antiquarian Pirro Ligorio .
- 2004 Annelies Amberger for Giordano Orsini's Uomini Famosi in Rome , Martin Gaier for Facciate Sacre a Scopo Profano .
- 2006 Christian Hecht for Die Glorie, Concept, Theme, Image Element in European sacred art from the Middle Ages to the end of the Baroque
- 2008 Monika Melters for The Colossal Order . Studies of palace construction in Italy and France between 1420 and 1670 .
- 2010 Marieke von Bernstorff for agent and painter as actors in the art business of the early 17th century. Giovan Battista and Bartolomeo Cavarozzi . Kristin Böse for Painted Holiness - Picture narratives of new saints in Italian art of the 14th and 15th centuries .
- 2012 Katja Burzer for San Carlo Borromeo. Construction and staging of an image of a saint in the field of tension between Milan and Rome , Johannes Grave for Architectures of Vision - Buildings in Images of the Quattrocento .
- 2014 Christine Beese for New Horizons in Urban Design - The Shape of the City by Marcello Piacentini (1881–1960) , Simone Bader for Modernism in Africa. Asmara - The Construction of an Italian Colonial City (1886–1941) .
- 2016 Robert Skwirlbies for Questa roba farebbe figura in Germania! Old Italian paintings in Prussia 1797–1830. Studies on the understanding of art and cultural politics, trade relations and personal networks in post-revolutionary Europe
- 2018 Isabella Augart for frame pictures . Configurations of Adoration in Early Modern Italy , Armin Bergmeier for Vision Expectation. Visualization and experience of the presence of the divine in late antiquity .