Johannes Grave

Johannes Grave (born March 22, 1976 in Thuine in the Emsland district ) is a German art historian , author of academic books and professor of modern art history at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

life and work

Johannes Grave grew up in Salzbergen -Holsten in the Emsland . After graduating from high school Dionysianum in Rheine in 1995 he studied on a scholarship from the studienstiftung from 1996 Art History , Medieval Latin Philology , Medieval history and philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg . A study visit to Rome followed. From 2001 to 2005 he was a research assistant in the Collaborative Research Center 482 “Weimar-Jena. Culture around 1800 ”from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , where he received his doctorate in 2005 . From 2005 to 2009 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Basel ; his habilitation took place in 2012 at the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Basel.

From July 2009 to April 2012 Grave was Deputy Director of the German Forum for Art History in Paris . From 2012 to 2019 he taught as a professor for historical visual studies and art history at Bielefeld University , where he also became deputy spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center “Practices of Comparison” (SFB 1288) in 2017. In 2015, he turned down an offer from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf for a professorship in art history. In spring 2019 he accepted a professorship for modern art history with a focus on European romanticism at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .

Grave has been a member of the Center for Classical Research in Weimar since 2009 (from 2009 to 2016 as a board member) and was appointed to the scientific advisory board of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar in October 2018 . As a representative of the professional group "Universities and Research Institutes", he has been a member of the board of the Association of German Art Historians since 2017 . Since 2018 he has also been a member of the Senate and Approval Committee for Collaborative Research Centers of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

From October 2014 to March 2015 he was a Senior Fellow at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald . In 2015/16 he worked as a fellow in the research group “The Ethics of Copying” at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld. For the summer semester 2017 he received a fellowship from the Kolleg research group "Image Evidence. History and Aesthetics" at the Free University of Berlin. From 2015 to the end of 2019, Grave was one of the four publishers of the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte .

Honors

In 2012, Grave was awarded the Hans Janssen Prize for European Art History by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . For 2020 he was awarded a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize .

Fonts

Monographs

• Giovanni Bellini . Venice and the Art of Contemplation , Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-7913-8396-5 (English translation: Giovanni Bellini. The Art of Contemplation , London / New York 2018, ISBN 978-3-7913-8397-2 ) .
• Architectures of Vision. Buildings in Pictures of the Quattrocento , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7705-5800-1 .
• Caspar David Friedrich , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7913-4627-4 (English translation: Caspar David Friedrich, 2nd edition London / New York 2017, ISBN 978-3-7913-8357-6 ).
• Caspar David Friedrich, Faith and Image Criticism, Zurich / Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03734-165-0 .
• The "ideal artificial body". Johann Wolfgang Goethe as a collector of prints and drawings (Aesthetics around 1800, Vol. 4), Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-47503-4 .
• Landscapes of Meditation. Giovanni Bellini's Association Spaces (Sources on Art, Vol. 23), Freiburg i. Br. 2004, ISBN 978-3-7930-9399-2 .
• Caspar David Friedrich and the theory of the sublime. Friedrichs Eismeer as an answer to a central concept of contemporary aesthetics, Weimar 2001, ISBN 978-3-89739-192-5 .

Editorships

• with Christiane Holm, Valérie Kobi and Caroline van Eck: The Agency of Display. Objects, Framings and Parerga (Parerga and Paratexte, Vol. 2), Dresden 2018, ISBN 978-3954984169 .
• with Michael Gamper, Eva Geulen , Andreas Langenohl, Ralf Simon and Sabine Zubarik: Time of Form - Forms of Time (Ästhetische Eigenzeiten, Vol. 2), Hannover 2016, ISBN 978-3865255358 .
• with Lena Bader and Georges Didi-Huberman : speaking about pictures - speaking in pictures. Studies on the interrelationship between image and language (Passagen, vol. 46), Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-422-07276-3 .
• with Andreas Beyer and Matteo Burioni: The Eye of Architecture. On the question of imagery in architecture , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7705-5081-4 .
• with Arno Schubbach: Thinking with the Image. Philosophical uses of the concept of the image from Plato to Hegel , Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-5010-4 .
• with Hubert Locher and Reinhard Wegner: The body of art. Constructions of totality in the art discourse around 1800 (Aesthetics around 1800, Vol. 5), Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-47504-1 .
• with Markus Bertsch: Spaces of Art. Views of Goethe's collections (Aesthetics around 1800, Vol. 3), Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-47502-0 .
• The double face of the big city. Carlo Mense, Josef Winckler and the workers at House Nyland (cat. For the exhibition in the Bentlage monastery, in August Macke House in Bonn and in the Westphalian State Museum in Münster), Steinfurt 2002, ISBN 3-934427-17-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} CV of Prof. Dr. Johannes Grave on the DFG homepage, accessed on July 12, 2020
2. ↑ Habilitations and appointments »Research & Teaching. September 24, 2015, accessed May 30, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Habilitations and appointments May 2019. May 28, 2019, accessed on May 30, 2019 . 
4. ^ University of Bielefeld: Staff news from the university. Retrieved October 26, 2018 . 
5. ^ Association of German Art Historians: Newly elected board on March 10, 2017. Retrieved October 26, 2018 . 
6. ↑ DFG: Senate Committee for Collaborative Research Centers. Retrieved October 26, 2018 . 
7. ^ Foundation Alfried Krupp Kolleg Greifswald: Professor Dr. Johannes Grave Alfried Krupp Senior Fellow accessed on February 19, 2015
8. ↑ Kolleg research group "Image Evidence. History and Aesthetics". Retrieved October 26, 2018 . 
9. ^ Uni Bielefeld Prize for European Art History to Bielefeld Art Historians (No. 71/2013) accessed on February 12, 2016

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Johannes Grave at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• uni-bielefeld.de Prof. Dr. Johannes Grave accessed on February 25, 2019
• Literature by and about Johannes Grave in the catalog of the German National Library