Julia Voss

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Julia Voss, 2014 at the Städel in Frankfurt

Julia Voss (* 1974 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German art critic , science historian and journalist . She was deputy head of the feature pages of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and has been an honorary professor at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg since 2015 .

Live and act

After graduating from the Altkönigschule in Kronberg in 1993 , Voss studied modern German literature, art history and philosophy at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg, the Humboldt University in Berlin and at Goldsmiths College in London. In 2000 she completed her master's degree on literary forms of the Darwinism debate . From 2001 to 2004 she pursued her art history dissertation project One long Argument. The Darwinism debate in the picture as part of a research project of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science . She examined the role of Charles Darwin's illustrations for the development of the theory of evolution. At the end of 2005, Voss received his doctorate from Humboldt University. In 2008, Voss saw Jemmy Button , a real character from Charles Darwin's travel story “The Beagle's Journey” - not only because of the similarity of names - as the model for Michael Ende 's children's book character Jim Knopf .

After an internship , Julia Voss (jvo) - alongside Niklas Maak - headed the art department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) since 2007 . In the paper she was thematically concerned with the problem of looted art . In 2012, she spoke about the lack of presentation of women in modern art. On November 1, 2014, she became deputy head of the features section of the FAZ. In 2016 she switched to science after ten years of full-time newspaper work. Since January 2018 she has been writing the art column “Ask Julia Voss” for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , in which she answers readers' questions about contemporary art.

Since 2015, Voss has been an honorary professor at the Institute for Philosophy and Art Research at Leuphana University Lüneburg . In 2016/17 she was a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin with a project on " Hilma af Klint and the evolution of art", then a fellow of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . On the website of her university, she describes her main research areas as: "The history of abstraction, the connections between evolutionary theory and culture, restitution and provenance, theory and history of the art market and art criticism." In January and February 2019, she was a visiting fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Prizes and awards

In 2005 she was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for her dissertation . In 2009 she received the Sigmund Freud Prize for scientific prose from the German Academy for Language and Poetry for her study on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. She was a member of the jury at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. In 2013 she received the Luise Büchner Prize for Journalism . Her book Hilma af Klint - Humanity amaze stood for Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2020 in the category Non-Fiction / Essays on the shortlist .

Fonts

  • Darwin's pictures. Views of the Theory of Evolution 1837–1874 . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 3-596-17627-1 .
  • Charles Darwin for an introduction . Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-88506-654-5 .
  • Darwin's Jim button . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009. ISBN 978-3-10-095805-1 .
  • as co-editor with Eva Atlan and Raphael Gross : 1938. Art, artists, politics . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2013.
  • Behind white walls. Behind the white cube . With drawings by Philipp Deines. Merve Verlag, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-88396-360-0
  • Hilma af Klint - astonish humanity. Biography. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2020, ISBN 978-3-10-397367-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Julia Voss: Jim Knopf saves the theory of evolution . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 13, 2008, No. 292, p. 33 (online edition)
  2. ^ Patrick Bahners, Julia Voss: Robbery Art Debate. Munich illuminates everything . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 29, 2016, online and print edition, accessed on November 28, 2017.
  3. ^ Julia Voss: Ida Gerhardi in Oldenburg. The discoverer of Paris . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 226 of September 27, 2012, p. 27 (online edition)
  4. ^ Website of the University of Leuphana
  5. Website of the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS)
  6. These are the nominees for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 11, 2020.
  7. See: Ingo Arend: Uncovering the secret. Julia Voss exposes an image of the new global inequality in the art business and calls for an independent art criticism. In: taz. July 6, 2015.