Karin Leonhard

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Karin Leonhard (* 1969 ) is a German art historian .

Life

Karin Leonhard studied art history, German and theater studies in Munich. In her master's thesis she dealt with Wassily Kandinsky 's theosophically influenced art theory. Her doctorate on interior painting by Jan Vermeer was published in 2003. She deals with the forms of perception of the Baroque and theories of vision of the 17th century in Holland.

She taught art history and visual studies at the University of Leipzig and worked as an assistant at the University of Eichstätt from 2005 to 2011 , where she qualified as a professor in 2012 with her study on "Image fields - still lifes and natural pieces of the 17th century".

Between 2009 and 2011 she was a scholarship holder of the Art History Institute in Florence . From 2011 to 2014 she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. From 2013–14 she was Professor of Art History at the University of Bonn before accepting the call to Konstanz in 2015 .

Her research focuses on theories of space and perception of the early modern period, especially the history of science and perception of the 17th century. In addition, she devoted herself to the artistic tendencies of early abstraction around 1900 and the history of art history of that time.

Publications

  • Karin Leonhard: The painted room. On Jan Vermeer's interior painting , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7705-3876-5
  • Karin Leonhard: fields of view. Still lifes and natural pieces of the 17th century , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-006325-6
  • Karin Leonhard (together with Claudia Fritzsche and Gregor JM Weber): Ad Fontes! 17th century Dutch art in Quellen , Petersberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86568-786-9

Essays

  • Karin Leonhard: White earth, or how to cultivate color in the field of painting still life and Baroque color theory. In: Vision and its instruments , ed. By Alina Payne (University Park, Penn State University Press, 2015), pp. 190–215.
  • Karin Leonhard: Mother Earth, or the color brown - on the promiscuity of the baroque image field. In: Natalität, ed. by Aage A. Hansen-Löve; Michael Ott; Lars Schneider (Paderborn 2015), pp. 151–169.
  • Karin Leonhard: Ornament and Temporality. Cartouche, rocaille, arabesque. In: Image and Time. Temporality in art and art theory since 1800 , ed. by Thomas Kisser, Paderborn 2011, pp. 63–85.

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personal data
SURNAME Leonhard, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1969