Urte Krass

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Urte Krass (born 1977) is an art historian and professor of art history at the University of Bern .

Life

From 1998 to 2003, Krass studied art history and history at the University of Hamburg, where she wrote her master's thesis on Simon von Trient in printmaking around 1500. From 2004 she was a research assistant at the Art History Institute in Florence / Max Planck Institute. In 2006 she received a doctoral scholarship there and in 2009 she received her thesis “Nah zum Leichnam. Images of New Saints in the Quattrocento ”. She then worked as a research assistant at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU Munich) until 2018 . There she worked, among other things as a Junior Researcher in Residence at the Munich Center for Advanced Studies (CAS), on her habilitation project on the political use of images in the Portuguese colonial empire. In 2016 she was a visiting scholar at the CHAM (Centro de História d'Aquém e d'Além-Mar) in Lisbon as part of a research grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation . In 2017 she received a travel grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation . In 2018 she was awarded the Princess Therese von Bayern Prize 2017 for excellent female scientists at the LMU Munich. In 2018, Krass completed his habilitation with the thesis "Imagery 1640. The global visualization of the Portuguese restoration".

Krass is interested in image-scientific and image-anthropological questions about the function and effectiveness of images. One focus is on the interrelationships between images of saints and the cult of relics in the Italian Renaissance, another on political iconography and the political use of images in Portugal and its colonial empire in the 17th century.

Since August 2018, Krass has been Associate Professor of Modern Art History at the Institute for Art History at the University of Bern.

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • Imagery 1640. The global visualization of the Portuguese restoration (habilitation thesis)
  • Close to the corpse. Pictures of new saints in the Quattrocento (Italian research by the Art History Institute in Florence, I Mandorli, vol. 16), Berlin / Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag 2012. ISBN 978-3-422-07091-2

As editor

  • Visualizing Portuguese Power. The Political Use of Images in Portugal and Its Overseas Empire (16th to 18th Century), Zurich / Berlin: Diaphanes (Bilder-Diskurs), Zürich / Berlin: Diaphanes (Bilder-Diskurs) 2017.
  • The Public in the Picture. Involving the Beholder in Antique, Islamic, Byzantine, Western Medieval and Renaissance Art (together with Beate Fricke ), Zurich / Berlin: Diaphanes (Bilder-Diskurs) 2015.
  • What does art do? From the workshop of art history (= Munich contact study history, vol. 12), Munich: Utz 2009.

Awards

  • 2017: Princess Therese von Bayern Prize winner 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Summer semester 2013: Prof. Dr. Urte Krass. Retrieved November 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Urte Krass. Associate Professor. Department of Modern Art History (KN). Retrieved November 21, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Urte Krass: Close to the corpse. Images of new saints in the Quattrocento
  4. ↑ Princess Therese von Bayern Awards 2017. Accessed on November 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Crazy, Urte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1977