Valeska von Rosen

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Valeska von Rosen (born March 25, 1968 in Berlin ) is a German art historian and teaches at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

Life

Valeska von Rosen was born in Berlin in 1968 . Her father was the architect Edgar Wisniewski , partner of Hans Scharoun . She passed the Abitur at the humanistic branch of the Erich-Hoepner-Oberschule (grammar school) in Berlin-Charlottenburg and studied art history with classical archeology and Egyptology at the Free University of Berlin and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. In 1994 she graduated from the Free University of Berlin , where she received her doctorate in 1998 from Rudolf Preimesberger with a thesis on Titian's mimesis conceptions . The work, which was written as a scholarship holder of the Bibliotheca-Hertziana , Rome ( Max Planck Institute ), was awarded the Hans Janssen Prize for European Art History from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences in 2000. Subsequently, Valeska von Rosen received a scholarship from the German Research Foundation , again from the Bibliotheca Hertziana , Rome and the Gerda Henkel Foundation . In 2006, she has been to the Free University of Berlin habilitation and was appointed to the chair of general art history of the Ruhr-University Bochum . In 2006/07 she was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study) and in 2015 a Fellow of the International Kolleg Morphomata at the University of Cologne . 2014–2017 she headed the DFG project “Art Historiography and Artist Biography in the 17th Century. Giovanni Pietro Bellori's Vitenwerk in its Contexts ”; from 2016 to 2020 she was a member of the DFG Review Board 103 Art, Music, Theater and Media Studies; In 2019 she accepted a professorship for the history of art from modern times to early modern times at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

Since 2015 Valeska von Rosen has been a member of the DFG research group 2305 “Discursivations of New. Tradition and Novation in Texts from the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times ”. Since 2018 she has headed the DFG project “The Galleria degli autoritratti of the Uffizi. On the production conditions, modes of reception and order models of artist self-portraits in a modern collection ”in cooperation with the Galleria degli Uffizi , Florence and the Central Institute for Art History , Munich.

Publications (selection)

Monographs
  • Negotiations in Utrecht. Ter Brugghen and the religious imagery in the Netherlands , Göttingen 2015.
  • Caravaggio and the limits of what can be represented. Ambiguity, irony and performativity in painting around 1600 , Berlin 2009, 2nd edition 2011, 3rd edition 2020.
  • Mimesis and self-reference in Titian's works. Studies on the Venetian painting discourse , Berlin / Emsdetten 2001.
Editorships
  • Giovan Pietro Bellori, Vita di Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Life of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio , translated, edited, commented on and provided with an essay by Valeska von Rosen [Giovan Pietro Bellori, Le vite de 'pittori, scultori ed architetti moderni. The lives of modern painters, sculptors and architects. Bilingual, annotated edition including the unpublished vitae Guido Renis, Andrea Sacchis and Carlo Marattas, ed. v. Elisabeth Oy-Marra & Tristan Weddigen with Anja Brug, vol. 5], Göttingen 2018.
  • Poiesis. Practices of Creativity in the Arts of the Early Modern Age , (together with David Nelting / Jörn Steigerwald), Zurich / Berlin 2013.
  • Amor sacro e profano: Modeling of love in literature and music of the Italian Renaissance , (together with Jörn Steigerwald), Wiesbaden 2013.
  • Erosions of rhetoric? Strategies of Ambiguity in the Arts of the Early Modern Age , Wiesbaden 2012.
  • More than appearance: Aesthetics of the surface in film, art, literature and theater , (together with Hans-Georg von Arburg / Philipp Brunner / Ursula von Keitz and others), Zurich 2008.
  • Caravaggio e il suo ambiente. Ricerche e interpretazioni , (together with Sybille Ebert-Schifferer / Julian Kliemann / Lothar Sickel), Cinisello Balsamo / Milano 2007.
  • The artist as a work of art. Self-portraits from the Middle Ages to the present , (together with Ulrich Pfisterer ), Stuttgart 2005.
  • The silent discourse of the images. Forms of reflection on the aesthetic in Italian art of the early modern period (together with Klaus Krüger and Rudolf Preimesberger), Berlin 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DFG - GEPRIS - Art Historiography and Artist Biography in the 17th Century. Giovanni Pietro Bellori's Vitenwerk in its contexts. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Discursivations of the New. Tradition and novation in texts of the Middle Ages and the early modern period. June 24, 2016, accessed April 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ TP 04. June 29, 2016, accessed on April 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ DFG - GEPRIS - The 'Galleria degli autoritratti' of the Uffizi. On the production conditions, modes of reception and models of order for artist self-portraits in a modern collection. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rosen, Valeska von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin