Journal
Warburg Professorship 2019
Barbara Schellewald, Basel
The Aby Warburg Foundation and the Warburg-Haus are delighted to announce that Barbara Schellewald, Professor of Art History at the University of Basel, holds the Warburg Professorship 2019 and is a guest at the Warburg-Haus since April 1st! Until the end of July, she will live and work in Hamburg. In June, she will hold the festive Warburg Professorship lecture in the context of this year’s annual focus topic, »Arts in the Technical Age«.
Prof. Dr. Barbara Schellewald (*1952, Lauchhammer) studied art history, classical and Biblical archeology, Italian studies and South Asian studies at the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn. She completed her PhD in 1982 at the University of Bonn with a study of the architecture of St. Sophia in Ohrid (North Macedonia).From 1982 to 1984 she worked at Philipps-Universität Marburg and from 1984 to 1990 she was assistant lecturer at the University of Bonn. After a longer-term period in which she substituted for a professor at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum she was offered a chair at Leipzig University, where she taught until 1994, before returning to the University of Bonn, taking the chair for medieval art history with a special focus on the history of Byzantine art. Her habilitation thesis (1994) was entitled Die Konstitution byzantinischer Bildprogramme. Strukturen – Liturgie – Gedächtnis (The configuration of Byzantine visual programmes. Structures – liturgy – Memory). Since 2004 she holds the chair for older art history at the University of Basel.
Among Barbara Schellewald’s current research areas are: Byzantine image culture and medieval image theories, the relations between the Middle Ages and modernity, especially in modern receptions of the medieval, processes of cultural exchanges in the Mediterranean and the Hanse area, the history of science, especially art history during National Socialism, processes and practices of revealing and concealing in the pre-modern period, and the materiality of medieval artefacts and their contemporary perception.
Lecture
Monday, June 3rd 2019, 7 pm
»Wahrnehmungsoptionen von Artefakten im Mittelalter im Licht moderner Reproduktionstechniken«
Warburg-Professur
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Erwin Panofsky / William Heckscher
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William Heckscher