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Chair representation: PD Dr. Hildegard Frübis

Kurzbiografie

  • Studied art history and ethnology in Tübingen and Bologna. Doctorate in 1993 in Tübingen with a thesis on the "Discovery of America in the imagery of the 16th century". Subsequently assistant at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen.
  • From 1996/97 postdoctoral scholarship as part of the graduate college "Psychische Energien bildender Kunst", Institute of Art History Frankfurt a. Main
  • 1998 to 2004 research assistant at the Art History Department of the Humboldt University of Berlin
  • 2005 Habilitation with a study on Max Liebermann's illustrations for Heinrich Heine's "Rabbi von Bacherach".
  • Research grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation 2014/2018;
  • 2015-2017; Lise-Meitner position (FWF Austria) at the Center for Jewish Studies, Karl-Franzens-University Graz.
  • Since 2006 visiting and deputy professorships in Austria and abroad - most recently visiting professorship for Jewish Cultural History at the University of Augsburg.

  • Art of the early modern period and modernism

  • Art and art discourse in Jewish Modernism

  • Gender and postcolonial studies in the visual arts

  • "Orientalisms" in photography and painting

  • Photography in the NS and Holocaust

  • Zwischen den Welten - Jüdisches Erinnern und die Fotografien Roman Vishniacs aus den ersten Jahren der Nachkriegszeit, in: Hans-Joachim Hahn, Gerald Lamprecht, Terpitz, Olaf (eds.): Studien zur deutschsprachig-jüdischen Literatur und Kultur. Positioning of a transdisciplinary field of research. Böhlau: Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2020, 139-158.
  • "Timeless: Wrong". Selected Writings by Konrad Hoffmann on Art and Cultural Studies Research. Eds. Maike Christadler, Hildegard Frübis, Sigrid Schade, Online-Edition Emono, University Library Basel 2019. (https://emono.unibas.ch/catalog/book/57)
  • Europe as Transit. Jewish-Displaced Persons Camps and the Photographs of Roman Vishniac, in: Barbara Lange/ Dirk Hildebrandt/ Agata Pietrasik (eds.): Rethinking Postwar Europe. Artistic Production and Discourses of Art in the late 1940s and 1950s, Böhlau: Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2019, 141-154.
  • The Liebermann "case". Entangled histories - Antisemitism and anti-modernism in the dispute over the painting "The Twelve-Year-Old Jesus in the Temple", in: König, Mareike, Oliver Schulz (eds.): Antisemitismus im 19. Jahrhundert aus internationaler Perspektive. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Göttingen 2019, 151-168.
  • "To Mothers of the Twelve Thousand": Max Liebermann and the Commemoration of Front-Line Jewish Soldiers in the First World War, in: Lamprecht, Gerald et al. (eds.): Jewish Soldiers in the Collective Memory of Central Europe. The Remembrance of World War I from a Jewish Perspective, Graz 2019, 301-310.
  • Photographs from the Camps of the Nazi Regime. Preservation of Evidence and Aesthetic Practice, (eds.) Hildegard Frübis, Clara Oberle, Agnieszka Pufelska, Böhlau 2019.
  • Die Evidenz der Fotografie und die fotografischen Erzählweisen des Judenmords, in: Bannasch, Bettina/Hans Joachim Hahn (eds.): Darstellen, Vermitteln, Aneignen - Gegenwärtige Reflexionen des Holocaust, Göttingen 2018, 257-280.
  • The New Synagogue in Berlin (1866) and the Alhambra. The Adaptation of Moorish Style Elements and the Re-Orientalization of European Judaism, in: Giese, Francine/Ariane Varela Braga (eds.): The Power of Symbols. The Alhambra in a Global Perspective, Bern et al. 2018, 153-162.
  • From the Description de L'Égypte to Photography: The Visualization of the Orient, in: The Innocent Eye. Images of the Orient in Early Photography. Catalog for the exhibition Göttingen, Kunstsammlung der Universität 2017, ed. by Martin Luchterhandt/Lisa Marie Roemer/Verena Suchy, Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag 2017, 15-22.
  • The First World War and the Discovery of Eastern Jewry. Das Ostjüdische Antlitz von Arnold Zweig und Hermann Struck, in: Born, Robert/ Beate Störtkuhl (eds.): Apologeten der Vernichtung oder "Kunstschützer"?
    Kunsthistoriker der Mittelmächte im Ersten Weltkrieg, series Visuelle Geschichtskulturen, Cologne/Weimar/Vienna: Böhlau 2017, 159-180.
  • The Figure of the Beautiful Jewess: Displacements on the Borders between East and West, in: Brunotte, Ulrike et al.: Internal Outsiders - Imagined Orientals? Antisemitism, Colonialism and Modern Constructions of Jewish Identity, Würzburg: Ergon 2017, 61-72.
  • Max Liebermann, Else Lasker-Schüler, Issachar Ber Ryback and the Art of Jewish Modernism,
    in: Braun, Christina von (ed.): "Was war deutsches Judentum? 1870-1933", Berlin et al.: de Gruyter 2015, 85-102.
  • Ephraim Moses Lilien: The Figure of the "Beautiful Jewess," the Orient, the Bible, and Zionism,
    in: Brunotte, Ulrike; Anna-Dorothea Ludewig, Anna-Dorothea; Stähler, Axel (eds.): Orientalism, Gender, and the Jews. Literary and Artistic Transformations of European National Discourses (Europäisch-jüdische Studien - Beiträge 23) De Gruyter Oldenbourg: 2014, 82-97.
  • (Children's) Icons - Photographic Images and the Memory of the Holocaust, in: Peter Seibert, Jana Piper, Alfonso Meoli (eds.): Anne Frank. Media Stories, Berlin: Metropol 2014, 12-36.
  • Photographs from the camps of the Nazi regime. Beweissicherung und ästhetische Praxis, ed. by Hildegard Frübis together with Clara Oberle, Agnieszka Pufelska, Böhlau-Verlag: Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2019.

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