Education [retour]
- July 1998 : Ph.D. (summa cum laude), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg i. Br. (Art History) Advisors : Prof. Wilhelm Schlink, Prof. David E. Barclay Dissertation : Wilhelm von Schadow (1788–1862)
- 1995 – 1997 : Visiting Scholar at the Freie Universität, Berlin (Art History)
- Dec. 1992 : M.A., American University, Washington, D.C. (Art History) Advisors : Prof. Norma Broude, Prof. Elisabeth Higdon M.A. qualifying papers : Hip, Cool and New : Color-Field Abstraction and Popular Culture ; Max Liebermann (1847 – 1935) Passed Western Art History exam with distinction GPA : 4.0
- 1988 – 1991 : Undergraduate and Graduate Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg (Art History, History of the Middle Ages, Modern and Contemporary History, Medieval Latin)
Research [retour]
Honors and awards
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (2009)
- Junior Faculty Research Fund Award (2008)
- Hans Kohn Fellowship, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study (2006-2007)
- 2006 Summer Research Fellowship for Junior Faculty in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Columbia University
- 2004 Hettleman Summer Fellow Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- (German Research Society, 1999) Funding for travel expenses to 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 6-9, 1999 Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung doctoral fellowship
- (1994-1997) Funding for doctoral studies and research Max Planck Society, Bibliotheca Hertziana Scholar, Rome
- (summer 1994) Scholarship for summer seminar “Art and Art Politics at the Court of Pope Leo X” Fulbright Award
- (1991–1992) Scholarship to fund study in the USA (supported M.A. study at American University) Germanistic Society of America, Quadrille Ball Committee Scholarship
- (fall semester 1992) Scholarship to fund study in the United States (supported M.A. study at American University) Baden-Württemberg Summer Language Program
- (summer 1994) Scholarship funded intensive language course at Université Stendhal, Grenoble III, France Institute of International Education, Professional Enhancement Grant
- (February 1992) Funded participation in the College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL
Organization of workshops and conferences
2009 “Was ist romantisch an der romantischen Kunst ? Kunsttheorie und Künstlerpraxis,” conference co-organized with Christian Scholl (Emmy Noether-Forschungsgruppe “Romantikrezeption, Autonomieästhetik und Kunstgeschichte”) and sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany, August 27-29, 2009 (forthcoming)
2003 “From Manhattan to Mainhattan : Architecture and Style as Transatlantic Dialogue, 1920-1970,” conference sponsored by the German Historical Institute Washington, D.C., and the Institute for the Study of Europe, Columbia University, New York, March 6-8, 2003 (for review see www.ghi-dc.org/publications/ghipubs/bu/033/bulletin33.html)
2002 One-day Seminar on “Research in Art History,” in conjunction with the “Summer Seminar in Germany,” organized by the German Historical Institute, the German Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, Gotha, Germany, June 12, 2002
2001 “The Spirit of an Age : Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin,” colloquium co-organized with Philip Conisbee in conjunction with the exhibition “The Spirit of an Age : Nineteenth-Century Painting from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin,” National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 9, 2001
2000 “Exhibiting the Other : Museums of Mankind and the Politics of Cultural Representation,” conference co-organized with the Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris, France, November 2-5, 2000
Organization of conference panels and lectures
2009 “Art and Art History after Hegel,” co-chaired with Lisa Florman (Ohio State University), panel at the 97th CAA Annual Conference (Historical Studies session), Los Angeles, February 25–28, 2009
2005 “Reading Religious Imagery in Nineteenth-Century Europe,” panel at the 8th International Conference of the International Association of Word & Image Studies (“Elective Affinities”), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, September 23–27, 2005
2001 “New Directions in 19th-Century Scholarship,” panel at the 91st CAA Annual Conference (in conjunction with affiliated society AHNCA), February 20, 2003 Fall Lecture Series 2001
2001 “The History of the Senses,” co-organized with Vera Lind, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., October – December, 2001
2000 “RetroVision : The Making of History in Art,” panel at the 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 4–7, 2000 Spring Lecture Series 2000
2000 “History and its Images,” German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., March 7–June 1, 2000
2000 “Reviving a Historical Corpse : Rewriting the Historiography of Nineteenth-Century Religious Art,” panel at the 88th CAA Annual Conference (part of the Art History Thematic session “The Historiography of Art History”), New York, February 23–26, 2000
2000 “Aesthetics and Politics : From Cologne Cathedral to the Holocaust Memorial,” panel at the 114th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association on “History for the Twenty-First Century : Continuity and Change,” Chicago, January 6–9, 2000
1998 “Historicizing the Nation : The Middle Ages and the Nineteenth-Century Nationalist Imaginary,” panel at the 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 6–9, 1998
1998 “Medievalism as a Source of Sociocultural Renewal in the Nineteenth Century,” panel at the 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 8–11, 1998
1997 “‘Opium fürs Volk oder Quell gesellschaftlicher Erneuerung ? Kirche, Kunst und Politik im Neunzehnten Jahrhundert,” panel at the 21st Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Washington, D.C., September 25–28, 1997
Teaching [retour]
Academic employment
- 2002-… Associate Professor of Art History, Columbia University, New York, NY (started in Fall 2002)
- 2004 – 2005 Resident Academic Director, Berlin Consortium of German Studies
- 1999 – 2002 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (research position at the level of assistant professor), German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
Teaching lectures
- Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century European Art (Undergraduate lecture course)
- German Art in European Context, 1760 – 1920 (Graduate/advanced undergraduate lecture course)
- From Neoclassicism to Romanticism : German Painting and the Politics of Identity (Graduate/advanced undergraduate lecture course)
- Modern and Contemporary Art (Public lecture series)
Graduate seminars
- Romanticism in Art and Architecture (co-taught with Barry Bergdoll)
- The Battle over Modernity : Art and Culture in the Wilhelmine Empire, 1871 – 1919
Undergraduate seminars
- Art Humanities : Masterpieces of Western Art (Columbia Core Curriculum)
- Majors Colloquium : Introduction to the Literature and Methods of Art History Iconography of Belief : Art and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Europe Berlin Live : German Art and Culture from Romanticism to Expressionism (with excursion to Berlin)
- Poesie als Leben : Theorie und Praxis der deutschen Romantik (taught in German for the Berlin Consortium)
- Der Kampf um die Moderne : Kunst und Politik im wilhelminischen Kaiserreich, 1871 – 1919 (taught in German for the Berlin Consortium)
- Kunst des Oberrheins (taught in German at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg)
- Abstrakte Malerei (taught in German at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg)
Other activities [retour]
Curatorial and art related work
- Exhibit Coordinator (since 1994) : Organized and presented exhibits in public and private galleries in Germany.
- Consultant Writing expert’s reports on the work of the German painter Wilhelm von Schadow for various German, Austrian, and Swiss auction houses and private galleries (since 1994)
- Intern National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Jan. 1992–Jan. 1993), Dept. of Old Master Drawings, Dept. of Old Master Prints Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover, Gallery of Art (Aug. – Sept. 1990)
- Assistant Curator, Community Gallery of the City of Emmendingen (1990–1991)
Committees and administrative positions
- Founding Board Member of the Internationales Zentrum für Klassikforschung, Weimar (established in 2009)
- Member of Search Committee for Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships Visiting Board Member of the Berlin Center for Metropolitan Studies (2004 – 2005)
- Director of Undergraduate Studies (2003)
- Representative to the School of General Studies (2003)
- Member of the Avery Library Committee (2002 – 2004)
- Member of the Wallach Art Gallery Committee (2002 – 2004)
- Representative of the Research Fellows of the German Historical Institute to the “Wissenschaftliche Beirat” (Scientific Advisory Board) and the Ministery of Education and Sciences (1999 – 2002)
- Member of the Library Committee of the German Historical Institute (1999 –2001)
- Responsible for new acquisitions, organization of the library, services to the public, and other library related activities Chair of Regional Group I of Konrad-Adenauer-Scholarship holders, Berlin, winter semester 1996/97
- Student Member of the Committee for Restructuring the Rules of the Intermediate Exam (Dept. of Art History, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), summer semester 1991
Professional affiliations
- Association of Art Historians
- Association of Historians of 19th-Century Art
- College Art Association
- Historians of German and Central European Art and Architecture
- Fulbright Alumni e.V.
- Verband deutscher Kunsthistoriker
Conferences et lectures [retour]
2010 :
- “Epigonalität als Erfindung,” Conference on “Die Wiederkehr des Künstlers : Themen und Positionen der aktuellen Künstler/innenforschung,” Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria, March 4-6, 2010 (forthcoming)
- “Fraternity versus Family : Two Models of Nineteenth-Century Collectivism,” 98th CAA Annual Conference, Chicago, February 10-13, 2010 (forthcoming)
2009 :
- “Topography and Epiphany : Ferdinand Olivier and the Romantic Revision of Landscape,” Yale University, USA, November 18, 2009 (forthcoming)
- “Heilsgeschichtliche Imaginationen : Antike und Altes Testament,” Conference “Imagination und Evidenz : Transformationen der Antike im ästhetischen Historismus,” Villa Vigoni, Menaggio, Italy, September 11, 2009
- “Allegorie und Landschaft in Ferdinand Oliviers ‘Sieben Gegenden aus Salzburg und Berchtesgaden’,” Conference on “Was ist romantisch an der romantischen Kunst ? Kunsttheorie und Künstlerpraxis,” Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany, August 28, 2009
- “Avantgarde und Antijudaismus in der Kunst der Nazarener,” Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany, May 27, 2009
- “Das Porträt des Künstlers als Arabeske : Wilhelm Schadows Moderner Vasari,” Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, May 6, 2009
- “An Arabesque on Neoclassicism,” Conference on “Between Neoclassicism and Surrealism : Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and the Russian-French Connection, 1900s-1920s,” Columbia University, New York, April 25, 2009
- “L’angoisse de l’influence et son alternative : l’émulation comme accomplissement spirituel chez les artistes romantiques,” Seminar “Relectures du romantisme allemand” (with response by Julie Ramos, Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne) organized by InTRu (Séminaire de la Jeune Equipe “Interactions, transferts, ruptures artistiques et culturels,” Université François-Rabelais de Tours hors les murs), Ecole du Louvre, Paris, France, March 24, 2009
2007 :
- “Raffaels Gemeinde : Nachahmung als religiöse Identitätsfindung,” Conference on “Klassizistisch-romantische Kunst(t)räume : Imaginationen im Europa des 19. Jahrhunderts und ihr Beitrag zur kulturellen Identitätsfindung” (Künstler-Träume : Raffael im 19. Jahrhundert), Villa Vigoni, Menaggio, Italy, December 4, 2007
- “Portrait of the Artist as an Arabesque : Romantic Form and Social Practice in Wilhelm von Schadow’s The Modern Vasari,” Faculty Seminar on Romanticism, Columbia University, New York, September 27, 2007
- “The Arabesque and the Art of Narrative in German Romanticism,” Conference on “Europejskie malarstwo historyczne wieku XIX. : Wzajemne powiązania – Wspólne tematy – Odrębności,” Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, Krakow, Poland, March 22, 2007
- “Friedrich versus Overbeck or What is Romantic about German Romanticism ?” Seminar held at The Getty Center, Los Angeles, March 7, 2007 “Sulamith and Maria : Erotic Mariology and the Cult of Friendship,” Lunchtime Colloquium at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, February 27, 2007
2005 :
- “Abstraction, Anticorporeality, and the Idea of Recuperative Memory : The Construction of Visual Piety in German Romanticism,” Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, New York, October 27, 2005
- “Sulamith and Maria : Biblical Hermeneutics, Pictorial Exegesis and the Rebirth of Typology,” 8th International Conference of the International Association of Word and Image Studies (“Elective Affinities”), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, September 26, 2005
- “The Other as Self : Visual Piety and the Politics of Alterity in German Romanticism,” St. John’s College, Cambridge, Great Britain, May 20, 2005 “Reframing Narrative : Romantic Theories of Writing and the Visual Arts,” 31st AAH Annual Conference, University of Bristol, April 1, 2005
2004 :
- “Verschlungene Texte und arabeske Bilder : Die Kunst des Erzählens in der deutschen Romantik,” Goethe-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany, February 8, 2005 “Materialized Interiority : Romantic Religion and the Strategies of Artistic Communication,” Conference on “Art and the Formation of Religious Communities,” The Gallery at the American Bible Society, New York, March 5, 2004
2003 :
- “The Other as Self : Visual Piety and the Politics of Alterity in German Romanticism,” 6th Meeting of the International Society for Intellectual History (ISIH), Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, December 11, 2003
- “Embodying the Nation : Body Concepts in Early Nineteenth-Century German Art,” 117th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, January 5, 2003
2002 :
- “Ästhetik zwischen Ideal und Wirklichkeit,” Ästhetik-Kongress für Zahnärzte und Zahntechniker, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, November 1, 2002
- “Das kunsthistorische Zitat als Anamnesis : Zur Konstruktion religiöser Seherfahrung in der Kunst der Nazarener,” Conference on “Roma : crocevia delle culture europee 1780-1820”, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Rome, Italy, October 20, 2002
- “Mignon als Allegorie des Poetischen : Goethe-Rezeption und spätromantische Kunsttheorie im Werk Wilhelm von Schadows,” Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany, April 24, 2002
- “Ornamental Meaning : The Arabesque between Metaphysics and Marketplace,” 90th CAA Annual Conference, Philadelphia, February 21, 2002
2001 :
- “Geschichte zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst : Zur Inszenierung des Betrachters in der Historienmalerei des 19. Jahrhunderts,” Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, December 11, 2001
- “Kunst als Hieroglyphe : Die Malerei der Romantik zwischen Geschichte und Transzendenz,” Colloquium “Aneignen, Tradieren, Beerben” (organized by the Forschungsgruppe Kulturgeschichte und Theologie des Bildes im Christentum), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, December 4, 2001
- “Die Rezeption von Goethes Roman Wilhelm Meister in der Kunst der Romantik,” University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, November 20, 2001
- “Fictional Pilgrimage : Anti-Semitism, Ecumenical Utopianism and the Politics of Public Art,” Dahesh Museum, New York, November 15, 2001
- “Art’s Divine Nature : Changing Constructs of Religious Experience in German Romanticism,” Colloquium “The Spirit of an Age : Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin,” National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 9, 2001
- “Why Raphael ? Romantic Representation between History and Hieroglyph,” University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 6, 2001
2000 :
- “Theorizing Hybridity : The Düsseldorf Academy of Art between Idealism and Realism,” AHNCA symposium “High Aspirations and New Realities : The Artist Between Museum and the Marketplace in the Nineteenth Century,” University of Maryland, College Park, October 7, 2000
- “Painting as Tableau Vivant, Theater as Tableau : Intermediality in German Culture, 1800-1850,” International Conference of INCS (“Ways of Seeing”), Université Paris-X, Nanterre, France, June 22-24, 2000
- “Art/History : Competing Narratives of Secularization and Re-Christianization,” 88th CAA Annual Conference, New York, February 25, 2000 “Presenting the Past : The Rise of History and the Politics of Representation in the Nineteenth Century,” 114th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, January 7, 2000
1999 :
- “Mignon als Allegorie des Poetischen : Goetherezeption und spätromantische Kunsttheorie im Werk Wilhelm von Schadows,” Museum für Bildende Künste, Leipzig, Germany, December 2, 1999
- “The Nationalized Body : Conceptions of the Body and the Nationalist Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century Germany,” 8th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., November 19, 1999
- “Embodying the Poetic : The Reception of Goethe in Late Romantic Art,” Conference on “Goethe and the Age of Romanticism,” Princeton University, Princeton, November 13, 1999
- “The Nationalized Body : The Construction of National Identity and the Image of the Other in France and Germany, 1814 to 1848,” 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 6, 1999
- “Painting as Language : A Prolegomenon to a New Reading of Late Romantic Painting in Germany,” 5th International Conference of the International Association of Word and Image Studies (“Visual Cultures”), Scripps College, Claremont, March 15, 1999
1998 :
- “The Reawakening of Religious Feeling in German Art and Music in the Nineteenth Century,” 51st Bach Festival, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, May 11, 1998
- “Constructing a New Society : The Medievalist Utopia of Germany’s Rebirth,” 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 7, 1998
- “Wilhelm von Schadow : Anmerkungen zu seiner Porträtmalerei,” auction house Carola van Ham, Köln, Germany, March 9, 1998
- “Johann Wolfgang von Goethe und die Nazarener,” Goethe-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany, January 13, 1998
1997 :
- “‘Born wahrer Poesie und Schönheit ist und bleibt das Christenthum !’ Zur Kunstauffassung Wilhelm von Schadows,” 21st Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Washington, D.C., September 28, 1997
- “Genre historique, Charakteristisches Lebensbild, and the Invention of the Secular Devotional Image,” Conference on “The Image of History/L‘Image de l‘Histoire,” University of Kent at Canterbury, Great Britain, September 13, 1997
- “Dreaming of the Holy Land : The Romantic Crusade against Unbelief,” 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 9, 1997
- “Historie ohne Handlung : Zur Transzendierung von Zeitlichkeit und Geschichte in der Kunst des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts,” Conference on “Kunst/Geschichte : Zwischen historischer Reflexion und ästhetischer Distanz,” Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz, Austria, April 25, 1997
1996 :
- “Wir rufen zwar fortwährend Rafael ! aber was von Rafael ist in uns ?” VIII. Greifswalder Romantikkonferenz, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, Germany, October 3, 1996
Publications [retour]
- Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism. Ashgate : Burlington, 2009
- Ernst Thomann : Einsichten, Plastiken und Montagen. Ergebnisse. Eine Retrospektive des Gesamtwerks. Exhibition catalogue. Emmendingen : VMM Verlagsbüro, 1990.
- Review of my work on Romanticism, including my dissertation : France Nerlich. “La peinture en Allemagne au xixe siècle. Religion et politique : les Nazaréens et l’école de Düsseldorf.” Perspective : la revue de l’INHA. Actualités de la recherche en histoire de l’art 2 (2006) : 307-336.
Edited volumes
2007 Special issue : An Empire of Vision : German Art and Visual Culture, 1848-1919, Intellectual History Review 17, no. 2 (July 2007)
2007 Reviews : Sabine Voßkamp. “Rezension zu : Grewe, Cordula (Hrsg.) : Die Schau des Fremden. Ausstellungskonzepte zwischen Kunst, Kommerz und Wissenschaft. Stuttgart 2006,” H-Soz-u-Kult [12 April 2007], URL : http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2007-2-023 ;
2007 Thomas Nutz. “Artefakt oder Kunstwerk ? Ethnographische Objekte zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst. (Rezension über : Cordula Grewe, [Hg.]. Die Schau des Fremden : Ausstellungskonzepte zwischen Kunst, Kommerz und Wissenschaft. Stuttgart : Franz Steiner 2006),” IASLonline [10 June 2007], URL : http://www.iaslonline.de/index.php ?vorgang_id=2518 ;
2007 Friedrich von Bose. “Cordula Grewe (Hg.) : Die Schau des Fremden. … ,” H-Museum [26 Nov 2007], URL : http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl ?trx=vx&list=H-Museum&month=0711&week=d&msg=av84GD2icoHU4yw08vuLbA&user=&pw=
2006 Die Schau des Fremden : Ausstellungskonzepte zwischen Kunst, Kommerz und Wissenschaft. Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006
2005 From Manhattan to Mainhattan : Architecture and Style as Transatlantic Dialogue, 1920-1970 (Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement 2). Washington, DC : German Historical Institute, 2005 free download : www.ghi-dc.org/index.php ?option=com_content&view=article&id=200&Itemid=161
Contributions to essay collections and exhibition catalogues
2009 “Raffaels Gemeinde : Nachahmung als religiöse Identitätsfindung,” in : Elena Agazzi, Elisabeth Décultot and Gilbert Heß (eds.), Künstler-Träume : Raffael im 19. Jahrhundert. Walter de Gruyter : Berlin / New York, 2009 (forthcoming)
2009 “Die Geburt der Natur aus dem Geiste Dürers,” in : Reinhard Wegner and Markus Bertsch (eds.), Landschaft am “Scheidepunkt” : Evolutionen einer Gattung in Kunsttheorie, Kunstschaffen und Literatur um 1800, Göttingen : Wallstein Verlag, 2009 (forthcoming) “Christliche Allegorie und jüdische Identität in Eduard Bendemanns ‘Gefangene Juden in Babylon’,” in : Alexander Bastek and Michael Thimann (eds.), “An den Wassern Babylons saßen wir” : Figurationen der Sehnsucht in der Malerei der Romantik. Ferdinand Olivier und Eduard Bendemann Petersberg / Fulda : Michael Imhof Verlag, 2009, 41-56
2009 “The Künstlerroman as Romantic Arabesque : Parody, Collaboration, and the Making of ‘The Modern Vasari’ (1854),” in : Catriona MacLeod, Charlotte Schoell-Glass and Véronique Plesch (eds.). Elective Affinities : Word & Image Interactions 6. Amsterdam / Atlanta : Rodopi, 2009, 77-97
2006 “Between Art, Artifact, and Attraction : The Ethnographic Object and its Appropriation in Western Culture,” in : Cordula Grewe (ed.). Die Schau des Fremden : Ausstellungskonzepte zwischen Kunst, Kommerz und Wissenschaft. Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006, 9-45
2006 “Italia und Germania : Zur Konstruktion religiöser Seherfahrung in der Kunst der Nazarener,” in : Paolo Chiarini und Walter Hinderer (eds). Rom – Europa : Treffpunkt der Kulturen, 1780-1820 (Sammelbandreihe der Stiftung für Romantikforschung, Vol. 36). Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2006, 401-425
2005 “From Manhattan to Mainhattan : Reconsidering the Transatlantic Architectural Dialogue,” co-authored with Dietrich Neumann, in : Cordula Grewe (ed.). From Manhattan to Mainhattan : Architecture and Style as Transatlantic Dialogue, 1920-1970 (Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement 2). Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute, 2005, 1-12
2006 Review : Elina Knorpp. “Rezension von : Max Hollein / Christa Steinle (Hg.) : Religion Macht Kunst : Die Nazarener, Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König 2005,” sehepunkte 6 [15.06.2006], URL : “Mignon als Allegorie des Poetischen : Goetherezeption und Kunsttheorie in der Malerei der Spätromantik,” in : Walter Hinderer (ed.). Goethe und das Zeitalter der Romantik (Sammelbandreihe der Stiftung für Romantikforschung, Vol. 13). Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2002, 307-343
2005 “Objektivierte Subjektivität : Identitätsstiftung und religiöse Kommunikation im nazarenischen Kunstwerk,” in : Christa Steinle und Rainer Metzger (eds.). Die Nazarener : Religion-Macht-Kunst. Frankfurt a. M. : Walther König, 2005, 76-99
2005 Reviews : Gerhart Hoffmeister. “Goethe und das Zeitalter der Romantik (Book),” Monatshefte 95, Issue 3 (Fall 2003) : 500-503 ; Dennis Mahoney. “Goethe und das Zeitalter der Romantik,” The Modern Language Review 100, Issue 2 (1 April 2005) : 554-556 ;
2002 Anton Philipp Knittel : “ ‘Eine Art von Ausgleichung finden’ : Goethe und das Zeitalter der Romantik. (Rezension über : Walter Hinderer, [Hg.]. Goethe und das Zeitalter der Romantik. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann 2002),” IASLonline [25.04.2007], URL : “Historie ohne Handlung : Zur Transzendierung von Zeitlichkeit und Geschichte,” in : Götz Pochat und Brigitte Wagner (eds.). Kunst/Geschichte : Zwischen historischer Reflexion und ästhetischer Distanz (= Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch Graz, 27). Graz : Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 2000, 61-78
Articles (peer-reviewed journals marked with an *)
- “Repenser l’émulation : Entre réenchantement et modernité, le projet nazaréen,” Histoire de l’art 64 (2009) : 27-36
- “Portrait of the Artist as an Arabesque : Romantic Form and Social Practice in Wilhelm von Schadow’s The Modern Vasari,” Intellectual History Review 17, no. 2 (July 2007) : 99-134*
- “Historicism and the Symbolic Imagination in Nazarene Art.” Art Bulletin 89, no. 1 (March 2007) : 82-107*
- “Reenchantment as Artistic Practice : Strategies of Emulation in German Romantic Art and Theory,” New German Critique 94, special issue : Secularization and Disenchantment (Winter 2005) : 36-71*
- “Beyond Hegel’s End of Art : Schadow’s Mignon and the Religious Project of Late Romanticism,” Modern Intellectual History 1, Issue 2 (August 2004) : 185-217*
- “The Invention of the Secular Devotional Picture,” Word & Image 16, Issue 1 (January-March, 2000) : 45-57*
- “The Nationalized Body : Conceptions of the Body and the Nationalist Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century Germany,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 26 (Spring 2000) : 175-184 (also available at www.ghi-dc.org/publications/ghipubs/bu/026/index.html)
- “Die Klugen und Törichten Jungfrauen : Wilhelm von Schadows Parabeln auf konfessionelle Versöhnung und soziale Fürsorge, 1835-1842,” Pantheon, Internationale Jahreszeitschrift für Kunst 57 (1999) : 125-150
- “Wir rufen zwar fortwährend Rafael ! aber was von Rafael ist in uns ?” Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums (1998) : 123-132
- “Schöne, würdige Heiligenbilder schaffen und den Zopfgeschmack in dieser Region total verdrängen : Zu den Heiligendarstellungen Wilhelm von Schadows,” Neusser Jahrbuch für Kunst, Kulturgeschichte und Heimatkunde 1997 (1998) : 11-26
- “Shaping Reality through the Fictive. Images of Women Spinning in the Northern Renaissance,” RACAR (Revue d‘art canadienne/Canadian Art Review XIX, 1–2 : special issue Art as Propaganda/Art et propagande (1992) : 6-19*
Shorter articles, essays and entries
2007 “A Godless World Will Do,” in : James Elkins and David Morgan (eds.), Re-Enchantment, New York : Routledge, 2008, 261-266 “November 30, 1826 : Art between Muse and Marketplace,” in : David E. Wellbery (ed.). A New History of German Literature. Harvard : Harvard University Press, 2004, 531-535 Translation : “30. November 1826 : Kunst zwischen Muse und Markt,” In : Eine Neue Geschichte der deutschen Literatur. Berlin : Berlin University Press, 2007, 670-675.
1999 “Wilhelm von Schadow (1788–1862) : Bildnis einer Unbekannten Dame, um 1822,” Exh. Cat. Kunstsammlungen Veste Coburg Von Friedrich bis Liebermann : 100 Meisterwerke deutscher Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Stadt Dortmund. Heidelberg : Braus, 1999, 143-146
1997-1998 Dictionary articles on “Karl Bennert, Karl Bertling, Gustav Graef, Carl Haeberlin, Friedrich Heitheker, Alexander Heubel, Olaf Isaachsen, Elisabeth Maria Anna Jerichau-Baumann, Wilhelm von Schadow”, Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule, Vol. I–III. München : Bruckmann, 1997–1998.
1998 “Sentiment und Sentimentalität in der Düsseldorfer Malerschule,” Weltkunst, Aktuelle Zeitschrift für Kunst und Antiquitäten (November 1998) : 2298–2300 “Wilhelm von Schadow, Teil 2 : Porträtmalerei,” Weltkunst, Aktuelle Zeitschrift für Kunst und Antiquitäten 68, No. 4 (April 1998) : 746–748
1998 “Wilhelm von Schadow,” Teil 1 : Religiöse Malerei, Weltkunst, Aktuelle Zeitschrift für Kunst und Antiquitäten 68, No. 3 (März 1998) : 558–559 “Fortunata : Bildnis einer schönen Römerin : Ein verschollenes Porträt von Wilhelm von Schadow,” in : Carola van Ham – Intern (Köln Feb. 1998) : 5
1997 “Elisabeth Maria Anna Jerichau-Baumann : ‘Der einzige Mann unter den Düsseldorfer Malern’,” Weltkunst, Aktuelle Zeitschrift für Kunst und Antiquitäten (15. Mai 1997) : 1034–1036 Das Niedersächsische Landesmuseum Hannover, by Hans Georg Gmelin and Cordula Grewe, Hannover : Wiesel Druck (1990)
Book reviews
- “Painting the Bible : Representation and Belief in Mid-Victorian Britain, by Michaela Giebelhausen.” caa.reviews (May 20, 2009), doi : 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.48æ
- “Martina Sitt (Hg.), Carl Friedrich Lessing. Romantiker und Rebell, Bremen 2000,” Virtual Library Museen Deutschland @ www.vl-museen.de/lit-rez/grewe02-1.htm (first posted 2. 2. 2002) “Frank Büttner : Peter Cornelius : Fresken und Freskenprojekte, Wiesbaden : Franz Steiner Verlag, Vol. 1 (1980), Vol 2. (1999),” CAA.reviews @www.caareviews.org/reviews/buttner.html (first posted 2001)
- “Stephen Bann, Paul Delaroche : History Painted, Reaktion Books, London 1997 – Marc J. Gotlieb, The Plight of Emulation : Ernest Meissonier and French Salon Painting, Princeton University Press 1996 – William Hauptman, Charles Gleyre, 1806-1874, Bd. I : Life and Works, Bd. II : Catalogue Raisonné, Swiss Institute For Art Research Zürich/Princeton University Press 1996,” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Hf. 4 (2000) : 579–585
- “Jensen, Jens Christian (Hg.) : Deutsche Romantik im Museum Georg Schaefer, Schweinfurt. Aquarelle und Zeichnungen (= Katalog zur Ausstellung Museum Georg Schaefer, Schweinfurt, ab 23.9.2000), Muenchen : Prestel 2000 – Bushart, Bruno, Eberle, Mathias und Jensen, Jens Christian (Hgg.) : Museum Georg Schaefer, Schweinfurt. Erlaeuterungen zu den ausgestellten Werken (Bestandskatalog), Schweinfurt 2000,” Virtual Library Museen Deutschland @ www.hco.hagen.de/museen/lit-rez/grewe01-1.htm (first posted 2000)
- “Architekturführer Berlin, von M. Wörner, D. Mollenschott und K.-H. Hüter, 4. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage, (Berlin 1994),” das münster, Zeitschrift für Christliche Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Hf. 1/1996, 49. Jg. (1996) : 79–80
Exhibition reviews
- “Heaven on Earth : Preview of Exhibition ‘Caspar David Friedrich : Inventing Romanticism,’ Artforum XLIV, No. 9 (2006) : 133
- “Nineteenth-Century German Art in the Museum Georg Schäfer Schweinfurt,” Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art Newsletter (Spring 2001) : 5-7
- “Georges Rouault. Ausstellung in Lugano,” Weltkunst, Aktuelle Zeitschrift für Kunst und Antiquitäten (1. Juni 1997) : 1173
Conference reviews
- “The Spirit of an Age : Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 29 (Fall 2001) : 80-84
- “Archaeology of the Present : Photographs by Gerhard Faller-Walzer,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 29 (Fall 2001) : 58-63
- “Exhibiting the Other : Museums of Mankind and the Politics of Cultural Representation,” co-authored with Daniel Mattern, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 28 (Spring 2001) : 120-129
- “Reviving a Historical Corpse : Rewriting the Historiography of Nineteenth-Century Religious Art,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 27 (Fall 2000) : 149-154
- “Aesthetics and Politics : From Cologne Cathedral to the Holocaust Memorial,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 26 (Spring 2000) : 147-160
- “Historicizing the Nation : The Middle Ages and the Nineteenth-Century Nationalist Imaginary,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 25 (Fall 1999) : 32-37
- “From Another Place : Difference, Encounter, Acculturation, Identity, Resistance : Kunst und Kultur im Spannungsfeld von Immigration und kultureller Anpassung. 88. Tagung der College Art Association, Los Angeles, 10-13. Februar 1999,” Kunstchronik, Monatszeitschrift für Kunstwissenschaft. Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege 52, Heft 9/10 (Sept./Oct. 1999) : 445-448
Audio tapes and TV appearances
- Auction of 21 Watercolors and Two Sketches attributed to Hitler at Jefferys Auctioneers at Lostwithiel in Cornwall. Interview conducted by Ryan Owens, Inside the Newsroom on ABC News Now. September 26, 2006, at 12 pm
Translations
- Warren Breckman, “Die Rückkehr des Königs : Radikaldemokratische Adaptionen eines hegelianischen Motivs bei Jean-Luc Nancy und Slavoj Zizek,” in : Ulrich Johannes Schneider (ed.), Hegel in Frankreich. Berlin : Akademie-Verlag, 2007, 205-218
- Warren Breckman, “Creatio ex nihilo : Zur postmodernen Wiederbelebung einer theologischen Trope,” Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte 1, No. 2 (Summer 2007) : 13-28
- Warren Breckman, “Konzeption und Geschichte des Journal of the History of Ideas,” Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte 1, No. 1 (Spring 2007) : 106-113
- Warren Breckman, “Politik in symbolischer Tonart : Pierre Leroux, der romantische Sozialismus und die Schelling-Affäre,” in : Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch, Ludwig Siep, Hans-Ulrich Thamer, Norbert Waszek (eds.), Hegelianismus und Saint-Simonismus. Paderborn : Mentis Verlag, 2007, 201-228
- Warren Breckman, “Zwischen postmoderner Melancholie und postmarxistischer Trauerarbeit : Ernesto Laclau und Chantal Mouffe,” Dialektik : Enzyklopädische Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 1 (2005) : 51-78
- Warren Breckman, “Demokratie zwischen Entzauberung und politischer Theologie : Zur Rückkehr der Religion im französischen Postmarxismus,” Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 30/3 (2005) : 293-315
- Warren Breckman, “Die Entthronung des Selbst : Marx, die Junghegelianer und der Streit um den Begriff der Persönlichkeit,” Dialektik : Enzyklopädische Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 1 (2002) : 5-30
Website projects
Kress Foundation Grant (category “Responsive Grant”) sponsoring website on “Iconography of Belief” (working title) The grant in the amount of $ 6000 covers the costs of image acquisition and funds a team of students (working at a variety of aspects from translations of original source material to web design and the processing of images).
Editor
- Member of the Advisory Board of Intellectual History Review (Routledge / Taylor & Francis : launched in 2007). IHR covers intellectual history from 1500 to the present. It is a double-refereed journal, alternating between general issues and thematic special issues.
- Editor of the German-language book series of the German Historical Institute (1999-2002) : Transatlantische Historische Studien, published by the GHI in conjunction with the Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart Vol. 11 : Thomas Reuther. Die Ambivalente Normalisierung : Deutschlanddiskurs und Deutschlandbilder in den USA, 1941-1955 (2001) ; Vol. 12 : Michael Wala. Weimar und Amerika : Botschafter Friedrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron und die deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen von 1927 bis 1933 (2001) ; Vol. 13 : Katja Rampelmann. “Im Licht der Vernunft : Die deutsch-amerikanische Freidenker-Bewegung im Spiegel des Freidenker–Almanachs von 1878 bis 1901 (2003) ; Vol. 14 : Egbert Klautke. Unbegrenzte Möglichkeiten. “Amerikanisierung” in Deutschland und Frankreich (1900-1933) (2003)
- Member of the Board of Editors, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute (Spring 2000 – Spring 2001)