Professor Dr. Johannes Grave - Vice President of the DFG

Portrait of the member of the Executive Committee - Prof. Dr. Johannes Grave

Prof. Dr. Johannes Grave

© DFG / David Ausserhofer

Academic career

JahrBeschreibung
since 2019Professorship (W2, since 2021 W3) in Modern Art History at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
2015Offer of appointment as professor (W3) in Art History at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (rejected)
2012Post-doctoral lecturing qualification at the Faculty of Philosophy and History of the University of Basel
2012 - 2019Professor (W2) of Historical Image Science/Art History at the Bielefeld University
2009 - 2012Deputy Director of the German Center for Art History/ Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, Paris
2009Assistant at the Art History Seminar of the University of Basel and staff member of the NCCR Iconic Criticism; work (on a contract basis) for Klassik Stiftung Weimar
2005 - 2009Research assistant with the NCCR Iconic Criticism at the University of Basel; summer semester 2007: Junior Visiting Professor at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
2005Doctorate at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
2001 - 2005Research assistant with CRC 482: Phenomenon Weimar-Jena. Culture around 1800 at the University of Jena
2001Four-month study visit to Rome
1996 - 2000Studied art history, medieval Latin philology, medieval history in Freiburg i. Br.; degree: Master of Arts

Academic positions

JahrBeschreibung
since 2022Membre titulaire des Comité international d’histoire de l’art
since 2022Member of the coordination team of the profile Liberty at FSU Jena
since 2021Member of the Réseau International pour la Formation à la Recherche en Histoire de l’Art
2020 - 2023Member of the jury for Johannes Zilkens Dissertation Prize of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
2018 - 2023Member of the Senate and Grants Committee for DFG Collaborative Research Centres
since 2018Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Klassik Stiftung Weimar, since 2021: chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board and Member of the Foundation Board of Klassik Stiftung Weimar
2018 - 2019Member of the Supervisory Board of Kunsthalle Bielefeld
2017 - 2022Member of the Board of the Verband Deutscher Kunsthistoriker (representing the professional group of universities and research institutes)
2017 - 2022Member of the Board of CRC 1288 “Practices of Comparison” at the Bielefeld University (2017-2019: also deputy spokesperson of the CRC)
2015 - 2019Co-editor of Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte
since 2013Co-editor of Regards croisés. Revue franco-allemande d’histoire de l’art et d’esthétique
since 2009Founding member of the Weimar Research Centre for European Classicism (2009-2016: member of the Executive Board)

Member of advisory boards of journals, book series, publishing companies: Bielefeld University Press (BiUP) (since 2019); journal 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur (since 2020); book series Neue Romantikforschung (since 2021).

Awards and fellowships

JahrBeschreibung
2020Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize awarded by the DFG
2017Fellowship of the Centre for Advanced Studies BildEvidenz. History and Aesthetics, Freie Universität Berlin
2015 - 2016Part-time fellowship in the Research Group The Ethics of Copying at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld
2014 - 2015Senior fellowship at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald
2013Awarded the Hans Janssen Prize for European Art History by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
1996 - 2001Fellowship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

Third-party-funded projects

JahrBeschreibung
2021 - 2024Project Bild-Vergleiche. Praktiken der Unvergleichbarkeit und die Theorie des Erhabenen in CRC 1288
2019 - 2024Participation in the DFG Research Training Group 2041 The Romantic Model. Variation – Scope – Relevance
2017 - 2021DFG project Time and Rhythm in Pictures. An aesthetic concept and its implications from the point of view of reception aesthetics in SPP 1688, together with Reinhard Wegner
2017 - 2020Project Comparative Viewing of Pictures: Practices of Incomparability and the Theory of the Sublime in CRC 1288, together with Britta Hochkirchen
2017 - 2020Project Making of: Humanities in CRC 1288, together with Jürgen Büschenfeld
2015 - 2018Project Parerga und Paratexte. Wie Dinge zur Sprache kommen. Praktiken und Präsentationsformen in Goethes Sammlungen (BMBF funding), together with Christiane Holm, Cornelia Ortlieb and Wolfgang Holler
2014 - 2017DFG project Picture – perception – time. Reception aesthetics and its temporality, as part of the DFG Priority Programme Proper Times of the Aesthetic in SPP 1688, together with Reinhard Wegner
2009 - 2013Project Cultural Transfers in Weimar Classicism (BMBF funding), together with Andreas Beyer and Thorsten Valk

Selected publications

  • Bild und Zeit. Eine Theorie des Bildbetrachtens, Munich: C. H. Beck, 2022.
  • Bildpräsenz. Über das schwierige Verhältnis von Bild und Gegenwart bei Goethe, in: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 94 (2020), pp. 219-236.
  • Annunciation and Assumption: Notes on a Particular Constellation in the Carafa Chapel, in: Filippino Lippi. Beauty, Invention and Intelligence, ed. by Paula Nuttall, Geoffrey Nuttall and Michael W. Kwakkelstein, Leiden: Brill, 2020, p. 209–227.
  • Giovanni Bellini. Venedig und die Kunst des Betrachtens, Munich: Prestel, 2018 (English trans.: Giovanni Bellini. The Art of Contemplation, London/New York: Prestel, 2018).
  • Architekturen des Sehens. Bauten in Bildern des Quattrocento, Paderborn: Fink, 2015.
  • Caspar David Friedrich, Munich 2012, 2nd updated ed. Munich: Prestel, 2022 (English trans.: Caspar David Friedrich, London/New York: Prestel, 2012; 2nd ed. 2017; 3rd revised ed. 2023).
  • Caspar David Friedrich. Glaubensbild und Bildkritik, Zurich/Berlin: diaphanes 2011 (French trans.: À l’œuvre. La théologie de l’image de Caspar David Friedrich, Paris: Éditions de la MSH, 2011).
  • Der “ideale Kunstkörper”. Johann Wolfgang Goethe als Sammler von Druckgraphiken und Zeichnungen, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006.
  • Landschaften der Meditation. Giovanni Bellinis Assoziationsräume, Freiburg i. Br.: Rombach, 2004.
  • Caspar David Friedrich und die Theorie des Erhabenen. Friedrichs “Eismeer” als Antwort auf einen zentralen Begriff der zeitgenössischen Ästhetik, Weimar: VDG, 2001.