Iris Wenderholm
Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 110 (Main Building)
Tel.: +49 40 42838 3273
E-Mail: iris.wenderholm"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Research project
Proceeding from the topos—nearly ubiquitous in the Early Modern period—of a natura artifex and of a competing artifex divinus, my current project “natura – materia – artificio” asks what significance imitation, fiction, and the banning of stone in the medium of painting acquired in the reflection on natural materials in art and art theory from the 15th through 18th centuries. The time frame will allow a variety of different ideas about the access to natural materials to be analyzed. The project deals both with texts and with the discourse of the objects themselves. We are preparing a critical-historical sourcebook on material aesthetics in the Italian Renaissance (with an emphasis on painterly material imitation) with the aim of reconstructing the textual discourse on materials. Yet we will also consider the role of artistic experience as an explanatory model for the formative processes of nature in stones; besides artistic praxis and art theoretical treatises, we also rely on sources from natural philosophy.
Vita
Studium in art history, French philology and political economics at the University of Hamburg and Neuchâtel (Switzerland) as well as the Free University in Berlin. 2002–2004 Assistant of the project at the Cultural Foundation of the Federal States in Berlin. PhD 2004 at the Free University in Berlin. 2004–2006 Museum Assistant at the State Museums of Berlin, 2007/2008 Research Fellow at the special research division 435 “Wissenskulturen und gesellschaftlicher Wandel [Cultures of knowledge and social change]” at the Goethe University in Frankfurt a. M. 2008/2009 Research Fellow at “Signa et res” in the research group “Topik und Tradition [Topos and tradition]” (FU Berlin). 2009 Assistant for Prof. Dr. Magdalena Bushart at TU Berlin. Since October 2009 Junior Professor at the Art Historical Seminar. February 2014 invited for the temporary W2-Professorship “Europäische Kunstgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit [European Art History of the Early Modern Period]”. Curatorial member of the Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts. Since 22. March 2013 Second Chair of the Society of German Art Historians.
Relevant publications
“The Gaze, Touch, Motion: Aspects of Hapticity in Italian Early Modern Art”, in: Das haptische Bild. Körperhafte Bilderfahrung in der Neuzeit [The haptic image: the corporeal experience of images in the Early Modern period ], eds. Markus Rath, Jörg Trempler und Iris Wenderholm, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2013 (Actus et Imago. Berliner Schriften zur Bildaktforschung)
“Himmel und Goldgrund. Konkurrierende Systeme in der Malerei um 1500 [Sky and gold ground: competing systems in painting around 1500]”, in: Paragone als Mitstreit, ed. Yannis Hadjinicolaou, Joris van Gastel und Markus Rath, Berlin 2013 (Actus et Imago. Berliner Schriften zur Bildaktforschung)
“Aura, Licht und schöner Schein. Wertungen und Umwertungen des Goldgrunds [Aura, light, and beautiful sheen: evaluations and re-evaluations of gold ground]”, Exhibition catalogue Geschichten auf Gold. Bilderzählungen der frühen italienischen Malerei (Berlin, Gemäldegalerie 4.11.2005–27.02.2006), Cologne/Berlin 2005