Gerd Blum - Biography#

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Gerd Blum is a Professor of Art History at the Kunstakademie Münster and an Honorary Professor at the University of Vienna. Blum studied art history, philosophy, and classical archeology in Munich, Bochum, Berlin, and Pisa (Scuola Normale Superiore). He completed his PhD at the University of Basel in 1999 with a thesis on the painter Hans von Marées (1837 - 1887). This thesis was funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung and published by the Deutscher Kunstverlag in 2005. From 1998 to 2001 he was an assistant professor at the University of Constance. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Heidelberg and Vienna and a visiting fellow at Constance University, Tongji University, Shanghai, and Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München. In 2010 he was awarded the prize of the Aby-Warburg-Stiftung Hamburg and since 2023 he is ordinary member of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste.

His postgraduate dissertation on the fenestra prospectiva and architecturally framed views in early modern Italy (Alberti, Palladio, Agucchi) was published in the series “Studien aus dem Warburg Haus” in 2015. Blum has published a monograph on Giorgio Vasari and numerous articles in edited volumes and scholarly journals (The Art Bulletin, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Münchner Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft). He is currently working on an edited volume Michelangelo’s Moses. Poetics and Politics of Conversion in Counter-Reformation Rome. Jewish Responses and Critical Reception with Marina Caffiero Sapienza Universitá di Roma (forthcoming from Viella editore, Rome), on an enlarged version of his book on Vasari, and on a book on the reception of early Modernist formalism in the Historiography of Art in German-speaking discourses after 1945.