Johannes Grave - Biography#

Since 2019, Johannes Grave has been Professor of Early Modern Art History at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. After his studies at the University of Freiburg, he received his PhD from the University of Jena for his dissertation on Johann Wolfgang Goethe as collector of prints and drawings. From 2005 to 2009 he was research fellow at the Centre “Iconic Criticism” (eikones) at the University of Basel. He then served as deputy director of the Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art in Paris from 2009 to 2012 and as a professor of art history and historical images studies at Bielefeld University from 2012 to 2019.

From 2015 to 2019, Johannes Grave was one of the editors of the “Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte”; since 2013, he is one of the founding members of the journal “Regards croisés. Revue franco-allemande d’histoire de l’art, d’esthétique et de littérature comparée”. From 2017 to 2020, he was member of the board of directors of the Collaborative Research Centre “Practices of Comparing. Ordering and Changing the World” (CRC 1288). As a representative of the universities and research institutes, he was an elected member of the board of the Association of German Art Historians from 2017 to 2022. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar as well as the Grants Committee for Collaborative Research Centres of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

In 2012 he received the Hans Janssen Prize from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 2020 the German Research Foundation (DFG) awarded him the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the most important research funding prize in Germany.

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