Gerd Blum#
Photograph: Karl Pani, University of Vienna, Institute for Art History.
| Membership Number: | 6838 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MUSICOLOGY & ART HISTORY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.kunstakademie-muenster.de/personen/personen-a-z/b/blum-gerd |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 03/2017 to present Honorary professor for Art History, Universität Wien, Institut für Kunstgeschichte
- since 2011 to present Professor for Art History (C4 = Chair), Kunstakademie Münster / University of Fine Arts Münster
- 2014 Visiting professor (Gastprofessor), University of Vienna (Summer Semester 2014; full time)
- 2007 - 2008 Visiting professor (Gastprofessor), University of Heidelberg (full time for two semesters)
- 1998 - 2001 Assistant Professor for Art History/Kunstwissenschaft (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter auf Zeit), University of Konstanz
- 1997 Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in Vertretung) für Kunst- und Architekturgeschichte, University of Wuppertal (Summer Semester)
Fields of Scholarship
- Early modern historiography of art
- Early modern theory of architecture
- Reception history of the Tabernacle Narrative of Schemot
- Views and Site-Specificity in Early Modern Architecture
- Non-figurative Modernist Art and its reception since 1980
- Beginnings of Modernist Painting (Marées; Manet)
- Exodus in Early Modern Art and texts on Art (Ark of the Covenant; Bezalel; Moses)
- How form becomes formula and stereotype, from 1500 to present
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Ordinary Member of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2010 - 2011 Visiting Scholar („Fellow“) at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg of the "Exzellenzcluster" „Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration“ at the Universität Konstanz (Oktober 2010– September 2011; funded by the DFG)
- 2010 Wissenschaftspreis der Aby-Warburg-Stiftung Hamburg = Prize of the Aby-Warburg-Foundation Hamburg
- 1995 - 1997 Member of the Graduiertenkolleg „Die Renaissance in Italien und ihre europäische Rezeption. Kunst – Geschichte – Literatur“ (Universität Bonn)
- 1995 - 1997 PhD stipend by Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Düsseldorf
