Christiane Hertel
Professor of History of Art
Ph.D., Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen
Telephone: 610-526-5344
Email: chertel@brynmawr.edu
Thomas Hall - Room 229
Office hours: (on leave spring semester 2007)
Christiane Hertel teaches courses on the arts of Northern Europe, especially
in Germany and the Netherlands, from the Reformation to the 20th century. Recent
and upcoming seminars include "Vermeer," "The Dance of Death
(16th-20th c.)," "Rubens and Rembrandt," "Eighteenth-century
German Art and Aesthetics," "Dresden 1500-2000," and, with Professor Imke
Meyer, German Department, "The
City as Cultural Focus: Vienna 1900."
Her strong interest in visual and literary traditions has led her to focus
on research projects involving their interplay. With varying degrees of
emphasis, much of her research has dealt with the interpretation of art
in the contexts of different kinds of critical reception, ranging from scholarship
and art criticism to artistic and poetic response to the needs and purposes
of cultural politics. Other projects have addressed questions in the history
of collecting and collections, and topics in art theory and aesthetics.
Current research interests include the relationships between Rococo culture and the Enlightenment in the art, art criticism
and aesthetics of 18th-century Germany; the reverberations of these relationships in German and Austrian Modernism; ornament
and ornament theory; the reconstruction of 18th-century German monuments at various moments in the 20th
century and in the present.
Recent publications include:
• "Vermeer: Reception and
Interpretation" (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1996)
• "Seven
Vermeers: Collection, Reception, Response," in W. Franits, ed., A
Companion to Vermeer (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2001), 140-160.
• "Dis/Continuities
in Dresden's Dances of Death," The Art Bulletin LXXXII 1 (Spring
2000), 83-116.
• "Hairy
Issues: Portraits of Petrus Gonsalus and his family in Archduke
Ferdinand II's 'Kunstkammer' and their contexts," Journal of
the History of Collections 13:1 (2001), 1-22.
• "Grotesques -- Rocaille
-- Laocoön:
'Remembering Nature' in Winckelmann, Erdmannsdorff, Chodowiecki,
and Goethe," 1650-1850:
Ideas,
Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 11 (2005), 76-117.
• "Beyond
In/Autheniticity:
The Case of Dresden's Frauenkirche," in Joan Ockman, ed.,
Architourism: Architecture as a Destination for Tourism (New York and
Munich:
Prestel Verlag, 2005), 42-49.
The topics of directed past and current senior, master's and doctoral research
projects range from the 16th to the 20th centuries and include the study
of Albrecht Dürer, Joachim Patinir, Adam Elsheimer, Vermeer, Rembrandt,
Caspar David Friedrich, J.M.W. Turner, The Nazarenes, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,
Hannah Höch, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
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