PhD students 3rd cohort

until 2018 Studies in Art History at Freie Universität Berlin (Master of Arts) and Technische Universität Dresden (Bachelor of Arts)

2018–2021 Director of curatorial administration at Kunstverein Dresden

2021–2024 Research associate and PhD fellow at the research training group “Modell Romantik” (The Romantic Model) at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Paintings of Lovers. Representation of Emotions and Semantics of Love in Romantic Art (working title)

The dissertation examines the characteristics of depictions of love in German Romanticism. Specifically, it analyzes the pictorial types, motifs and structures by means of which love is visualized in the first half of the 19th century. The aim is to interpret Romantic depictions of love against the background of their historical premises. Therefor, it is necessary to incorporate historical and sociological research on contemporary concepts of emotion, models of love, and gender discourses into the art-historical case studies. The corpus of analysis includes works by Caspar David Friedrich, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Adrian Ludwig Richter, Louise Seidler and Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld, among others.