Since September 2022, PD Dr. Cornelia Logemann has held the professorship for 15th-17th century art history at the University of Graz. She completed her dissertation in 2005 at the University of Hamburg with a thesis on the conception of space in 14th century French book illumination. After working in Göttingen and Paris, she headed a junior research group at the University of Heidelberg from 2001 to 2006 on the subject of "Principle of Personification. Visual intelligence and epistemic tradition 1300 to 1800. She also habilitated on this topic in 2018. Her habilitation thesis will be published this winter by Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP).
After substitute and visiting professorships at the universities of Bielefeld, Munich, Heidelberg and Graz, Cornelia Logemann will be teaching early modern and medieval topics at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz from the winter semester onwards. Her research focuses, among other things, on personifications and allegories in the pre-modern period, but also on the relationship between text and image, particularly in book illumination. She also focuses on the media characteristics of tapestries from the 15th and 16th centuries. The localization of European art production in a global reference system plays a role in research and teaching, as does the reflection of epochal concepts. In a research project initiated together with colleagues on Zeitfugen. Medieval artefacts in their temporal constellations, initiated together with colleagues, is currently looking at the question of how a historical consciousness developed long before the beginning of the early modern period and how artefacts from past eras were integrated or contextualized in new contexts.