Draft:Valeska von Rosen

Valeska von Rosen (born March 25, 1968 in Berlin as Valeska Wisniewski) is a German art historian. She holds the Chair of Modern and Early Modern Art History at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.

Career

Valeska von Rosen was born in Berlin in 1968. Her father was the architect Edgar Wisniewski, a partner of Hans Scharoun. She graduated from the humanistic branch of the Erich-Hoepner-Oberschule (“high school”) in Berlin-Charlottenburg and studied art history combined with classical archaeology and Egyptology at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. In 1994 she graduated at the Free University of Berlin, where she obtained her doctoral title in 1998 from Rudolf Preimesberger with a thesis on Titian' s conceptions of mimesis. The thesis, written as a scholarship holder of the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome (Max Planck Institute), was awarded with the Hans Janssen Prize for European Art History of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2000. Subsequently, Valeska von Rosen was a fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG), again of the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome and the Gerda Henkel Foundation. In 2006, she did her habilitation at the Free University of Berlin and was appointed to the Chair of General Art History at the Ruhr University Bochum (2006-2019). In 2006/07 she was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Berlin Institute for Advanced Study) and in 2015 a Fellow of the Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Cologne. In 2011, she declined an appointment to the Chair of Art History at the University of Münster. Valeska von Rosen has been a member of the Academia Europaea, London, since 2012. From 2014 to 2017, she led the DFG project "Art Historiography and Artist's Biography in the Seventeenth Century. Giovanni Pietro Bellori's Vite in their Context" ("Kunsthistoriographie und Künstlerbiographik im 17. Jahrhundert. Giovanni Pietro Bellori's Vitenwerk in seinen Kontexten"). From 2015 to 2022, she was a member of the DFG research group 2305 "Discursivisations of the New. Tradition and Innovation in Medieval and Early Modern Texts and Images" ("Diskursivierungen von Neuem. Tradition und Novation in Texten des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit"), and from 2016 to 2020 she was a member of the DFG Review Board 103 Art, Music, Theater and Media Studies. From 2018 to 2022, she led the DFG project "The 'Galleria degli autoritratti' of the Uffizi Gallery. Patterns of production, perception and display of an early modern collection of artists self-portraits" ("Die 'Galleria degli autoritratti' der Uffizien. Zu den Produktionsbedingungen, Rezeptionsweisen und Ordnungsmodellen von Künstlerselbstbildnissen in einer neuzeitlichen Sammlung"), in cooperation with the Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence and the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich. In 2019, she accepted an appointment to the Chair of Modern to Early Modern Art History at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. From 2021 to 2023, she was granted an “Opus magnum” scholarship by the Volkswagen Foundation. In 2023, she was honored with the Martin Warnke Medal of the Aby Warburg Foundation in Hamburg. Valeska von Rosen is married to the Cologne gallerist Philipp von Rosen.

Selected publications

Monographs

• Verhandlungen in Utrecht. Ter Brugghen und die religiöse Bildsprache in den Niederlanden, Göttingen 2015.
• Caravaggio und die Grenzen des Darstellbaren. Ambiguität, Ironie und Performativität in der Malerei um 1600, Berlin 2009 (3rd edition 2021).
• Mimesis und Selbstbezüglichkeit in Werken Tizians. Studien zum venezianischen Malereidiskurs, Berlin/Emsdetten 2001.

As Editor

• with David Nelting: Gattungsmischungen - Hybridisierungen - Amalgamierungen. Perspektiven auf das Verhältnis von Traditionen und Novationen in Bild, Text und Musik des Barock (gemeinsam mit David Nelting), Merzhausen 2022.
• with Klaus W. Hempfer: Multiple Epochisierungen - Literatur und Bildende Kunst 1500 - 1800, Stuttgart 2021.
• Giovan Pietro Bellori: Vita di Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Leben des Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Translated, edited, commented a with an essay by Valeska von Rosen, Vol. 5 of Giovan Pietro Bellori. Le vite de’ pittori, scultori ed architetti moderni. Die Leben der modernen Maler, Bildhauer und Architekten. Zweisprachige, kommentierte Ausgabe inklusive der unpublizierten Viten Guido Renis, Andrea Sacchis und Carlo Marattas, ed by Elisabeth Oy-Marra and Tristan Weddigen with Anja Brug, Göttingen 2018.
• with David Nelting and Jörn Steigerwald: Poiesis. Praktiken der Kreativität in den Künsten der Frühen Neuzeit, Zürich/Berlin 2013.
• with Jörn Steigerwald: Amor sacro e profano: Modellierungen der Liebe in Literatur und Musik der italienischen Renaissance, Wiesbaden 2013.
• Erosionen der Rhetorik? Strategien der Ambiguität in den Künsten der Frühen Neuzeit, Wiesbaden 2012.
• with Hans-Georg von Arburg, Philipp Brunner, Ursula von Keitz et al.: Mehr als Schein: Ästhetik der Oberfläche in Film, Kunst, Literatur und Theater, Zürich 2008.
• with Sybille Ebert-Schifferer, Julian Kliemann, Lothar Sickel: Caravaggio e il suo ambiente. Ricerche e interpretazioni, Cinisello Balsamo/Milano 2007.
• with Ulrich Pfisterer: Der Künstler als Kunstwerk. Selbstbildnisse vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, Stuttgart 2005.
• with Klaus Krüger and Rudolf Preimesberger: Der stumme Diskurs der Bilder. Reflexionsformen des Ästhetischen in der italienischen Kunst der Frühen Neuzeit, Berlin 2003.

External links

• Homepage of Valeska von Rosen at the Institute of Art History at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf with a complete list of publications
• Publications by Valeska von Rosen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Valeska von Rosen on Academia.edu
• List of current and completed DFG projects by Valeska von Rosen