Nils Weber, M.A.
Doctoral Fellow
Nils Weber is Max Planck PreDoc Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut and PhD candidate at the University of Heidelberg. His current research delves into the repercussions of pandemics, examining the lasting social, political, and cultural heritage implications of health crises on early modern visual cultures. A second focus lies on the pictorial tradition of the Venetian Republic, and the aesthetic practices that emerged from the unique topographical conditions of the Lagoon City.
From 2021 to 2023 he was Stipendiat at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut with a long-term scholarship offered by the Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg (Landesgraduiertenförderung).
Nils received his B.A. in Philosophy and M.A. in Art History from the University of Heidelberg, while also studying Philosophy at the University of Rome II - Tor Vergata. He held several fellowships, internships, and academic positions for the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, the European Liberal Arts Network, the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, and as a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg, where he taught seminars about the methodologies of Art History.
Since 2023 he is editor of the open access journal »Kunsttexte - Journal für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte«.
- Early Modern Italian Art (Veronese, Tintoretto, Titian)
- Cultural and artistic changes in times of crisis, epidemics, and ecocatastrophes
- Interrelations between Plague Studies and Eco Art History
- Venice between Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
- Methodologies of Art History, Philosophy, Bildwissenschaft