Nils Weber, M.A.
Doctoral Fellow, Department Wolf
Nils Weber is Max Planck PreDoc Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut and member of the research unit AC(H)E: Art Histories, Catastrophes, Heritage, Ecologies (Department Gerhard Wolf). He is PhD candidate and Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Art History at Heidelberg University.
His current research explores 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 Heidelberg University, while also studying at the University of Rome - Tor Vergata. In 2023, he joined the editorial board of the open access journal Kunsttexte - Journal für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, for which he edited the Kunsttexte 2025/02 special issue on »Epidemics and Cultural Rebirth in Early Modern Worlds«.
He held fellowships and visiting positions in Beirut (Orient-Institut), and Venice (Fondazione Cini).
- Early Modern Italian Art (esp. Venice/Italy)
- Image-making in times of crises, epidemics, and ecocatastrophes
- Interrelations between Italian and Mediterranean Visual Cultures
- Methodologies of Art History, Philosophy, Bildwissenschaft