Nils Weber, M.A.
Doctoral Fellow
Nils Weber is Max Planck PreDoc Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut and inaugural 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 Philosophy at the University of Rome II - Tor Vergata. Since 2023 he is editor of the open access journal Kunsttexte - Journal für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, for which he is currently preparing a special issue on »Epidemics and Cultural Rebirth in Early Modern Worlds«.
- 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