Dr. Hannah Baader
Senior Research Scholar
Hannah Baader is Permanent Senior Research Scholar at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, and director of the research unit Transregional Art Histories, which includes i.a. research projects and a fellowship program and cooperates with the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Forum Transregional Studies, Berlin. After studying art history, law and philosophy in Berlin and Vienna, she received her doctorate at Freie University Berlin (2002). She worked at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome (2001–2003), the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (2004–2007) and Freie University Berlin (2004–2007). She was a guest of the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (2007) and developed a Max-Planck-Minerva Research Group (2007–2012) and a Max-Planck Partner Group (2010–2016). She was a Research Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles (2014 and 2016) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Heidelberg at the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context (2017). She obtained mayor grants from the Getty Foundation and the Gerda Henkel Foundation together with Avinoam Shalem and Gerhard Wolf. Forthcoming publications include a monograph on the iconology of the sea in early modernity and Art and Ecology, edited with Sugata Ray and Gerhard Wolf (New York: De Gruyter, 2019).
- Early Modern Italian Art
- Iconology of the Sea
- Art and Ecology
- Museum Studies
Transregional Art Histories: Actors, Spaces, Ecologies from the 13th Century to the Present
4A Laboratory: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics
Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices
Connecting Art Histories in the Museum
Iconologies and Iconospheres of the Sea, ca. 1200–1650, III: Liquid Materialities
Ecology and Aesthetics. Environmental Approaches in Art History (e/ae)
In selezione
"Art, Space, Mobility in Early Ages of Globalization": A Project, Multiple Dialogue, and Research Program (with Avinoam Shalem and Gerhard Wolf)
In: Art in Translation 9, Sup1, Abingdon 2017, pp. 7–33. PDF
Livorno, Lapis Lazuli, Geology and the Treasures of the Sea in 1604
In: Espacio, Tiempo y Forma no. 5, Revista de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Serie VII, Madrid 2017, pp. 141–167. PDF
Vows on Water. Ship-Ex-voto as Things, Metaphors and Mediators of Communality
In: Ex-Voto. Votive Giving across Cultures, ed. by Ittai Weinryb, New York 2016, pp. 217–245.
Images at Work: On Efficacy and Historical Interpretation (with Ittai Weinryb)
In: Representations no. 133, ed. by Hannah Baader, Ittai Weinryb and Gerhard Wolf, Oakland 2016, pp. 1–19.
Das Selbst im Anderen. Sprachen der Freundschaft und die Kunst des Porträts
München 2015.
Altre pubblicazioni
Organizzazione di convegni (in selezione)
The City as Archive. Histories of Collecting and Archiving in and the Musealisation of Florence, Eighteenth Century to the Present
Summer School in collaboration with Constanze Caraffa, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, Florence, 18.–25.09.2018.
Working Through Colonial Photography
International Workshop in collaboration with Eva Ehninger and Pathmini Ukwattage, Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices and Humboldt University of Berlin with Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 31.01.–1.02.2018.
The Global Powers of Private Museums: Arts and Publics – States and Markets
International Workshop in collaboration with Georges Khalil, Julia Voss and Dorothee Wimmer, Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices, Forum Kunst und Markt (Technische University Berlin) and Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, 16.–18.11.2017.
Transregional Academy on Latin American Art II: Mobility – Objects, Materials, Concepts, Actors
International Academy in collaboration with Lena Bader, Jens Baumgarten, Thierry Dufrêne, Thomas Kirchner, Peter Krieger, Anne Lafont, Gabriela Siracusano, Diana Wechsler and Gerhard Wolf, Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices and Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris with Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), Buenos Aires, 30.09.–08.10.2017.
Streets, Routes, Methods I: Reflections on Paths, Spaces and Temporalities
International Conference in collaboration with Adam Jasper, Stefan Neuner, Gerald Wildgruber and Gerhard Wolf, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut and eikones NFS Bildkritik (University of Basel), Florence, 05.–06.05.2017.
Terminologies I–III: Languages, Lexica, Aesthetics
International Workshop series in collaboration with Monica Juneja and Gerhard Wolf, Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices and Asia and Europe in a Global Context (cluster of excellence, University of Heidelberg), Berlin, 13.–14.12.2013, Heidelberg, 05.–07.02.2015, Florence, 12.–13-12.2016.
Mediterranean Art Histories, the Balearic Islands, California, and Beyond. Reflections on Art, Space, Mobility 2009–2016
International Workshop in collaboration with Sean Nelson, Elena Paulino Montero, Avinoam Shalem and Gerhard Wolf, Archivo del Reino de Mallorca, Palma, 27.–29.11.2016.
Ecologies, Aesthetics, and Histories of Art
International Conference in collaboration with Sugata Ray and Gerhard Wolf, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, 14.–15.12.2015.
Global Modernisms: Contiguities, Infrastructure and Aesthetic Practices
International Conference in collaboration with Atreyee Gupta and Patrick Flores, Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices and Forum Transregionale Studien with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 05.–07.11.2015.
Insegnamento / seminari
Art and the Aesthetics of the Sea, ca. 1250–2018
Seminar, Master Global Art Histories, University of Zurich, 03–09/2018.
Iconospheres of Water, Seas and Oceans. Transregional, Mediterranean, and Global Perspectives
Seminar, cluster of excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context, University of Heidelberg, 03–09/2017.
The Materiality of Art
Seminar, cluster of excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context, University of Heidelberg, 03–09/2017.
Guest Professor
University of Heidelberg, 2017.
Vows on Water: Maritime Iconospheres and the Votive Offering of Ships
Seminar, UC Berkeley, CA, 25.–26.02.2016.
Organizzazione delle mostre
Bildergeschichten vom Meer. Stories of the Sea in Images
Exhibition by the Kunsthistorischen Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut aboard the MS Wissenschaft, 03.05.2016–08.10.2017.