ArtTransForm (Completed)

DFG/ANR project (2010-2015)

ArtTransForm investigates the forms and consequences of the mobility of young painters between France and Germany in the years 1793 to 1870, encouraging us to revise traditional notions of separate national histories of art.

Supervision: France Nerlich (Tours) / Bénédicte Savoy (Berlin)

Assistants:
Lisa Hackmann (Berlin) / Nina Struckmeyer (Berlin) / Dr. des. Gitta Ho (Paris)

Supported by:
Jennifer Fischer-Falckenberg (Berlin)

Partners:
Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (Paris) / Prof. Dr. Alain Bonnet (Grenoble)

Manuals often describe the 19^th century as the century of nationalism, and in fact this was the time when the idea of national schools was becoming established in art history. These two constructs are, however, largely at odds with historical reality, since they completely disregard the transnational dynamism of art as well as the sometimes difficult to assess transnational mobility of artists, particularly while they are training. After 1800, young art students thronged from German-speaking regions to Jacques-Louis David’s studio in Paris, and forty years later even more of them could be found in the studios of Paul Delaroche and Thomas Couture. The aim of the ArtTransForm project is to provide a comprehensive overview of this Franco-German mobility for the very first time. The bilateral team created a specially developed database of German-speaking artists who trained at the École des beaux-arts, at private studios and independently of institutions in Paris between 1793 and 1870. A directory of artists is also planned in two volumes. The work is accompanied by workshops and conferences.

ArtTransForm website

Pariser Lehrjahre (Vol. 2)

Pariser Lehrjahre. Ein Lexikon zur Ausbildung deutscher Maler in der französischen Hauptstadt, Band 2: 1844-1870

Editors: France Nerlich, Bénédicte Savoy

De Gruyter

2015, 368 pages
41 figures

Pariser Lehrjahre (Vol. 1)

Pariser Lehrjahre.
Ein Lexikon zur Ausbildung deutscher Maler in der französischen Hauptstadt
Band 1: 1793 - 1843

Editors: Bénédicte Savoy und France Nerlich

De Gruyter

2013, ca. 410 pages
34 plates
25 x 18 cm

Apprendre à peindre

Apprendre à peindre.
Les ateliers privés à Paris 1780-1863

by France Nerlich, Alain Bonnet

Université Francois Rabelais

2013, Ca. 400 pages
21,0 × 28,0 cm

Conference: Transnationale Künstlerausbildung - International Conference (Universität François-Rabelais Tours, Technische Universität Berlin, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte)

Place: Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris, May 28 - 29, 2014

For all other events, see the project's Archive

Dr. Arnaud Bertinet
Frauke Josenhans
Eva Knels
Sylva van der Heyden