Constanze Fritzsch

Dr. Constanze Fritzsch is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Art History in Florence. She holds a doctorate from the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, with prior degrees from the Universities of Paris Nanterre and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research focuses on East German and Eastern European art history, Cold War cultural contexts, and the intersection of art and political discourse. She has held fellowships at the Getty Research Institute and conducted research in Prague and Warsaw.

Her academic roles include research assistantships at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and teaching positions at HfBK Dresden and the Universities of Leipzig and Dresden. She has been affiliated with institutions such as the Dresden State Art Collections and the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art in Paris. Her current projects explore Bataille's 'Informe' in GDR samizdat productions and the global dimensions of Cold War art.

Key awards include the Fulbright Fellowship and a Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the German SED Dictatorship scholarship. Her work bridges historical research with contemporary debates on cultural heritage, transcultural methodologies, and digital humanities.