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Dr. Isabella Augart serves as a Scientific Staff Member and Academic Advisor at the Department of Art History, University of Göttingen since 2019. She temporarily held the Chair of Medieval Art History in 2024. Her academic journey includes postdoctoral research at Universität Hamburg (2014-2018) within the DFG project 'natura-materia-artificio' and associations with research groups including 'Naturbilder / Images of Nature'.
Her educational background spans Kunstgeschichte and Literaturwissenschaft across Oxford, Berlin, and Rome. She earned her PhD summa cum laude from Freie Universität Berlin in 2014 with the dissertation 'Rahmenbilder. Konfigurationen der Verehrung im frühneuzeitlichen Italien', which received the Hans-Janssen-Preis in 2018.
Research focuses on the interplay of nature/landscape, religion, and art with specialization in 14th-18th century European visual culture (particularly Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands). Her habilitation project 'desertum. Landschaftsräume des Eremitentums in der Malerei des Trecento und Quattrocento' investigates landscape concepts in eremitic contexts, analyzing the social functionality of desert topoi and developing landscape-bound Christian iconography.
Current projects include 'Im Überfluss. Nahrungsmittel in der europäischen Druckgraphik' and research on Lodewijk Toeput's drawings. Past collaborative projects cover synagonism in visual arts, transitional material/social spaces, food as artistic material, stone forms, and affective visual cultures in the Early Modern period.
- Hans-Janssen-Preis 2018 (Dissertation)
Her research has received funding from DAAD, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, and Isa Lohmann-Siems Stiftung. She serves on the Doctoral Committee of the Philosophical Faculty and coordinates the 'AG Mittelalter' within the 'Netzwerk Italienforschung'. Active in multiple research networks including 'Topographische Bildmedien', 'Zentrum für Mittelalter- und Frühneuzeitforschung', and international Hanseatic cultural studies.
Exhibition projects include 'Werk | Prozesse. Italienische Zeichnungen des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts' and 'Eremiten: Naturräume der Einsamkeit in der Graphik'. Fellowship experiences include the Kunsthistorische Institut in Florenz MPI, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte München, and Walter Benjamin Kolleg Universität Bern.
