Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy

Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Historische Urbanistik (TU Berlin)

Savoy

Since 2007 Bénédicte Savoy has been professor of art history at the Institute of Art History at the Technische Universität Berlin. Within Topoi she is spokesperson of Cross Sectional Group IV Museums. Her major interests lie in reception and transformation of ancient spaces in museum contexts and concepts of presentation with the help of models. Furthermore Bénédicte Savoy works on the transfer of art and culture in 18th and 19th century Europe, the history of museums and collections, and on looted art.
 

General Information

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Research Fields

Research Topics

 

Contact

Email

Phone

+49 30 314-22739

Fax

+49 30 314-23844
 
 

Activities

talk

""Wir zahlen ganz Europa vollständig aus". Antike Raumfiktionen in Moskau 1912: Das Museum der Schönen Künste (Pushkin Museum)"
part of the Conference Colloquium Andrae-Wiegand 'Conceptions of Space in Museums'

 

Career

Awards

Richard-Hamann-Prize for Art History, Philipps University Marburg (2011)
Walter-de-Gruyter-Preis, Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) (2009)
‘Pierre-Grappin’-Prize, Awarded for Ph.D. thesis on “Les spoliations d’oeuvres d’art de la France en Allemagne autour de 1800” (“The French Looting of Art in Germany around 1800”)(2001)

 

Appointments

Professor (W3, equivalent to “full professor”), Department of Art History, Technische Universität, Berlin (since 2009)
Head of the Department of Art History, Technische Universität, Berlin (2007-2009)
Junior professor (without tenure), Department of Art History, Technische Universität, Berlin (2003-2009)
Research assistant at the Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur l’Allemagne (CIERA/EHESS), Paris (2001-2002)
Teaching assistant (moniteur) at Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, and Departments of Romance Philology and Art History, Freie Universität, Berlin and Technische Universität, Berlin (1997-2001)

 
 

Publications

 
In Topoi

2011›Wir zahlen ganz Europa vollständig aus‹. Antike Raumfiktionen in Moskau 1912: Das Museum der Schönen Künste
Savoy, Bénédicte
2011Neue Impulse aus Berlin? Ägyptische Museen vor und nach der Eröffnung des Neuen Museums in Berlin
Savoy, Bénédicte. Wildung, Dietrich
 
further Publications

  (Selection)
2011 Nofretete, Eine deutsch-französische Affäre 1912-1931, (Vienna; in print August 2011).
2010 Kunstraub, Napoleons Konfiszierungen in Deutschland und die europäischen Folgen. With a catalogue of the collection in the Musée Napoléon (CD-ROM) (Vienna 2010). (Translation of :Patrimoine annexé. Les biens culturels saisis par la France en Allemagne autour de 1800, 2 vol., Paris 2003).
  Museumsgeschichte,Kommentierte Quellentexte 1750-1950 (Berlin 2010) (editor with Kristina Kratz-Kessemeier and Andrea Meyer).
  Napoleon und Europa, Traum und Trauma, catalogue of the exhibition (Munich 2010).
  Dictionnaire des historiens de l’art allemands (Paris 2010) (editor with Michel Espagne).
  Franz Kugler, Deutscher Kunsthistoriker und Berliner Dichter (Berlin 2010) (editor with Michel Espagne and Céline Trautmann-Waller).
2009 Helmina von Chézy, Leben und Kunst in Paris seit Napoleon I., Weimar 1805-1807, (Berlin 2009) (editor).
2006 Tempel der Kunst. Die Geburt des öffentlichen Museums in Deutschland. 1701-1815. (Mainz 2006).
2005 Aubin-Louis Millin et l’Allemagne. Magasin encyclopédique, lettres à Karl August Böttiger, (Hildesheim 2005) (editor with Geneviève Espagne).
2002 Rom, Paris, Stendal. Der Winckelmann-Nachlaß in Paris. Zur Geschichte der Handschriften Winckelmanns (Stendal 2002 ) (co-editor with Elisabeth Décultot and Max Kunze).
 
 

Curriculum Vitae

  Education
2000 Ph.D. in Art History, thesis on “Les spoliations d’oeuvres d’art de la France en Allemagne autour de 1800” (“The French Looting of Art in Germany around 1800”), awarded with the ‘Pierre Grappin’-Prize, Paris
1996 State examination Agrégation d’allemand(competitive examination for teaching positions in secondary schools and universities), rank: 1st
1992-1996 DEUG, licence, maîtrise and DEA (equivalent to a Master’s) in German Studies at University of Paris-4 and Paris-8, Dissertation on Anselm Kiefer
1993-1995 Student in the Department of History, Humboldt University in Berlin (supported by Erasmusand a DAAD grant)
  Fellowships
2007 Elected fellow, Die Junge Akademie (German Young Academy of Sciences)
  Memberships
since 2010 Member of the editorial board of Perspective, the periodical of the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), Paris
since 2009 Member of the Classics Research Centre (Zentrum für Klassikforschung) at the Foundation of Weimar Classics, Weimar, Germany
since 2009 Member of the scientific board, Franco-German PhD Programm (Doktorandenkolleg), Universities of Berlin and EHESS, Paris
since 2009 Member of the scientific board, ‘Picture Atlas: Art in the GDR’, collective research project founded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
2008-2010 Member of the scientific board, exhibition project ‘State of the Art since 1560’, Dresden State Art Collections
since 2006 Member of the scientific board, Italienzentrum (Centre for Italian studies), Freie Universität, Berlin
2005-2010 Member of the scientific board, research project Artistic Relations between France and Germany 1789-1870, German Forum for Art History, Paris
   
  A detailed CV can be found at the website of the Technische Universität Berlin.