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The Aby Warburg Foundation and the Warburg-Haus are delighted to announce that Wolfram Pichler, Professor of Art History at the University of Vienna, holds the Warburg Professorship 2022 and is a guest at the Warburg-Haus since April!Until the end of June he will live and work as a guest in Hamburg and in June, will hold the festive Warburg Professorship lecture in the context of this year’s annual focus topic, »Images as Agents of the Political II«.

Wolfram Pichler (*1968) is a.o. Professor of Art History at the University of Vienna. He studied art history and philosophy at the Universities of Munich and Vienna, where he received his doctorate with a study on painters’ make-up in 1999 and gained his venia legendi with art historical contributions to the theory of images in 2015. In 2000 he was a visiting fellow at Harvard, 2003/4 postdoctoral fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, 2012/13 senior fellow at the IKKM in Weimar, 2013 guest professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris as well as Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, 2017 Mercator fellow of the DFG.

His historical and theoretical works stand in the tradition of the ›iconic turn‹ art history took towards the end of the last century, especially in Germany and France. His publications concern primarily European painting of the early modern und modern periods, the theory and history of drawing, and the theory of images.

Lecture
Tuesday, June 14th 2022, 7 pm
»Von Natur aus unberührbar? Magrittes ›images peintes‹ und die Geschichte der gemalten Gegenstände«