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The Aby Warburg Foundation and the Warburg-Haus are delighted to announce that Claudia Mattos Avolese, an art historian and professor at Tufts University, Boston, and the University of Campinas, Brazil, will be the Foundation’s 2025 Warburg Professor. She will be living and working in Hamburg from the beginning of May to the end of July 2025.

Claudia Mattos Avolese received a PhD in Art History from the Freie Universität Berlin, in 1992. She was a post-doctorate fellow at the University of Campinas from 1994 to 1999 and a fellow at the Courtauld Institute in 2001. In 2003 she was hired as professor for the History of Art at the University of Campinas in Brazil, where she taught until 2021 and where she still collaborates and advises students in the Art History Graduate Program. In 2023 Prof. Mattos Avolese accepted a position at Tufts University in the United States, where she is now based.

Prof. Mattos Avolese was a scholar at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2012). She was the President of the Brazilian National Art History Committee (CBHA) from 2013 to 2016 and co-President of the International Art History Committee (CIHA), from 2022-2024, after organizing the 35th CIHA World Congress in São Paulo, Brazil in 2022. At the moment, she is an invited member of the CIHA Board and will return to the presidency in 2026. Her work has been funded by The Getty Foundation, The Terra Foundation for American Art, the Tisch Foundation, the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), among others. Prof. Mattos Avolese is the author of several books, and articles on Brazilian art from the nineteenth century to the contemporary, as well as on the history of art history, including Motion: Migrations. 35th World Congress CIHA (ed., 2024); Arte não-Europeia: conexões historiográficas a partir do Brasil (2020, co-edited with Patrícia Meneses); New Worlds: Frontiers, Inclusion, Utopias (2017, co-edited with Roberto Conduru) and Expressionismo e Judaísmo. O Período Alemão de Lasar Segall (1906-1923) (2000). In her most recent research, she is looking at indigenous art in Brazil and its relationship to the development of a new critical approach to art history.

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Tuesday, July 1st, 2025, 7 pm

(Photo: Jandro Cisneros/Tufts University)

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Warburg Professorship 2025