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Modern Art History
Technische Universität Berlin
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SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
Bénédicte Savoy is currently Professor for Art History at Technische Universität Berlin and holds a chaire internationale as professor at the Collège de France in Paris. She is an internationally leading historian specializing in the translocation of cultural assets, the transfer of art and culture in 18th and 19th Century Europe, the history of museums, and German-French relations. She undertook German studies at the École Normale Supérieure in Fontenay, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Paris Université 8. She holds a PhD from Paris Université 8, and was formerly at the Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Etudes et de Recherche sur l’Allemagne and the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin. She has received numerous grants for her research projects from the DFG (German Research Council), the Volkswagen Foundation and the German Ministry of Education and Research. Her research contributions have been recognized through a number of prestigious awards including the Walter-de-Gruyter-Preis of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Richard Hamann-Preis, the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises, the Prix de l’Académie de Berlin, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis (DFG) and the Kythera-Preis Kythera-Kulturstiftung. Savoy is a member of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the German Academy for Language and Literature.
Selected Publications:
1. Savoy, B. Die Provenienz der Kultur. Von der Trauer des Verlusts zum universalen Mensch-heitserbe. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2018. [in print]*
2. Savoy, B. and C. Kott, ed. Mars & Museum. Europäische Museen im Ersten Weltkrieg. Köln: Böhlau, 2016.
3. Savoy, B., Bernau, N. and H. D. Nägelke, eds. Museumsvisionen. Der Wettbewerb zur Erweiterung der Berliner Museumsinsel 1883/84. Kiel: Ludwig, 2015.
4. Savoy, B. Vom Faustkeil zur Handgranate. Filmpropaganda für die Berliner Museen 1934-1939. Köln: Böhlau, 2014.
5. Savoy, B. and A. Meyer, eds. The Museum is open. Towards a transnational history of museums 1750-1940. München: De Gruyter, 2014.
6. Savoy, B. and P. Sissis, eds. Die Berliner Museumsinsel. Impressionen internationaler Be-sucher 1830-1990. Vienna/Köln/Weimar: Böhlau 2013.
7. Savoy, B. Kunstraub. Napoleons Konfiszierungen in Deutschland und die europäischen Folgen. Wien: Böhlau, 2010.
8. Savoy, B. Tempel der Kunst. Die Entstehung des öffentlichen Museums in Deutschland 1701-1815. Mainz: Böhlau, 2006.
9. Savoy, B., trans. Bertina, Mona Lisa in Bangoulap. Die Fabel vom Weltmuseum. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2016.
10. Savoy, B. “Plunder, Restitution, Emotion and the Weight of Archives: A Historical Approach.” In Echoes of Exile. Moscow Archives and the Arts in Paris 1933-1945, edited by I. Rotermund-Reynard, 27-44. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015.
