Elisabeth Ansel
@elisabethansel
Art Historian at @uni-jena.de | Art & Politics, Irish & British Art, Transcultural Romanticism, Art & Blindness, Postcolonial & Gender Studies, Epistemic Images | Berlin, Jena
When in Bologna: Don't miss to visit the "Pietà dei mendicanti" by Guido Reni in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. The Bolognese artist depicted the towered profile of his hometown in the foreground of the monumental three-level altarpiece. pinacotecabologna.cultura.gov.it
Happy to share that my article, "Crossing Borders: The Geological & Mythological Imagination of Staffa in British & European Romanticism", is out now in @litterariaprag.bsky.social. Thanks to the editors, Pauline, Felix, & Camille, for this great project. litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2026-71-5/
Freue mich auf meinen Vortrag zu "Gender, Diversity und Kunstgeschichte: Aktuelle Perspektiven", der morgen im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung GenderLectures "Ver- und Entgeschlechtlichungen von Körperbildern" an der TU Dresden stattfindet. Mehr hier: tu-dresden.de/gsw/forschun...
It was a truly wonderful award ceremony @goetheuni.bsky.social. I am deeply grateful to the jury for awarding me the Klaus Heyne Award for Research in German Romanticism, and thank you for such a lovely evening celebrating Romanticism. romantikforschung.uni-frankfurt.de/klaus-heyne-...
Yesterday, Stephanie O'Rourke @uniofstandrews.bsky.social gave a talk on "Romantic Extraction & the Colonial Forest" @uni-jena.de. It was a fruitful exchange with the research group "European Romanticism" on European contexts & multinational approaches to extraction in painting.
“He entered Davy Byrne’s. Moral pub.” Leopold Bloom’s pub, famously featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses", depicted here by Irish painter Harry Kernoff in 1941. Happy #Bloomsday!
Am 9.4. wurde die Ausstellung zu Lee Miller in Weimar eröffnet. Ihre Fotos, die 1945 in Weimar & Buchenwald entstanden, sind in der Galerie M Books & in der Gedenkstätte Buchenwald zu sehen. Die Bilder zeigen eindrücklich die Janusköpfigkeit der deutschen Identität. www.buchenwald.de/besuch/veran...
Looking forward to the launch of our book "Picturing the Romantic" in Paris on March 31. The editors Elisabeth Ansel, Johannes Grave, @christinebates.bsky.social, & @mira-claire.bsky.social will be discussing the book together with the team from Romanticism across Borders. Please feel free to join.
Delighted about the positive review of my book on Jack B. Yeats in the context of Irish and Global modernism in the March 2026 issue of The Burlington Magazine.
What a great workshop on Archives & Romanticism! Thanks to our generous hosts @khiflorenz.bsky.social, especially Hannah Baader, Costanza Caraffa & Mandy Richter, to our colleagues @artatyork.bsky.social, and to all the scholars. A special pleasure to work with @christinebates.bsky.social again.
Truly grateful for a productive and inspiring workshop on Archives & Romanticism with @artatyork.bsky.social @khiflorenz.bsky.social @christinebates.bsky.social.
Fragmentary versions of David. The original at the Galleria dell'Accademia and its photographic reception that shaped the art historical canon. The photos are part of exhibition "The City as Achive" @khiflorenz.bsky.social.
Happy to share that my article on “The Aesthetics of Blindness and the Sublime in the works of J. M. W. Turner, Thomas Girtin, and John Sell Cotman” is now published in Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft. #Blindness #Sublime #Turner
Hiking in Switzerland. What a great way to spend New Years' Eve.
Seit 5.12. ist die sehenswerte Ausstellung "Kunst um 1800" in der Hamburger Kunsthalle zu sehen. Sie widmet sich der gleichnamigen Ausstellungsreihe, die v. 1974-81 zahlreiche Besuchende nach Hamburg lockte. Historische & zeitgenössische Objekte machen die Widersprüche der Zeit um 1800 anschaulich.
Mit der Installation "The Universe in a Pearl" von Rebecca Horn eröffnen sich den Besuchenden der Hospitalkirche St. Georg unendliche Raum- und Seherfahrungen. Sie ist Teil der Kulturhauptstadt Chemnitz 2025. #PurplePath #CtheUnseen
I greatly enjoyed my artist talk with Robert Schlotter on his exhibition "Beyond Cold War" at the Dresden Fotoforum. Thank you for the insights into you art & your photographic practise, & for sharing them with the audience. fotoforumdresden.de #ColdWar #GrünesBand #Zonenrandgebiet #EuropeanBorders
Freue mich auf das Gespräch mit @robertschlotter.bsky.social zu seinen fotografischen Arbeiten, die Konfrontationslinien des Kalten Krieges in Europa zeigen. Anlässlich seiner Ausstellung "Beyond Cold War" im Fotoforum in Dresden. 22.11., 16 Uhr. fotoforumdresden.de
I am delighted that my essay on Ossianic images, theories of the Earth, & modern ideas on air pollution—as exemplified by Turner’s & Carus’s depictions of Staffa—has been published in "Picturing the Romantic" @manchesterup.bsky.social. #HybridRomanticism #VisualTranslations #EcocritcalArtHistory
Yesterday, Nicholas Halmi @ox.ac.uk spoke on "Bordering Romanticism" @uni-jena.de. It was a fruitful exchange between the research group "European Romanticism or Romanticisms in Europe?", which focuses on the visual arts, & Halmi’s literary perspectives on the unity & heterogeneity of Romanticism.
Goodbye, New Haven. I greatly enjoyed my stay at Yale University and the exchange with colleagues.
Happy to share that our Jena research group on Romanticism has published "Picturing the Romantic. New Perspectives on European Romanticism(s) in the Visual Arts", out now with @manchesterup.bsky.social. Ed. by Ansel, Grave, Neubauer & Zadrozny. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179425/
Finally getting to read/see Alexander Cozens' 1786 "A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape", along with all the accompanying daring plates that demonstrate the imaginative technique of blotting, at the Beinecke Library.
What a pleasure to study William Blake's unique illustrations for Thomas Gray's poem "The Bard" at the YCBA. Blake inserted the printed text into a cutout in the centre of a larger sheet of watercolor paper, an absolutely novel way of approaching the relationship between text and image.
What a joy to study all the material on epistemic images in the New Haven Medical Library. Many thanks to Laura Phillips, curator for the visual arts, for showing me the library and for the great conversation about scientists as artists.