Élisabeth Décultot
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Élisabeth Décultot (born 13 May 1968 in
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, Département Seine-Maritime,
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) is a French
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,
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and
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. Since February 2015 she has held an
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at the
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. Since September 2020 she has been managing director of the


Life

From 1986 to 1988 Élisabeth Décultot completed a
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('' classe préparatoire'') at the
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in Paris and in 1988 she passed the entrance examination to the
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. She then studied German and Romance studies from 1988 to 1992 at the École normal supérieure (Paris, Rue d'Ulm), at
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, and at the
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. After completing the state examination in German studies (''
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'') and studying at the
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(1993), Décultot became a student at the
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in 1995, supervised by Jacques Le Rider for her work ''Le discours sur la peinture de paysage dans le romantisme allemand. Fondements et enjeux d’un débat esthétique autour de 1800''. In 2004 she completed her
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at the University of Paris VIII with the thesis ''Histoire du discours sur l'art. France-Allemagne (1750-1850).'' From 1993 to 1996, Élisabeth Décultot was a lecturer and researcher at the Département d'études germaniques at the University of Paris 8. From 1996 to 2005 she was a researcher (''Chargée de recherche)'' at the
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(CNRS) in the ''Pays germaniques'' und ''Transferts culturels'' section of the Paris
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. From 2005, she was a research professor (''Directrice de recherche'') at the École normale supérieure (2005–2009), at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin (2009–2011), and at the Centre Georg Simmel of the
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in Paris (2011–2014). In the 2007–2008 academic year Décultot was visiting professor of the at the
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. From 2008 to 2010 she was a research fellow in the
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at the
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and at the
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. In 2008 she was a visiting scholar at the
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in Berlin. In 2017 she gave the Classicisms Lecture at the
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. Since February 2015, Élisabeth Décultot has been the Alexander von Humboldt Professor in the German department and the (IZEA) at the
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (), also referred to as MLU, is a public university, public research university in the cities of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle and Wittenberg. It is the largest and oldest university in the German State o ...
. In 2020 she refused a call to the
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. Décultot is a member of the board of directors of the IZEA, the Center for Classical Research, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Center Sanssouci, the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Center for Art History and the Dessau-Wörlitz Commission. Elisabeth Décultot is married and has two children.


Research

* History of art theory, art historiography and aesthetics in the 18th–19th centuries with special consideration of European knowledge transfer * Scholarly reading and writing practices from the early modern period to the present day * German Enlightenment, Classical and Romantic literature in a European context


Projects and research collaborations

* 2006–2008: ''Klassizistisch-romantische Kunst(t)räume. Imaginationen im Europa des 19. Jahrhunderts und ihr Beitrag zur kulturellen Identitätsfindung'', research conferences funded by the DFG, the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris) and the
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, in cooperation with the
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and the
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. * 2009–2013: ''Ästhetik. Geschichte eines deutsch-französischen Ideentransfers (1750–1810)/Esthétique. Histoire d’un transfert franco-allemand (1750-1810)''; DFG/ANR-project in cooperation with the University of Göttingen. * 2012–2014: ''Poétique et politique du récit historique'', funded by the vom Centre interdisciplinaire d’études et de recherches sur l’Allemagne (CIERA, Paris) in cooperation with the
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(Paris), the
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,
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, the
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, the
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, and the
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. * 2014–: with Hans Adler (
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): Edition of the collected writings of
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Exhibitions

* 2010/2011 ''Musées de papier. L'Antiquité en livres, 1600–1800''.
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Paris. Catalog: Musées de papier. L'Antiquité en livres, 1600–1800, Editions du Musée du Louvre/Gourcuff-Gradenigo, Paris 2010. * 2016/2017 ''Winckelmann. Moderne Antike''. odern AntiquityNeues Museum Weimar. Katalog: als Hrsg. mit Martin Dönike, Wolfgang Holler, Claudia Keller, Thorsten Valk und Bettina Werche: Winckelmann. Moderne Antike, München 2017.


Scholarships and awards

* 2008–2010 Humboldt fellowship for advanced scientists * 2014 award of an
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by the
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* 2019 Member of the
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Publications

Monographs * ''Peindre le paysage. Discours critique et renouveau pictural dans le romantisme allemand'', Tusson 1996. * ''Johann Joachim Winckelmann. Enquête sur la genèse de l’histoire de l’art'', Paris 2000. * ''Untersuchungen zu Winckelmanns Exzerptheften. Ein Beitrag zur Genealogie der Kunstgeschichte im 18. Jahrhundert'', Ruhpolding 2005. Editions * as editor with Michel Espagne und Michael Werner: ''Johann Georg Wille: Briefwechsel'', Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1999. * Johann Joachim Winckelmann: ''De la description'', Macula, Paris 2006 (introduction, translation, and commentary by E. Décultot)


References


External links

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Homepage at the Georg Simmel Center

Homepage at the MLU Halle-Wittenberg

Homepage of the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Modern Writin Culture and European Knowledge Transfer



Humboldt Prize 2014

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2015

Virtual exhibition Winckelmann. Modern antiquity.

Humboldt Kosmos Interview 4 June 2018
{{DEFAULTSORT:Decultot, Elisabeth 1968 births French art historians Academic staff of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg French Germanists French literary scholars Living people Women art historians 20th-century French historians 21st-century French historians Paris-Sorbonne University alumni Free University of Berlin alumni University of Göttingen alumni