The Chair of History and Theory of the Form focuses on the production of visual form design, its image techniques and materials as well as their perception. In conjunction with the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung the Chair includes an epistemological form aesthetics of art and image-historical perspective. The Chair is hold by Claudia Blümle since 09.01.2014 related to the Institute of Art and Visual History. Another focus is on the art and theory of France in relation to the sciences.