Jörg Trempler

Jörg Trempler studied Art History and German Literature and Linguistics in Passau, Amsterdam and Erlangen. In 1998, he completed his doctoral thesis on Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Between 2004 and 2007, he led the research project »Catastrophes as Iconic Epistemological Models«, funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From 2007 to 2008, he was a postdoctoral scholarship holder at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. Since November 2008, he has been a research associate in the DFG-sponsored Collegium for the Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment. From 2009 to 2012, he collaborated on the exhibition »Karl Friedrich Schinkel. History and Poetry« at the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in co-operation with the Kunsthalle of the Munich Hypo Cultural Foundation. In 2010, he received his venia legendi (university teaching qualification) for Art and Visual History from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

He was the Acting Chair of Art History in Greifswald (winter semester 2010/2011), Jena (summer semester 2011) and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (summer semester 2012). He has also completed a research residency in New York (March/April 2011). From February to May 2013, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art. In the winter semester 2014/2015, he took over the post of Visiting Professor for Early Modern and Modern Art History from Horst Bredekamp at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 

From October 2015, he will be the Chair of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Passau.

Research interests

Historical anthropology of images, perceptions of architecture, Romantic art