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Andreas Tönnesmann

Andreas Tönnesmann is the Chair for the History of Art and Architecture Department, ETH Zürich

Together with Andreas Beyer (Basel) and Norberto Gramaccini (Bern), Andreas Tönnesmann is responsible for the Pro*Doc course "Art as Cultural Transfer since the Renaissance", supported by the Swiss National Fund. The main emphasis in Tönnesmann's research and publications is on the architecture, pictorial arts and art theory of the Renaissance, and the history of modern architecture.

Curriculum Vitae

Born

Germany

Professional Background

  • Undergraduate studies in art history and literature in Bonn and Florence
  • Doctorate in Art History, University of Bonn, Germany 1980
  • Research work in the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute for History of Art), Rome, Italy
  • Assistantship in the Department of Art History at the Technical University in Munich 1984
  • Temporary professor of the History of Architecture at the RWTH in Aachen 1989
  • Lecturer at the University of Basel 1990
  • Professor of Art History at the University of Bonn 1991–1996 and 2000–2001 and Augsburg 1996–2000
  • Head of the Department of Architecture 2007–2009 and of the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur) 2006–2010
  • Full Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at ETH Zurich 2001-present
  • Titular Professorship at the University of Basel 2002–present
Achievements

Major Awards

Postdoctoral Habilitation degree in the Faculty of Architecture 1989

Recent Publications

  • Kleine Kunstgeschichte Roms [Art in Rome: a Short History], Munich 2002
  • Die Nase Italiens. Federico da Montefeltro, Herzog von Urbino [Italy's Nose: Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino], with Bernd Roeck, 3rd ed., Berlin 2007, Italian edition: Torino 2009
  • Die Kunst der Renaissance [Renaissance Art], Munich 2007

Key Memberships

  • Co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 1999–present
  • Member of the University Commission of the Istituto Svizzero di Roma 2007–present
  • Member of the jury for the Prix Jubilé (Swiss Academy of the Humanities and Social Sciences) 2007–present
  • Member and Chairman of the Academic Advisory Board of the Gerda Henkel Foundation 2001–2009
  • Honorary position in the Panel on Art and Architectural History of the European Science Foundation 2006–2009
  • Invitations as Guest Professor at the Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance, Université de Tours, France 2001, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 2009
  • Member and Deputy Chairman of the Academic Advisory Board at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany 1999–2007
  • Member of the Expert Committee for History of Art of the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft”(National Research Council of Germany) 1996–2001
  • Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the “Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz”(Max Planck Institute for History of Art), Florence, Italy 1993–2002