Christin Neubauer

• since 04/2023 Visiting PhD student at the University of York, funded by the DAAD
• since 04/2021 Research Assistant for the research group ‘European Romanticism’ at the Department of History of Art and Film Studies and associated PhD Student at the Research Training Group ‘The Romantic Model’
• 01/2020–03/2021 Intern at the Art Dealer H. W. Fichter, Frankfurt am Main
• 01/2020–03/2021 Research Assistant for Prof. Dr Johannes Grave at the Department of History of Art and Film Studies within the DFG research project Time and Rhythm in Pictures: An Aesthetic Concept and Its Implications from the Point of View of Reception Aesthetics
• 02/2019–09/2019 Editor employee (English) for the research project Hearts of Flesh - Not Stone at the Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies at the Theological Faculty
• 10/2016–02/2020 Postgraduate studies in History of Art at the University of Dresden and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena; MA thesis on the topic of German Pre-Raphaelitism: Pre-Raphaelite Receptions in the Work of Heinrich Vogeler

• 09/2017–08/2018 Postgraduate studies in History of Art (British Art) at the University of York; MA thesis on the topic of New Woman, Gibson Girl, Suffragette: The Woman Question at the Fin de Siècle in the Work of Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale
•  03/2017 Student Assistant at the XXXIV. Congress of German Art Historians in Dresden 
• 04/2016–02/2020 Scholarship Holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
• 09/2015–10/2015 Intern at the O3 Gallery, Oxford, UK
• 08/2014–01/2019 Student Assistant at the Art Library of the Dresden State Art Collection, at the Institute of the University of Dresden under Prof. Dr. Sigel and Prof. Dr. Klein, at the Dean's office of the Philosophical Faculty, and for the Tutorial 'Introduction to Architecture'
• 04/2013–03/2017 Undergraduate studies in History of Art and British Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the University of Dresden

• Vicorian and Edwardian Art
• Pre-Raphaelitism and Its Transnational Relations
• Reception Aesthetics
• Romanticism

Paper:

• Co-authored by Mira Claire Zadrozny: Der begrenzte Blick: Potentialitäten der Rezeptionsästhetik im Geschichtsunterricht, in: Bild – Macht – Geschichte. Interdisziplinäre Überlegungen zu Visual History in historisch-politischer Bildung, eds Frank Britsche and Lukas Greven (Frankfurt am Main: Wochenschauverlag 2023): 114–21. 
• ‘New Woman in Disguise: The Art of Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale and the Woman Question at the Fin de Siècle’, in Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Art, Poetry and Female Agency in Victorian Britain, ed. Glenda Youde and Robert Wilkes (Oxford: Peter Lang 2022): 51–85.
• ‘Heinrich Vogeler und die Rhythmusdebatte um 1900: Zur Konstruktion und Rezeption von Bildrhythmen in Heinrich Vogelers Jugendstilgraphiken für den Inselverlag’, Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 47 (2020): 217–44.
• ‘Depicting and Remembering Prince Albert in the 21st Century: The Role of Youth and Germanness in the ITV Series Victoria’, in Coburg in Europa: Albert und Victoria – Wege und Wirkungen, Prinz-Albert-Studien 37, ed. Frank-Lothar Kroll, (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2022). (Forthcoming)

Reviews:

• Der letzte Romantiker? Zur ersten Einzelausstellung des Werks von Albert Venus im Kupferstich-Kabinett der Staatlichen Kunstsammlung Dresden, in: Gestern | Romantik | HeuteExternal link (17.01.2023) 
• Affinitäten einer heterogenen Romantik? Zur Ausstellung Caspar David Friedrich und die Düsseldorfer Romantiker im MdbK in Leipzig, in: Gestern | Romantik | HeuteExternal link (06.12.2021).
• Review of Frank Britsche: Historische Feiern im 19. Jahrhundert, in: sehepunkte External link20/9, 2020.

• 03/2023 The Romantic Embodiment in Pre-Raphaelite Visual Art as part of the binational workshop Rethinking British and European Romanticisms in Transnational Dimensions, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• 06/2022 Rossetti's 'romantic architecture': On the Relations of Pre-Raphaelite Painting and Characteristics of Romanticism as part of the Conference British Romanticism and Europe, Monte Veritá, Switzerland
• 12/2019 The Woman Question at the Fin de Siècle in the Work of Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale at the Conferenc Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Making Art, University of York, UK
• 08/2019 Depicting Albert, Prince Consort: The Role of Youth and Germanness in the ITV Series ‘Victoria’ at the Prince Albert Festival Conference What Was and What Remains? Queen Victoria and Prince Albert Now and Then, Coburg, Germany
• 01/2018 The Pre-Raphaelite Re-interpretation of van Eyck’s Paternoster in the Arnolfini Portrait as a Symbolisation of Victorian Gender Constructions at the Postgraduate Panel of the International Conference Arnolfini Histories: Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait and its Receptions, National Gallery, London, UK
• 06/2017 ‘Truth to Nature’: The Pre-Raphaelite Studies of Nature as a Trailblazing Project for the Establishment of a Victorian Avant-Garde at the 92^nd KSK, Münster, Germany
• 10/2016 The Emergence of the Working Class in English and German Art of the 19^th Century at the V. International Congress of Art History Students, Zagreb University, Croatia
• 11/2015 Hidden Symbolism in Millais’ ‘Christ in the House of His Parents’: A Pre-Raphaelite Creation or a Reversion to Old Traditions? at the IV. International Congress of Art History Students, Zagreb University, Croatia

The Romantic Embodiment in Pre-Raphaelite Visual Art: An Analysis of Affinities Between Pre-Raphaelitism and British Romanticism

Critics have described Pre-Raphaelite art as a breach with the prevailing conventions of the Royal Academy. Recent publications often present Pre-Raphaelite artists as representatives of a Victorian avant-garde movement and pioneers of modernism. However, art historical evidence from the late 19th and early 20th centuries shows commentators frequently attributing Pre-Raphaelite paintings as Romantic, despite their deviant visual language. My PhD dissertation refers to these Romantic attributions and explores this alleged connection. Selected examples of Pre-Raphaelite work are examined for Romantic characteristics. This examination locates the phenomenon of Pre-Raphaelitism within British Romanticism. The research combines three methodological approaches to investigate the affinities and divergences between Pre-Raphaelitism and Romanticism. A reception-historical approach is used to investigate what the Pre-Raphaelites understood by Romantic and to assess the extent of critical perception of Pre-Raphaelite work as Romantic. The image analyses of the project consider central and hitherto little-noted works from the three phases of Pre-Raphaelitism (1848 to c. 1940). Romantic aspects of landscape, history and genre paintings are reviewed. Comparing both phenomena calls for a flexible concept of Romanticism, which allows identifying specifics without claiming general validity. Model theory is employed to create a model of Romanticism as a heuristic basis through which bundles of characteristics can be generated. Applying a model-theoretical approach creates a system for tracing which characteristics of Romanticism were transported through three generations of Pre-Raphaelite artists into the 20th century. The visual characteristics of Pre-Raphaelite paintings have often taken a back seat to literary, historical and biographical narratives in previous critical examinations of these works. This doctoral project offers new insights on the Pre-Raphaelite artworks through an emphasis on reception aesthetics.

Conferences

Reflections on European Romanticism(s) in the Visual Arts: State of Research and Future Perspectives de, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 14–16 September 2022. Together with Johannes Grave, Elisabeth Ansel and Mira Claire Zadrozny.

Workshops

Rethinking British and European Romanticisms in Transnational Dimensions de, binational Workshop of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena & the University of York, 28–30 March 2023. Together with Elisabeth Ansel, Johannes Grave, Richard Johns, Elizabeth Prettejohn.

Young Researchers Workshop: Romanticism and Curatorial Practice, Research Centre European Romanticism, Deutsches Romantik-Museum in Frankfurt am Main, 9 July 2022. Together with Elisabeth Ansel.