Dr. Christoph Frank

Biography

Christoph Frank graduated in History from the Courtauld Institute and pursued further studies in Art History at the Warburg Institute, University of London. He served as the head of the Department of Art History at the Forschungszentrum Europäische Aufklärung in Potsdam from 1994 to 2006. Frank was a lecturer at the Institute of Art History at the Technische Universität Berlin between 2000 and 2002. He held the Max-Planck-Research Fellowship at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome in 2005, and was also a research associate at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris, as well as at Columbia University in New York. His research focuses on European art and architecture from the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries, the history of collecting in Germany and Russia, and the impact of correspondence between agents in art and architecture, particularly in relation to art theory as outlined by figures such as Denis Diderot and Friedrich Melchior Grimm.

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