Prof. Dr. Charlotte Klonk will be on leave from 1 October 2026 for three semesters as part of an Opus Magnum grant from the Volkswagen Foundation.
Prof. Dr. Charlotte Klonk studied art history at the Universities of Hamburg and Cambridge. She was a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford University, from 1993 to 1995, and from 1995 to 2005 Lecturer at the History of Art Department at the University of Warwick. She has been a Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin and the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown MA. Since 2019 she is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle and since 2023 a member of its presidium.
Her publications include, among others, Science and the Perception of Nature: British Landscape Art in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 1998), Spaces of Experience: Art Gallery Interiors from 1800-2000 (Yale University Press, 2009; PDF version without images) and, with Michael Hatt, Art History: A Critical Introduction to its Methods (Manchester University Press, 2005). With Jens Eder she edited Image Operations: Visual Media and Political Conflict (Manchester University Press, 2017) (Pdf of the introduction).
In May 2017 the publication – “Terror. Wenn Bilder zu Waffen werden” – has appeared with the S. Fischer Verlag (English translation: Terror. When Images Become Weapons, Manchester University Press, 2020).
Her essay Revolution im Rückwärtsgang. Zur Bildpolitik des 6. Januar 2021 was published by Walther König in 2021.
Nationales Kulturerbe. Lehren aus 100 Jahren Abwanderungsschutz (open access: www.inlibra.com) appeared in 2024 as part of the DFG-Project “Nationales Kulturerbe. Das Kulturgutschutzgesetz im Spannungsfeld von Gemeinwohlinteressen und Privateigentum” (project leaders: Dieter Grimm, Charlotte Klonk).
Current research project: „Representation. Images of Democracy“.