Paris x Rome Fellowship

The Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte and the German Center for Art History – Institute of the Max Weber Foundation (DFK Paris) annually offer six-month research grants. The funding facilitates research for a period of three months in archives or libraries in Paris and Rome, the exchange of ideas with researchers at the institutes, and engagement with transnational approaches to the history of art in France and Italy. The objective of the fellowship is to support scholarly projects that open up new perspectives in art history via innovative research approaches. At the level of content, a connection to the main research areas of the DFK Paris and of Prof. Dr. Tristan Weddigen’s department at the Bibliotheca Hertziana is desirable.
Predocs and postdocs in art history and related disciplines are invited to apply for the Paris x Rome Fellowship. The award includes reimbursement of travel costs, a subsidy of around 1,750 Euros per 
month towards living expenses (plus a monthly flat-rate subsidy of 250 Euros for material costs and, if applicable, a child allowance), and the use of the resources of the institutes as well as integration into 
their research initiatives. 
The application, which consists of a CV and a project description, can be written in English, German, or French. Good language skills in French and Italian are required. It is a condition of the fellowship 
that the recipients remain in close contact and exchange with the two institutes for the duration of the funding period and that they stay primarily in Paris or Rome.

The call for applications is issued once a year in summer for the following year and is published on the institute's website in the section Opportunities.

Prof. Dr. Peter Geimer
Director German Center for Art History
Hôtel Lully 45
rue des Petits Champs
F 75001 Paris

Prof. Dr. Tristan Weddigen
Director Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte
Via Gregoriana 28
I-00187 Rome

Christina Heflin, Ph.D. (2024)
Project: Le Radici Francesi: The Parisian Origins of Arturo Schwarz’s Surrealist Collection in Rome
Frida Sandström, Ph.D. (2023/2024)
Project: Art Criticism as Social Critique. The Disintegration, Deculturalization, and Objection of Art Criticism in 1969
Elisa Bassetto, M.A. (2023)
Project: «Roma = Parigi». The 1968 Movement and the Art Institutions in France and Italy: a Comparative Perspective
Duccio Nobili, Ph.D. (2023)
Project: The First Words from October. The Rediscovery of Russian and East-European Avant-gardes in the Years of the Protest
Ana Redondo Plaza, M.A. (2022)
Project: Intentional Gazes at the Quattrocento in France and Italy in the Interwar Period: Art, Politics and Cultural Institutions. An Approach to the Construction of Modernity
Dr. Benjamin Fellmann (2022)
Project: Pier Paolo Pasolini in der Gegenwartskunst. Politiken der künstlerischen Praxis
Juliane Debeusscher, M.A. (2021)
Project: Enrico Crispolti - Alternatives and decenterings in Italian art criticism and exhibitions (1960s–1970s)
Martina Caruso (2021)
Project: Anti-americanism and Cold War Conspiracies in French and Italian Painting of the Korean War
Débora Alcaine (2020)
Project: Porter-Camnitzer’s studios: print as resistance (1964–1978)
Vincenza Benedettino (2019/2020)
Project: Werner Haftmann Leiter der Neuen Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Wechselausstellungen und Ankaufspolitik (1967–1974)
Elena Blázquez (2019)
Project: Der Bildungs- und Berufsweg der spanischen Regisseurin Helena Lumbreras in Italien während der sechziger Jahre