Martin Schieder

Martin Schieder is an art historian. He taught and conducted research as a professor of modern and contemporary art at Leipzig University. After studying classical archaeology, history and art history in Heidelberg and Berlin, he received his doctorate for a study of “Jenseits der Aufklärung. Die religiöse Malerei im ausgehenden Ancien Régime.” His habilitation thesis, “Im Blick des anderen. Die deutsch-französischen Kunstbeziehungen, 1945–1959,” received the 2005 German-French Parliamentary Award from the German Bundestag and the Assemblée nationale.