Jens Wollesen
Title: Associate Professor
Degrees and Institutions from which they
were received:
B.A. University of Hamburg
Ph.D. (Dr. Phil.) University of Heidelberg
Habilitation (Dr. phil. habil.) University of Munich
Areas of Academic Interest:
Medieval art, Art of the later Middle Ages in Italy
Recent Publications:
Pictures and Reality: Monumental Frescoes & Mosaics in Rome around 1300 . (464 pp., 137 illustrations); Peter Lang, Publishing, Inc.,New York).1998.
Klaus Arnold Pictor. Catalogue of the exhibition of Klaus Arnold's paintings at the Kunstverein in Frei- burg im Breisgau. May 24 to June 23, 1985.
Die Fresken von San Piero a Grado bei Pisa. Bad Oeynhausen: Verlag A. Theine, 1977.
“The Case of the Disappeared Stoclet Madonna,” Pantheon LVI (1998),4-9.
"'Sub Specie Ludi'. Text and Images in Alfonso el Sabio's Libro de Acedrex, Dados e Tablas." Zeitschrift fuer Kunstgeschichte 3 (1990): 277-308.
"'Ut Poesis Pictura"'. Problems of Images and Texts in the Early Trecento," in Petrarch's Triumphs: Allegory and Spectacle, edited by Konrad Eisenbichler & Amilcare Iannucci. University of Toronto Italian Studies 4 (Ottawa: Dove House Editors, 1990), 183-210.
"Sepp Thiele: Imagination und Inspiration," in Sepp Thiele: Parthenon Projekt. Foto, Zeichnung, Collage,Malerei (exhibition: Deutscher Werkbund Hessen, e. V., Frankfurt am Main, March 16 to April 29, 1990), Frankfurt am Main, 1990, 1-8.
"A Pictorial Speculum Principis: The Image of Henry II in Cod. Bibl. Vat. Ottobonensis lat. 74, fol. 139v," Word and Image 5 (1989): 85-110.
"Monumentalmalerei in kirchlichen Innenrauemen," in Kunst: die Geschichte ihrer Funktionen. W. Busch & P. Schmoock, Editors. (Weinhein: Quadriga/Beltz, 1987), 107-127.
Topics of Current Research:
Painting and Sculpture of the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries. Social and historical environment of
privately owned panel paintings around 1300. Artistic
interrelations between Italy and France around 1300. Arnolfo di
Cambio in Rome. The “Giotto phenomenon”. Modern art around 1900,
and contemporary art (exhibition openings, catalogues).
Awards:
A variety of research grants, including a research leave grant (University of Toronto), 1988, and a Habilitations-stipend of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), 1983.
Additional comments:
Professor Wollesen was Member of the Executive Committee of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA), and co-Chair of the Political Relations Committee, 1993-94. From 1991 to 1994, he was Chair of the University & External Affairs committee of the University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA). From 1991 to 1992 he was coordinator of the humanities-oriented multi-media solftware project of the University of Toronto Humanities Instructional Software Development Group (HISDG), and in 1988-89 a member of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)
See also Professor Wollesen's web page
at
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wollesen/mind.html