Dr. Wilfried Franzen
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About
Wilfried Franzen studied art history at the universities of Trier, Reading and Bamberg. He graduated in 2000 with a PhD on pictorial narrative in 15th century panel painting at the Technical University of Berlin. From 2003 to 2004, he was a research assistant in the GWZO-project »Significance of the Jagiellonians for the Art and Culture of Central Europe (1450-1550)«. Subsequently, he worked as a freelance lecturer and editor. He has been a researcher at the GWZO since 2008.
As a member of the »Transfer and Publishing« department, Wilfried Franzen is responsible for the GWZO's publications and the Handbook on the History of Art in East Central Europe.
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Work focus
- Cultural transfer in Central Europe
- Art production in utraquist Bohemia
- Panel painting in Krakow around 1450-1470
Current topic of research
Researching Transnational Cultural History, 1300-1570
This project sets out to explore Eastern Europe’s art history in the pre-modern age. Drawing on selected objects, it aims to bring to light the area’s shared cultural history and its complex development. The focus is on the large expanse of land between the Baltic, the Black Sea and southeast Europe from 1300 to 1570, when both cultural cornerstones and tensions developed that would be decisive for the region’s modern history.
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