Dr Grischka Petri

- Honorary Research Fellow (History of Art)
email: Grischka.Petri@glasgow.ac.uk
Research Interests
- 19th-century art, in particular James McNeill Whistler and August Strindberg
- art and the market
- art and law
- iconography of chondrichthyes
Projects
- Whistler Etchings Project
- The Artist as Copyright Holder, supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Düsseldorf
- Lempertz-Prize 2008 for the PhD dissertation ‘Arrangement in Business: the Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler’.
- Terra Foundation for American Art Travel Grant 2007 for research on ' A Comparative Analysis of M. Knoedler & Co.’s Dealings in Whistler’s Prints’
- Deubner-Prize 2002 (third prize) for an essay on Whistler v. Ruskin.
At the Department of History of Art, University of Bonn:
- History of architecture; methodology of history of art
- Victorian painting
- the tradition of Grand manner portraiture
- modern art in Belgium
External
Member of the Anti-Doping Commission of the International DanceSport Federation (IDSF).
Conferences
Conference Organisation
‘Eclecticism in the Visual Arts from the Renaissance to Postmodernism’, international conference, University of Bonn, 5–7 March 2009, co-organised with Dr Doris Lehmann, Bonn
Conference Papers
‘Through Puberty to Success – Martin Kippenberger’s Adolescent Art Strategies’, paper given at the AAH Conference, Glasgow, 17 April 2010
‘©Duchamp?’, paper given at the symposium ‘Learning from Duchamp’, Bonn, 30 January 2010
‘Kunst und Wetter: Chiffren der Kontingenz, Kontingenz der Chiffren’, paper given at the interdisciplinary conference ‘Atmosphären’, Blaubeuren, 19 September 2009
‘Whistler between the British and French Art Markets’, paper given at the Colloque international « Art et commerce en Grande-Bretagne, XVIIIe-XXIe siècles », Rennes, 24 April 2009
‘Between connoisseurship and commerce: cataloguing Whistler’s etchings, 1874–1910’, paper given at the Research Seminar, University of Glasgow, 4 February 2009
‘Ein Werkstattbericht aus dem Whistler Etchings Project, Glasgow. Aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse zum neuen digitalen Werkverzeichnis der Radierungen James McNeill Whistlers’, paper given at the Bonner Kolloquium, University of Bonn, 26 January 2009
‘Whistler and the Internationalisation of the Art Markets in the 1880s’, paper given at the conference Internationalism and the Arts: Anglo-European Cultural Exchange at the Fin de Siècle, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 3–5 July 2006.
