Florence Scholarship 2007
The Verein zur Förderung des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz (Friends of the Institute of Art History in Florence) awarded the scholarship for 2007 to Assistant Professor Dr Eckhard Leuschner, senior research associate at the Chair for Art History and Christian Archaeology at the University of Passau to support his research into concepts of rules and proportions in Italian art and visual culture of the 20th century. The scholarship of €10,000 was donated by Rosemarie and Kai Werner from Munich.

Eckhard Leuschner (born in 1966) studied between 1987 and 1996 in Heidelberg, Vienna and Leiden and in 1996 gained his doctorate in Heidelberg - under the supervision of Professor Peter Anselm Riedl - with his thesis "Persona, Larva, Maske. Ikonologische Studien zum 16. bis frühen 18. Jahrhundert” (Persona, Larva, Mask. Iconological Studies Covering the Period from the 16th to the Early 18th Century). He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome and in the spring of 2000 he was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on a J. Clawson Mills Fellowship. Mr Leuschner qualified as a professor at the University of Passau in 2003 with his habilitation treatise "Antonio Tempesta. Ein Bahnbrecher des römischen Barock und seine europäische Wirkung” (Antonio Tempesta. A Pioneer of Roman Baroque and His Influence in Europe) (published in 2005). His treatise won him the Premio Salimbeni and the Sonderpreis des Wissenschaftspreises Ostbayerns (Special Prize of the Research Award of Eastern Bavaria) in 2006. In 2003 Mr Leuscher published the compendium "Artificio et Elegantia. Eine Geschichte der Druckgraphik in Italien von Raimondi bis Rosaspina” (Artificio et Elegantia. A History of Printing Arts in Italy from Raimondi to Rosaspina) in cooperation with Alois Brunner. He is currently visiting scholar at the University of Western Michigan in Kalamazoo.

As visiting researcher in Florence Mr Leuschner invited researchers from Italy and Germany to a study day at the KHI on 20 June 2008 that considered concepts of rules and proportions in the depiction of human figures in Italian art and visual culture, 1919 – 1939 ("Norm- und Maßkonzepte der Menschendarstellung in der italienischen Kunst und Bildkultur, 1919 – 1939”). At this year's AGM on 12 November in Munich he will report to the Friends of the KHI on his research.

Gino Severini: Du Cubisme au Classicisme (esthétique du compas et du nombre), Paris 1921, Fig. XX