Heiner Krellig

Title

Dr.

Institution

Independent Scholar/member of the Max Planck Partner Group The Water City (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

Current Research

A Visual History of the Lagoon of Venice / Anthropocene Venice / Venice as a Water City / Veduta painting, especially Venetian / Garden History and Conservation / History of Collections and Cultural Relations between Venice and the North, esp. Prussia / Francesco and Bonomo Algarotti / Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg /The painter Renato Borsato (1927–2013)

Recent Publications

"Titian’s Garden and the Fondamenta Nove: a lost place of the culture of recreation on the banks of the Lagoon" and, with Pietro Daniel Omodeo: "Venice’s Marriage to the Sea: Ritual, Representation, and Environmental Transformation", Venice and the Anthropocene, (Venezia: Wetlands 2022): 69-72 and 37–40 (also Italian ed.).

"„Adhuc viventi“: Francesco Morosini e Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg: Strategie di glorificazione di due uomini di guerra del tardobarocco veneziano", La „splendida“ Venezia di Francesco Morosini (1619–1694): Cerimoniali, arti, cultura, ed. by Matteo Casini, Simone Guerriero, Vincenzo Mancini (Venezia: Fondazione Giorgio Cini 2022): 226–242.

Forthcoming Publications

with Caterina Borsato: "Renato Borsato „pittore in Venezia“: Der Künstler, das Archiv, das Inventar seiner Gemälde 1956 – ca. 1967", Der Künstler als Buchhalter. Serielle Aufzeichnungen zu Leben und Werk, ed. by Andreas Tacke et al., (Petersberg: Imhoff) [Kunsthistorisches Forum Irsee. 8. Frühjahrskonferenz]

"Rosalba’s Collectors – Rosalba’s collection", Künstlersammlungen. Objekte, Ordnungen, Programmatiken, (congress München: Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte)

entry "Vedute", RDK-Labor