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Michael F. Zimmermann

was a deputy director at the Central Institute of Art History in Munich from 1991 to 2002 and Associate Professor for art history of early modern and contemporary period at the University of Lausanne. He currently chairs the department of art history at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. His main research areas are the pictorial arts of the 19th and 20th centuries, history and philosophy of art.

Other texts by Michael F. Zimmermann for DIAPHANES
Bibliography
  • English
  • 2025
    Dialogical Imaginations, Zürich, diaphanes
  • 2016
    Vision in Motion, Zürich, diaphanes
  • German
  • 2011
    »Die Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts. Naturalismus – Impressionismus – Symbolismus« (2011), München, C.H.Beck
  • 2008
    Lovis Corinth, München, C.H.Beck
  • 2006
    Industrialisierung der Phantasie. Der Aufbau des modernen Italien und das Mediensystem der Künste, 1875–1900, München, Deutscher Kunstverlag
  • 1991
    Seurat. Sein Werk und die kunsttheoretische Debatte seiner Zeit, Berlin, Wiley-VCH
  • color
  • perception
  • history of science
  • aisthesis
  • painting
  • art history
  • physiology
  • Judith Butler
  • image and imagery
  • eye
  • Goethe
  • interdisciplinarity
  • chromatics / colour science
  • gaze
  • Foucault