OSK Van Gogh Museum Visiting Fellow in Nineteenth-Century Art 2026

• Dates: Sunday, 7 June, 2-3pm - Public introductory lecture at the Van Gogh Museum; and Tuesday, 9 June, 10am-1pm; Wednesday, 10 June, 10am-1pm; and Thursday, 11 June, 1pm-4pm, followed by drinks.

• Location: Van Gogh Museum, Museumplein 61071 DJ Amsterdam

• Language: English

This year’s Van Gogh Museum Visiting Fellow is Prof. Andre Dombrowski - Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor of 19th Century European Art, University of Pennsylvania. André Dombrowski’s research and teaching center on the arts and material cultures of France and Germany, and their empires, in the mid to late nineteenth century.

The topic of this year’s seminar is Manet/Monet: New Contexts. It often seems as if everything has already been said about painters like Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, and their impressionist colleagues. The Paris of their time has been endlessly mined for context, including Haussmann’s urbanization of Paris, its streets now ready to receive the flaneur and the modern Parisienneand their particular consumptive practices, from fashion to food. This seminar will ask what new contextual approaches there might be left to discover, from, for example, environmental or ecological perspectives, to international ones, including globalization. In particular, we will test whether the significant shifts in the conception of the law, the fabric of time, and the structure of finance can provide novel takes on some of Manet’s and Monet’s major paintings.

Interested in participating as an auditor? Please contact Rachel Esner: r.esner@uva.nl, putting “Van Gogh Museum Visiting Fellow” in the subject line. A syllabus and a link to the readings will be provided.