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PD Dr. Armin Bergmeier

PD Dr. Armin Bergmeier

Institute Head

Institute of Art History
Wünschmanns Hof
Dittrichring 18-20, Room 5/08
04109 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97 - 35550

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Abstract

I am an art historian specializing in the art and architecture of medieval Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East with a focus on transcultural phenomena and cultural heritage.

My research encompasses the transition from the Greco-Roman to the (early) Christian world, medieval and modern Italy and Venice, Byzantium, the Islamic world and the architecture of Northern Germany during the 12th and 13th centuries.

My current research project studies the uses of ancient heritage in the Byzantine Empire, in Venice, and in Seljuk Anatolia through the lens of spolia. The project critically questions academia’s investment in strict categories of periods and cultures by focusing on the juncture of classical and late antique Roman artifacts and their post-classical reception in Islamic, Byzantine, and Western medieval contexts. I link the fragments from the past to issues of identity formation across cultures, thereby reshaping our understanding of the ownership of heritage and history.

Professional career

  • since 04/2024
    Head of the Department of Art History, University of Leipzig
  • since 04/2023
    Visiting Full Professor for European and Global Art History of the Middle Ages, University of Leipzig
  • 10/2022 - 03/2023
    Visiting Full Professor for Late Antique and Byzantine Art History, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
  • 04/2016 - 09/2022
    Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of Leipzig
  • 10/2021 - 02/2022
    Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), Istanbul
  • 10/2019 - 03/2020
    Postdoc-Fellow, Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, Venice
  • 01/2019 - 09/2019
    Andrew W. Mellon Follow, Center for Byzantine Studies, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
  • 12/2015 - 03/2016
    Postdoc Fellow, Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz (KHI), Florence
  • 10/2013 - 08/2014
    Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, New York, Department for Art and Archaeology (Fulbright Fellow)
  • 04/2013 - 09/2015
    Adjunct Professor, Late Antique and Byzantine Art History, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
  • 04/2013
    Short-Term Pre-Doctoral Residency, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington D.C.
  • 04/2012 - 03/2016
    Adjunct Professor, Department for Art History, Humboldt University, Berlin
  • 01/2012 - 02/2012
    Pre-doc fellowship, Minerva Foundation, Hebrew University, Israel

Education

  • 04/2023
    German Habilitation in Art History (“Spolia, Time, and the Ruins of History in Venice, Byzantium, and Seljuk Anatolia”)
  • 04/2011 - 07/2015
    PhD in Late Antique and Byzantine Art History, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. Grade: Summa cum laude
  • 09/2006 - 06/2007
    Erasmus Exchange, Middlesex University London
  • 10/2003 - 04/2010
    Magister (Master), Department for Art History, Humboldt University, Berlin
  • 06/2002
    High school degree, Johann-Joachim-Winckelmann-Gymnasium, Stendal

Panel Memberships

  • since 10/2024
    Editor for the review journal Sehpunkte (European Middle Ages, Byzantium, and Islamic architectural history)
  • since 02/2024
    Associate committee member, International Center for Medieval Art (ICMA), New York
  • since 01/2022
    Committee member, German Academic Exchange Programs (DAAD)
  • since 04/2018
    Head of the study committee, Department for Art History, University of Leipzig
  • since 09/2017
    Committee member, Fulbright Foundation (Archaeology and Art History)
  • since 10/0216
    Coordinator for the German exchange program PONS

  • Cultural history of medieval Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Middle East; especially Venice and Anatolia / ca. 300–1450 CE


  • Transcultural and global studies, entangled histories
  • Cultural heritage concepts in the premodern era
  • Spolia, Reuse, Repair
  • Transformations, values, identity
  • Time and history


  • Art and architectural history in Italy and Byzantium
  • Seljuk, Beylik, and early Ottoman architectural history
  • Byzantine and medieval historiography
  • Historiography of art history (Byzantine art history and art historical writing in the former Easter German state)

  • Museum Survey, Archaeological Museum Akşehir, Turkey
    Bergmeier, Armin
    Duration: 08/2023 – ongoing
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Mittlere und Neuere Kunstgeschichte
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  • The Pastiche Past. Continuity and Consensus in the Premodern Mediterranean
    Bergmeier, Armin
    Duration: 02/2026 – 06/2026
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Mittlere und Neuere Kunstgeschichte
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more projects

  • Bergmeier, A.
    The Production of ex novo Spolia, and the Creation of History in Thirteenth-Century Venice
    Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz . 2020. 62 (2). pp. 126–157.
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  • Griebeler, A. P.; Bergmeier, A. (Eds.)
    Moments of Encounter: Time and Presence in Art (ca. 200-1600 CE)
    Berlin: De Gruyter. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783110720693
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  • Bergmeier, A.
    The Traditio Legis in Late Antiquity and its Afterlives in the Middle Ages
    Gesta. 2017. 56 (1). pp. 27–52.
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  • Bergmeier, A.
    Linien und Umwege: Byzanz, Nation und der Kanon der Kunstgeschichte im deutschsprachigen Raum
    21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual . 2021. 2 (2). pp. 73–95.
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  • Bergmeier, A.
    The Movement of History: Negotiating the Path to the Future in the Twelfth-Century Crypt Frescoes at Anagni Cathedral
    Speculum. 2025. 100 (3). pp. 1–39.
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more publications

  • Andere herausragende Auszeichnungen: Hans-Janssen-Preis 2018
    Bergmeier, Armin (Institut für Kunstgeschichte)
    awarded in 2018 by Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen.
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  • Andere Stipendien/Forschungspreise: Aufnahme ins Heisenberg-Programm
    Bergmeier, Armin (Mittlere und Neuere Kunstgeschichte)
    awarded in 2025 by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
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more awards

  • Vortragsreihe
    Byzanz und der Westen: Kolloquium zur materiellen Kultur im Mittelalter
    Mittlere und Neuere Kunstgeschichte; Bibliotheca Albertina; Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO)
    Event Organiser: Bergmeier, Armin; Tripps, Johannes; Heinrich-Tamáska, Orsolya
    13/12/2016 – 29/02/2020
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  • Tagungssektion
    Natural Disasters, Sacred Time, and Eschatology in the Eastern Mediterranean, College Art Association Annual Conference (CAA), New York
    Mittlere und Neuere Kunstgeschichte
    Event Organiser: Bergmeier, Armin; Mostafa, Heba
    15/02/2017 – 18/02/2017
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  • Tagunssektion
    Beyond Transfer and Revival: Narrative Creativity in Medieval Italian Mural Decoration (1000–1250), College Art Association Annual Conference (CAA), New York
    Mittlere und Neuere Kunstgeschichte
    Event Organiser: Bergmeier, Armin; Locke Perchuk, Alison
    03/03/2022
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  • Roundtable
    Boundless Byzantium: Post-conquest Material Culture After the End of Byzantine Rule (25th International Congress of Byzantine Studies)
    Mittlere und Neuere Kunstgeschichte
    Event Organiser: Bergmeier, Armin
    14/08/2026
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  • Sommerschule
    Internationale StiL-Sommerschule „Living in a Material World“: Understanding Artifacts Through Their Materiality
    Mittlere und Neuere Kunstgeschichte; Institut für Klassische Archäologie
    Event Organiser: Bergmeier, Armin; Lang, Jörn
    04/10/2020 – 10/10/2020
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more events

  • Forgotten Heritage: Writing Art History in the GDR (1949-1989)