Fabian Felder
Library staff
Library staff
Schönbeinstrasse 18-20
4056
Basel
Schweiz
Curriculum Vitae
Studied Cultural Studies (BA) and Art History (MA) at the University of Basel. 2016-2018 student research assistant at the Department of Art History (Chair of Medieval Art History, Prof. Dr. Barbara Schellewald). 2015-2016 research assistant at the SNF-project: ‘Transformationen städtischer Sakraltopographien (1850-2010). Am Beispiel von sieben Schweizer Städten’ under the lead of Prof. Dr. Johannes Stückelberger (University of Bern). Since 2019 member of the eikones Graduate School, recipient of a Doc.CH grant and co-editor of Art+Architecture (Society of Art History in Switzerland).
Current project
The visual splendor of late medieval winged altarpieces that strikes us today in churches and museums was for the late medieval contemporary available only in a different context. In rather dim church spaces darkened by stained glass windows and behind an opaque choir screen, the altarpieces were probably more vaguely supposed than seen. In my project questions of spatial context, liturgy and social function will be connected to media aesthetically findings to thematize both – functional and astatically – aspects of these complex image systems in connection to their space. My focal question is: How and under which spatial and liturgical circumstances can late medieval altar pieces on the high altar generate visibility?
