Prof. Dr. Franz Alto Bauer
Professor
Chair Art History of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Era
Office address:
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
Profile
- Education and professional career
- Prof. Dr. Franz Alto Bauer (born 1965) began his studies in Late Antique and Byzantine art history, Classical archaeology, and ancient history at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1986. He completed his Master of Arts degree in 1991 with a thesis on Late Antique sarcophagus sculpture in Rome. This was followed by a two-year doctoral scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation. In 1993, he received his doctorate under the supervision of Johannes G. Deckers with a dissertation on the staging of monuments in the Late Antique cities of Rome, Constantinople, and Ephesus. From 1994 to 1995, he held a research fellowship at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome), where he initiated a project on papal patronage in early medieval Rome. This project was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through a *Habilitation* fellowship (1996–1997). From 1997 to 2002, he worked under Paul Zanker as a research associate specializing in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages at the Rome Department of the German Archaeological Institute, where he conducted various archaeological documentation and excavation projects. In the autumn of 2001, upon the recommendation of Beat Brenk, he completed his *Habilitation* at the University of Basel with a study on the image of the city of Rome in the Liber Pontificalis. Subsequently, he was awarded a research fellowship at the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute and a fellowship at the Center for Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University) in 2002 and 2003. He held visiting professorships at the universities of Munich (2001), Basel (2002), and Zurich (2003), as well as at Columbia University in New York (2005). Since 2006, Franz Alto Bauer has served as Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Art History at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 2009/10, he was a TOPOI Visiting Professor at Humboldt University, and in 2011/12, a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He has been Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Art History at LMU since 2006. He has received the Richard Krautheimer Medal and the Clemens Brentano Prize for Archaeology for his research. His current research interests include taxonomy in Late Antiquity and the veneration of saints in western Asia Minor.