Dr. David Misteli, BA MA

• Moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst
• Französische Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts
• Geschichte und Theorie des Ausdrucks
• Form und Subjektivität in der Moderne
• Verflechtungen von Malerei und Literatur

Kurzbiographie

I am a Post Doc Faculty Member with the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna. After pursuing a PhD in Art History at the University of Basel, the Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art Paris and UPenn, and before joining the University of Vienna, I was awarded an Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship by the Swiss National Science Foundation and served as a Visiting Professor for Art History at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

My book Van Gogh in Paris: Malerei und Ausdruck in der Moderne (2025) is centered around van Gogh’s artistic engagement with the topography of Paris and develops an account of his oeuvre’s defense of artistic self-expression against the pressures of affective formalism in European modernism. The manuscript for the book was awarded the Faculty Prize of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Basel, sponsored by the L. & Th. La Roche Foundation.

I am currently working on a longer essay on Honoré Daumier’s large series of Don Quijote paintings. Drawing on Søren Kierkegaard’s contemporaneous conception of repetition as a mode of existence, I understand Daumier’s sustained return to Cervantes’s protagonist as a painterly inquiry into the novel’s fraught capacity to provide orientation in a heteronomous modern world. In Daumier’s serial reworking, I argue, the act of novel reading and a non-heroic yet not ridiculous Don Quijote form a commentary on shifting regimes of masculinity, heroism, and modern ways of life in the mid-nineteenth-century, addressing men who, at the threshold between an honor-based feudal society and a contract-based social order, sought stability in performing chivalric ideals of masculine identity within an emergent bourgeois-liberal French society.

Regelmäßig aktualisierte Publikationsliste auf Academia.edu

 

Bücher

David Misteli, Van Gogh in Paris. Malerei und Ausdruck in der Moderne (Geschichte und Theorie der Kunst, Bd. 1), Basel/Berlin 2024. 

David Misteli, Markus Rath (Hg.), Expression: Processes of Form and Mediation in Art (Ars et Scientia. Schriften zur Kunstwissenschaft), Berlin/Boston. [in Vorbereitung]

 

Aufsätze, Buchbeiträge, Textbeiträge (Auswahl)

David Misteli, Courbet’s Substance, in: Art History, Vol. 47, Issue 1 (2024).

David Misteli, Rezension von Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition, in: Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Vol. 21, Issue 3 (Autumn 2022), 257-265. 

David Misteli, Die Orientierung der Malerei. Pissarro, van Gogh und der Neoimpressionismus, in: Josef Helfenstein, Christophe Duvivier, Camille Pissarro. Das Atelier der Moderne (Kat. Ausst., Kunstmuseum Basel, 2021), München 2021, 126–139. (Auch engl. Ausgabe.)

David Misteli, Expressive Präzision, in: Markus Krajewski, Antonia von Schöning, Mario Wimmer (Hg.) Enzyklopädie der Genauigkeit, Konstanz 2021, 118–129.

David Misteli, Experience Reframed: Detachment and Meaning in Jürgen Beck’s New Deal, in: Samuel Bänziger, Rosario Florio, Larissa Kasper (Hg.), Jürgen Beck – New Deal, St. Gallen 2018, 33–40.

David Misteli, L’aveuglement du cyclope. Les réalismes de van Gogh en 1887, in: Bice Curiger, Maja Hoffmann (Hg.), Calme et Exaltation. Van Gogh dans la Collection Bührle (Kat. Ausst. Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, 2017), Arles 2017, 26–45. (Mit engl. Übersetzung.)

David Misteli, Pamela Rosenkranz’ Topologie des synthetischen Subjekts, in: all-over. Magazin für Kunst und Ästhetik, Nr. 10 (Frühling 2016), 26–37.

 

Kunstkritik (Auswahl)

David Misteli, Vika Kirchenbauer at Kunstverein Kevin Space, in: Artforum International Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 8 (April 2022), 223–224.

David Misteli, Jennifer Gelardo at Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Artforum Critics‘ Picks, Dezember 2021 (online).

David Misteli, Richard Jaray at EXILE, Artforum Critics‘ Picks, April 2021 (online).

David Misteli, Thea Moeller at Wonnerth  Dejaco, Artforum Critics‘ Picks, März 2021 (online).

David Misteli, Helmut Federle at Kunstmuseum Basel, in: Artforum International Magazine, Vol. 58, No. 2 (October 2019), 235–236.

David Misteli, Knut Ivar Aaser at Felix Gaudlitz, in: Artforum International Magazine, Vol. 57, No. 8 (April 2019), 208.

David Misteli, Lisa Holzer at Galerie Emanuel Layr, in: Artforum International Magazine, Vol. 56, No. 10 (Summer 2018), 325–326.

David Misteli, Liesl Raff at Sophie Tappeiner, in: Artforum International Magazine, Vol. 56, No. 8 (April 2018), 199.