Eveline Deneer is an art historian and working as Assistant Professor Art History at Utrecht University. After finishing her BA and MA in Art History at Utrecht University and the Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne (Erasmus), she worked as assistant at the Fondation Custodia in Paris, and at the Galerie Nicolaas Teeuwisse in Berlin. As assistant to the curators Prof. Stephen Bann and Stéphane Paccoud, she was closely involved in the preparation of the exhibition L’Invention du passé. Histoires de coeur et d’épée en Europe 1802-1850, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 2014.
Eveline received her PhD in 2019 at the Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, in cotutelle with the Technische Universität in Berlin. While working on the thesis, she held a doctoral fellowship (‘contrat doctoral’) at the Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, as well as fellowships at the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris and the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. Her thesis, entitled Une autre histoire. Imaginaires historiques ‘privés’ dans la peinture européenne au début du XIXe siècle, entre passé national et histoire partagée, was awarded with the Prix Ary Scheffer 2020 of the Comité de liaison des associations dix-neuvièmistes, and the Prix L’Art et l’Essai 2021 of the Institut national d’histoire de l’art and the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Eveline is currently preparing the trade edition, which will be published by the Institut national d’histoire de l’art and the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques.
Her research focuses on the role of cultural transfers and dynamics of intercultural circulation in Europe and the emergence of new forms of (national) historical representation in the arts, primarily in de decades around 1800.
Areas of interest:
- Arts of the 18th and 19th centuries
- Cross-border artistic transfers and circulation
- Romantic nationalism in Europe
- Historical imagination and representation in the arts