Prof. PhDr. Ivan Gerát PhD. - profile

Education and degrees:

2016 - Professor in History and Theory of Art (University of Trnava, Faculty of Philosophy)
2009 - "doc." (=Associated Professor), habilitation in the History and Theory of Art at the University of Trnava, Philosophical Faculty, with the thesis: "Themes and Contexts. Studies in Iconography of Art of the Middle Ages in Slovakia" 1994 - "Dr. phil." from the University of Freiburg (Germany). Dissertation: "Unerwünschte Freiheit. Instrumentalisierung des Mittelalterbildes im kunsthistorischen Denken von Hans Sedlmayr" (Advisor: Prof. W. Schlink)
1991 - 1994 Albert-Ludwigs Universität in Freiburg: History of Art, Philosophy and Slavistics
1989 - 1991 Slovak Academy of Sciences´ Institute of Art History in Bratislava (postgradual studies in Art History - Prof. J. Bakoš)
1987 - "PhDr." degree from Comenius University in Bratislava, graduated with a thesis on Hegels interpretation of Greek tragedy (advisor: Prof. J. Martinka)
1982 - 1987 Comenius University in Bratislava, History of Art and Aesthetics.

Employment:

since 2005 - Director, Institute of Art History, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava
since 2002 - Senior Researcher, Institute of Art History, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava
since 1995 - Researcher, Institute of Art History, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava

Teaching experiences:

1995 - 2001, 2005 - present: University of Trnava, History of Art and Culture Department, courses (lectures and seminars) in Romanesque Painting and Sculpture, Gothic Painting and Sculpture, Medieval Iconography, Methodology and Historiography of Art History, Artwork Interpretation, History of Byzantine Art and Architecture
2009 - present: Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts (BISLA), course on "History of Culture – Introduction" (in English)
2003 The Society for Higher Learning, Bratislava, course of seminars "Image, Text, Ideology" (in English)
1999 - 2000 Comenius University Bratislava, Department of Art History, lectures on Medieval Iconography
1997 and 1999 Courses of lectures "Cultural History of Medieval Europe" at Academia Istropolitana Nova in Bratislava - Svätý Jur (in English)
1990 - 1991 Comenius University Bratislava, Department of Aesthetics – course of lectures Art History for the students of Aesthetics

Visiting lectureships:

2009 - "Historische Funktionen der Ladislauszyklen im 14. Jahrhundert", Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität Wien
2003 - "Pictures of Visions and the Iconography of Saint Elisabeth", Institute for Art History, Prague
2000 - "Saint Elizabeth´s works of mercy in the late medieval pictorial narrative", Index of Christian Art, Princeton
1999 - "Kampf und Heiligkeit in der mittelalterlichen Slowakei", Wien, Slowakisches Institut
1997 - "Wenzeslauslegende als sakralisierte Staatsidee in der Kunst", GWZO Leipzig

Conference organization & proceedings edited:

2007 - international conference "The Borders in the Art History of Central Europe", Proceedings published in ARS 2/2007
2004 - interdisciplinary conference "Umenie ako historická pamäť - motivácie návratov a tradovania vo výtvarnom umení" ("Art as a Historical Memory – Motivations of Survivals and Revivals in Visual Arts") Proceedings published in ARS 2/2005
1999 - interdisciplinary conference "Umenie Slovenska - jeho historické funkcie" ("Art of Slovakia - its Historical Functions"). Proceedings - Bratislava 1999.

Professional memberships:

- Umeleckohistorická spoločnosť Slovenska (member since 1987, member of the executive commitee 1997 – 2005)
- ICOM (member since 2002)
- AICA - Association internationale des critiques d´art

Editorial work:

- 1999 on: member of the advisory board of ARS, journal of the Institute of Art History of Slovak Academy of Sciences
- 2002 on: member of the editorial board of Profil, journal for contemporary art