Susan Maxwell
Professor and Chair
Art Department
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
800 Algoma Blvd. Oshkosh, WI 54901-8635
(920) 424-0492 (o)
[email protected]
Curriculum Vitae
Renaissance and Baroque Art
Home: 1214 Spruce Street
Oshkosh WI, 54901
(434) 249-3639 (c)
Education
2002
1997
1993
1984
Ph.D. University of Virginia, Renaissance and Baroque Art History
M.A. University of Virginia, Renaissance and Baroque Art History
Post-Baccalaureate Teaching Certificate in German: Virginia Commonwealth University
B.A. cum laude, Mary Washington University, European History and German
Academic Experience
2015 - Present
2013 - Present
2010 - 2015
2005 – 2010
2002-2005
1999-2005
2003-2004
1993 – 1995
1988
Professor, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Chair, Department of Art, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Visiting Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
Adjunct Lecturer in Art History, University of Virginia
Adjunct Lecturer in Art History. College of William and Mary
German Teacher, Hampton City Schools, Hampton, Virginia
Adjunct Lecturer in German, Hampton University
Publications
"Wittelsbach" In Oxford Bibliographies in Art History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
In press.
"Lazy Foreigners and Indignant Locals: Influence and Rivalry in Bavarian Court Patronage." In
The Artist Between Court and City - L'Artiste Entre le Cour et la Ville - Der Künstler zwischen
Hof und Stadt (1300-1600), eds. Dagmar Eichberger and Philip Lorentz. Peterberg: Michael
Imhoff Verlag, 2016. In press.
“Every Living Beast: Collecting Animals in Early Modern Munich.” In Animals and Early Modern
Identity, edited by Pia Cuneo, University of Arizona. Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014.
The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris: Patronage in Late Renaissance Bavaria, Ashgate Publishing
Company, 2011.
“The Pursuit of Art and Pleasure in the Secret Grotto of Wilhelm V of Bavaria,” Renaissance
Quarterly 61:2 Summer (2008): 414-462.
"A Marriage Commemorated in the Stairway of Fools," Sixteenth Century Journal 36:3 (2005):
717-741.
The Museum: Conditions and Spaces. Selections from the University of Virginia Art Museum.
Catalogue entries on various early modern and modern prints and paintings. Editor, Andrea
Douglas, University of Virginia Art Museum, 2004.
Current Research Projects
-Peter Paul Rubens and Contacts to Wittelsbach Bavaria" 1616 to c. 1630
-Broadsheets during the Thirty Years War, specifically related to the Prince Elector Maximilian I
of Bavaria
Awards and Grants
2015
2013
2012
2010
2003
1998-2002
1999-2000
1999-2000
2000
1997
1984-1985
Faculty Development Grant - Teaching, UW Oshkosh
DAAD Research Fellow, Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
Honorary Fellowship, Historisches Kolleg Munich
Historians of Netherlandish Art Fellowship
J. Paul Getty Museum Library Research Grant
The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California
DuPont Fellowships, University of Virginia
DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange
Research Scholarship) Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte and Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversität, Munich, Germany
Academic Enhancement Program Fellowship, University of Virginia
Caraco Fellowship and Davidge Fellowship, University of Virginia
Teaching Resource Center Grant, University of Virginia
Fulbright Scholarship, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
and Universität Bielefeld, Germany
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Faculty Development Grants in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,
2012, 2013, 2015, 2016; University of Wisconsin Full-Year Sabbatical Grant, 2012-13
Conference Papers*
*For Public Lectures, see Service Activities
Chair and Organizer, "Art and the Thirty Years' War." Double panel. Renaissance Society of America
Annual Conference, Chicago, March 2017.
"The Munich Kunstkammer: a ‘museum non solum rarum, sed unicum in tota Europa.'" Renaissance
Society of America Annual Conference, Boston, March 2016.
"Rubens and the Bavarians." Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Berlin, March
2015.
"Menageries in Miniature: Johann König, Roelandt Savery, and the Ordering of Nature."Sixteenth
Century Studies Conference, New Orleans, October 2014.
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"Lazy Foreigners and Indignant Locals: Influence and Rivalry in Bavarian Court Patronage." Civic
Artists and Court Artists (1300-1600). Case Studies and Conceptual Ideas about the Status, Tasks
and Working Conditions of Artists and Artisans, Institut national d'lhistoire de l'art (INHA), Paris,
June 2014.
"The Elephant in the Kunstkammer: The Role of Animals in the Universal Collection" Sixteenth
Century Studies Conference, San Juan, October 2013.
“Science and Statecraft in Rubens' Munich Hunt Paintings,” Max Planck Institute for the History
of Science, Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe Colloquium Series 2013, Berlin, March
2013
“Wildschweine und Raubtiere: Staatspolitik und Kunsttheorie in Rubens’ Jagdbildern,” Visiting
Fellow Lecture, Historisches Kolleg München, October 2012.
“Hercules Bavaricus: Rebranding the Wittelsbach Dukes in Image and Text,” Frühe Neuzeit
Interdisziplinär, Duke University, March 2012.
“A Memorial to Ducal Humility: Wilhelm V and the Frauenkirche Monument to Emperor Ludwig
the Bavarian,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Fort Worth, October 2011.
"Virtual Display: The Role of Drawing in the Early Modern Art Collection," College Art
Association Annual Meeting, New York, February 2011.
"Classical Role Models for the Aspiring Ruler: A New Hero Cycle for Crown Prince Maximilian I
of Bavaria," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Montréal, October 2010.
Chair and Organizer, "Renaissance Munich at the Crossroads: Foreign Artists in CounterReformation Bavaria," Conference of the Historians of Netherlandish Art, Amsterdam, May 2010.
“Patronage Games: Princely and Imperial Rivalry in Hendrick Golztius’ Engraved Wedding of
Cupid and Psyche,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, October 2008.
“Money Matters: Art and the Abdication of Duke Wilhelm V,” Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär, Duke
University, March 2008.
Chair and Organizer, “Back to the Kunstkammer: New Approaches and New Research,” College
Art Association Annual Conference, Dallas, February 2008.
“A Hot Bath and a Warm Fire: Aristocratic Comfort and Ovidian Themes in the Landshut
Residence of Ludwig X,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Minneapolis, October 2007.
Chair and Organizer, “Kinderfresser and Hostienschänder: Art in the Service of Anti-Semitism in
Renaissance Germany.” Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Miami, March 2007.
“From Design to Disegno: Drawing Modes in the Work of Friedrich Sustris” College Art
Association Annual Conference, New York, February 2007.
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Presenter and Organizer, “Engraved Passion: The Crystal Reliquary Shrine of Wilhelm V of
Bavaria,” in “Luxurious Objects: Art and Artifice in Renaissance Bavaria,” Sixteenth Century
Studies Conference, Atlanta, October 2005.
“Consolidation and Conformity in the Rittersaal Justice Paintings of Trausnitz Castle,” Frühe
Neuzeit Interdisziplinär (The Conference Group for Early Modern German Studies), Duke
University, Durham, April 2005.
"Late Sixteenth-Century Drawing Practices Reconsidered: the Case of the "Angels bearing the
Column of the Passion," College Art Association, Atlanta, February 2005.
"The Stairway of Fools and Commedia dell'Arte at Trausnitz Castle," Renaissance Society of
America Annual Conference, New York, April 2004.
"Improvisation and Experience in the Stairway of Fools at Trausnitz Castle," Middle Atlantic
Symposium in the History of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 2002.
"Wine, Women, and Reckless Men: Counter-Reformation Morality at the Court of Wilhelm V of
Bavaria," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver, October 2001.
Curator and Gallery Talk for Exhibition "Virgins, Gods, Saints and Lovers. Strangeness and Style
in Mannerist Prints." University of Virginia Art Museum, January - March 2001.
"An Egyptian Enigma in Sixteenth-Century Bavaria: The Room of Discretion in Trausnitz Castle,
Landshut," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, November 2000.
"Vanguard of the Counter-Reformation or Dynastic Monument: The Decorative Program of St.
Michael’s Church in Munich, 1582-1597," University of Virginia Graduate Student Symposium,
Charlottesville, March 1999.
Gallery Talk for Exhibition "The Printed World of Pieter Bruegel the Elder." University of
Virginia Art Museum, Spring 1999.
"The Kunstkammer at Munich under Maximilian I of Bavaria,"
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 1998.
Book Reviews
Renate Eikelmann, editor. Bella Figura: Europäische Bronzekunst in Süddeutschland um 1600. In
Historians of Netherlandish Art Newsletter and Review of Books (forthcoming 2016).
John Roger Paas, Josef H. Biller and Maria Luise Hopp Gantner, editors. Gestochen in Augsburg.
Forschungen und Beiträge zur Geschichte der Augsburger Druckgraphik. In Sixteenth Century
Studies Journal, Fall 2015.
Barbara Segelken. Bilder des Staates: Kammer, Kasten und Tafel als Visualisierungen staatlicher
Zusammenhänge. In sehepunkte 11: 7/8 (July 2011). http://www.sehepunkte.de/2011/07/15444.html
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Brigitte Volk-Knüttel. Peter Candid (um 1548-1628.) Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik.
In Renaissance Quarterly 64:2 (Summer 2011).
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann. Arcimboldo: Visual Jokes Natural History, Still-Life Painting.
In Renaissance Quarterly 64:1 (Spring 2011).
Larry Silver and Elizabeth Wyckoff, editors. Grand Scale. Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer
and Titian. In Sixteenth Century Journal 42:1 (Spring 2011).
"Sibylle Weber am Bach. Hans Baldung Grien (1484-84-1545): Marienbilder in der Reformation.
In Sixteenth Century Journal 40:3 (Fall 2009).
“Christopher S. Wood. Forgery, Replica, Fiction. Temporalities of German Renaissance Art.
In Historians of Netherlandish Art Newsletter and Review of Books 26:1 (April 2009).
“Irma B. Jaffe with Gernando Colombardo. Zelotti’s Epic Frescoes at Cataio: The Obizzi Saga.”
In College Art Association, On-Line Book Reviews (September 2008).
Jeffrey Chipps Smith. The Art of the Goldsmith in Late Fifteenth-Century Germany: The Kimbell
Virgin and Her Bishop." In College Art Association, On-Line Book Reviews (June 2008).
“Caroline Zöhl. Jean Pichore: Buchmaler, Graphiker und Verleger in Paris um 1500.”
In Renaissance Quarterly 60:3 (Fall 2007).
“Dorothea Diemer. Hubert Gerhard und Carlo di Cesare del Palagio: Bronzeplastiker der
Spätrenaissance.” In Historians of Netherlandish Art Newsletter and Review of Books 23:2
(November 2006).
“Thea Vignau-Wilberg. In Europa zu Hause - Niederländer in München um 1600.” In
sehepunkte 6:9 (August 2009). http://www.sehepunkte.de/2006/09/10181.html
“Peter Parshall and Rainer Schoch. Origins of European Printmaking.” In Sixteenth Century
Journal 38:1 (Spring 2007).
“Erwin Panofsky, with a new introduction by Jeffrey Chipps Smith. The Life and Art of Albrecht
Dürer.” In Sixteenth Century Journal 37:4 (Winter 2006).
“Herbert Karner and Werner Telesko, editors. Die Jesuiten in Wien: Zur Kunst- und
Kulturgeschichte der österreichischen Ordensprovinz der “Gesellschaft Jesu” im 17. und 18.
Jahrhundert.” In sehepunkte 5:12 (December 2005). http://www.sehepunkte.de/2005/12/4475.html
“Annette Kranz, Christoph Amberger: Bildnismaler zu Augsburg.” In Historians of Netherlandish
Art Newsletter and Review of Books 22:2 (December 2005).
"Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Sensuous Worship, Jesuits and the Art of the Early Catholic Reformation in
Germany." In Historians of Netherlandish Art Newsletter and Review of Books 20:2 (December
2003).
"Philip Steadman, Vermeer's Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces."
In College Art Association, On-Line Book Reviews (August 2002).
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Service Activities 2005-2016
-Chair, Art Department 2012-present
-Chair, Art Department Budget Committee, 2012-present
-Chair, Art Department Executive Committee, 2012-present
-Honors Council, 2016-present
-Art Department Search and Screen: Painting, 2016-2017
-Art Department Search and Screen: Priebe Gallery Director and Campus Curator, 2016-2017
-Academic Leaders Workshop, May 2014, January 2015, May 2015, January 2016
-High School Art Day, Juror, 2015-2016
-CETL Training Workshop on Global Scholarship, March 2015
-Art Department Budget Committee, 2009-2012, Chair 2012-present
-Art Department Search and Screen: Photography, 2014-2015
-Wisconsin Higher Education Conference for Art Educators, September 2013
-Art Department Search and Screen: Interdisciplinary Media Arts, 2013-2014
-Art Department Technology Committee, 2013-2014
-External Faculty Mentor, 2011-12
-Art Department Curriculum Committee, 2007-2012, Chair 2011-2012
-Art Department Search and Screen: Photography, 2011-2012
-Chair, UWO Academic Standing Review Council, 2010-2011
-University Student Academic Standing Committee, 2007-2011, Chair 2009-2011
-Art Department Search and Screen: 3D Studio, 2010/2011
-Research & Teaching Panelist, Faculty Development Program – 2008-2016
-COLS Strategic Planning Group: Connections & Collaboration Subgroup, Fall 2009
-Chair, Art Department Search and Screen: Art Education, 2008-2009
-Chair, Art Department Ad Hoc Website Development Committee, 2007-2009
-UWO Odyssey 2008-2011: Group Leader, Conversations with Faculty
-Art Department Technology Committee, 2007-2010
-Art Department Public Relations Committee, 2005-2007
-Art Department Search and Screen: Art Education, 2005/2006
-Art Department Merit Committee, 2007/2008
-Art Department Search and Screen: Painting Studio, 2006/2007
-Art Department Search and Screen: 3D Studio, 2007/2008
-Directed acquisition of equipment, personnel and software for the digitization of departmental
visual resources, 2005-2011
Professional Activities 2005-2016
-Pre-Publication Reader Report for Laurence King Publishing: Laurence King Publishing,
Scott Nethersole, Art of Renaissance Florence, January 2017
-Peer Reviewer: Croation Science Foundation (HRZZ), research funding proposals, October 2016
-Pre-Publication Reader Report for Laurence King Publishing, Art of the Northern Renaissance,
June 2016
-Peer Reviewer: Laurence King Publishing, manuscript proposal, Scott Nethersole, "Art of
Renaissance Florence," August 2015
-Pre-Publication Reader Report for Brill Publishing, Daniel Fulco, Exuberant Apotheoses: Italian
Frescoes and Princely Power in the Holy Roman Empire, May 2015
-Peer Reviewer: Laurence King Publishing, manuscript proposal "Northern Renaissance Art"
January 2015
-Outside reviewer: tenure file, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, July 2014
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-Pre-Publication Reader Report for Brill Publishing, "Karl Giehlow Hieroglyph and Allegory in the
Renaissance with a focus on the Triumphal Art of Maximilian I, introduced and translated by
Robin Raybould" May 2014
-Independent consultant on late Renaissance drawings, 2008-present
-Session Chair, "Early Modern Artists at Work II," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference,
October 2014
-Session Chair, "Here Comes the Bride: The Wedding as Visual Feast in Early Modern Europe,"
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 2013
-Session Chair, "Collecting in Northern Europe," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference,
October 2011
-COLS Strategic Planning Visioning Retreat, September 2009
-Faculty Reviewer, Oshkosh Scholar - beginning Fall 2008
-Pre-publication reviewer for Janson's History of Art, 7th Ed., Pearson Education, 2007
-Grants Mentoring Workshop - 2006/2007
-Peer Reviewer, American Academy in Berlin Fellowship, 2008/2009
-College Board Advanced Placement (AP) Grader, 2008-2011
University and Public Lectures
Research to Reception Lecture: Material Culture in 1066: Art and History in the Bayeux
Tapestry,” March 2016
University Lecture: Material Culture in 1066: Art and History in the Bayeux Tapestry,”
March 2016
Class Lectures on "The Bayeux Tapestry" for Trina Smith's Advanced Drawing class and Emmet
Sandberg's Quest III: Conflict and Memorial class, Spring 2016
Class Lecture on "Matisse as Printmaker" exhibit at the Paine Art and Garden Center for "Culture
Connections" classes in the Honors Program, September 2014
Priebe Gallery Lecture on Albrecht Dürer, for "Culture Connections" classes in the Honors
Program, February, 2013
Class Lecture on "Matisse" - Pizza with Professors, Honors Program, April, 2010
Class Lecture on "Medieval Reliquaries" - Jessica Calderwood's Art Metals class, February 2011
Seminar on “Art in King Arthur’s Britain” - Lawrence University Summer Institute Seminar,
August 2011
Docent Lecture, "Portraits at the Paine" - Paine Art Center and Gardens, January 2011
Class Lecture “From Harlem Renaissance to Watts Riots: Aspects of African-American Art in the
20th Century,” Introduction to African American Studies, University of Wisconsin
Oshkosh, March 2009
University Lecture, “A Hot Bath and a Warm Fire: Fireplace and Tiled Stove Decorations in
Renaissance Germany,” Women's Studies Brown Bag Lunch, University of Wisconsin
Oshkosh, November 2007
Docent Lecture, “Nineteenth Century Landscape Painting at the Paine” - Paine Art Center and
Gardens, April 2007
Dean’s Symposium, “Tempest and Transformation in the Western Pictorial Tradition,” Dean’s
Symposium, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, February 2007
Professional Affiliations
College Art Association
Historians of German and Central European Art and Architecture
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Historians of Netherlandish Art
Renaissance Society of America
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference
Courses Taught
Lectures
Survey I – Prehistoric to Late Medieval Art
Survey II – Renaissance to Contemporary Art
Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Medieval Art and Architecture
Western Medieval Art
Gothic Art and Architecture
Northern Renaissance Art
Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture
Italian Renaissance Patronage
Baroque and Rococo Art and Architecture
Southern Baroque Art and Architecture
History of Prints from the Renaissance to Modernity
Art in the Age of the Vikings
Seminars
Albrecht Dürer and the Renaissance Print
Italian Renaissance Fresco Cycles
Hieronymus Bosch to Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Netherlandish Painting in the Sixteenth Century
Prints and Politics
Art Theory and Methods
Capstone Research - Individual Study and Research Supervision
Honors Program
Culture Connections
Understanding the Arts
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