Prof. Dr. Maurice Saß

• Since January 2023 Professor of Art History at Alanus University
• December 2022 habilitation at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Hamburg
• March 2019 to December 2022 Junior Professor of Art History and Art Studies at Alanus University
• July 2018 to February 2019 Research Assistant at the Department of Art History of the University of Hamburg
• October 2013 to June 2018 initially Research Associate, then Academic Coordinator of the research center Naturbilder / Images of Nature at the University of Hamburg, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• August 2011 to December 2011 Research Associate at LMU Munich in the DFG Collaborative Research Center Pluralization and Authority in the Early Modern Period
• April 2011 to March 2014 doctorate at LMU Munich with a dissertation on the relationship between art and natural magic in the early modern period
• June 2009 to March 2012 collaboration in the cooperative project of the German Federal Cultural Foundation and LMU Munich Philosophy : Art 2009-2011
• October 2005 to March 2011 Magister degree studies at LMU Munich, the Université de Caen and the University of Würzburg with a major in Art History and minors in Musicology, Modern German Literature, Philosophy, Linguistics and Theatre Studies
• October 2003 to September 2005 studies in International Business Administration at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Monograph:

Hunting Grounds of Art. Another History of Mimesis. Cologne: Böhlau 2024.

Physiologies of Images. Naturmagical Fields of Early Modern Understandings of Art. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter 2016.

Edited volumes:

Hunting Troubles. Gender and its intersections in the cultural history of the hunt. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2025 (with Laura Beck).

Wild Animal Photography. Ecological, Postcolonial and Aesthetic Perspectives. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler 2024 (with Martin Bartelmus).

Naturalisms. Art, Science and Aesthetics. Berlin: De Gruyter 2019 (with Robert Felfe).

Stone Forms. Materiality – Quality – Imitation. Berlin: De Gruyter 2019 (with Isabella Augart / Iris Wenderholm).

Mother Earth. Conceptions of Nature and Femininity in the Early Modern Period. Catalogue published on the occasion of an exhibition in the Art Collection of the University of Göttingen. Petersberg: Peter Imhof 2017 (with Iris Wenderholm).

Hunting without weapons. On the pursuit of images. Berlin: De Gruyter 2017.

Journal articles:

The Predatory Core: Peter Paul Rubens and the Hunt. In: The Art Bulletin 106.4, 2024, 6-32.

Without nature. Rubens‘ watery landscapes. In: Netherlands Yearbook of Art History 73, 202, 87-117.

Astronomical Claims. Painting with an Eye on the Stars. In: Zeitsprünge. Studies in Early Modern History, Culture and Science 24.1-2, 2021, 213-235.

Hunting grounds for painters: Killing animals and artistic domination of nature. In: Netherlands Yearbook of Art History 71, 2021, 144-183.

Mirror Gazing in the Garden of Eden. Amico Aspertini’s “Genesis” Engraving. In: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 81.1, 2018, 55-79.

“I am Actaeon.” The Hunter as Human and Animal. In: Wolfenbütteler Renaissance-Mitteilungen 1-2, 2016 (2017), 141-168.

“Un altro Mercurio […] Trimegisto […] e ‘l mio buon Benvenuto.” Antonio Allegretti’s Description of Michelangelo and Cellini as Children of Saturn. In: Die Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 2, 2016, 278-282.

You can find a detailed list of publications here.