Funding

2026 First Half

Prof. PD Dr. Katja Bernhardt Berlin
Katja Bernhardt, M. Dimitrieva, N. Drosos, Antje Kempe, Krista Kodres (eds.): „Marxism and Art History in Eastern Europe: Historiography after 1945“, publication expected in 2027.
Proofreading and editing

Antje Kempe University of Greifswald
International conference „Verwobene Geschichten: Der Croyteppich von 1554 und seine europäischen Bezüge“, Pomeranian State Museum and Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, Greifswald, 10–11 September 2026.
Travel grant

Prof. emer. Juhan Maiste Tartu
Research trip through East Prussia in preparation for the fourth volume on Estonian castles and manor houses. 700 years of noble architecture under the title „Herrenhäuser im Baltikum ca. 1775–1825 (Aufklärung in Deutschland und Russisches Reich). Internationale Perspektiven und lokale Entwicklungen“, publication expected December 2027.
Travel expenses

Prof. a.D. Dr. Jürgen Sarnowsky / Tomke Schöningh Lübeck / Hamburg
9th workshop for early-career researchers of the Hansischer Geschichtsverein, focusing on Public History, cultures of remembrance and musealization, Lübeck, 24–25 May 2026.
Travel expenses

Dr. des. Adeline Schwabauer Brühl
Adeline Schwabauer: „Horn, Trinkhorn, Greifenklaue, Reliquiarwerdung und sakrale Verwendung spätmittelalterlicher Horngefäße“ (= dissertation at the University of Cologne). To be published by De Gruyter in the series „Object Studies in Art History“ (eds. Hon. Prof. Dr. Philippe Cordez and Prof. Dr. Joanna Olchawa).
Printing subsidy

Dr. art. Baiba Vanaga Rīga
Bilingual (LV–EN) edited volume on the art historian Wilhelm Neumann in the series „Muzeja raksti = Museum Writings“, Vol. 11.
Translation and editing cost grant

2025 Second Half

Ieva Astahoska Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA), Rīga
Summary and critical evaluative final report on the five-year interdisciplinary artistic project „Communicating Difficult Pasts“ (2020–25).
Editing and printing subsidy

Bernhard Lauer Kassel
Bernhard Lauer: Gerhardt v. Reutern. Ein Lebensbild. Kassel, Brüder Grimm-Gesellschaft e.V., 2026.
Printing subsidy

Anja Wilhelmi Nordost-Institut (IKGN e.V.), Lüneburg
Conference as part of the 78th Annual Conference of the Baltic Historical Commission, “Das Baltikum als Raum für Netzwerke. Die Bildenden Künste im 19./20. Jahrhundert“, Nordost-Institut Lüneburg, 30–31 May 2026.
Travel and accommodation expenses

2025 First Half

Manfred von Boetticher Hannover / Rīga
Kulturtage DOMUS RIGENSIS, Rīga, 4–6 July 2025. Hybrid event “100 Jahre Denkmalschutz in Lettland“ with lectures by Imants Lancmanis and Sabine Bock.
Event with excursion

Inga Jaagus / Sirje Helme KUMU, Tallinn
Kadi Polli (ed.): Spiegel im Spiegel: Eesti ja Saksa kunsti kohtumised Lucas Cranachist, Arvo Pärdi ja Gerhard Richterini. Tallinn 2025. (= catalogue accompanying the exhibition „Estnische und deutsche Kunst von Lucas Cranach bis Arvo Pärt und Gerhard Richter“, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Estonian Art Museum Tallinn, 2024–2025).
Printing subsidy

Dietmar Popp Herder Institute, Marburg
100 buildings in Rīga. Photographic campaign for the Digital Portal East-Central Europe (DEHIO OME) and the Herder Institute's image archive.
Photographic documentation

Andra Silapētere Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Rīga
„Portable Landscapes: Art Histories of Latvian Exile“, eds. Andra Silpētere and Inga Lāce.
Printing subsidy

Beate Störtkuhl BKGE, Oldenburg
“IX. Internationales Doktorand*innenforum Kunstgeschichte des östlichen Europa“, Berlin Humboldt University, 2 June 2025. An event organized by the Chair of Art History of Eastern Europe, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin.
Travel expenses
To the report

2024 Second Half

Frank Biederstaedt Sassnitz
Frank Biederstaedt: Pioniere des vorpommerschen Lichts. Zur Geschichte der gewerblichen Fotografie in Vorpommern 1839 bis ca. 1885. Stralsund, edition Pommern 2026. (= dissertation at the cdf-Institut of the University of Greifswald)
Printing subsidy / image material

Sabine Bock Schwerin
Sabine Bock: Herrenhäuser - Manor Houses. Entwicklung eines Bautyps, Vol. 3: Blütezeit. Schwerin 2025.
Printing subsidy

Waltraud Indrist Graz, Institute for Architectural Theory, Art, Cultural Studies
Research on the „Technische Planung Ost (TPO)“ department in the archives of Kaunas and Vilnius.
Travel grant

Ralf-Gunnar Werlich University of Greifswald
Conference proceedings. International conference „Wappen als Waffe – Heraldische Symbole in politischen, dynastischen und militärischen Konflikten des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit“, Greifswald, 13–15 June 2024.
Printing subsidy

Birutė Kabašinskienė Vilnius, Church Heritage Museum
Birutė Kabašinskienė, Rita Pauliuskevičiūte, Vaiva Vasiliauskaitė (eds.): Bishop, Monk, Saint. The Figure of St. Josaphat in the Heritage of the Uniate Church. Vilnius, Church Heritage Museum, 2025.
Printing subsidy / translation costs

2024 First Half

Katja Bernhardt Berlin
Workshop in preparation for a publication under the working title: „Marxismen in der Kunstgeschichte der sozialistischen Länder im östlichen Europa“, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia (EKA), Tallinn.
Travel expenses

Giedrė Jankevičiūtė Vilnius
Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, Nerijus Šepetys: Art Creation in the Kaunas Ghetto: Issues of the Representation of Reality. Vilnius 2025. (= catalogue accompanying the exhibition at the Nacionalinis M.K. Čiurlionio Dailės Muziejus, Kaunas, 2024).
Printing subsidy

Editha Kroß Lüneburg
Professionalization of the Carl-Schirren Archive / 2nd project phase.
Personnel costs

Renate Kühnen Hildesheim
From 31 August to 14 September 2024, students from the Department of Conservation and Restoration at HAWK Hildesheim and students from the Latvian Academy of Art (Latvijas Mākslas akadēmija) and the Riga Building College (Rīgas Būvniecības koledža) participated in a joint restoration project.
Travel expenses
To the project report

Juhan Maiste Tartu
Juhan Maiste: Eesti Mõisad ja Lossid. In the series: Aadlikultuuri Seitse Aastasada, Vol. 3. Tallinn 2025. (= Baltic manor architecture in the 18th century. From the Great Northern War to the Enlightenment. Estonian castles and manor houses. Seven centuries of noble culture).
Travel expenses

2023 Second Half

Sabine Bock Schwerin
Photographic documentation for the 3rd volume "Herrenhäuser im Ostseeraum" (together with Thomas Helms), buildings in Latvia, Poland and Sweden.
Travel expenses

Agnieszka Gąsior Schlesisches Museum zu Görlitz
30th conference of the Arbeitskreis deutscher und polnischer Kunsthistoriker und Denkmalpfleger. Kunst und Krieg. Schlesisches Museum zu Görlitz and Muzeum Karkonoskie / Riesengebirgsmuseum in Jelenia Góra / Hirschberg. Görlitz, 15–18 November 2023.
Travel expenses

Christofer Herrmann Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Christofer Herrmann (ed.): Handbuch zu den Burgen in Livland. Mittelalterliche Wehrbauten in Estland und Lettland (authors: Alexander Baranov, Christofer Herrmann, Villu Kadakas, Juhan Kreem, Leva Ose). Petersberg, Michael Imhof Verlag 2024.
Printing subsidy

Dietmar Popp Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg
Co-financing of the purchase of photographs of monuments of art and architecture in northeastern Poland for the portal DEHIO OME Kunstdenkmäler Ostmitteleuropa.
Photographic documentation

Valentin L. Portnykh Novosibirsk State University
Research project on the whereabouts of archival and library holdings from the Hanseatic cities of Lübeck, Hamburg and Bremen.
Travel expenses

2023 First Half

David Feest / Joachim Tauber Lüneburg Nordost-Institut
75th Baltic Historians' Conference at the University of Göttingen: Annual Meeting of the Baltic Historical Commission, 3–4 June 2023.
Travel expenses

Hilkka Hiiop Tallinn EKA
Research website: „The Research and Conservation of the Retable of the Church of the Holy Spirit” by Bernt Notke. Information on the project
Project documentation

Uta Kuhl Schleswig Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte – Schloss Gottorf
O. Auge, C. Köster, U. Kuhl, Th. Sadowsky (eds.): Der Bordesholmer Altar des Hans Brüggemann, conference proceedings of the interdisciplinary conference marking the 500th anniversary of Hans Brüggemann's Bordesholm Altarpiece, 23–25 September 2021, Schloss Gottorf and St. Petri Cathedral in Schleswig. Petersberg, Michael Imhof Verlag 2023.
Printing subsidy

Anja Rasche / Nils Jörn Hansenetzwerk / Wismar City Archive
Conference proceedings: „650 Jahre Stralsunder Frieden: Warum Frieden? Warum Stralsund?“ Michael Imhof Verlag.
Printing subsidy

Raivis Sīmansons Rīga, Creative Museum
Dr. Raivis Sīmansons: “250 Years of Baltic Museum Tradition. The Legacy of Nicolaus von Himsel”.
Printing subsidy

Tomasz Torbus University of Gdańsk
Participation in the conference of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 9–11 March 2023: section “New Perspectives on the Hanse”.
Travel expenses

2022 Second Half

Dr.-des. Dipl.-Ing. Oxana Gourinovitch Berlin / Aachen, Deutschland
Oxana Gourinovitch: National Theater. Architecture of Soviet Modernism and Nation Building. Publication on the architectural history of Lithuania. University of Aachen.
Printing subsidy Book project / Dissertation

Dr. Kristina Jõekalda Tallinn, Estland
Kristina Jõekalda, Linda Kaljundi and Ulrike Plath: Der Gutshof als Phänomen. Fachübergreifende Zugänge zur baltischen Geschichte. 2023.
Printing subsidy / Book project

Prof. Dr. Jānis Kalnačs Lettland
On Gut Wolmarshof / Valmiermuiža in Livonia. Monograph on manor house architecture (Wolmarshof in Livonia).
Printing subsidy / Book project

Julian Bogenfeld Ludwigsburg, Deutschland
„Bombe“ by Zakarea Alsadi, a graduate of the renowned Ludwigsburg Film Academy. The film traces the life of the artist Volker Bombe, who was born in Pärnu, Estonia, and explores his roots.
Production costs for filming in Estonia

Dr. Dariusz Kacprzak Stettin, Polen
Annual conference of the Association of German and Polish Art Historians and Monument Conservators. Conference at the National Museum in Szczecin, 28 September–1 October 2022: „Das Museum in Mitteleuropa als Ort von Spannungen, als Konfliktfeld und Dialograum. Dinge – Akteure – Räume“
Travel and accommodation expenses / conference

2022 First Half

Sabine Bock Schwerin, Deutschland
Sabine Bock: Herrenhäuser. Manor houses. Entwicklung eines Bautyps im Ostseeraum 2, die Anfänge, Teil 2. Thomas-Hans-Verlag.
Printing subsidy

Rudolf Conrades Schwerin, Deutschland
Rudolf Conrades: Der Schweriner Dom. Imhof Verlag 2023.
Printing subsidy

Prof. Dr. Linda Kaljundi Tallinn, Estland
Estonian Academy of Arts. „Art of Science“ A multi-lingual research-based catalogue accompanying the transdisciplinary research project and exhibition in cooperation with KuMu Art Museum, University of Tartu Museum, and the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Printing subsidy

Luisa Radohs Münster, Deutschland
Luisa Radohs: „Urban Elite Culture. A Survey and Methodological Study of Aristocracy and Civic Elites in Sea-Trading Towns of the Southwestern Baltic (12th–14th c)”. Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, University of Aarhus.
Printing subsidy /Dissertation

Merike Kurisoo Tallinn, Estland
Research project „Michel Sittow in the North? Altarpieces in Dialogue“.
Travel expenses

Dr. Jochen Hermann Vennebusch Hamburg, Deutschland
University of Hamburg. Academic conference „Lübeck als Zentrum des spätmittelalterlichen Metallgusses“.

2021 Second Half

Marija Dremaite Vilnius Lithuania
Book publication on the work of the Lithuanian-German architect Arno Funk.
Printing subsidy

Jörg Hackmann Szczecin Poland
Conference „300 Jahre Frieden von Nystad. 10. Tallinner Symposium zur Kultur und Geschichte Nordosteuropas“, Tallinn City Archive, 8–10 September 2022.
Travel expenses

Lea Maria Montserrat Garcia Cologne, Germany
Research stay in Chicago (USA), Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture.
Travel expenses

2021 First Half

Jochen Vennebusch Hamburg, Germany
Jochen Hermann Vennebusch, Klaus Gereon Beuckers: Hans Apengeter. Norddeutscher Bronzeguss des 14. Jahrhunderts im Kontext. Schnell & Steiner 2022.
Printing subsidy

Mara Grudule Latvia
Garlieb Merkel (1769–1850) und Aufklärung.
Translation Latvian–German

Gutgesell, N. / Ziegler, H. Marburg, Germany
Conference „Zwischen Lex horti und Laissez-faire: Transgressionen im Garten der Vormoderne“, 4–6 November 2021. Wernigerode Castle.
Travel expenses

Sebastian Joost
Digital edition project „Korrespondenz einer Mäzenin – Die Briefe der Königin Sophie von Dänemark“
Travel scholarship

Anja Rasche / Nils Jörn
International and interdisciplinary conference: „Seit 650 Jahren: Warum Stralsund? Warum Frieden?“ Annual Conference of the Hansenetzwerk, 27–30 October 2021.
Support for the Hansa Network Annual Conference

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