Charlotta Krispinsson

Education and Qualifications

I am an art historian at Södertörn University in Sweden. I completed my Ph.D. in Art History at Stockholm University in 2016 with a dissertation on national portrait collections and late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art historical writings on early modern portraiture.

From 2019 to 2022, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Art and Visual History at the Humboldt University in Berlin, alongside a postdoctoral position in media history in the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University in Sweden. This three-year international postdoctoral research position was funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) and focused on copies and copying practices in 17th-century painting in Northern Europe.

In spring 2023, I was also a research fellow at the Rubenianum, Research Institute for Flemish Art of the 16th and 17th Centuries, in Antwerp, Belgium.

In addition to my research I have tought art history at several universities in Sweden (Stockholm University, Södertörn University, Uppsala University and Umeå University) from 2012 until now (2025). I have also presented my research at numerous international conferences, the details of which are listed below.

Information about my publications can be accessed via the 'Publications' link above, and they are also listed below.

Current Research

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Additional Research Interests and Specialisations

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Curriculum Vitae, abbreviated

2023-2025 - Senior Lecturer in Art History, Umeå University

2023 - Visiting scholar, Rubenianum, Antwerp

2019-2023 - International Postdoc, Department of Art and Visual History, Humboldt University, funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet)

2018-2019 - Senior Lecturer in Art History, Uppsala University

2011-2016 - Ph.D. in Art History, Stockholm University

Languages: Swedish, English, German

List of Publications

Books

• Historiska porträtt som kunskapskälla: Samlingar, arkiv och konsthistorieskrivning Länk till annan webbplats., diss. Stockholm, Nordic Academic Press, Lund, 2016.

Editor

• Sara Callahan, Anna-Maria Hällgren & Charlotta Krispinsson (eds.), “A Farewell to Critique? Reconsidering Critique as Art Historical Method,” Konsthistorisk tidskrift / Journal of Art History, vol. 89, no. 2, 2020.

Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• “Copying Peter Paul Rubens: Religious Painting after Prints in Norway (1630-1650),” Länk till annan webbplats. Oud Holland, vol. 138, no. 1, 2025.
• “Image Circulation and Copying Practices: Painting and Print in seventeenth-century Antwerp,” in Marie Cronqvist & Sune Bechmann Pedersen (eds.), Expanding Media Histories: Cultural and Material Perspectives Länk till annan webbplats., Nordic Academic Press, Lund, 2023.
• ”Striving for Close Resemblance or Creative Improvements: On Painted Copies and Workshop Replicas from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century in Swedish Art History,” Konsthistorisk tidskrift /Journal of Art History, vol. 91, no. 4, 2022.
• “Studies of Early Modern Portraiture,” in Britt-Inger Johansson & Ludwig Qvarnström (eds.), Swedish Art Historiography: Institutionalization, Identity and Practice Länk till annan webbplats., Nordic Academic Press, Lund, 2022.
• ”Three Portrait Multiples of Margareta Eriksdotter Vasa from the German Renaissance” in Maria Gamita, Ann-Marie Jordan, Fernando Pereira (eds.), On Portraiture = O retrato : Teoria, prática e ficção : de Francisco de Holanda a Susan Sontag, Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas Artes, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, University of Lisbon, 2022.
• "The Painter as Professional Observer: Eye-witnessing through Portraiture in early Twentieth-Century Art Historiography." in Claudia Hattendorff & Lisa Beißwanger (eds.), Augenzeugenschaft als Konzept: Konstruktionen von Wirklichkeit in Kunst und visueller Kultur seit 1800 Länk till annan webbplats., transcript Verlag, 2019.
• ”Temptation, Resistance, and Art Objects: On the Lack of Material Theory within Art History before the Material Turn,” Länk till annan webbplats. Artium Quaestiones, vol. XXVIV, 2018.

Reviews, Essays and other Articles

• “An intellectual biography on Felix Horb, a Viennese émigré and art historian in Stockholm”, Konsthistorisk tidskrift /Journal of Art History, vol. 92, no. 4, 2023. (A review of Peter Gillgren, Felix Horb: Konsthistoriska prövningar, 2022.)
• “Interpreting Art”, Konsthistorisk tidskrift /Journal of Art History, vol. 92, no. 3, 2023. (A review of Same Rose, Interpreting Art, 2022.)
• “Cederström och historiemåleriet”, ESSÄ, no. 15–16, 2022.
• ”The True Image” Länk till annan webbplats., Kunsthistorisk bogliste, no. 14, 2018.
• ”Collecting Faces: Art History and the Epistemology of Portraiture. The Case of the Swedish Portrait Archive” Länk till annan webbplats., Sensorium Journal, no. 1, 2016.
• ”Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Concept of Image Vehicles. ‘Bilderfahrzeuge’: On the Migration of Images, Forms and Ideas. London 13-14 March 2015”, Konsthistorisk tidskrift, vol. 84, no. 4, 2015.
• "The Challenge of the Object. CIHA:s (Congrès International d'Histoire de l'Art) 33:e internationella kongress för konstvetare. Nürnberg 15–20 juli 2012.", Konsthistorisk tidskrift, vol. 81, no. 2, 2012.
• "Catharina Nolin: En svensk lustgårdskonst - Lars Israel Wahlman som trädgårdsarkitekt, Stockholm 2008", Konsthistorisk tidskrift, vol. 80, no. 1, 2011.

Conferences

Sessions

• Pre-modern Art Histories of Migration and Exchange: Moving images, objects, and artistic expressions from, to, and between the Nordic Countries”, NORDIK 2025 Länk till annan webbplats., University of Helsinki, 20-22 October. Head of session together with Ylva Haidenthaller (Lund University) and Clara Strömberg (Stockholm University). (Upcoming).
• “Not just Art: Pre-Modern Collections and Collecting.” NORDIK 2022, Online, 26–28 oktober.
  Head of session together with Ylva Haidenthaller (Lund University).
  
• “A Farewell to Critique? Reconsidering Critique as Art Historical Method.”, NORDIK 2018, Copenhagen University, 25-27 October. Head of session together with Sara Callahan (Malmö University) and Anna-Maria Hällgren (Umeå University).
• “Expanding Perspectives in the Study of Art Historiography.”, NORDIK 2015, University of Iceland, 14-17 May. Head of session together with Hans Hayden (Stockholm University).

Papers

• “What an early portrait of Queen Christina might tell us about the Renaissance in the Nordic countries”, NORDIK 2025, University of Helsinki, October 20-22, 2025. (Upcoming).
• “Elias Fiigenschough: The Norwegian painter who only copied prints after Rubens.”, Tout le monde pour ma patrie: Rubens and the World Länk till annan webbplats., Rubenshuis, Antwerp, May 5-6, 2025.
• “Repetition and Imitation. On Portraiture in Sweden in the First Half of the 17th”, Art on Demand: Objects, Knowledge and Ideas from the Low Countries in Sweden Länk till annan webbplats., RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague, 16 May, 2024.

• “Painting in Norway in the seventeenth Century Länk till annan webbplats..”, The 70th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, 21-23 March, 2023.

• “Three Portrait Multiples of Margareta Eriksdotter Vasa from the German Renaissance.”, On Portraiture. Theory, Practice and Fiction. From Francisco de Holanda to Susan Sontag Länk till annan webbplats., University of Lisbon, 17-19 January, 2022.
  

• “Painted Copies and Views on Authenticity in seventeenth-century Sweden.”, Faking it. Forgery and Fabrication in Early Modern and Late Medieval Culture, University of Gothenburg, 15-17 August, 2019.

• “Svensk porträttforskning: Metoder, arkiv och begrepp.”, Hundra år av svensk konsthistoria – och sen?, Uppsala University, 13-14 June, 2019.

• “Copies and Replicas in 17th century Northern Europe: Image, Medium, and Practice.”, New Methodologies of Media History, KU Leuven, 4-5 April, 2019.

• “Early twentieth-century Curatorial Strategies to Enhance the Power or Portraiture: Ludwig Justi and the National Portrait Gallery in Berlin 1913 1933.” CAA’s 2019 Annual Conference Länk till annan webbplats., New York, 13-16 February, 2019.
  
• “In the Presence of Great Men: The German National Portrait Gallery 1913-1933.”, Portraiture, Durham University, Durham, England, 13-15 July, 2018.

• “Images of Learned and Great Men: Admiration and Secular Idol Worship as Aesthetic Experience.”, Aesthetic Experience in Early Modern Cultures, The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities (Vitterhetsakademien), Stockholm, 26-27 October, 2017.

• “Portraiture as Eyewitnessing in Art Historiography from 1885 to 1930.”, ‘On the Spot at the Time’: Eyewitnessing and Authenticity in the Visual Arts, c. 1800-2000, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, 28-30 September, 2017.
  

• “In the Presence of Great Men: The German National Portrait Gallery 1913-1933.”, Art and Presence, University of Southern Denmark & Faaborg Museum, Odense, Denmark, 15-16 September, 2017.
  

• ”Das Bildnis in der Kunstgeschichtsschreibung und in der kunstwissenschaftlichen Forschung ca. 1900-1940”, Das Bildnis zwischen Staatsporträt und Selfie, Seminarzentrum Gut Siggen, Alfred Toepfer Stiftung, Heringsdorf, Germany, 14-19 August, 2017.

• ”Collecting Faces: Art Historians and the Epistemology of Portraiture. The Case of the Swedish Portrait Archive.”, A Medium is a Medium is a Medium, Linköping University, Sweden, 18-19 September, 2015.

• ”The Concept of Iconography in Portrait Research prior to Panofsky.”, Reconsidering the Origins of Portraiture, Jagellionian university, Krakow, Poland, 16-18 April, 2015.

• “Making History Present: The Display of National Portrait Collections at Castles.”, Nordik 2012, Stockholm University, Sweden, 24-27 October, 2012.