Name
THOMSEN, Hans Bjarne
Position and Affiliated Institution
University of Zurich, Professor and Chair of Section for East Asian Art History
Degree
PhD
Education and Academic Employment
| 2007 – present | University of Zurich, Zurich, Professor and Chair |
| 2003 – 2007 | University of Chicago, Chicago, Assistant Professor |
| Education: | |
| 2005 | Ph.D, Japanese Art and Archaeology, Princeton University |
| 2000 | M.A., Princeton University |
| 1998-2005 | Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey |
| 1997 | M.A. with honors in East Asian Art History, University of Kansas |
| 1996-1998 | University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas |
| 1995-1996 | Hanazono University, Kyoto, Japan |
| 1981-1982 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany |
| 1981 | B.A., English Literature and Chemistry, Colorado College |
| 1978-1981 | Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado |
Research Topic
Disaster Art: Roles of Japanese Art in Responding to Natural and Man-made Calamities
Fields of Research Interests
East Asian art history, Japanese art history, East Asian woodblock prints, salon culture, ceramic arts, inter-cultural transfers, reception histories, Buddhist arts, gender studies, collection histories, museology, material culture studies
Academic Publications
- Japanische Holzschnitte / Japanese Woodblock Prints: aus der Sammlung Ernst Grosse. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2018.
- Haiku Surimono Collection Album of the Old Man Baimin, Vol 1. Diessenhofen: edition A-Z, 2019 (English and German editions)
- Giappone L’arte nel quotidiano: Manufatti mingei della Collezione Jeffrey Montgomery / Crafted Japan: Aspects of Mingei in the Jeffrey Montgomery Collection. (co-edited with Risella Menegazzo and Gianna A. Mina) Ligornetto: Museo Vincenzo Vela, 2019.
- “Japanese Bronze Bells in Switzerland: Global Travel and Local Interpretations.” Global Europe – Basel Papers on Europe in a Global Perspective 220 (2021), pp. 13-36
- “The Collection of Japanese Ceramics in the Musee Ariana, as Compared with Those in Other Museums,” in Ana Quintero Perez and Stanislas Anthonioz, eds., Chrysanthèmes, Dragons et Samouraïs / Chrysanthemums, Dragons and Samurai. Geneva: Editions Georg, 2020, pp. 19-32
Affiliated Academic Organizations
- Global Consortium for Japanese Textual Scholarship 日本古典籍研究国際コンソーシアム
- Swiss Japanese Society (board member)
- Network of Chinese Collections in Europe (board member)
- European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (board member)
- Executive Master in Art Market Studies, University of Zurich (executive committee)
- Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens
- Swiss Japanese Chamber of Commerce
- Japanese Society for Gender History ジェンダー史学会
- Kulturelle Gesellschaft Republik Korea-Schweiz
- Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Skandinavische Studien
- European Japan Experts Association, e.V.
- American Numismatic Society
- Association for Korean Studies in Europe
- European Asia-Pacific network of Research and Expertise
- Association of Print Scholars
- Association for Asian Studies
- College Art Association
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin
- European Association for Japanese Studies
- International House of Japan 国際文化会館
- Japanese Art Historians Forum
- Japanese Art Society of America
- Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA)
- Pre-Modern Japanese Studies
- Verein Textilmuseum, St Gallen
- Society for Japanese Arts, Netherlands
Awards
2019 Order of the Rising Sun 旭日小綬章
2001-3 Fulbright Scholarship for doctoral research in Japan
Other Interests
Reading books, making jam, raising children
