Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte

The German Center for Art History (Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte or DFK Paris) is an independent art history research institute. Located in the heart of Paris, the DFK Paris is a forum for experts from around the world to exchange ideas. Here French and German intellectual traditions engage in a fruitful dialogue with international currents of thought, promoting innovative interdisciplinary research on the arts of both countries, viewed in a global context. From mediaeval to contemporary art, numerous topics are explored in research projects, fellowships and symposia; the results are then made available to a wider public through series published by the institute. The DFK Paris, like its partner institutes in Beirut, Istanbul, London, Moscow, Rome, Tokyo, Warsaw, and Washington, belongs to the Max Weber Foundation – Foundation of German Humanities Institutes Abroad (DGIA), a public-law foundation under the authority of the German federal government. The DFK Paris is funded through this foundation by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). History The German Center for Art History was founded in 1997 as a project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Its inception fulfilled a longstanding wish in the art history research community, to provide an institutional framework for studies on French art and its reception around the world.