Jiří Fajt

[3] In 2000 he left the National Gallery in Prague of his own accord, as an expression of disapproval of the then head of the NG, Milan Knížák and since then, worked in Germany where he also subsequently moved with his family.

Art and Culture in Central Europe 1450–1550 in the Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas at the University of Leipzig (GWZO), financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in Bonn (with Robert Suckale).

Comparative Study of Cultural Communication and Presentation, between 2011 and 2013 he was at the head of the scholarly research project, Presentation and memoria of the Late Medieval Monarchs in Central Europe: Art – Liturgy – History, 1250–1550 and from 2014 he has been in charge of the project entitled Courts of High Clergy and Magnates – Spiritual and Secular Princes at Rulers‘ Courts: Independence – Dependence – Relations, both financed by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung v Bonnu.

At the Research Institute in Leipzig, he initiated the start of a publication series entitled Studia Jagellonica Lipsiensia (by 2015, 18 volumes had been published, Thorbecke Verlag Ostfildern)[4] and of the critical edition, Kompass Ostmitteleuropa (by 2015, two volumes were published, Thorbecke Verlag Ostfildern), he is also in charge of the concept of the publication of the nine-volume Handbook of the Art History of Central-Eastern Europe (Handbuch zur Geschichte der Kunst in Ostmitteleuropa, first volume 2015/16, Deutscher Kunstverlag Berlin-München), he is the head of the projects of important international exhibitions and initiator of the infrastructure project of the digital internet platform, Monuments of Central-Eastern Europe (in collaboration with the Herder-Institut (Marburg) and Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, financed by Leibniz-Gemeinschaft).

[5] From 2001 he worked as a visiting professor at Technische Universität Berlin where in 2009 he habilitated with a publication, Der Nürnberger Maler Sebald Weinschröter im Netzwerk von Kaiserhof und Patriziat (1349–1365/70) (in 2009, he thus obtained in the field of art history the degree of Dr.