Berthold Kress
Academic Assistant

Berthold.Kress(at)sas.ac.uk

Berthold Kress studied in Munich (MA in History of Art, Medieval Latin and Paleography) and Cambridge (PhD in History of Art, Peterhouse). After research fellowships in Churchill and Corpus Christi Colleges, Cambridge and several months as a guest of the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University he joined the Warburg Institute in 2011.

He is currently working on three research projects: the completion of a monograph on the drawings and manuscripts made by the painter and ‘amateur theologian’ Paul Lautensack (1477/78-1558), the topic of his doctoral dissertation (supervised by Professor Jean Michel Massing); a catalogue of New Testament illustrations from 16th-century Germany; and a study on the reception of the Biblical Book of Daniel in Medieval culture and especially the visual arts (a topic going back to his MA dissertation, supervised by Professor Karl-August Wirth). Further research interests include manuscript illumination, early printed books and their illustrations, iconography and liturgy.

In the Warburg Institute he is working as an Academic Assistant on the digitization of the ‘Gods and Myths’ section of the Photographic Collection.

Publications:

‘A Relief by Peter Dell (1548) after a Drawing by Paul Lautensack and the Origins of the Term «Gnadenstuhl»’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 73 (2011), pp. 182-194.

‘From Elementary School to Divine Revelation. The Alphabets of Paul Lautensack’, Teaching Writing, Learning to Write: Proceedings of the XVIth Colloquium of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine held at The Institute of English Studies, University of London, 2-5 September 2008, ed. P. R. Robinson (King’s College London Medieval Studies, 22), London 2010, pp. 313-326.

‘Early Medieval Sources for Late Gothic Miniatures? The Illuminations on the Book of Daniel in the Duke of Alba’s Bible’, Codices Manuscripti 64/65 (2008), pp. 13-32.

‘Lautensack, Paulus I’, Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon, ed. Manfred H. Grieb, vol. 2, H-Pe. (München, 2007), p. 896sq.

‘An illuminated manuscript of the Concordantiae Caritatis reconstructed’, Scriptorium 60/1 (2006), pp. 96-106.

‘Iconography of German Universities’, The Escutcheon (Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society), 10/2 (Lent Term, 2005), pp. 20 – 22.

‘Noah, Daniel and Job – The Three Righteous Men of Ezekiel 14.14 in Medieval Art’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 67 (2004), pp. 259-267.

‘MS Marlay 9 in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 13/1 (2004), pp. 44-104.