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Sandoz Family Foundation - Monique de Meuron Programme for the encouragement of up-and-coming academics

A new award-winning professor: Frédéric Elsig, art historian, University of Geneva

Lausanne, December 19th 2008 - Frédéric Elsig of the University of Geneva will be the next beneficiary of the Sandoz Family Foundation - Monique de Meuron Programme for the encouragement of up-and-coming academics. The 2008 recruitment competition focused on the history of art. It was open to the universities of Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne and Neuchâtel. The Foundation brought in three external experts to assess the candidates: professors Christine Peltre (University of Strasbourg), Oskar Bätschmann (University of Berne) and Gosbert Schüssler (University of Passau).

Born in Sion in 1972, Frédéric Elsig studied humanities at the University of Geneva, majoring in the history of medieval art. His dissertation was entitled Painting in the Savoie. From 1997 to 2003 he lectured at the same university, where he wrote a doctoral thesis entitled Hieronymus Bosch: the question of chronology under the supervision of Prof. Jean Wirth. He has been senior lecturer in the history of art at the University of Geneva since 2003.

Frédéric Elsigs research focuses mainly on the modern period, more precisely on European painting of the 15th and 16th centuries. It centres on what is known as connoisseurship: the taste and talent to appreciate the arts. His interests centre on two themes: on the one hand artistic geography and stylistic exchanges, on the other the social history of art that seeks to illuminate phenomena related to the market. In his new capacity Frédéric Elsig will concentrate entirely on a project entitled Painting in France during the Renaissance. On the basis of archive documents, he will work on a new definition of the craft of the painter √ taking a particular interest in stainedglass and tapestry techniques. His research will culminate in an exhibition in the Musée des Beaux-arts in Lyon in 2012, on the theme of artistic production in the city in the 16th century. This research will be a valuable resource for students working on dissertations and theses.

The Sandoz Family Foundation has funded the salaries of assistant professors and their collaborators since 2000, with the objective of supporting up-and-coming academics in the universities of French-speaking Switzerland, including the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. This programme is very highly valued by the universities concerned, which vie with each other in healthy competition to benefit from it. So far ten professors at the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva have benefited from the programme, and so has the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Its support is available in a variety of fields: physics, biology, chemistry, history, French, geography.

Contact for enquiries: Prof. Pierre Ducrey, representative of the Sandoz Family Foundation on the programme for the next generation of university teachers, University of Lausanne, phone +41 (0)21 692 30 41, e-mail Pierre.Ducrey(at)unil.ch.

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