Frances is a third-year doctoral student in Art History, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her thesis examines representations of Heimat (home) and Heimatlosigkeit (homelessness) in twentieth-century German landscape painting.
She is interested in the relationship between art and national identity, and specifically how this was expressed through landscape in twentieth-century Germany. Her research seeks to explore the resonances of Romanticism and ecological consciousness in twentieth-century German art, and how these informed discourses of loss and belonging throughout this conflict-riven period.
Prior to commencing doctoral study, Frances worked as a provenance researcher of Nazi-looted art for the British Museum and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, and on a retrospective of Thomas Schütte for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She holds a BA in Modern & Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge and an MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, both with distinction.
