Daniela Stöppel

Daniela Stöppel is an assistant professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, where she teaches art history from the 19th to the 21st century. Her work focuses on the self-constitution of modern art, with links to the history of design, the writing of art history and the criticism of modernism at the time. Her highly acclaimed ‘Visuelle Zeichensysteme der Avantgarden 1910 bis 1950. Verkehrszeichen, Farbleitsysteme, Piktogramme’ (Silke Schreiber Verlag 2014) undertakes a genealogy of the reductionist aesthetics of signs and their connections to avant-garde movements. She has consistently focused on the modes, origins, and functions of visual communication, contributing numerous articles to magazines, exhibition catalogs, and conference volumes. Her lecture will explore how, after the imperative of abstraction, iconic figurative signs reemerged as a significant part of visual art in the 1920s.