For admittance to the master’s program applicants need to fulfill the following admission requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in art history or equivalent university degree with credit points in art history corresponding to the program at Freie Universität Berlin with at least 60 credit points.

• Proof of English language skills (level B1 CEFR).

• Proof of another modern foreign language (level B1 CEFR) or Latin language skills.

The DSH - or German Language University Entrance Exam for Foreign Students - is obligatory for all applicants whose first language is not German and who have earned their initial degree from a university (or equivalent institution) where the language of instruction is not German.

Students do not pay any tuition fees, the university only charges semester fees and contributions each semester.

Art history addresses and compares historic and contemporary objects of artistic production across genres – including image production not intended as art – and architecture from different regions and cultures. These are interrogated in terms of their aesthetic structure, content, preconditions, contexts, functions, and modes of production and reception under the specific historical, cultural, and political conditions of the respective societies. In the concentration on Europe and America, the objects and production contexts of art (across genres) from late antiquity to the present are discussed and analyzed.