Dr. Zoltán Somhegyi has been teaching at university level since 2007.
His previous and current courses include a wide range of topics on both the theoretical and practical aspects of art and architecture history, art theory and contemporary art and market trends. Some of these were classical survey courses, concentrating on particular periods or on the modification of certain subjects and themes of art history (e.g. contemporary art trends, curatorial issues, questions of museology and collecting, art fairs and biennales, history of landscape painting, portrait painting, ruins in art). Other courses examined the art and architecture of specific regions or cities (MENASA region, Turkey, Venice, Berlin). These courses sometimes resulted in site trips and excursions abroad. He also lectured on the relationship of art history with other disciplines (philosophy, literature, ethnography), as well as the historiography of art history and of aesthetics (from Pliny to Panofsky) and the changing concept of art and artwork. Last but not least, he lectured on the history and aesthetics of applied arts.


​Courses taught previously:

2023-2024 – Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
Sources of art history
Nature, landscape and the city – Art and environmental aesthetics
Aesthetics and philosophy of art
History and methodology of art history in the 20th century I.
​History and methodology of art history in the 20th century II.

2022-2023 – Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
Ruins between nature and culture – Arts and aesthetics of decay
Methodological seminar
Philosophy of art
Modern and contemporary art
Nature, landscape and the city – Art and environmental aesthetics
Aesthetics and philosophy of art
History and methodology of art history in the 20th century I.
​History and methodology of art history in the 20th century II.

2021-2022 – Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
Ruins between nature and culture – Arts and aesthetics of decay
Methodological seminar: Tradition and innovation in art from Michelangelo to C. D. Friedrich
Philosophy of art
Modern and contemporary art
Nature, landscape and the city – Art and environmental aesthetics
Aesthetics and philosophy of art
History and methodology of art history in the 20th century I.
​History and methodology of art history in the 20th century II.

2020-2021 – Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
Philosophy of art
Modern and contemporary art
Methodological seminar: Tradition and innovation in art from Michelangelo to C. D. Friedrich
Ruins between nature and culture – Arts and aesthetics of decay
Aesthetics and philosophy of art
History and methodology of art history in the 20th century I.
​Landscapes of admiration. Art and environment from the mythical ages to the Anthropocene

2019-2020 – University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Variations on the sublime – Nature, city and the Anthropocene
Aesthetics reinterpretations in art and design
Cultural studies for interior design, graphic design and fashion design students
History of art and design I.

2018-2019 – University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Art and memory – On ruins, monuments and reconstruction
From Nature to the city – Landscape and urban aesthetics
Cultural studies research project
Cultural studies for interior design and graphic design students
​History of world arts and study skills I. – Prehistory to Renaissance

2017-2018 – University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Fragment, torso, ruin – Art and aesthetics from and around decay
Cultural studies research project
Cultural Studies for interior design, graphic design and fine arts students
History of world arts and study skills I. – Prehistory to Renaissance 

2016-2017 – University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Landscape, garden, park, land art – Interactions between Nature, art and design
Cultural studies research project
Cultural studies for interior design, graphic design and fine arts students
History of world arts and study skills I. – Prehistory to Renaissance 

2015-2016 – University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Contemporary Art in the MENASA Region and in Central Asia
History of world arts and study skills II. – Renaissance to contemporary art
Cultural studies research project
Cultural studies for interior design students

2014-2015 – University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
The aesthetics of ruins
Cultural studies research project
Cultural Studies for interior design, graphic design, fashion design and fine arts students

2013-2014 – Izmir University, Turkey
Art and architecture history III. – 19th century to Contemporary
Art and architecture history II. – Middle Ages to Romanticism

2012-2013 – Izmir University, Turkey
Art and architecture history I. – Antiquity to Middle Ages

2012-2013 – University of Szeged, Hungary
Cultural memory
Berlin and the arts
The future of Antiquity
Academic writing
The East and the Arts
From Rococo to Romanticism – Arts of the 18th century
The aesthetics and history of portrait painting

2011-2012 – University of Szeged, Hungary
The history and theory of art history from Pliny to Panofsky
Images within the images
The problem of the ruins in aesthetics and in arts
Venice in the arts – The arts in Venice
Art and art theory in the age of Goethe
Art and its market
The changing concept of art and artwork in the 20th century
History and theory of arts and architecture

2010-2011 – SZIE University, Szarvas, Hungary
Nature and art
Pictorial symbols and symbolism in art
Introduction to ethnography
Fine arts and literature – An analysis of their relationship
European art and architecture history

2007-2009 – Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Contemporary art and the art market
European arts and architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries
Arts and architecture from the Antiquity to the Renaissance
​Introduction to the history of arts and architecture