Larissa Dätwyler studied art history and philosophy at the University of Basel and graduated in 2017 with an MA thesis on the relationship between Cubism and machine aesthetics in the work of Fernand Léger. In 2022, she received her PhD with a dissertation on the history of ideas of pentimenti in French art discourse since 1750 and the visualization of revision processes in aesthetic modernism, particularly in the work of Henri Matisse. Since October 2022, she is a postdoctoral assistant at the Chair of Modern Art History. Her habilitation project deals with shame (and shamelessness) as an aesthetic category of European modernism.

2012-17 student assistant at the Institute of Philosophy (Chair of Practical Philosophy, Prof. Dr. A. Krebs), University of Basel; 2017-21 research assistant / doctoral candidate in the SNF-SINERGIA project “Media of Exactitude;” 2021-22 research assistant at the Institute of Art History, University of Basel.