Hans and Lea Grundig Award 2015. Special commendation in the field of theory by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation for "Essays on aesthetic experience in the work of Anselm Kiefer" [Germany, Berlin, 26.11.2015].

Public review / Commentary by Lambert Wiesing, philosopher from the Friedrich Schiller University, 2009, in Jena, Germany on the perceptual-philosophical approach of Martina Sauer in the succession of cultural anthropological oriented philosophy of Ernst Cassirer: "Perception of meaning before any verbal or intellectual formulation," in: Art History. Open Peer Reviewed Journal: http://www.kunstgeschichte-ejournal.net/56/ [12/2009]

PhD degree 1998 with magna cum laude from the University of Basel, faculty of history and philosophy, department "Kunstwissenschaft", supervised by Prof. Dr. Gottfried Boehm. Topic of the doctoral thesis: "Cézanne - van Gogh - Monet. Genese der Abstraktion," 2nd ed., Heidelberg University Library 2014: https://doi.org/10.11588/artdok.00002573

Socrates Fellowship 1986-87 at the Sorbonne in Paris, France.

Peggy Guggenheim Fellowship in April 1986 at the Museum in Venice, Italy.

Master's degree with honors 1989 from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany with a major in art history and minors in classical archaeology and philosophy. Topic of the master's thesis: "Color and Form" in Cézanne's late work. A contribution to the image valence of landscape paintings using the example of the "Rochers près des grottes au-dessus de Chateau Noir".