Annette Ahrens

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Annette Ahrens (* 1972 in Vienna ) is an Austrian art historian and expert on historical and contemporary table culture ( porcelain , silverware, etc.).

Ahrens grew up bilingual (German and Czech) and studied economics and art history in Prague and Vienna. She has been researching and trading in table decoration objects since 1700 (silver, porcelain, glass). Numerous publications - mainly catalog contributions as part of her work for the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Marton Museum in Zagreb, the Musée national de Céramique - Sèvres near Paris , as well as the Museum of Applied Arts in Prague and Brno. From 2006 to 2009 Ahrens completed a research assistantship at the Melinda and Paul Sullivan Foundation for the Decorative Arts in Hartford (Connecticut) (research field: the porcelain from the Viennese manufacture of Claudius Innocentius du Paquier ).

Works

Ahrens contributed to the design of numerous exhibitions and their catalogs, for example the following:

  • Budapest 2011: Exhibition catalog in Hungarian: “Fragile Harmony”, exhibition at Múzeum Iparművészeti, Budapest, June 16 - October 11, 2011
  • Prague 2011: "Porcelain as an expression of table culture" and "Porcelain from the silver collection in Vienna" in: Sojka, Jaroslav (ed.), Porcelán na Pražském hradě, Praha 2011
  • Munich 2011: “The imaginary garden at the table”, in: Selected Works, Early German Porcelain, Art and Facilities of the 18th Century, Röbbig Art Dealers Munich 2011
  • Vienna 2011: Texts in: Kräftner, Johann (ed.), Ceremonies, festivals, costumes, the Vienna porcelain figure in the reign of Maria Theresa, Liechtenstein Museum Vienna 2011
  • Venice 2011: “L'incanto dell'oro bianco. Porcelain from the Museo Marton “presente a Palazzo Querini Stampalia fino al 27 March 2011.
  • Venice 2010: Exhibition and catalog at Palazzo Querini-Stampaglia, Venice, 2010
  • Stuttgart 2009: Collaboration with: Meredith Chilton / Claudia Lehner-Jobst (eds.), Fired by Passion, Barockes Wiener Porzellan under Claudius Innocentius du Paquier, Stuttgart 2009
  • London 2008: Eighteenth century "Kaufruf" of the Viennese porcelain Manufactory in the Marton Collection in: Veljko Marton (ed.), European Porcelain from the Marton-Museum Collection, Embassy of Croatia, London 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kulturanahrade.cz/cs/vystavy/program/porcelan-na-prazskem-hrade-57.shtml (link not available)
  2. ↑ CEREMONIES, PARTIES, COSTUMES. THE VIENNA PORCELAIN FIGURE IN THE REGULATION OF MARIA THERESIAS ( Memento from December 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.querinistampalia.it/eventi/view.php?cms_pk=430&dir_pk=2
personal data
SURNAME Ahrens, Annette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna