Sigrid Ruby

Sigrid Ruby (* 1968 ) is a German art historian .

Career

Sigrid Ruby studied art history , American studies and economics in Bonn , Frankfurt am Main and Cambridge from 1987 to 1994 . She completed her studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn with a thesis on Diane de Poitiers as an art patron. She received her doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1998 and qualified as a professor in 2007 .

From 1998 Ruby was a research assistant at the Institute for Art History at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . She held temporary substitute professorships at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Philipps University in Marburg , the Institute for Art History at the Saarland University and the University of Vienna . In the winter semester 2014/15 she accepted a professorship for art history at Saarland University. For the 2016/17 winter semester, she accepted the call of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, where she took on the role of director of the art history institute.

Ruby is co-founder of the joint project “ Prometheus - The distributed digital image archive for research and teaching”.

Web links

• The standard: Men say: Don't be like that, The Pin-Ups from Mel Ramos
• Texts about artː We had learned from the artists. ... an interview with Laszlo Glozer by Sigrid Ruby

Research interest

• French court art of the 16th and 17th centuries, American and Western European art after 1945, portrait culture, gender, art and ecology

literature

• Associated with power. Pictures of the Favorite in Renaissance France, Freiburg, 2010, ISBN 978-3-939348-18-4 .
• You look good for your age !: From the invisibility / invisibility of the aging body in the horizon of demographic change : multidisciplinary perspectives, with Sabine Mehlmann 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1321-6 .
• (En) gendered Early modern art discourse and female portrait culture north of the Alps with Simone Roggendorf 2004, ISBN 978-3-8944-5338-1 .
• Have We An American Art? - Presentation and reception of American painting in West Germany and Western Europe in the post-war period, VDG Weimar 1999, ISBN 978-3-8973-9058-4 .
• The portrait as a cultural practice, edited by Eva-Bettina Kraus, Transformation des Visuellen Volume 4, Berlin, Munich 2016, Deutscher Kunstverlag, ISBN 978-3-4220-7333-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Sigrid Ruby in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Saarland University, Saarbrückenː Sigrid Ruby
2. ↑ University of Vienna Sigrid Ruby ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Saarland University Sigrid Ruby
4. ↑ Justus Liebig University Giessen [1]