Anja Zimmermann

Anja Zimmermann (* 1968 ) is a German art historian .

Life

She studied art history, empirical cultural studies and education in Würzburg and Tübingen . After completing her doctorate in 1999 at the University of Tübingen ( Konrad Hoffmann ) on Abject Art, she was a freelancer at the New Museum of Contemporary Art from 1996 to 1999 . From 1999 to 2005 she was a research assistant for art history at the University of Hamburg . After completing her habilitation in 2006 at the University of Hamburg (Aesthetics of Objectivity), she held substitute professorships and teaching positions in Hamburg, Klagenfurt , Bern , Vienna and Zurich from 2006 to 2012 . From 2009 to 2012 she was a Heisenberg scholar at the University of Oldenburg , Institute for Art History and Visual Culture. From 2013 to 2014 she was a professor at the LMU .

Her focus is on modern and contemporary art and art history with a focus on art and natural sciences; Gender Studies and History of Science.

Scandalous pictures - scandalous bodies. Abject art from Surrealism to Culture Wars . Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01226-9 .
as editor: Art history and gender. An introduction . Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-496-01309-5 .
Aesthetics of Objectivity. Genesis and function of a scientific and artistic style in the 19th century . Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89942-860-5 .
as editor: Biological Metaphors. Between art, art history and science in modern times and modern times . Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-496-01480-5 .