Birgit Mersmann
Birgit Mersmann (* 1966 in Bonn ) is a German art historian .
Life
She studied art history and literature in Munich and Vienna . She did her doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a dissertation on media-critical aspects of postmodern iconoclasms. As Senior Researcher of the National Competence Center of Research “Iconic Criticism. The Power and Meaning of Images ”at the University of Basel (2005–2008) she examined iconoscripts as hybrid symbolic forms and intermedial expressions between image and writing. From 2015 to 2016 she was visiting professor for modern and contemporary art / aesthetic theory at the University of Cologne and from 2008 to 2015 assistant professor for non-western and European art at Jacobs University . Since October 2018 she has been professor for modern and contemporary art at the University of Duisburg-Essen .
Fonts (selection)
- Iconoclasm and book storm. Media-critical considerations on overpainting and overwriting in the 20th century . Würzburg 1999, ISBN 3-8260-1412-X .
- with Jutta Odenwälder: Notes from five directions . Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-930064-64-2 .
- Scriptural icon. Pictorial phenomena of writing in a comparative culture and media perspective . Paderborn 2015, ISBN 3-7705-5912-6 .
- as editor with Hans G. Kippenberg : The humanities between global integration and cultural diversity . Berlin 2016, ISBN 3-11-044075-X .
Web links
- Literature by and about Birgit Mersmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Prof. Dr. Birgit Mersmann
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mersmann, Birgit |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |