Birgitt Borkopp-Restle

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Birgitt Borkopp-Restle (born 1958 ) is a German art historian and professor at the Institute for Art History at the University of Bern .

Life

Borkopp-Restle grew up in the Rhineland and attended the Marienberg high school in Neuss . She studied art history, English , Romance studies and Byzantine studies in Bonn . After completing her doctorate , she initially worked as an exhibition assistant at the Museum Schnütgen in Cologne , then as a trainee at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg . From 1993 to 2004 she was the curator for the textile and costume collection of the Bavarian National Museum in Munich and from 2005 to 2008 director of the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne .

Since the end of 2009, Borkopp-Restle has been a professor for the history of the textile arts (Werner and Margaret Abegg endowed professorship ). Borkopp-Restle is president of the Center International d´Etude des Textiles Anciens (CIETA) and chairwoman of the Ruth Bleckwenn Foundation for the promotion of textile and costume research.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The Aachen Canon Franz Bock and his textile collections. A contribution to the history of the applied arts in the 19th century. Abegg Foundation, Riggisberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-905014-39-6 (Also: Bonn, University, dissertation, 1991).
  • Textile treasures from the Renaissance and Baroque. From the collections of the Bavarian National Museum. With great joys, triumph and delicacy. Bavarian National Museum, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-925058-48-6 (inventory catalog).

As editor

  • Christin Losta. 'Toute la collection'. Photographs. Museum for Applied Art, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-9811342-0-6 (catalog for the exhibition in the Museum for Applied Art).
  • with Thomas Steppan: Lithostrōton. Studies in Byzantine art and history. Festschrift for Marcell Restle. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7772-0030-1 .
  • with Barbara Schellewald and Lioba Theis : Studies on Byzantine Art History. Festschrift for Horst Hallensleben for his 65th birthday. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1995, ISBN 90-256-1079-X .
  • with Marcell Restle , Barbara Schellewald, Lioba Theis and Thomas Steppan: Real Lexicon on Byzantine Art. Hiersemann, Stuttgart since 1994, ISBN 3-7772-6340-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for Art History: Prof. Dr. Birgitt Borkopp-Restle. Retrieved November 27, 2018 .
  2. ↑ CIETA: Le conseil de direction. Retrieved November 27, 2018 .
  3. ^ Ruth Bleckwenn Foundation: The board. Retrieved November 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Borkopp-Restle, Birgitt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1958