Deborah Klimburg-Salter
Deborah Elisabeth Klimburg-Salter is an American art historian .
Life
She received her doctorate from Harvard University in 1976 and completed her habilitation in 1989 at the University of Vienna .
She was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study , the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and Magdalen College at Oxford University . She was visiting professor at various institutes: in 2003 at the University of Pennsylvania, in 2007 at the Oriental Institute at the University of Oxford and in 2007 at the École pratique des hautes études . She was the Mary L. Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professor of Humanities at Wellesley College from 2009-2010. Since 1996 she has been professor for non-European art history at the Institute for Art History at the University of Vienna.
Since 2003 she has been a member of the UNESCO International Coordinating Committee for the Cultural Heritage of Afghanistan. As part of the NFN, she also heads a joint program between the Kabul Museum and the University of Vienna and is a member of the executive committee of the Nako Preservation Project. In addition, she is Research Director for the Giuseppe Tucci Photographic Archive and guest curator for the Tucci Tibetan Collections (MNAO).
Her work included extensive fieldwork and writings on the art and archeology of Afghanistan, northern India and Tibet. In 2007 she was awarded the " Austrian of the Year 2007 - Research" prize for her exceptional achievements .
Fonts (selection)
- The silk route and the diamond path. Esoteric Buddhist art on the trans-Himalayan trade routes . Los Angeles 1982, OCLC 475273858 .
- The Kingdom of Bāmiyān. Buddhist art and culture of the Hindu Kush . Naples 1989, OCLC 923577241 .
- Buddha in India. The early Indian sculpture from King Aśoka to the Gupta period. Exhibition catalog Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, April 2 to July 16, 1995 . Vienna 1995, ISBN 88-8118-013-8 .
- as editor with Kurt Tropper and Christian Jahoda: Text, image and song in transdisciplinary dialogue. PIATS 2003. Tibetan studies. Proceedings of the tenth seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003 . Leiden 2007, ISBN 90-04-15549-X .
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Former chair (“Art History II”): Rudolf Eitelberger (1852–1885) | Alois Riegl (1897–1905) | Max Dvořák (1909–1921) | Julius von Schlosser (from 1922) | Hans Sedlmayr (from 1936) | Karl M. Swoboda (from 1946) | Otto Pächt (from 1963) | Hermann Fillitz (from 1974) | Hellmut Lorenz (from 1997) | Sebastian Schütze (from 2009)
Later chair (“Art History I”): Moritz Thausing (1873–1884) | Franz Wickhoff (1885–1909) | Josef Strzygowski (1909–1933) | Otto Demus (from 1963) | Günther Heinz (from 1976) | Friedrich Teja Bach (from 1994) | Sebastian Egenhofer (from 2016)
Further chairs and university professors: Otto Benesch (from 1948) | Fritz Novotny (from 1948) | Renate Wagner-Rieger (from 1964) | Gerhard Schmidt (from 1964) | Helmut Buschhausen (from 1975) | Artur Rosenauer (from 1976) | Deborah Klimburg-Salter (from 1996) | Michael Viktor Schwarz (from 1998) | Lioba Theis (from 2005) | Raphael Rosenberg (from 2009) | Julia Gelshorn (2010–2011) | Sebastian Egenhofer (2012–2013) | Markus Ritter (from 2012) | Noit Banai (from 2014) | Lukas Nickel (from 2016)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Klimburg-Salter, Deborah |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klimburg-Salter, Deborah Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |