Ebba cook

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Ebba Koch (born February 13, 1944 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian art historian . Her research focus is on studying the culture and architecture of the Mughal Empire , in particular the history of architecture .

Life

Ebba Koch studied at the University of Vienna , where she was awarded her doctorate and habilitation . She is a private lecturer in art history at the University of Vienna, holds the title of university professor and was a senior researcher at the Institute for Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

In 2001 she was an architectural consultant for the Taj Mahal Conservation Collaborative . From 2005 to 2009 she was Austrian delegate in the Management Committee of the COST Action A36 of the European Commission, "Network of Comparative Empires: Tributary Empires Compared: Romans, Mughals and Ottomans in the Pre-Industrial World from Antiquity till the Transition to Modernity".

research

Her research focus is on studying the culture and architecture of the Mughal Empire . Koch is regarded as a leading expert in Mughal architecture . In her research she combines cultural, political, social and economic aspects.

Mughal art

Koch's research has made a decisive contribution to the historical understanding of the early modern development of India. In collaboration with the Indian architect Richard A. Barraud, she carried out a large-scale study of the palaces and gardens in Shah Jahan's epoch . She reconstructed the historic Mughal city of Agra and produced the first comprehensive documentation of the Taj Mahal . This work created one of the largest archives of photographs and drawings of Islamic architecture on the Indian subcontinent .

She has also created an archive of applied arts and painting in the Mughal Empire . Here she shows connections between Europe and Mughal India, which are expressed in the political symbolism of both continents.

methodology

In her work, Koch uses art as a historical basis. This interdisciplinary approach enables political and ideological concepts to be examined in relation to their historical significance in an era. Architecture and art are seen here as a form of communication. A topos of symbols is created which, like language and literature, provide informative references to the zeitgeist.

As a technique she uses the formalistic view of art . Aesthetic elements of painting and applied arts, architectural form, gardens and urban planning elements provide important information about life in that time, using aspects documented in writing.

Research funding

Research funding for studies of the architecture of the Indian subcontinent:

  • Anniversary fund of the Austrian National Bank: 1982, 1994, 1997, 1999
  • Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research: 1982, 1984, 1987, 1989
  • of the Federal Ministry of Science and Research: 1992
  • of the Federal Ministry for Education and Cultural Affairs: 1997.
  • 2009–2012: FWF Austrian Science Funds, project P 21480 "Mughal palaces"

Fellowships and visiting professorships

  • 1998: Hagop Kevorkian Lectureship in Near Eastern Art and Civilization, New York University.
  • 1998: Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Department of Arabic Studies of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University in Cairo.
  • 2002: Fellowship of the Aga Khan Program for the Study of Islamic Architecture at Harvard University.
  • 2008: Visiting Professor, Khalili Center, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford University
  • 2008–09: Visiting Professor (fall term), Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
  • September 2012 - January 2013 visiting professor at Boğazici University, Istanbul

Publications (selection)

  • Shah Jahan and Orpheus. The Pietre Dure Decoration and the Program of the Throne in the Hall of Public Audiences at the Red Fort of Delhi , Graz, Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1988
  • Dara Shikoh Shooting Nilgai. Hunt and Landscape in Mughal Painting. , Freer Occasional Paper, New Series 1. Washington DC: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. 1998.
  • Mughal Architecture. An Outline if Its History and Development , Munich: Prestel, 1991; 2nd ed. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • with Milo C. Beach and Wheeler Thackston: King of the World. The Padshahnama, an Imperial Mughal Manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle , London: Azimuth Editions and Washington DC: Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution 1997
  • Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology , New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2001.
  • The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra , London: Thames and Hudson 2006.

Koch publishes scientific articles and anthologies on Indian and Islamic culture, u. a. in The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/dozenteninnen/koch-ebba/
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oeaw.ac.at
  3. ^ Marianne Fischer, “Radio Interview (live) The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra with journalist Ferguss Nicoll”, BBC “The World Today”, September 13, 2006
  4. ↑ TV interview (English) with journalist Stephen Grant about the Taj Mahal and The Complete Taj Mahal for the program "Daily Planet", Discovery Channel Canada, December 13, 2006
  5. ↑ Narayani Gupta, Ira Pande, "A Conversation with Ebba Koch", India International Center Quarterly (Autumn 2007), pp. 138-150.
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oeaw.ac.at
  7. ↑ http://pf.fwf.ac.at/en/research-in-practice/project-finder/19898

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personal data
SURNAME Koch, Ebba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt