Elisabeth Kieven

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Elisabeth Kieven (born September 18, 1947 in Osnabrück ) is a German art historian. From 1999 to 2014 she was director of the Bibliotheca Hertziana , the Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome .

Elisabeth Kieven's research focuses on the architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries in Italy ( Alessandro Galilei , Ferdinando Fuga ), in particular architectural drawings, as well as 18th century sculpture ( Pietro Bracci ).

Life

Elisabeth Kieven studied art history , history and archeology at the Universities of Münster , Bonn , Munich and Vienna . From 1978 to 1982 she was a research assistant and scholarship holder at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome ; In 1994 she took over a professorship at the Art History Institute of the University of Tübingen . In 1999 Kieven was appointed Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Director of the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute for Art History) in Rome, a position she held until her retirement in 2014. In addition, she was responsible for the conception and implementation of a number of exhibitions in Italy and Germany. In December 2014 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class .

Memberships

  • Member of the Academia Europaea (2007)
  • Member of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Studies
  • Accademico d'onore, Accademia di San Luca, Rome
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Fondazione per l'Arte della Compagnia di San Paolo, Turin
  • Consigliere di Amministrazione e membro del Comitato scientifico della Fondazione Magnani Rocca, Corte di Mamiano (Parma)
  • Consiglio Scientifico, Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza
  • Monument Council of the Regional Council, Tübingen
  • Member of the German Research Foundation

Fonts (selection)

  • (Ed.): From Bernini to Piranesi. Roman architectural drawings of the Baroque : Exhibition catalog Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, October 2 - December 12, 1993. - Hatje, Stuttgart: Hatje, 1993. ISBN 3-7757-0436-1
  • (Ed. With Giovanna Curcio): Il Settecento , 2 vols., Milan 2000. (Storia dell'architettura italiana; 17) ISBN 88-435-5886-2
  • (with John Pinto): Pietro Bracci and Eighteenth-Century Rome: Drawings for Architecture and Sculpture in the Canadian Center for Architecture and other Collections . University Park, Pa .: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2001. ISBN 0-271-02008-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see award of the Federal Cross of Merit to Prof. Elisabeth Kieven , accessed on February 25, 2015
  2. ↑ Directory of members: Elisabeth Kieven. Academia Europaea, accessed July 1, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Kieven, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück