Elisabeth Peters

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Elisabeth Peters (born December 28, 1964 in Birgden ) is a German art historian .

Life

She studied art history , classical archeology and French Philology and in 1994 was at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn with a thesis on Church wall painting of the 20s and 30s in the Rhineland and Westphalia doctorate .

Since then, Peters has been working as a freelance art historian. Her research focuses on the inventory of church art as well as on sacred architecture. She worked for various Roman Catholic dioceses and for the LVR Office for Monument Preservation in the Rhineland . Since 1999 she has also taken on the management of Christian-church-historical study trips to France and Italy for a tour operator based in Stuttgart .

She regularly gives lectures at conferences and seminars, including at her alma mater , at Mickeln Castle , at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , at Thomas More Academy in Bensberg and at the Catholic Academy St. Jakobushaus . In addition, she has already been interviewed several times on the television channel Phoenix as an expert on cultural-historical topics - for example in 2019 on the occasion of the fire at Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral and after the jewelery theft in Dresden's Green Vault .

Publications (selection)

  • Church wall painting in the Rhineland 1920–1940. A contribution to the history of the Cologne Institute for Religious Art . CMZ-Verlag, Rheinbach, 1996, ISBN 978-3-87062-026-4 .
  • A tent of God among the people . In: Heimatkalender des Kreis Heinsberg, 2002, p. 157.
  • Parish Church of the Holy Family Klinkum. Notes on pieces of equipment . 2006.
  • Emil Steffann's idea of ​​the central building . In: Hans Körner / Jürgen Wiener (eds.): “Liturgy as builder”? Modern sacral architecture and its equipment between function and form . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0356-2 , pages 105-116.
  • Fritz Schwerdt - "Usable, serving device" . In: Aachen Cathedral Chapter (ed.): Fritz Schwerdt - pioneer of modern sacred art . Catalog for the exhibition in the Aachen Cathedral Treasury June 13 - September 5, 2010, Aachen 2010, pp. 4–16.
  • Church wall painting in the Rhineland between 1920 and 1940 and the Institute for Religious Art in Cologne . In: Anne-Marie Bonnet / Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann / Klara Drenker-Nagels / Jasmin Grande (ed.): Christ. To rediscover the sacred in modern times . Düsseldorf University Press, Düsseldorf 2012, ISBN 978-3-943-46006-3 , pp. 157-177.
  • The textile devotional image. The embroidered Stations of the Cross by Wilhelm Rupprecht for St. Corpus Christi in Aachen . In: Hans Körner / Jürgen Wiener (eds.): Cult image and devotional image. Modern pictures in the Christian sacred space . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2013, ISBN 978-3-837-50898-7 , pp. 95-106.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile of Elisabeth Peters on the homepage of Biblische Reisen GmbH. Retrieved from biblische-reisen.de on November 27, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d Information on the seminar event "Francis of Assisi and the St. Francis Way". Retrieved from jakobushaus.de ( Catholic Academy St. Jakobushaus ) on November 27, 2019.
  3. ↑ Interview by Kathrin Augustin (Phoenix) with Elisabeth Peters on the fire in the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral on April 16, 2019. Accessed on youtube.com ( YouTube ) on December 15, 2019.
  4. ↑ Interview by Michael Sahr (Phoenix) with Elisabeth Peters on the theft of jewelery from Dresden on November 25, 2019. Accessed on youtube.com ( YouTube ) on December 15, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Birgden (Gangelt)