Elisabeth Vavra

Elisabeth Vavra (* in Vienna ) is an Austrian art historian and exhibition curator .

Life

She studied art history and archeology at the University of Vienna and carried out research on material culture, image interpretation and iconography at the Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age . As a curator and advisor in numerous cultural studies exhibitions, she presents people's lives in the past from an everyday and women's history perspective. Since the 1980s, she has been exhibition curator at various Lower Austrian, Upper Austrian and Bavarian state exhibitions. Vavra was appointed director of the Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era in 2003 and held a management position at the Austrian Academy of Sciences until 2012 . She is the scientific director of the history department at the Lower Austrian State Museum and chair of the Lower Austrian Cultural Senate.

Awards

• 1982 Theodor-Körner-Förderungspreis
• 1989 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Prize of the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Foundation
• 1990 recognition award from the state of Lower Austria
• 2005 Culture Medal of the Province of Upper Austria
• 2012 Medal of Merit of the Province of Upper Austria
• 2013 Science Award of the State of Lower Austria
• 2014 professional title Professor
• 2014 Badge of Honor of the City of Krems

Fonts

Elisabeth Vavra is the author of numerous publications and editor of books and exhibition catalogs. She publishes in anthologies and journals, has created numerous subject-specific lexica articles and works on subject-related websites.

Web links

• Literature by and about Elisabeth Vavra in the catalog of the German National Library
• Elisabeth Vavra on the homepage of the Institut für Realienkunde
• Elisabeth Vavra in the database of renowned academics AcademiaNet

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Elisabeth Vavra, in: AcademiaNet website
2. ↑ Query of the literature database Regesta Imperii of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz