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Eva-Maria Höhle (née Zimmermann ; born March 16, 1948 in Helmstedt ) is an Austrian art historian .

Life

In 1960 Eva-Maria Höhle moved to Vienna on the occasion of her mother's marriage to the Austrian manager Rudolf Köck , where she continued the school education that had begun in Schöningen and Hanover from 1960 to 1966 at the Wasagasse humanistic high school and graduated in 1966 with the Matura. From 1966 to 1975 she studied at the University of Vienna art history and classical archeology and earned his doctorate in 1975 for Dr. phil.

After her first professional activity as a research assistant at the University of Vienna (1971 to 1975) she became an assistant there and in 1977 moved to the Federal Monuments Office , initially to the State Conservatory for Vienna. In 1990 she was appointed State Curator for Vienna, in 2002 General Curator of the Republic of Austria, which she remained until her retirement in 2010.

Höhle was from 1990 to 2002 a member of the Old Town Conservation Fund (ad functionam), 2006–2010 (founding) member of the European Heritage Heads Forum (EHHF) (ad functionam) and from 2005 to 2009 a member of an international advisory body for the preparation of the counts Parks in Kassel a world cultural heritage . She has been a board member of the Sigmund Freud Society since 1992 and a member of the Vienna Restitution Commission from 2001 (ad personam since it was founded). Since 2003 she has also been teaching at the Danube University Krems . From 2007 to 2011 she was President of the Vienna Guitar Festival . She has had a seat and vote on the Supervisory Board of the Sigmund Freud Private Foundation since 2003 and has been President of the Sigmund Freud Society since 2008 .

Höhle lives in Vienna and Gars am Kamp . Her brother-in-law is the lawyer Peter Rummel , her nephew the cellist Martin Rummel .

Restorations

During her time as a state curator, a number of exemplary, internationally recognized restorations, which were associated with technological and methodological innovations and in which Eva-Maria Höhle played a leading role:

• Schönbrunn Palace (including exterior restoration, million room, small gallery, Bergl room, Gisela apartments, Gloriette , Roman ruins, obelisk fountain , Neptune fountain , hedge walls on the large ground floor of the park, zoo)
• Belvedere Palace : u. a. entire exterior restoration
• Hofburg : u. a. Large and Small Redoutensaal after the fire disaster of 1992, showrooms, Albertina .
• New building : first large-scale building research in Austria
• Securing work: Palais Kinsky , Palais Liechtenstein , Palais Harrach , Palais Schwarzenberg , Palais Coburg
• St. Stephan : west portal (giant gate) with scientific research including archaeological and architectural studies, south tower, tomb of Rudolf the donor, Wiener Neustädter altar .
• the three large baroque domed churches of Vienna and other total restorations: St. Peter's Church , Karlskirche , Salesian Church , Steinhofkirche, Steinhof with theater, sick pavilions, Minoritenkirche (outside), Maria am Gestade , Schottenkirche , Kirche am Hof , Votive Church (methodical and economic preparation and start of work) , Altlerchenfelder parish church (outside and inside).
• Further restorations and general renovations: Old AKH on the university campus, court stables and MuseumsQuartier , (overall) restorations in the ring area (including university , parliament with Palais Epstein , Burgtheater , art and natural history museum , Wiener Musikverein , Wiener Konzerthaus , buildings by Otto Wagner , Adolf Loos ), systematic general renovations of community buildings from the interwar period ("Viennese superblocks")

Eva-Maria Höhle's activity as curator-general was characterized by a number of special tasks and problems in addition to the usual tasks ("highest professional authority in all questions relating to the preservation of monuments"):

• Mission statement process in the Federal Monuments Office
• Head of an international working group (15 nations) within the framework of the EU Presidency's working group on the mobility of works of art
• European Heritage Heads Forum (EHHF) - Organization of the European Heritage Days 2009 in Vienna and Bratislava (29 nations)
• Heritage denied - initiative and implementation of an international symposium on the NS - legacies in Austria together with the Architecture Center Vienna
• Media presence in connection with the export of art objects for exhibition purposes, especially with regard to works by Albrecht Dürer , Jan Vermeer , Egon Schiele , Gustav Klimt .

She is the author of publications on topics and methodology in art history and monument preservation.

Awards

• 2010 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class

Web links

• Literature by and about Eva-Maria Höhle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Announcement for the award of the Cross of Honor for Science and Art
• Nomination for "Austrian of the Year" 2007