Eva Berger (art historian)

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Eva Berger (born October 20, 1955 in Vienna ) is an Austrian art historian specializing in the preservation of garden monuments . She teaches at universities in Vienna.

life and work

Eva Berger studied art history and history at the University of Vienna and in Hamburg. The subject of her dissertation, which she approved in 1984 at the University of Vienna, was source material on the conditions of baroque secular architecture in Austria . She has been employed in the Department of Landscape Planning and Garden Art at the Vienna University of Technology since 1984, as a university assistant since 1987, and qualified as a professor since 2001. She teaches as an associate professor at the TU, but also has a teaching position at the University of Vienna. Her main research areas are garden art, garden culture, garden monument maintenance. She also publishes on garden architecture, including the current standard work on historical gardens in Austria.

She is a member of the Austrian Society for Historic Gardens .

Publications

  • Historic gardens and parks in Austria. First survey of gardens and parks from the Renaissance to around 1930. Volume 1: Lower Austria, Burgenland . Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar, 2002, ISBN 3-205-99305-5 ; 747 pp.
  • Historic gardens and parks in Austria. First survey of gardens and parks from the Renaissance to around 1930. Volume 2: Upper Austria, Salzburg, Vorarlberg, Carinthia, Styria, Tyrol . Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar, 2003, ISBN 3-205-99352-7 ; 760 pp.
  • Historic gardens and parks in Austria. First survey of the gardens and parks from the Renaissance to around 1930. Volume 3: Vienna. Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar, 2004, ISBN 3-205-99353-5 ; 569 pp.
  • (in accordance with A. Freytag, ed.): Festschrift. Géza Hajós on her 65th birthday . In: Die Gartenkunst, Wernersche Verlagsanstalt, Worms, 2007, ISSN  0935-0519 ; 187 pp.

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personal data
SURNAME Berger, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna