Friederike Werner

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Friederike Werner (* 1962 ) is a German art historian and Egyptologist .

Life

Friederike Werner studied art history , archeology and Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg , where she graduated in 1988 with a Magister Artium . She wrote between 1992 and 1994 her dissertation Egypt reception in the European architecture of the 19th century and was in 1994 Peter Anselm Riedl and Jan Assmann PhD .

Between 1984 and 1991 Werner worked as a research assistant at the Department of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg, where she made drawings of objects, reliefs and frescoes during excavations in Egypt ( Luxor , Tuna el-Gebel ) in collaboration with the Universities of Cairo , Heidelberg and Munich made. Between 1994 and 1995 she gave lectures on Egyptomania at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and at the Technical University of Munich .

In addition to her work in the office management of a Munich management consulting firm from 1991 to 1995, Werner inventoried the collection of furniture and art objects of Count Toerring-Jettenbach at Winhöring Castle for the Munich restorer Clemens von Schoeler from 1993 to 1994 . From 1995 to 2002 she was responsible for the conception, organization and implementation of public cultural events for the senior citizens' residence Augustinum Munich-North . From 2002 to 2010 she taught as an art teacher at the private Neuhof schools in Munich .

From 2012 to 2015 Werner was a freelancer at Heidelberg University and an associated member of the Asia and Europe Cluster of Excellence . Since 2015 she has been a freelancer at the Egyptological Institute there. Here she researched the reception of Egypt in the late 18th century in art and cultural history, with a special focus on interiors, furniture and chandeliers. Her focus was on the Egyptian Hall at Hohenzieritz Castle in Mecklenburg around 1800 as well as the mythology and connection to the Kingdom of Prussia . Since July 2019 she has appeared as an expert in the ZDF series Bares for Rares . Werner lives in Munich.

Publications (selection)

  • Reception of Egypt in 19th century European architecture. Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 1994, ISBN 3-929742-42-X (dissertation).
  • Egypt as the epitome of the sublime in architecture. Reception of Egypt in 19th century European architecture. In: Wilfried Seipel (Ed.): Ägyptomanie. European imagination of Egypt from antiquity to today. [Symposium Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, October 30 and 31, 1994] (= writings of the Kunsthistorisches Museum 3) . Kunsthistorisches Museum , Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85497-016-1 , pp. 83-104.
  • “Copied, traced and second hand.” An essay on authenticity in art. In: Martin Fitzenreiter (ed.): Authenticity. Artifact and promise in archeology (= IBAES, Internet contributions to Egyptology and Sudan archeology, Volume 15). London 2014, pp. 13-18 ( digitized version ).
  • Egyptomania in Prussia. The table sculpture for the wedding in the royal house in 1804. Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-89739-856-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GND 1027583695
  2. ^ Friederike Werner Presents Her New Book. In: asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de of January 27, 2017.
  3. ↑ Friederike Werner, Dr. In: asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
  4. ↑ Dr. Friederike Werner. In: LinkedIn
  5. ↑ First TV appearance. Surprise: New expert at “Bares for Rares”. In: t-online.de of July 11, 2019.
  6. ↑ Review: Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann, Alfred Grimm In: Aegyptiaca. Journal of the History of Reception of Ancient Egypt, 1, 2007, pp. 145-147 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Friederike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1962